Lifestyle and Entertainment

Many people in their e-mails ask me about any traditional games or pastimes for children, especially during the Christmas season.
The whole selection of the pastimes and children games is included in a revised edition of the wonderful book about Polish Customs and traditions written by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab's entitled Polish Customs, Tradition and Folklore. But this book does not specify any particular game especially for the Christmas season.

Read more: The Old Bear: Children's Game for Christmas

The World War I brought not only disaster, death and misery. This war changed many old political systems, abolished monarchies, sped up technical progress and also changed people's attitudes towards the life and especially the role of women.

This can be seen in a change of women clothing.

Read more: How women dressed before and after WW I in Poland

Polish-English and English-Polish Dictionary by Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski is just a right book for everybody who is planning either to travel to Poland or need to use Polish language either for genealogy research or for doing business

Read more: Polish-English English-Polish Dictionary by Iwo C. Pogonowski

Read about medal count in Winter Olympic Games for Poles, read also about 2004 Olympic Games is Athens. The performance measured as the efficiency, amount of medals per one participant, was the worst since 1952. Some newspapers write about it as a failure or even a catastrophe of Polish sport. Poles received only ten medals - 3 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze. Four less than during Olympic Games in Sydney (2000) and seven less than in Atlanta games (1996).

Read more: Poland in Summer Olympic Games: Medals Count