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2020 In Poland
Events during the year 2020 in Poland. Incumbents * President: Andrzej Duda * Prime Minister: Mateusz Morawiecki * Marshal of the Sejm: Elżbieta Witek * Marshal of the Senate: Tomasz Grodzki Events *6 July – President Duda signed a document with a presidential draft of the amendment to the Polish Constitution to ban gay adoption. *12 July – Andrzej Duda is re-elected as the President of Poland. *25 July – Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro declared he would begin preparing the formal process for Poland to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention. He claimed the treaty is harmful because it "requires that schools teach children about gender in an ideological way" and that it "de-emphasizes biological sex". *6 October – Jarosław Kaczyński become deputy prime minister in the Mateusz Morawiecki government. *22 October – Poland's constitutional court rules abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional. *7 December – stated-owned petroleum refiner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TheGuardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewa Demarczyk Polish Singer 1966
Ewa or EWA may refer to: Places ; Ethiopia * Ewa (woreda) ; Nauru * Ewa District, Nauru ; United States * Eastern Washington, the portion of the state of Washington east of the Cascade Range * ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, a census-designated place * Ewa District, Hawaii, an ancient Hawaiian district of Oahu Other uses * Ewa (given name) * Eldercare Workforce Alliance * Ewa Air, a French airline in Mayotte * Ewa reactor, Poland's first research nuclear reactor * Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, a former air station in Hawaii * ''Ewa'', a sailing vessel later renamed ''Norda ''Norda'' is a wooden sailing vessel that was commissioned in 1928, originally used as a research vessel in Poland. It served as research vessel, fishing vessel and is now a yacht. History Research vessel The vessel was commissioned in 1928 by M ...'' See also * * {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariusz Baliszewski
Dariusz Baliszewski (14 April 1946 – 10 August 2020) was a Polish historian, journalist and writer. Author of television show "Rewizja nadzwyczajna", he was a common author of historical articles to one of the biggest Polish magazines, ''Wprost''. He specialized in Polish 20th century history, and is known for several controversial hypotheses, like those related to the death of general Władysław Sikorski. In 1999, for his television creativity and professionalism in work, president Aleksander Kwaśniewski Aleksander Kwaśniewski (; born 15 November 1954) is a Polish politician and journalist. He served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. He was born in Białogard, and during communist rule, he was active in the Socialist Union of Poli ... awarded him: Silver Cross of Merit. References External links *BiographyPage collecting articles by Baliszewski and about Baliszewski 1946 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Polish historians 20th-century Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Stroka
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral district in South Australia Iran * Anna, Fars, a village in Fars Province * Anna, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province Russia * Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban locality in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Stebnicka
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Zdzisław Myrda
Zdzisław Myrda (29 January 1951 – 6 July 2020) was a Polish basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ... player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Myrda died on 6 July 2020 at the age of 69. References External links * * * 1951 births 2020 deaths Polish men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Poland Basketball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics People from Rzeszów County Sportspeople from Podkarpackie Voivodeship {{Poland-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislaw Stefanek
Stanislav and variants may refer to: People * Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, California * Stanislaus River, California * Stanislaus National Forest, California * Place Stanislas, a square in Nancy, France, World Heritage Site of UNESCO * Saint-Stanislas, Mauricie, Quebec, a Canadian municipality * Stanizlav, a fictional train depot in the game '' TimeSplitters: Future Perfect'' * Stanislau, German name of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine Schools * St. Stanislaus High School, an institution in Bandra, Mumbai, India * St. Stanislaus High School (Detroit) * Collège Stanislas de Paris, an institution in Paris, France * California State University, Stanislaus, a public university in Turlock, CA * St Stanislaus College (Bathurst), a secondary school in Bathurst, Australia * St. Stanislaus College (Guyana), a secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lech Raczak
Lech Raczak (27 January 1946 – 17 January 2020) was a Polish theatre director and theatre practitioner. Career He studied Polish literature on Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was one of the founders of the Theatre of the Eighth Day, which was one of the most original and most significant groups of the student theater movement from which Polish alternative theater arose. In 1993 Raczak and ensemble of the Theatre of the Eighth Day received the Swinarski Award. From 1995 to 1998 Raczak was an artistic director of Polish Theatre in Poznań Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ... and between 1993 and 2012 he worked for Malta Festival as an artistic director. Since 2003 he was a professor at University of Arts in Poznań. References 1946 births 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogusław Polch
Bogusław Polch act. Połch (5 October 1941 – 2 January 2020) was a Polish comic book artist. His most notable works include the series '' The Gods from Outer Space'' (based on Erich von Däniken books, written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny), ''Funky Koval'' (written by Maciej Parowski and Jacek Rodek) and '' Wiedźmin'' (based on Andrzej Sapkowski's ''The Witcher'' stories, written by Maciej Parowski). He also illustrated the covers of the first editions of most of Sapkowski's books in ''The Witcher'' series. – |
Polch Boguslaw
Polch () is a town in the district Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is part of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") of Maifeld. It is situated east of Mayen. Polch is twinned with the commune of Vineuil, located near Blois, Centre-Val de Loire, France Local council (Stadtrat) Elections were held in May 2014: * FWG = Freie Wählergruppe Polch e.V. File:Sankt Georg Polch.JPG, Saint George's church File:RapsfeldPolch 1733.jpg, Canola Close-up of canola blooms Canola flower Rapeseed oil is one of the oldest known vegetable oils. There are both edible and industrial forms produced from rapeseed, the seed of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae. Historically, ... field near Polch References Mayen-Koblenz {{MayenKoblenz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
