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Café Adria
Café Adria was an entertainment complex and nightclub in Warsaw, which included an American bar, café, dance hall, restaurant and winter garden. It started operating in 1930 and during the 1930s it was also used as a location for filmmaking. It continued to operate during the World War II, Second World War, but this was for the German occupying forces who requisitioned it. It became a base for the Polish Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising, where it was damaged by bombardment. Design and operations Café Adria was founded in 1930 at Moniuszki Street 10 by entrepreneur Franciszek Moszkowicz and its restaurant opened in February 1931. It occupied the basement and ground floor of a large office building that had been built in 1928 for the Italian insurance company ', which presumably inspired the café's name. Its style was Art Deco and used lighting to emphasise the quality of materials, rather than ornamentation. The dance floor included a rubberised disc that revolved lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adria W Warszawie Przed 1939
Adria is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po River, Po. The remains of the Etruria, Etruscan city of Atria or Hatria are to be found below the modern city, three to four metres below the current level. Adria and Spina were the Etruscan ports and depots for Bologna#History, Felsina (now Bologna). Adria may have given its name during an early period to the Adriatic Sea, to which it was connected by channels. History Ancient era The first Human settlement, settlements built in the area are of Adriatic Veneti, Venetic origin, during the twelfth to ninth centuries BC, consisting of stilt houses in the wetlands, that were then still close to the sea. At that time the main stream of the Po, the Adria (river), Adria channel, flowed into the sea in this area. The Villanovan culture, named for an archaeological site at the village of Villanova, near Bologna (Etruscan ''Felsina''), fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Excellency, The Shop Assistant
''His Excellency, The Shop Assistant'' () is a 1933 Polish romantic comedy film directed by Michał Waszyński. at the Internet Polish Movie Database About the movie The title role was played by Eugeniusz Bodo, the leading lover of pre-war Polish cinematography. The songs "Tyle miłości" and "Złociste włos" come from the film. The film was shot during the Great Depression, to which references were found in the film. The photos were taken in Warsaw ( Bogusław Herse Fashion House at Marszałkowska Street, at Moniuszki Street, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, Traugutta Street, Kolonia Staszica and Kolonia Lubeckiego in Ochota ). The subtitles in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Warsaw
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building pract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Establishments In Poland
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital inventory, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Gerät
''Karl-Gerät'' (040/041) ( in German), also known as ''Mörser Karl'', was a World War II German Self-propelled gun, self-propelled siege Mortar (weapon), mortar (''Mörser'') designed and built by Rheinmetall. Its heaviest munition was a diameter, artillery shell, shell; the range for its lightest shell of was just over . Each gun had to be accompanied by a crane, a two-piece heavy transport set of railcars, and several modified tanks to carry Shell (projectile), shells. Seven guns were built, six of which saw combat between 1941 and 1945. It was used in attacking the Soviet Union, Soviet fortresses of Brest Fortress, Brest-Litovsk and Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942), Sevastopol, bombarded Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Uprising, participated in the Battle of the Bulge, and was used to try to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen. One Karl-Gerät has survived; the remainder were scrapped after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Błyskawica Radiostation
The Błyskawica radio station ("Lightning") was an insurgent radio transmitter broadcasting at 200 Watts from Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, from 8 August until the end of the struggle. The transmitter was constructed by Antoni Zębik, pseudonym "Biegły". Its signal was the melody of Warszawianka. Initially, the radio station was placed in the building of PKO (''Pocztowa Kasa Oszczędności'', Engl.: ''Postal Savings Bank'') at 9 Jasna Street. On 25 August, it was moved to the Café Adria at 10 Moniuszki Street. On 4 September, it was relocated to the building of the former USSR embassy at 15 Poznańska Street and then to the Public Library at 26 Koszykowa Street. The chief of the team was Stanisław Zadrożny, pseudonym "Pawlicz". His deputy was Zofia Rutkowska, pseudonym "Ewa", who assumed the care of the performance of the program. Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, together with RAF airman John Ward, conducted English-language broadcasts. Zbigniew Świętochowski, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gestapo
The (, ), Syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated Gestapo (), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Free State of Prussia, Prussia into one organisation. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936. Instead of being exclusively a Prussian state agency, the Gestapo became a national one as a sub-office of the (SiPo; Security Police). From 27 September 1939, it was administered by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). It became known as (Dept) 4 of the RSHA and was considered a sister organisation to the (SD; Security Service). The Gestapo committed widespread atrocities during its existence. The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters (clergy and religious org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kryst
Jan Kryst (6 April 1922 – 22 May 1943) was a Polish scout and a member of the Polish anti-Nazi resistance. He fought for the Home Army and volunteered for a revenge attack at the Café Adria where he fatally shot several members of the Gestapo before being killed himself. Biography Kryst was born in Modlin, Poland, and raised in Warsaw's Wola district. His father was a worker and a member of the Fighting Organization of the Polish Socialist Party. Kryst graduated from a technical school before the war. He was also a member of the Polish Scouting Association. In September 1939, Kryst participated as a volunteer in the defense of Warsaw. During the German occupation, he joined the Home Army (AK) as a soldier of the Wola Subdistrict, and was a member of 304 platoon. In 1943, he learned that he would soon die of pulmonary tuberculosis, which he had been suffering from for a long time. In view of this, he approached Captain "Chuchro" – the commander of the Warsaw District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alhambra
The Alhambra (, ; ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Muslim world, Islamic world. Additionally, the palace contains notable examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture. The complex was begun in 1238 by Muhammad I of Granada, Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the first Nasrid dynasty, Nasrid emir and founder of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state of Al-Andalus. It was built on the Sabika hill, an outcrop of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada which had been the site of earlier fortresses and of the 11th-century palace of Samuel ibn Naghrillah. Later Nasrid rulers continuously modified the site. The most significant construction campaigns, which gave the royal palaces much of their defining character, took place in the 14th century during the reigns of Yusuf I of Granada, Yusuf I and Muhammad V of Granada, Muhammad V. After the conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Co Mój Mąż Robi W Nocy
''Co mój mąż robi w nocy'' (''What Is My Husband Doing Tonight?'') is a 1934 Polish musical comedy film directed by Michał Waszyński. Plot Industrialist Roman Tarski moves from Kraków to Warsaw. He is a co-owner of a thriving construction company "Żel-Beton", but one day the other partner runs away with the company's money. Tarski tries to make ends meet, but this task is very difficult because his wife, Stefa, does not know about the new situation and is having fun as before. Tarski sells his wife's jewelry, while the bailiff seizes the movable property of their home. Their maid's fiancé is the waiter, from whom Tarski accidentally learns that the waiter always has money. Faced with this perspective, he takes a job as a waiter for the Alhambra night dance. In addition, he simulates a break-in into his own home, during which he allegedly lost money and jewels from the box. The new job, which Roman Stefie is not talking about, consumes whole nights, which causes her an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day. Coca-Cola ranked No. 94 in the 2024 Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 500 list of the List of largest companies in the United States by revenue, largest United States corporations by revenue. Based on Interbrand's "best global brand" study of 2023, Coca-Cola was the world's List of most valuable brands, sixth most valuable brand. Originally marketed as a temperance bar, temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, Coca-Cola was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1888, Pemberton sold the ownership rights to Asa Griggs Candler, a businessman, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola to its dominance of the global soft-drink market throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The name refers to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
