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Fanfiction: Because apparently barging into the writers office of your favourite shows and telling them to get out the way while you un-fuck things for them is considered ‘rude’ and ‘breaking and entering’

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Mistrzostwo! :D

Andrzej Kmicic / Michał Wołodyjowski / Jan Skrzetuski (Sienkiewicz trilogy)

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Teenager 2000 : I love you Teenager 2015 : I want to fuck you

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At the beginning of May, my friend, her dog Turbo, and I opened the sailing season. 

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Due to the Nazi German planned destruction of Warsaw, the Polish capital city was almost completely leveled by the end of World War II.

After the war, a five-year reconstruction campaign by its citizens resulted in today’s meticulous restoration of the Old Town, with its churches, palaces and market-place. It is an outstanding example of a near-total reconstruction of a span of history covering the 13th to the 20th century.

The capital city was reduced to ruins with the intention of obliterating the centuries-old tradition of Polish statehood. The rebuilding of the historic city, 85% of which was destroyed, was the result of the determination of the inhabitants and the support of the whole nation. The reconstruction of the Old Town in its historic urban and architectural form was the manifestation of the care and attention taken to assure the survival of one of the most important testimonials of Polish culture. The city – the symbol of elective authority and tolerance, where the first democratic European constitution, the Constitution of 3 May 1791, was adopted – was rebuilt. [x]

The city of Warsaw was rebuilt between the 1950s and 1970 without any help from outside. Some of the landmarks had been finally reconstructed as late as the 1980s. While the Old Town has been thoroughly reconstructed, the New Town had been only partially restored to its former state. [x]

You can check the official trailer of "Miasto ruin" / "City of Ruins" - 3D reconstruction of the ruins of Warsaw after the fall of 1944 Warsaw Uprising as seen from bird’s eye view. “On 1st Sep 1939 1.300.000 people were inhabitating Warsaw. There were 900.000 of them on 1st Aug 1944 [beginning of the Warsaw Uprising]. After the fall of the Uprising there were less than 1.000 people left in the ruins" [translated from the linked video].

On the pictures above:

Warsaw in 1947 photographed by Henry Cobb [source]

Warsaw in 1945: people beginning to clear the site from rubble (on the right) [via NAC]

"Old Town coming back to life" - images published in "Stolica" weekly magazine, 17th Nov 1946 [source]

"Poland’s rebuilding amazes U.S. experts" published in 1947 [source]

Vision of a new Marszałkowska Street - images published in “Stolica” weekly magazine, 11th July 1948 [source]

"We’re getting closer to the construction of downtown" - published in "Stolica" weekly magazine, 2nd Feb 1953 [source]

Different proposals for the architecture of the Parade Square, back then named Stalin Square. Images published in “Stolica” weekly magazine, 7th March 1954 [source] 

"Warsaw 1957" - images published in "Stolica" weekly magazine, 1st Jan 1958 [source]

Warsaw city center nowadays [source].

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Brilliant!

Star WarsAw https://plus.google.com/117024231055768477646/posts/7a2UDKX7VmF

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MASTERPOST!

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Really miss that place.

Tatra Mountains, Poland photographed by Adam Brzoza.

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Ahh... why not...

name:  Nobody uses my name nickname: Mańka favorite flower: tulips I think favorite fruit: raspberries, mango favorite ice-cream flavor: all kinds to be honest favorite pastime: can't actually believe this but it's cycling... since my dad gave me a great bike this year day or night:  day chocolate or vanilla: is this a trick question? how do you take you coffee/tea: tea with 2 sugars and lemon, coffee with 2 sugars and milk zodiac sign:  gemini your catchphrase: shut up before you say something

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Vote vote vote! SARAH LANCASHIRE!!!

Everyone vote for Sarah!!!!

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My dad told me I've been there once. Obviously I must've been drunk at age of 6 because I don't remember a single thing about this amazing place.

Park Krajobrazowy “Dolina Baryczy” - the Barycz Valley Landscape Park, located only 60 km from the Wrocław city, Poland.

The Barycz River, 133 km long, starts in wetlands close to Ostrów Wielkopolski and ends, flowing into the Oder River, in the vicinities of Wyszanów near Szlichtyngowa.These sites, like brackets, close one of the most enchanting spots in Poland, comprising a mosaic of ponds, fens, forests, fields and meadows. [read more]

This landscape park consists of a few smaller nature reserves, like the Olszyny Niezgodzkie swamps [pic 2 above] or the Stawy Milickie (Milicz Ponds), known as one of the most important habitats and breeding grounds for the water birds in Poland.

Sources: [1,2,3,4] - please do not remove the credit

// This post was inspired by lokkie83 who asked about the Silesia and Wrocław zone :) [other interesting places from that area will be gradually appearing for sure!]

To all my followers: I recommend you to check my growing nature reserve tag or the general nature tag. Feel free to use my ask box in case of any requests.

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Home sweet home! :D

Mazowsze region (Mazovia), Poland.

Sources: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

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The magical Polish side of the Tatra Mountains. Photograps by panoramio user GMPST2000

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The Trouble With Wonder Woman