tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57365941602561701262024-03-13T23:52:26.101-04:00Polish Greatness (Blog)Polish Greatness (Blog) is devoted to promoting Polish History, and gives tribute to the Polish Armed Forces past and present for their Courage, Honour and Sacrifices.Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.comBlogger663125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-11786078246429906202023-07-01T23:58:00.000-04:002023-07-01T23:58:39.622-04:00Polish Greatness.com Website is soon coming to an end!Polish Greatness.com Website was launched on September 1, 2007. It is hard to believe that it has been online for over 15 years!Initially, the website was focused entirely on World War Two history, in particular, historical documentation of Poland's struggle to free itself from the vice-grip of Russia and Nazi Germany. My mission began as a tribute to the Polish military, and toPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-52229881902866077882022-02-25T01:08:00.005-05:002022-03-06T19:07:04.517-05:00RUSSIAN ATTACK ON THE UKRAINEFreedom is in great danger in Europe, now more than ever before. We should have known this when Putin annexed Crimea in February and March of 2014. Leaders of the Western world immediately orchestrated a vigorous crescendo of condemnation against Putin and his imperialistic ambitions, and attempted to thwart Russian expanisionism by instigating international sanctions. I fear Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-22318723244404206782018-12-31T00:00:00.000-05:002019-05-15T20:27:45.002-04:00DECEMBER 31 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 31
1942
Battle of the Barents Sea was a naval engagement that took place on December 31, 1942. in the Barents Sea, north of North Cape, Norway. Warships of the German Kriegsmarine attempted to intercept and attack British ships which were escorting convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. The British fleet included 2 light cruisers, 6 destroyers, 2 corvettes, 1 mine-sweeper Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-89289504239445546312018-12-30T00:00:00.000-05:002019-05-15T20:28:59.674-04:00DECEMBER 30 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 30
1939
Captain Jan Górski was a Polish Army officer who had escaped to France after the invasion of Poland. On December 30, 1939 he submitted several reports to the Polish Chief of Staff proposing the creation of a special Polish covert unit. Its purpose was to maintain links with the underground Polish resistance movement, ZWZ and fight against the enemy using covert operation. AtPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-15454019963372358652018-12-29T00:00:00.000-05:002019-05-15T21:25:11.846-04:00DECEMBER 29 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 29
1940
The Second Great Fire of London: On the night of December 29 to 30, 1940, over 136 German bombers dropped about 100,000 bombs on London. The city was engulfed in fires that covered a greater area than the infamous Great Fire of London in 1666. Most targets were non-residential buildings such as businesses, warehouses, and churches. Firefighters Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-18411095931533548372018-12-28T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-28T00:00:08.169-05:00DECEMBER 28 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 28
169 B.C.
Miracle of Light: After two hundred years of foreign tyranny and religious persecution, the Jewish people lit the sacred menorah on December 28, 169 B.C., to rededicate the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. The lights of the menorah remained lit for eight days, though there was not enough oil. It was the birth of the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah. Every night throughout the 8 Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-90175879407357297612018-12-27T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-27T00:00:08.197-05:00DECEMBER 27 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 27
1918
Polish Uprising: On this day in 1918, the Uprising began after a stirring patriotic speech by Ignacy Paderewski. (He was a famous pianist who would become in the following year the Polish Prime Minister.) The Polish people hoped for a free and sovereign Poland. They saw their opportunity to make serious plans for an uprising when Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated on November 9,Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-9730684371734168492018-12-26T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-26T00:00:36.284-05:00DECEMBER 26 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 26
1943
British Navy Sank Nazi German Battleship: On December 26, 1943, off the coast of North Cape, Norway, the British vessel HMS Duke of York accompanied by its escorting ships intercepted, attacked and sunk the German battleship, the Scharnhorst as it was headed towards an allied convoy. The Scharnhorst ranked as a capital ship in the Kriegsmarine, and took part in Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-67434163992794052732018-12-25T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-25T00:00:01.828-05:00DECEMBER 25 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY (CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO ALL!)
DECEMBER 25
336 A.D.
The First Christmas Celebration took place on December 25, 336 AD. The first Christmas celebration by the early Christian Church occurred 331 years after Christ’s Crucifixion in Jerusalem on April 3rd, 33 A.D. (During the Lunar Eclipse at 5:12 PM LMT) and Pentecost – which is considered to be the inception date of the Roman Catholic Church. In an old list of Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-13959815429149086412018-12-24T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-24T00:00:22.992-05:00DECEMBER 24 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 24
1798
Beloved Polish Poet: Adam Mickiewicz (dob) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist. He is regarded as National Poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. Mickiewicz was a prominent figure in Polish Romanticism, and is regarded as one of Poland's "Three Bards" ("Trzej Wieszcze"). He isPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-5260896865276150362018-12-23T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-23T00:00:04.662-05:00DECEMBER 23 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 23
1937
Wellington Bomber First Flight: The first production of the Wellington Mk I, L4212, conducted its first flight on December 23, 1937. The L4212 subsequently participated in an intensive flight programme. Flight trials with L4212 affirmed the aerodynamic stability initially encountered by K4049, but also revealed the aircraft to be nose-heavy during dives, a Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-13060314187904243592018-12-22T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-22T00:00:11.470-05:00DECEMBER 22 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 22
1941
Churchill at Washington Conference: Winston Churchill met with Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC for the First Washington Conference, also called the Arcadia Conference. The leaders and a team of political aides conducted very candid discussions which concluded with several major decisions that shaped the war effort in 1942-1943; the decision to Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-76182294560914793802018-12-21T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-21T00:00:04.232-05:00DECEMBER 21 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 21
1878
Jan Łukasiewicz (dob) was regarded as one of the most important historians of logic. He was born in Lemberg, a city in the Galician kingdom of Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine). Lukasiewicz' work focused on philosophical logic, mathematical logic, and history of logic. He worked on the concepts of traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-58599747619536518922018-12-20T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-20T00:00:04.651-05:00DECEMBER 20 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 20
1917
On this day in 1917, Lenin appointed Felix Dzerzhinsky as director of Cheka, the first secret police organization in the Soviet Union. The Cheka imposed drastic measures during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). Tens of thousands of political opponents were shot in the basements of prisons and in public places without trial. Dzerzhinsky had said: "We represent in ourselves Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-47177472333308217272018-12-19T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-19T00:00:04.393-05:00DECEMBER 19 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 19
1941
Sinking of the HMS Stanley: On December 19, 1941 while on patrol with other escort carriers, the HMS Stanley, on station astern of the convoy, reported the presence of another U-boat. Half an hour later U-574 scored a direct hit on her. Stanley exploded and sank (38°12′N 17°23′W) All except 25 crew members were lost. Within 12 minutes, the sloop Stork Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-91512804717837041602018-12-18T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-18T00:00:00.800-05:00DECEMBER 18 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 18
1941
Hitler Ordered Extermination of Jews: On December 18, 1941, Himmler asked Hitler, "What to do with the Jews of Russia?". Hitler replied "als Partisanen auszurotten" ("exterminate them as partisans"). According to Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer, Hitler's remark is as close as historians will ever get to a clear, definitive order from Hitler for Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-9337365857017582522018-12-17T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-17T00:00:13.172-05:00DECEMBER 17 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 17
1938
Germans and Nuclear Fission: Nuclear fission of heavy elements were discovered by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann, on December 17, 1938. Hahn was a chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is considered the father of nuclear chemistry; he and Strassman were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944, for the Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-50546594001146781992018-12-16T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-16T00:00:03.220-05:00DECEMBER 16 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 16
1922
Assassination of Polish President: Just five days after taking office, Gabriel Narutowicz was assassinated on December 16, 1922, while attending an art exhibit in the National Gallery of Art “Zachęta”. The assassin was a painter, Eligiusz Niewiadomski, who had connections with the right wing National Democratic Party, He was arrested, tried and sentenced to deathPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-2145803250262311172018-12-15T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-15T00:00:12.981-05:00DECEMBER 15 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 15
1859
Creator of Esperanto: Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (dob) was a Polish-Jewish medical doctor, inventor, and writer. He is most widely known for creating Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in the world. He grew up fascinated by the idea of a world without war and believed that this could happen with the help of a new international auxiliary language, which he Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-6139556687158117202018-12-14T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-14T00:00:07.728-05:00DECEMBER 14 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 14
1575
Polish King Elected. The Polish Parliament elected Stephen Bathory as King of Poland on December 14, 1575. He was the son of Stephen VIII Báthory of the noble Hungarian Báthory family and his wife Catherine Telegdi. Báthory faced opposition to his election by Emperor Maximilian, who was responsible for fostering internal opposition and who was prepared to Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-30552866907508728242018-12-13T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-13T00:00:03.904-05:00DECEMBER 13 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 13
1849
Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski (dob) was a Polish-born American soldier, military engineer and inventor. He is famous for the development of the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun. Zalinski was born in Kórnik, Prussian and emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1853. He attended school in Seneca Falls, New York and high school in Syracuse until 1863. He dropped outPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-66434614417337740852018-12-12T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-12T00:00:05.795-05:00DECEMBER 12 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 12
1935
German Handmaids: The Lebensborn e. V. (e.V. stands "fount of life", was created on December 12, 1935, in an effort to counteract falling birth rates in Germany, as well as to promote the concept of Nazi eugenics. The organization, located in Munich, was a division of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and served as a society for Nazi German leaders. The Polish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-46820264173368042112018-12-11T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-11T00:00:07.255-05:00DECEMBER 11 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 11
1922
Gabriel Narutowicz became the first President of the Second Republic of Poland when it regained its sovereignty after World War I. Narutowicz held office for only five days from December 11 to December 16, 1922 when he was assassinated. During the elections in 1922, having defeated the leading opponent Maurycy Zamoyski, Narutowicz gained supportPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-83774664365461774552018-12-10T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-10T00:00:00.486-05:00DECEMBER 10 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 10
1903
The Nobel Prize for Physics was presented on this day in 1903. It was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity", the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered byPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736594160256170126.post-3431214547600838552018-12-09T00:00:00.000-05:002018-12-09T00:00:12.067-05:00DECEMBER 9 - DAILY CHRONICLES OF HISTORY
DECEMBER 9
1941
Roosevelt Radio Message: In his fireside chat, US President Roosevelt addressed the American people on radio, informing them that America was going to war. "...........Your Government knows that for weeks Germany has been telling Japan that if Japan did not attack the United States, Japan would not share in dividing the spoils with Germany when peace came. She wasPolish Greatness Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355014643269234040noreply@blogger.com0