A passenger vehicle drove into the Odra River for as yet unknown reasons at the exit from the Piotr Zaremba Castle Way overpass road in Szczecin, Poland. The services are operating on the scene and according to the police, a rescue operation is underway. The event has taken place today just after 7 a.m. Firefighters are taking part in the action, underwater firefighters, as well as the police and an ambulance service.
On September 16-25, the 2nd edition of the Wind Festival will take place in Kielce. This is an event that promotes the City of Kielce in many fields. The aim is to break the negative overtone of the stereotype that has existed for years and to approach the saying "It blows like at the railway station in Kielce" with a pinch of salt. This initiative shows that people from Kielce can organize themselves and promote their city with a dose of great humour and fun.
Top 11 Finalists performed during the America's Got Talent final yesterday. Simon's Golden Buzzer Sara James sang her emotional rendition of "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush and amazed the audience with her amazing voice. The finalists compete to win a $1 million prize and a headline slot at the AGT residency at the Luxor in Las Vegas.
On September 12, 2021, the beatification of card. Stefan Wyszyński and mother Elżbieta Czacka was celebrated in the Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw. Besides the broadcast in media, over 7 thousand people took part in the celebration in person. The first anniversary of which fell yesterday, was held at the Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, the Temple of Divine Providence, and Laski.
The International Congress, which takes place every six years, represents the world renowned event in the field of Numismatics. It is attended by a great number of people and attracts scholars, curators of coin collections, auction houses and auction dealers from the five Continents. The Congress forms a part of the politics for the promotion, conservation, valorization and fruition of the material and immaterial Cultural Heritage. Until Friday, the XVI Numismatic Congress will take place in Warsaw. About 700 participants take part in it, mostly stationary. This is the most important event of this type in the world.
POLFISH is the only fair in Poland dedicated to the fish industry and one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe, which will be held at AMBEREXPO in Gdańsk. It is a specialized trade fair for the fish industry with over 30 years of tradition. The fair has for many years played an important role and a place in the calendar of industry meetings, and since this year it has been expanded to include the scope of all food products.
Laboratories of the Future is an initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science and the GovTech Center at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister aimed at supporting elementary schools in purchasing equipment for laboratories of STEAM subjects (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics). Under this initiative schools will receive teaching aids, for which the government has allocated over one billion PLN. 99% of primary schools were equipped with modern educational and technological equipment
Mergers are of great importance to the economy in Poland. Synchronization of tasks, which are often described as social, has an impact on supporting the country's business. It is impossible to separate sponsorship and sports because the most important companies in Poland have a significant impact on the sports development of Poland. The PKN Orlen and Grupa Lotos merger means increasing funds for sports sponsorship.
For the first time in history, the Belweder courtyard was decorated with intricately composed, traditional harvest wreaths. The masterpieces were prepared by groups from 14 Polish provinces to compete for the award of the President of the Republic of Poland on the eve of the main Harvest Festival celebrations. The main event is planned for today, September 11 at 01:00 p.m.
Captain Władysław Raginis was a Polish military commander during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 of a small force holding the Polish fortified defense positions against a vastly larger invasion during the Battle of Wizna. Because the positions were held at great cost for three days before being annihilated with few survivors, Wizna is referred to as the Polish Thermopylae and Captain Raginis as a modern Leonidas.
EuroSkills Gdansk 2023 is scheduled to take place between 5-9 September 2023 at AMBEREXPO Gdańsk. It is the first such large international event transferred to Poland in connection with Russia's aggression against Ukraine. EuroSkills is an international competition that has so far been held 7 times, and next year Poland will host it for the first time. Poland expects to welcome 600 skilled young professionals from 31 countries to the event to participate in competitions and host demonstration events in 45-50 different skills. Around 100,000 visitors from across Poland and abroad are expected to attend.
The team of KGHM Polska Miedz SA mine rescuers has just left for the USA, where they will take part in the International Mines Rescue Competition. In previous years, KGHM rescuers won, among others, bronze and gold medals. This year's International Mines Rescue Competition is set for September 9-16, 2022.
In 2011, the International Conference “Europe of the Carpathians” became part of the Economic Forum in Krynica Zdrój. It was then that the Carpathian Memorandum was adopted – the first document stressing the need to develop a Carpathian Strategy, which would gain not only a local and interstate dimension, but also a European one. On August 6, the event of three days lasting deliberation with the participation of politicians, experts and scientists from Central and Eastern Europe started. The participants have focused on forms of cooperation in the region.
“Love will forgive you everything” – sang Maria Anna Pietruszyńska, better known under her stage name Hanka Ordonówna. She began her acting career in the year Poland regained independence. She performed in theater, cabaret and film. She was not only a talented actress and singer, but also a charismatic woman who willingly – against the prevailing fashion – donned pants and low-cut dresses. Also, famous poets wrote texts for her, for example, Julian Tuwim, Marian Hemar, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, or Jan Lechoń.
From this Thursday until Sunday, the Służewiec Racecourse is a host of the competition of over 200 horses and riders from all over Europe. The event in Służewiec includes races, shows, trade fairs and attractions for the whole family. As part of Warsaw Jumping international competitions it attracts attention of not only the equestrian world, but also business, culture and politics. The high profile of the event and the attractive prize pool of more than PLN 1,900,000, guarantee the attendance of key European show jumping stars.
Leonid Hurwicz was a Polish-American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design. He started working on mechanism design theory in the 1960s. The theory allows us to distinguish situations in which markets work well from those in which they do not. It has helped economists identify efficient trading mechanisms, regulation schemes and voting procedures. He shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson) for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory. Hurwicz was one of the oldest Nobel Laureates, having received the prize at the age of 90.
Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik), about 25 kilometers (16 mi) southeast of the city of Poznań. Then, she lived in Kraków until the end of her life. In 1945, she began studying Polish literature before switching to sociology at Jagiellonian University. There, she became involved in the local writing scene and met Czesław Miłosz. Szymborska said once that Miłosz was one of the first people to congratulate her on the Nobel Prize in October 1996. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 was awarded to Wislawa Szymborska "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality".
Jerzy Charpak, also known as Georges Charpak, was a Polish-born French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber in 1992. Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his study of mathematics in 1941 at the Lycée Saint Louis. The actor and film director André Charpak was his younger brother.
