Aleksandra Klepaczka won one of the most famous national beauty pageants in Poland and now she is the Miss Polski of 2022! 24 candidates fought for the title of the most beautiful Polish woman. The climax of the Miss Poland gala ceremony is the announcement of the results, the awarding of titles and the coronation. Last year's Miss Agata Wdowiak handed over a handmade silver crown with embedded white mountain crystals and red rubies.
Professor Artur Obłuski from Warsaw University received a special mention following an online vote for the public’s favourite project in the European Research Council competition for the NAFEER - Engaging local community in Sudan to promote archaeological heritage project!
In 2022, the route of the largest cycling race in the country Tour de Pologne UCI WorldTour will not run through Katowice for the first time in 12 years. The route of the 79th edition of the race bypasses Katowice and the entire Silesian Voivodeship. It will start on July 30 in Kielce and end on August 5 in Cracow.
Even though the race walk took place in very difficult conditions, almost at noon and at very high temperatures , especially in the sun, Doctor Katarzyna Zdziebło managed to win a silver medal in the women's 20 km race walk at 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. It is the first Poland's medal at the championships. Worlds' first gold in 20km race walk was won by Peru's Garcia Leon.
After many weeks of difficult negotiations, Robert Lewandowski is officially a new FC Barcelona player. The transfer of the Pole from FC Bayern Munich to FC Barcelona is now confirmed and valid. The most famous sports journalists including Fabrizio Romano and Gerard Romero have announced good news on Twitter this morning.
The Miss Supranational 2022 event took place in Amphitheatre in Strzelecki Park in Nowy Sącz last Friday night. 69 beautiful women from all over the world took part in the competition. Our Polish representant Agata Wdowiak was in the top 12. As the winner of Miss Supranational 2022, the jury selected and awarded a model from South Africa, Lalela Mswane. Also, joining the Panel of Experts, a Polish singer, a winner of 130 music awards, an activist and a member of Mensa Poland, Doda performed during the pageant.
Emilia Babska from Warsaw took up shooting in 2016 at age 16. Today, we can congratulate her on winning a gold medal in shooting at World Cup in Munich, Germany! She took first place in the R2 - Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 group with a total of 248.0 and defeated the winners of the last Paralympic Games in Tokyo!
Chemists from the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the National Museum in Warsaw have developed a new method of restoring colours on canvas. It allows the removal of wax-resin mass from the canvases that comes from the past conservation works. This procedure allows the paintings to be restored to their original colours by using a special organogel.
On Wednesday, July 13, the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson visited children from Ukraine in Będzin and Czeladź. She wanted to see cities where Ukrainians found shelter from the conflagration of war. It was a great experience and the Duchess had the opportunity to talk with the warmhearted people of Poland. It was her third visit in Poland since war with Russia first broke out in March in the Ukraine. On February 24, the Duchess's charity, Sarah's Trust, sent three lorry loads of supplies to Poland after Moscow ordered its troops into Ukraine. DOY continues with her support of Ukrainians in need and organizes the delivery of humanitarian aid to their communities.
A nurse from the Battalion Zośka, Anna Jakubowska, alias 'Paulinka' passed away aged 95. She was a Polish World War II combatant, community activist, and a participant of the Warsaw Uprising. During World War II, she was an active partisan in the Polish underground resistance movement. First, in the underground PET organization, and later as a nurse and liaison officer in groups later transformed into the Battalion Zośka of the Home Army.
This year, since July 1, Polish policemen are on duty on the Croatian Adriatic coast and in Bulgarian Black Sea resorts to help the citizens in this area. Fortunately, early in the morning, Staff Sergeant Piotr Filar was doing his daily workout, when he saw a young women in danger. On daily basis, he works at the Provincial Police Headquarters in Cracow but currently he was delegated to serve in the Zadar region, Croatia. However, he was off duty when he saved a 20-year-old woman from Norway. She was a victim of an attempted rape and sexual assault.
The idea of creating an international movement for protecting heritage emerged after World War I. The 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage developed from the merging of two separate movements: the first focusing on the preservation of cultural sites, and the other dealing with the conservation of nature. On July 13, 2006 the Centennial Hall was registered on this prestigious site. It is located in Wrocław, a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.
Yesterday, Modern Pentathlon 2022 European U17 & U19 Youth Championships has started in Cracow. Thanks to good starts and high places in the individual qualification, Poland won a silver medal in the teams classification. A gold medal belongs to France, whereas Hungarians are in third place.
Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Unfortunately, several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust and his fate was equally tragic. In 1942, when he was walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread, he was shot and killed by a German Nazi, a Gestapo officer.
Polish scientists have discovered a compound that may be an effective drug in alleviating the physical symptoms of morphine addiction and reducing emotional disturbances that occur during the morphine withdrawal episodes.
The most spectacular bicycle project that has been implemented in Poland so far - the Green Velo Eastern Bicycle Trail. It is the longest consistently marked cycle trail in Poland through picturesque areas of eastern Poland. What's interesting, the main route is 1885 kilometres long!
Our Polish scullers - Dominik Czaja, Mateusz Biskup, Miroslaw Zietarski, and Fabian Baranski won a gold medal in Men’s Quadruple Sculls in World Rowing Cup III in Switzerland.
Małgorzata Lebda became the laureate of the Wisława Szymborska Award for the best poetry book published last year. The award for the volume "Mer de Glace" was received by the artist on Saturday at the National Stary Theater in Kraków.
