Curated playlist
Polish Roman Catholics
- Nicolaus CopernicusThe first attacks on Copernicus came from Protestants, not the Catholic Church.
- Józef PiłsudskiJózef Piłsudski robbed a Russian mail train in 1908 to fund his secret army. The haul was 200,812 rubles.
- Sigismund I the OldA 1537 noble revolt against Poland's King Sigismund I was mocked as the Chicken War.
- John I AlbertPoland's first two-chamber parliament met in 1493 after King John I Albert summoned it.
- Czesława KwokaCzesława Kwoka's Auschwitz photo survives though camp policy required such images destroyed.
- Wojciech JaruzelskiWojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland on the 13th of December 1981. Later he helped end Communist rule.
- Karol NawrockiIn 2018, Karol Nawrocki went on Polish television in a hat, with his face blurred by the broadcast, as a man called Tadeusz Batyr. Batyr was a pen name Nawrocki had used for a book about a gangster in 1980s Communist Poland. On screen, the…
- Józef PoniatowskiAt Raszyn in 1809, Józef Poniatowski led a bayonet charge against an Austrian force twice his size.
- Jan KochanowskiA skull kept in a Warsaw museum as poet Jan Kochanowski's was not his.
- Robert LewandowskiRobert Lewandowski walked on as a Bayern Munich substitute on the 22nd of September 2015, with his team trailing Wolfsburg 1-0. Eight minutes and 59 seconds later, he had scored five goals and Bayern led 5-1. Three of those goals fell…