Once again, in classical as well as pop music, Polish talent is more appreciated by foreigners than it is by Poles.
This is bad news for borscht lovers, as well as for the Catholic church, which reckons its numbers have been swelled by some 10% in the past two years, in large part by Poles.
He is seen by most Poles as the puppet-master of a struggling government.
He had evidently made up his mind to attack Poland, whatever happened, and although he now says he put forward reasonable proposals which were rejected by the Poles, that is not a true statement.
Richard Buck, Nick Leavey and Nigel Levine started well and Philip Taylor ran a brave final leg, and although beaten by Italy's Claudio Licciardello he pipped the Poles by the narrowest of margins.
Inside, floors morph from wood to stone to tile, rooms are demarcated only by rattan-wrapped poles, and a staircase seems suspended by nothing more than plants.
Sir Ranulph was the first man to visit both the North and South Poles by foot and the first to completely cross Antarctica by foot.
Fiennes has previously been the first person to reach both the North and South Poles by land and the first to cross Antarctica on foot.
Sir Ranulph was the first man to reach both North and South Poles by land and was also the oldest Briton to climb Everest, in 2009, at the age of 65.
Forced into political cohabitation after the 1997 election, when a rejuvenated Solidarity movement got into government again, the president has endeared himself to many middle-of-the-road Poles by battling away for reconciliation.
In some cities, telephone poles not only carry power lines at the top, they carry one, two, or three runs of fiber or telephone cable placed on the poles by the telephone company, the cable company, and perhaps the city itself.
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The floats come in two varieties: yama floats with platforms decorated to resemble mountains and hoko floats dominated by tall wooden poles originally intended to summon the Plague God so that he could be transformed into a protective spirit through music, dance and worship.
"While our results are still very new, our thinking is that the mercury detected by Lamp from the Grail site might be related to an enhancement at the poles caused by mercury atoms generally hopping across the surface and eventually migrating toward the cold polar regions, " said Kurt Retherford, the chief scientist for Lamp.
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By nationality, the biggest group of immigrants are Poles, followed by Swedes and then Pakistanis.
Instead of a single lattice tower, the cables are supported by two elegant steel poles up to 65 metres high.
He went on to fight in the Warsaw Polish Uprising, a two-month battle against the Nazis in 1944, undertaken primarily by non-Jewish Poles.
Surely the judges in Sandiford's case must know that sentencing people to die by tying them to poles and killing them slowly in jungles or on Bali's white sand beaches does more to damage the reputation of Bali as a holiday destination than the actions of a terrified, vulnerable grandmother trying to protect her children.
Sceptical Poles, scarred by their dealings with suspicious, nit-picking bureaucrats, may take some convincing of this.
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Mr. IVO DAALDER (The Brookings Institution): Remember, the Poles are leaving by the end of the year.
Over the course of nine days, the pope gave 39 sermons attended by an estimated 11 million Poles.
But at the same time, more Poles are honoured by Israel for saving Jews during the war than any other nationality.
But as I recently noted in my response to a Charles Krauthammer column, if the Poles feel threatened by their regional security environment, they have a very funny way of showing it.
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The six cables that pass from one pylon to another are each borne by two insulators attached to the poles.
By beaming broadband signals from phone poles into homes, Spitfire solves a major problem facing regional Bells: One third or so of homes have copper wires so degraded by splicing or old age that they cannot handle DSL service.
The government claimed that its tough negotiating tactics--the most controversial of which was Jaroslaw Kaczynski's claim in the run-up to the summit that a population-based voting system was unfair because 6m Poles had been killed by Germany during the Second World War--were effective in helping to secure a favourable deal for Poland.
Yet although many older Poles remain disoriented and disillusioned by the market, their children exude confidence and entrepreneurial talent.
Indeed, there is a growing feeling that the Poles, hamstrung in part by a general election expected in the autumn, are slightly flagging in the race to get into the club.
As many as 2m Poles have voted with their feet by working abroad.
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The company said a number of electricity poles had been brought down, some by falling trees.
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