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Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 200 Years
In this year's edition of the European Tree of the Year contest, the leafy crown was bestowed upon a common beech in the botanical...
Evidence of Cheese-Making to Circumvent Lactose Intolerance 6,000 Years Ago Found in Poland
Analysis of neolithic pottery shards shows that in Northern Europe, where poor soils and low sunlight made primitive agriculture extremely difficult, people were making...
Poland Once Gave America a Birthday Card That Was Signed By 5.5 Million Polish People
The Library of Congress published a 111 volume birthday card that was given to America in 1926 – and all of the pages are breathtaking.
Poland Completes the Destruction of One Million of its Landmines
Poland has now joined the ranks of 157 states that have destroyed their stockpiles of anti-personnel land mines.
Poland to Teach Free Nationwide Self-Defense Classes For Women
The Polish military is making sure that if a woman ever finds herself in a dangerous situation, she'll know exactly how to get out of it safely.
Poland Has Some GREAT Street Musicians!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsmeuC38nkw
This quality of guitar improvisation might belong in a concert hall, but it is free to all on the streets in Katowice, Poland.
Mariusz Goli is his name, and...
Wisconsin Workers Get Support from Poland’s Solidarity Trade Union
In a full page ad purchased in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the iconic Polish trade union, Solidarity, expressed heartfelt support for Wisconsin workers who are...
Poland Halts Wetlands Road Plan
Poland has halted the planned work on a road through one of Europe's last remaining wetlands after the EU warned it would file an...
Poland Honors Woman who Saved 2,500 Jewish Children from Holocaust
Irena Sendler was honored in Poland for her part in a secret organization that rescued thousands of Jews from certain death by smuggling them...
Father-Son Were Trying to Find Roman Road But Found a Shovelful of 16th C. Silver Coins Instead
In the Polish forests north of Warsaw, a father and son were out with a local historical society when they found 17 pre-modern coins...
Good News in History, November 14
86 years ago today, the Lion's Gate Bridge opened in Vancouver. Crossing the Burrard Inlet, the total length of the bridge including the north...
Good News in History, November 3
119 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums...
Good News in History, October 30
51 years ago today, the Bosphorus Bridge was completed, linking mainland Europe with Anatolia over the Bosporus Straits for the first time. It's a...
Good News in History, October 24
20 years ago today, Arsenal Football Club set an unbeaten record winning 49 matches in a row, the most ever in the English Premier...
Good News in History, October 14
157 years ago today, Masaoka Shiki, considered one of Japan's four masters of haiku, was born. He wrote more than 20,000 stanzas of this...
Frozen in Time: 32,000-Year-old Woolly Rhino Found with Skin, Fur, and Organs Intact
Four years ago, someone came across an extraordinary find—a juvenile rhino from the Pleistocene 'mummified' in the Siberian permafrost.
Alerting the relevant authorities, the discovery...
100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Granted Wish to Reunite with Sister One Last Time
Helena Stefaniak's life story is one marked by the bonds of sisterhood growing up in war-torn Warsaw—and she rekindled that spirit of resilience one...
Good News in History September 17
Happy 80th Birthday to the greatest mountaineer of all time, Reinhold Messner. An Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South...
Passionate Mushroom Researcher Spends Decade Unravelling Mystery of 200-year-old Museum Specimen
A passionate expert on fungi has spent a decade trying to discover the identity behind a preserved and mislabeled specimen in an Australian collection—all...
Good News in History, August 21
85 years ago today, civil rights protestors quietly entered the library in Alexandria, VA to stage a sit-in. One young black man, well-dressed and...