What has Poland contributed to the Western civilisation?

Quoting: lef, Post #22

Clearly Poland has poduced super stars, point taken, (I think JP11 is the pick of the pick) but in the last 20yrs there hasn/t been much action....or am I wrong....I heard nothing of medical advances, scrience, new discoveries, it seems to rely on usa and Australia for information and help.

lefThreads: 13 Posts: 564 Joined: Jun 27, 06	Jul 24, 06, 00:32 / #
Quoting: IndianPolishGurl Quoting: brainvib I am very proud of my Polish ancestry and Poland's contributions to western civilization. Me too Please explain,, what has Poland contributed to the Western civilisation?

lefThreads: 13 Posts: 564 Joined: Jun 27, 06	Jul 24, 06, 01:25 / #
Quoting: lef, Post #1 Quoting: IndianPolishGurl Quoting: brainvib I am very proud of my Polish ancestry and Poland's contributions to western civilization. Me too Please explain,, what has Poland contributed to the Western civilisation? I forgot to say, Dont't respond by saying bigos and sausages?

China	Jul 24, 06, 02:20 / #
I can feel that you are lookin for an argument...no problem boy , you got it....explain clearly what you mean by "western cvilisation" and I will send you a secret Polish recipe for making a good bigos and sausage . The last one was known to improve the mentality of some westerners,,,but only few .so don't keep your hopes high.

IndianPolishGurl	Jul 24, 06, 02:24 / #
Does the word DUH come to mind? Are you really that dumb that you don't even know such things as this? Why do you even have a Polish citizenship? Have you heard of... Fryderyk Chopin.... Paweł Edmund Strzelecki.... Kazimierz Funk... Nicolaus Copernicus... Maria Skloowska-Curie.... Krzysztof Penderecki.... Roman Polanski.... Andrzej Wajda.... JOHN PAUL II These are just SOME names of Polish people who have made their marks in the world through Science, Music/Entertainment, Politics, Religion.... theres many many that I could add to that list.... and by saying made a mark in the world, I mean they have helped people all around the world and given other hope for the future...

China	Jul 24, 06, 02:48 / #
Dear IndianPolishGurl , Is he Polish ? I thought he was from Australia.Probably wated to argue with a kangaroo , got kicked in a head and developed a complex about bigos and kielbasa.

IndianPolishGurl	Jul 24, 06, 03:01 / #
Quoting: China, Post #5 Dear IndianPolishGurl , Is he Polish ? I thought he was from Australia.Probably wated to argue with a kangaroo , got kicked in a head and developed a complex about bigos and kielbasa. hahaha! Yeah he has posted that he is Polish born Australian and that he has both Pl and Au citizenships.... but he is so Anti Pl I dont get why he even has a Polish citizenship? I guess he is one of the unlucky people in the world who have lost connection with their roots... oh well... I think his favorite meal is probalby McDonalds or ''Hungry Jacks'' (Why change the name from Burger king??), fried kangaroo and vegemite on top sprinkled with pieces of wichedi grups.... the all true Oz meal! :P I think u r right... i think he got kicked in the head by the kangaroo he was trying to catch for dinner!

guest-iwona	Jul 24, 06, 04:08 / #
INDIANPOLISH GIRL, I really like you. I am polish but I live in England. I must admin that I met here lots polish people being so negative about Poland.I don't know why? Some complexes.

Wujek_Dobra_Rada	Jul 24, 06, 07:27 / #
Why hasn`t this moron been banned yet ?

Tlum	Jul 24, 06, 09:27 / #
Yes, there are so many Poles that contributed to the whole World Society. In the XX centrury the greatest person, IMO, was John Paul II. And what about the Poles whose parents were born in Poland but their children were born as citizens of another country -- in the US, for example, you can very often hear the Polish last name taken by someone influential in that country. I wouldn't be surprised if in this centrury the US will have a president whose last name sounds like "Kowalski".

guests	Jul 24, 06, 09:41 / #
Sorry mate but no one outside poland has heard of any but a handful of them.Most countries have scientists etc.I think only countries with big contribution to world have been-China,Roman Empire,Ancient Greece,Great Britain,USA,France

Wujek_Dobra_Rada	Jul 24, 06, 09:46 / #
Well, when we`re talikng about fameous Polish imigrants in the US - then one of the most fameous is probably Matra Kostyra alias Martha Stewart and in politics - probably prof. Zbigniew Brzeziński

FISZThreads: 31 Posts: 2,607 Joined: Jun 14, 06	Aug 3, 06, 14:39 / #
Wow. How does that foot taste in your mouth?

MatyjaszThreads: 2 Posts: 1,786 Joined: Jul 20, 06	Aug 3, 06, 14:54 / #
Hmm, that strange...I wasn't able to post the whole message, so there is the second part. Hope this time it will be OK. From Admin - it's easier to provide the link to the source. :)

MatyjaszThreads: 2 Posts: 1,786 Joined: Jul 20, 06	Edited by: Matyjasz Aug 3, 06, 15:01 / #
But that way it doesn't look so impressive, isn't it?? hehe OK, I learnt my lesson. Cheers.

Tlum	Jul 24, 06, 09:44 / #
Quoting: guests, Post #13 Roman Empire,Ancient Greece I thought we were talking about the modern times here...

Wujek_Dobra_Rada	Edited by: Wujek_Dobra_Rada Jul 24, 06, 09:47 / #
Quoting: guests, Post #13 Sorry mate but no one outside poland has heard of any but a handful of them.Most countries have scientists etc.I think only countries with big contribution to world have been-China,Roman Empire,Ancient Greece,Great Britain,USA,France Well then - lef - perhaps you should educate yourself. You shouldn`t make responsible other people for your lack of knowledge - the only one to blame here is you.

boloThreads: 4 Posts: 345 Joined: Jul 11, 06	Jul 24, 06, 14:11 / #
Quoting: lef, Post #1 Please explain,, what has Poland contributed to the Western civilisation? How about Nice Polish Picture girls? :)

lefThreads: 13 Posts: 564 Joined: Jun 27, 06	Aug 7, 06, 17:08 / #
Quoting: guests, Post #13 Sorry mate but no one outside poland has heard of any but a handful of them.Most countries have scientists etc.I think only countries with big contribution to world have been-China,Roman Empire,Ancient Greece,Great Britain,USA,France Clearly Poland has poduced super stars, point taken, (I think JP11 is the pick of the pick) but in the last 20yrs there hasn/t been much action....or am I wrong....I heard nothing of medical advances, scrience, new discoveries, it seems to rely on usa and Australia for information and help.

Wujek_Dobra_Rada	Edited by: Wujek_Dobra_Rada Aug 7, 06, 17:42 / #
Quoting: lef, Post #22 Clearly Poland has poduced super stars, point taken, (I think JP11 is the pick of the pick) but in the last 20yrs there hasn/t been much action....or am I wrong....I heard nothing of medical advances, scrience, new discoveries, it seems to rely on usa and Australia for information and help. - How about i.e. discovering new planets - our scientists have discovered over 50% of all planets that have been discovered outside our solar system so far.. serwisy.gazeta.pl/nauka/1,34137,709723.html ..not to mention the method of discovering them. ..a method of cureing the Parkinsons diesese by implanting implants into the brain that is being used here since a coupple of years, and there had been over 400 such operations here: cskwam.mil.pl/index.php?t1=struktura&t2=cskmon&t3=k19#ch_p while in the US and the UK this method is still being in experimental stages: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4522452.stm ...or the hundreds of other discoveries: mnii.gov.pl/mein/index.jsp?place=Lead08&news_cat_id=496&lay out=4&offset=0&count=20 --------------------------------------------- As you can see the reason why you aren`t getting this on the news is that what I have mentioned earlier - just read the first article.

boloThreads: 4 Posts: 345 Joined: Jul 11, 06	Aug 7, 06, 19:15 / #
news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6102458.html - Joanna Rutkowska - a Polish researcher who (legally - for research purposes) hacked the newest version of MS Windows.

Wujek_Dobra_Rada	Aug 7, 06, 19:30 / #
Quoting: bolo, Post #24 Joanna Rutkowska - a Polish researcher who (legally - for research purposes) hacked the newest version of MS Windows. Yes - that`s becaouse this year our programers achieved this: topcoder.com/stat?c=country_avg_rating and our highschool students achieved this: topcoder.com/tc?module=HSRank And this is only one of the top world rankings.

Robbie	Nov 26, 06, 12:34 / #
LEF, YOUR COMMENTS AND ARROGRANCE ARE AS FAR OUT AS YOUR COUNTRY!!

iwonaThreads: 13 Posts: 639 Joined: Aug 6, 06	Nov 27, 06, 02:38 / #
I agree

MatyjaszThreads: 2 Posts: 1,786 Joined: Jul 20, 06	Nov 27, 06, 03:43 / #
Hey, I remember this thread. I made my first post here... After that I decided to start participating in this forum. Ahh, the memories.

jasiu	Nov 27, 06, 06:22 / #
Quoting: lef, Post #1 what has Poland contributed to the Western civilisation? wodka...

Benedetta	Edited by: Benedetta Nov 27, 06, 07:00 / #
A Polish army unit freed Breda - a city in Holland - during the war: there's even a museum about it: URL Cheers

jasiu	Nov 27, 06, 12:38 / #
dont forget how much polish pilots contributed to the battle of britain during ww2 did anyone mention wodka...?

ola123	Nov 27, 06, 12:43 / #
Quoting: jasiu, Post #28 did anyone mention wodka...? Yes you two posts above .

itterio	Nov 27, 06, 13:21 / #
Well, as a musician - for me Fryderyk Chopin is one of the major contribution !

iwonaThreads: 13 Posts: 639 Joined: Aug 6, 06	Nov 28, 06, 06:28 / #
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