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2 unusual facts about Gliwice


Adam Wiercioch

Adam Wiercioch (born November 1, 1980 in Gliwice, Śląskie) is a Polish fencer who won a silver medal in Men's Team Épée (Fencing) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Tomasz Motyka, Radosław Zawrotniak, and Robert Andrzejuk.

Nivea

1890: Pharmacist Oskar Troplowitz (born in 1863 in Gliwice, Poland) takes over the company.


Mandry

In two week's time they managed to play 11 concerts in cities like Wrocław, Warsaw, Kraków, Szczecin, Gliwice, Białystok, Olsztyn, Sopot and Lublin.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Przemyslaus I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn

The high point of this dispute was the murder of the Cieszyn Duke's eldest son Przemysław on 1 January 1406 in the town of Rybnik, during his return from Gliwice to Cieszyn, by a certain Martin Chrzan, who acted under instructions of Duke Jan II.

Zdzisław Bubnicki

He obtained a degree of Master of Science in 1960 at Faculty of Electronics at Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.


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