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99 unusual facts about Warsaw


1263 Varsavia

Its name is derived from the Latin name for the Polish capital Warsaw.

1860 in art

December 30 - Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw.

3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade

For the successful execution of assigned tasks to free Warsaw Commander of the Order of February 10, 1945 the regiment was given the name "Warsaw".

3rd World Scout Jamboree

The other, given to the Polish contingent in 1929, was last seen in 2000 in Warsaw, Poland.

Ahmed Kathrada

He remained in Europe in order to attend a congress of the International Union of Students in Warsaw, Poland and finally travelled to Budapest and worked at the headquarters of the World Federation of Democratic Youth for nine months.

Andrei Pavlovich Ablameyko

After the death of his father Ian Matusevich in December 1998, he was ordained to the priesthood by Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw, Archbishop Jan Martyniak in Lublin and was appointed rector of the parish of Saint Joseph in Minsk, as well as parish administrator in Lida and Maladzechna.

Anna De Souza

Donald, unknowingly, offered Anna's services on a business trip to Warsaw, as a Consultant, thinking Anna could get some valuable inside information about King & Sons for their revenge plan.

AVA Radio Company

In 1927, Fokczyński had opened a small radio workshop on Warsaw's New World Street.

Baba Diawara

On 17 April 2012, Diawara scored the opening goal in the new National Stadium in Warsaw, during a friendly with local Legia Warsaw.

Banned from Television

In Warsaw, Poland, a powerful storm topples a brick chimney across the street onto a crowd of people.

Bartel BM-2

In June 1927 it was shown at the first Aviation Exhibition in Warsaw.

Bernd Marin

Marin also served as visiting professor at several other universities (Zurich, Warsaw, Florence, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Health Sciences at H. A. Barceló Fundation and Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Bohdan Kulakowski

He held several management positions in Polish research institutions, including head of the Process Control Division in the Computer Centre for Building Industry and of the Division of Automatic Control research group, Institute of Glass and Ceramics, both in Warsaw.

Christopher Henn-Collins

Their objective was to set up radio communications between Mission HQ in Warsaw, the UK and units of the Polish army.

Crispin and Crispinian

Crispin and Crispinian by Aert van den Bossche (National Museum in Warsaw).

ČSD Class E 499.1

EU05 locomotives pulled fast passenger trains and were based in Warszawa Odolany and later in Warszawa Olszynka Grochowska depots.

Democratic education

In 1912 Janusz Korczak founded Dom Sierot, the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, which was run on democratic lines until 1940, when he accompanied all his charges to the gas-chambers of the Treblinka extermination camp.

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Echo de Varsovie

Echo de Varsovie ('Echo of Warsaw') was a French language biweekly newspaper published from Warsaw.

Elżbieta Jakubiak

She graduated from the School of Special Education in Warsaw in 1991.

Flag of Poland

White and red were first publicly used as national colors by civilians on May 3, 1792 in Warsaw, during a celebration of the first anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of 1791.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

He is buried in the Tayloe family burial ground at Mount Airy Plantation, near Warsaw, Virginia.

Grzegorz Przemyk

Grzegorz Przemyk (May 17, 1964 – May 14, 1983) was a young, aspiring Polish poet from Warsaw, who was murdered by members of the Communist People's Milicja Obywatelska.

Hagaw

Hagaw, also known as Asocjacja Hagaw, is a Polish traditional jazz band, formed as a quintet at the Klub Stodoła in Warsaw in 1964 by Andrzej Jastrzębski.

Halina Poświatowska

Halina Poświatowska (born Helena Myga, May 9, 1935, Częstochowa, Poland – October 11, 1967, Warsaw, Poland) – Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature.

Hans Moritz von Brühl

At Paris, in 1755, Brühl, then in his nineteenth year, took an active part in Saxon diplomacy, and was summoned to Warsaw in 1759.

Henryk Wasilewski

His personal best time was 3.37.3 minutes, achieved in July 1977 in Warsaw.

Hugh Greene

Greene, though, managed to report from Warsaw on the opening events of the Second World War and continued as a correspondent for a short time.

Isaac N. Morris

He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Warsaw, Illinois, in 1836.

Iustin Moisescu

In Warsaw, he established the following Polish-language courses: “General and specific introduction to the holy books of the New Testament”; “Exegesis of Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians”; and “Exegesis of the prologue to the Gospel of John”.

Jack Lohman

He is Professor of Museum Design and Communication at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Norway (since 1997) and Chairman of the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (since 2008).

Jacob's Rescue

Several tenement houses formerly owned by wealthy Gutgeld family are preserved in Warsaw until today (for e. g. Czerniakowska street no. 174, 176, 205, Rozbrat street no. 28/30, Dmochowskiego street no. 6)

Jan Dekert

--probably National Theatre, Warsaw but can't find a source clearly stating that--> in Warsaw.

Starting in the 1760s, he rose to become one of the most prominent merchants in the Polish capital of Warsaw.

Jan Englert

Since 2003 he has served as Artistic Director of the National Theatre in Warsaw.

Jazz Jamboree

Then the venue was changed to Filharmonia Narodowa, and since 1965 all editions have taken place in Sala Kongresowa in Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.

Jazz Jamboree Festival, one of the biggest and oldest jazz festivals in Europe, takes place in Warsaw.

Jews in Kyrgyzstan

The Jewish Theater Company of Warsaw with the renowned actress Ida Kaminska (1899−1980) was evacuated to Bishkek until it was moved back to Europe after the war.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.

In 1993 Joe bought a gas station in Warsaw and renamed Ol' Joe's, then in 2003 Joe's oldest son James bought the gas station from his father and kept the name.

Joža Karas

Born to Christian parents in Warsaw, Karas emigrated to the United States in 1948 via Colombia and Canada.

Kalina Jędrusik

From 1955 she performed at Warsaw theatres: National Theatre (1955-1957), Współczesny Theatre (1957-1963), Comedy Theatre (1964-1967), Studencki Teatr Satyryków (1969-1972), Variety Theatre (1972-1985), Polish Theatre (1985-1991).

Kasia Pisarek

At the Sorbonne she was awarded a Masters Degree in Art History (1984) and she then studied for a Doctorate in Art History at the University of Warsaw.

Katarzyna Pakosińska

In 1991 she graduated from Arts High School and began Polish studies at the University of Warsaw.

Kazimiera Zawistowska

She published her works in Kraków and Warsaw magazines – Życie, Krytyka and Chimera.

Kazimierz Sikorski

From 1951 to 1966, he taught music theory and composition at the Music Academy Warsaw.

Sikorski was born in Zurich, but studied in Warsaw, first music at the Warsaw Conservatory and then philosophy at the University of Warsaw.

Kubusia Puchatka Street

Ulica Kubusia Puchatka is a street in central Warsaw, Poland named after Winnie-the-Pooh.

Kulczyk Investments

Kulczyk Investments owns some of Warsaw’s key property portfolios in the city’s prime locations.

La Caixa

At the end of 2007, La Caixa had 5,480 branches, of which 5,468 are located throughout Spain and two operating abroad (Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania), and 10 representative offices in Germany, Belgium, China, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Landon Carter

Carter's grave is in the Lower Lunenburg Parish Church cemetery in Warsaw, Virginia.

Leopold Labedz

The family soon returned to Warsaw and the young Labedz decided to follow his father into the medical profession.

Mainz rail bypass

Scheduled passenger trains occasionally run on this section of line, such as the Jan Kiepura, which runs between Amsterdam and Warsaw via Frankfurt, (with a through coach to Moscow).

Manila massacre

By the time the Japanese were driven out, the city was in ruins, becoming the second most severely damaged Allied capital city during the war, the first being Warsaw in Poland.

Maria Vetulani de Nisau

In her apartment at Świętokrzyska Street she organised a contact point and a hiding place for Jewish people.

Masuria

In contrast to the Prussian-oriented periodicals, in the late 19th century such newspapers as Przyjaciel Ludu Łecki and Mazur were founded by members of the Warsaw-based Komitet Centralny dla Slaska, Kaszub i Mazur (Central Committee for Silesia, Kashubia and Masuria), influenced by Polish politicians like Antoni Osuchowski or Juliusz Bursche, to strengthen a Polish identity in Masuria.

Menasha Skulnik

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Skulnik reportedly ran away at the age of 10 to join a circus.

Missunde

After king Charles X Gustav of Sweden together with Brandenburg had defeated the Polish army near Warsaw in 1656, its troops passed Missunde, where they made large destruction.

North Brentwood, Maryland

"Brentwood" was created by Wallace A. Bartlett, a Civil War veteran, former foreman for the Government Printing Office, Patent Office examiner, and inventor originally from Warsaw, New York.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, the Von Lubers travel to Warsaw, where the baron sells arms to Polish General Borelski (Albert Bassermann).

Order of Polonia Restituta

After the Partitions of Poland the Order was resurrected in the Duchy of Warsaw, bestowing upon its recipients the title of hereditary nobility and requiring donations to a Warsaw hospital.

Pittsfield, Maine

In 1815, the town was organized as the Plantation of Sebasticook, but was incorporated on June 18, 1819 as Warsaw after Warsaw, Poland.

PKP class OKl27

Four engines have survived: OKl27-10 in Skierniewice (as an exhibit), OKl27-26 in Warsaw Railroad Museum (as an exhibit), OKl27-27 in Gdynia (as an exhibit) and OKl27-41 in Chabówka.

Plyussa

Between 1851 and 1862, the railway connecting Saint Petersburg and Warsaw via Pskov was built and crossed Luzhsky Uyezd.

Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

Piosenka dla Europy was held at the TVP studios in Warsaw, hosted by Artur Orzech.

Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

The Polish national broadcaster TVP held a national final for the 2010 contest on 14 February in Warsaw, where 10 songs competed to represent Poland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

Polish–Georgian alliance

Among the Georgians who moved to Poland, were parents of general John Shalikashvili (the general himself was born in Warsaw).

Preview of the War We Do Not Want

UN forces push the Red Army back across Europe, and by year's end have reached Warsaw and the Ukrainian border.

Quiller

Fourth, in contrast to the glamorous lifestyles depicted in the James Bond canon, Quiller's operational locations are almost always unfriendly (Warsaw in winter, the Sahara Desert under the blazing sun, etc.) and he is aware that his expenses will be scrutinised minutely.

RAF Driffield

Squadron alone dropped 6,000,000 leaflets during a raid over Warsaw; a mission successfully accomplished, despite difficulties encountered with navigation and atrocious weather conditions.

Rayat ash-Shaghilah

Rayat ash-Shaghilah sent its own delegation to the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Warsaw, Poland, in 1955.

Resistance: Retribution

Grayson leads a Maquis force into the heart of Russia to discover the source of the Chimera invasion, but Grayson goes Missing in action during the battle to liberate Warsaw, though rumors spread of a British soldier in Russia that has become known as the "Cloven Killer".

Richard Kelley

In February 1961, the German Democratic Republic's news agency ADN reported that Kelley had been "harassed", "threatened" and then arrested by police in West Berlin whilst visiting the city in connection with his attendance at a conference for coexistence and disarmament in Warsaw.

Ronald Nowicki

The publication continued well into the late 1990s with various owners, while Nowicki left to interview the last survivors of the Warsaw cabaret for his first book, Warsaw: The Cabaret Years (Mercury House, 1992), about cabaret and coffeehouse life in Warsaw, Poland, between the World Wars.

Roy MacGregor-Hastie

He speaks seven languages, including Russian, was one of the most widely read commentators on Communist affairs, and has reported from Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Bucharest.

San Francisco Review of Books

The publication continued well into the late 1990s with various owners, while Nowicki left to interview the last survivors of the Warsaw cabaret for his first book, Warsaw: The Cabaret Years (Mercury House, 1992), about cabaret and coffeehouse life between the wars in Warsaw.

Secret Teaching Organization

The Organization was created towards the end of October 1939 in Warsaw response to German closure of most Polish educational institutions and repressions against teachers.

Sheldon Glueck

Born in Warsaw, Poland during the Russian Empire, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1920.

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876 - 1901 in Warsaw) Polish poet and translator, brother of a poet Wincenty Korab-Brzozowski and son of a romantic bard Karol Brzozowski.

Stephen Mull

Prior to his assignment in Jakarta, Mull worked as Deputy Director of the State Department Operations Center, as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, as Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs in the Bureau of European Affairs, and as Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of State.

Terasawa Junsei

For the sake of Peace in Europe shortly before the Berlin Wall Fall conducted seven day prayer without food and water on the grave of Karl Marx, burned his finger phalanx and made alone Peace March from Warsaw to said Wall.

The Free Belarus Initiative

The Initiative, in cooperation with the Polish state television (TVP) and the authorities of the City of Warsaw organizes annual "Solidarity with Belarus" concerts.

The Prophecy: Live in Europe

The Prophecy: Live in Europe is a live album by Painkiller, a band featuring John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Yoshida Tatsuya, performing live in Berlin and Warsaw.

Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras

After his marriage, Favras went to Vienna to attempt the restitution of his wife's rights, and spent some time in Warsaw.

Thomas Knowlton

A month before the outbreak of World War II, in late July 1939, Rejewski and his Cipher Bureau colleagues and superiors, at an official Warsaw conference, initiated French and British military cryptologists into their techniques and technology and gave each of their western allies a German Enigma machine that they had reconstructed.

Timothee Adamowski

Born in Warsaw, he studied in that city's conservatory, later moving on to further studies in Paris.

He later studied at the Warsaw Conservatory under Apolinary Kątski and at the Paris Conservatory under Lambert Massart.

Tomasz Borkowy

Tomasz Karol Borkowy (born 17 September 1952, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish actor, but has been working in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s.

Très.b

The album was recorded in Warsaw in Studio 333 and produced by Bartłomiej Kuźniak and Olivier Heim.

Tupolev ANT-9

Mikhail Gromow accomplished a European round flight on the route Moscow – Travemünde – Berlin – Paris – Rome – Marseille – London – Paris – Berlin – Warsaw – Moscow with the Krylia Sovietov, which lasted from 10 July to 8 August 1929 and generated considerable publicity.

Vaad Rosh Hashochtim of Poland and Lithuania

As soon as the Vaad was formed, it's seven members agreed to meet regularly in Warsaw to hold their meetings.

Vyacheslav von Plehve

In 1851 Plehve's family moved from Meshchovsk to Warsaw, where his father accepted a job as instructor in a gymnasium.

Witold Nazarewicz

Dr. Witold Nazarewicz (born 1954) is a nuclear physicist born in Warsaw, Poland, currently teaching at the University of Tennessee.

Włodzimierz Słobodnik

Włodzimierz Słobodnik (born September 19, 1900, in Novoukrainka, died July 10, 1991, in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, translator of French, Russian, and Soviet literature, a satirist, and the author of numerous books for young adults.

Wojciech Szczęsny

Szczęsny trained at Agrykola Warsaw as a young player; soon, Legia Warsaw's goalkeeping coach, Krzysztof Dowhań, was so impressed with the young keeper, he allowed him to take part in a training camp with Legia's first team at the age of 15, joining them afterwards.

Yvon Delbos

Afterwards, he set out on a tour of the central and eastern European capitols, visiting Warsaw on December 3, Bucharest on December 8, Belgrade on December 12, and Prague on December 15, in each case discussing the European situation with the ministers of the countries in question, and seeking to foster friendly relations with France.

Zbigniew Romaszewski

Zbigniew Romaszewski (born 2 January 1940 in Warsaw) is a Polish conservative politician, a Polish senator since 1989, and a human rights activist.

Zygmunt Wiehler

Zygmunt Wiehler (10 February 1890, Kraków, Austria-Hungary –26 December 1977, Warsaw) was a Polish popular and film music composer and director.

Zygmunt Załęski

Zygmunt Załęski (February 13, 1892 – January 12, 1966 in Warsaw), pseudonym Gnatowski, was a Polish national movement activist, politician and publicist.


1802 Vrancea earthquake

Earthquake caused fear in Warsaw (Poland), and in Bulgaria, the cities of Ruse, Varna and Vidin suffered some damage and panic amongst the population.

Alexander Blok

Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg State University.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw

Field Cathedral of the Polish Army, another cathedral in Warsaw that used to be an Orthodox church

Antek

Antek Rozpylacz ("Antek the Arsonist"), the nom-de-guerre of Antoni Szczęsny Godlewski (1923 in Warsaw – 1944, in Warsaw)

Bottle tops

By early 2009, Allen Vallarta Wholesale was one of 50 U.S. companies to be invited to a prestigious Department of Commerce Trade Winds Forum in Warsaw, Poland, which Mr. Allen attended with his attorney, Eric Kaufman, and met with senior representatives of several European countries.

Czesław Centkiewicz

During World War II he remained in Warsaw and after the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 he was arrested by the Germans and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp.

Dětmarovice

The power station is situated on an important main railway line from Prague/Vienna to Warsaw.

Eduardo Díez de Medina

Over 1,000 blank immigration permits were found for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris.

Feliks Paweł Jarocki

Feliks Paweł Jarocki (Pacanów, 14 January 1790 - 25 March 1865, Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and entomologist.

François Gény

Nine universities conferred him the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa: Groningen (1914), Leuven (1927), Warsaw (1929), Brussels (1929), Geneva (1930), Jassy (1934), Lausanne (1935), Basel (1936) and Athens (1937).

Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

Geopolitically the Duchy of Warsaw comprised the areas of the 2nd and 3rd Prussian partitions (1795), with the exception of Danzig (Gdańsk), which was made into the Free City of Danzig under joint French and Saxon "protection", and the district around Białystok, which was given to Russia.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

Gold Duck

According to one story, recorded by poet-journalist Artur Oppman, the duck dwells in the cellars beneath Warsaw's Ostrogski Castle (now home to the Fryderyk Chopin Museum).

Grzegorz Pojmański

Grzegorz Pojmański (born April 16, 1959, in Warsaw), Polish astronomer, worker of Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland.

Guilty or Innocent of Using the N Word

Guilty or Innocent of Using the N Word is a 2006 documentary directed by British director, Bhavna Malkani, in Warsaw, capital of Poland.

Holy See–Poland relations

Diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Poland have existed at the level of Nunciature since 1555, when the first resident diplomatic representative of the Holy See with the rank of Nuncio arrived in Warsaw, to continue the whose of his predecessors of lesser rank.

Ippolit Monighetti

In the 1870s, Monighetti designed new interiors for the Skierniewice Palace (near Warsaw), Anichkov Palace and the Yusupov Palace (both in Saint Petersburg).

Jacob's Rescue

Jacob's Rescue is a 1994 children's book by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin based on a true story that takes place in Warsaw, Poland during the holocaust.

Jay Kalk

In the Summer of 2003, Warsaw was the headlining act of the Tour de Fat, which had 13 dates in the Southwest States.Warsaw is sponsored by Jägermeister and played the Arizona date of the Jägermeister Music Tour opening for Alterbridge in 2004.

Jean de Reszke

He sang as a boy in Warsaw's cathedral and later studied law at the city's university; but after a few years he abandoned his legal training and went to Milan in Italy to study voice.

Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder

His younger son, Francesco (born in Klagenfurt in 1783) settled at Warsaw in Congress Poland for the rest of his life, estranged from his father.

John Abell

Upon his arrival at Warsaw, the king having notice of it, sent for him to his court.

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

The province's sole international airport, Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport, is located in Bydgoszcz and has connections to a number of European destinations as well as Warsaw, which are all operated by either Irish carrier Ryanair or LOT Polish Airlines.

Leopold Lewin

Leopold Lewin (28 July 1910 in Piotrków Trybunalski – 7 December 1995 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, journalist and translator.

Łomża Department

From January to July 1807 the Department was known as the Białystok Department (Departament Białostocki) with the capital of Białystok, but after Treaties of Tilsit, Russia agreed for the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, but in exchange it was ceded for powiats: Białostocki, Bielski, Sokólski and Drohicki.

Marian Hemar

Soon after the outbreak of World War II Hemar fled Warsaw after being searched for by the Gestapo and reached Romania, and eventually the Middle East, where he signed up and served in the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade.

Michał Zadara

After two years of study, he took a leave of absence from Swarthmore, and studied directing at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, and then oceanography at Sea Education Association in Massachusetts.

Millsboro, Delaware

Thus, it is one of only three cities in the United States to record both its state's extreme temperatures, the others being Chester, Massachusetts and Warsaw, Missouri.

PWS-20

Therefore, in 1933 one aircraft was withdrawn from use in Poznań, while the second was written off in Warsaw.

Stanisław Jałowiecki

1984-1996: Free-lance journalist in U.S., journalist and Deputy director for Radio Free Europe in Munich (1985-1994) and Warsaw

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz

He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1929, making his theatrical debut at 21 November that year as Francis Flute in the Vilnius Municipal Theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Szymon Kataszek

Born in Warsaw 1898; studied piano at the Warsaw Music Institute and Rome's St. Cecilia Academy.

Terrell Stone

His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).

The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom

During sojourns in Warsaw, Paris, and the fictional island of Nipu (based on Japan, known to natives as Nippon), the protagonist gathers numerous experiences that lead him to a rationalist outlook and teach him how to become a good man, and thus a good citizen.

The Little Smuggler

Emanuel Ringelblum, "Children of the Warsaw Ghetto", Congress Bi-weekly, vol.

The Woman That Dreamed About a Man

Maciek (Marcin Dorociński) is a Warsaw School of Economics professor visiting from Poland, and she pursues him relentlessly, even going so far as to follow him all the way to Warsaw and ensconcing herself in an apartment right across the street from the apartment where he lives with his wife and family.

Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki

He studied composition with Joseph Elsner between 1824-27 at the Warsaw School for Music and Dramatic Art and Higher School of Music, thus making him classmates with Frédéric Chopin.

Tsering Wangchuk

He received a fellowship from the Department of Education to study in Warsaw, Poland, where he became Doctor in Medicine, and spent two years of internship at Hospital of Medical University of Warsaw.

Urle

The villages are served by a railway stop named after Urle, too; the stop is used only by local trains of Koleje Mazowieckie (previously PKP) that travel between Warsaw and Małkinia (or closer Łochów on the same line).

VH1 Europe

Though produced in Warsaw (Poland), VH1 Europe broadcasts from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK) to the whole continent of Europe, covering also the Middle East, South Africa and parts of Northern Africa.

Wanda Landowska

Landowska was born in Warsaw, where her father was a lawyer, and her mother a linguist who translated Mark Twain into Polish.

Warsaw Railway Junction

In 1902 the broad gauge Warsaw–Kalisz Railway was constructed on the left bank of the Vistula river connecting Warsaw through Łódź to Kalisz and later extended to the border of the Prussian controlled Province of Posen.

Zygmunt Wiehler

From 1907 he was connected professionally to many theaters in the country, and in the 1920s and 1930s, he was a musical manager and director in Warsaw cabarets ("Wodewil", "Qui pro quo", "Banda", "Perskie Oko", "Morskie Oko", "Ananas", "Wielka Rewia", "Cyganeria").