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Plac Konstytucji
Constitution Square ( ) is an urban square, and a road intersection, in Warsaw, Poland, within the Downtown district. It is situated at the intersection of Koszykowa, Marszałkowska, Piękna, Śniadeckich, and Waryńskiego Streets. Opened in 1952, it is surrounded by the socialist realist multifamily residential buildings of the Marshal Residential District. Name Constitution Square was named on 19 July 1952 after the Constitution of the Polish People's Republic, which was ratified a few days later on 22 July, on the same day that the square was opened. In 1999, a group headed by Radosław Sikorski, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, launched a campaign to rename the square after Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, as part of the decommunization efforts. It was unsuccessful, and the square remains one of the last places in the city with a name linked to the communist period. In 2004, a small southwestern section of the square, at the intersec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Śródmieście Południowe
South Downtown (Polish language, Polish: ''Śródmieście Południowe'') is a Districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, neighbourhood in Warsaw, Poland, located in the Downtown, Warsaw, Downtown district. It is mainly a mid-rise residential area, predominantly consisting of tenements and multifamily residential buildings, as well as office and commercial spaces. The area includes the Marshal Residential District housing estate, designed in the 1950s in the socialist realism, socialist realistic style. There are also numerous historic tenements, some dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The two tallest skyscrapers, designed in the International Style, are LIM Center and Chałubińskiego 8 (170m and 150m respectively). South Downtown also includes green spaces, such as part of Mokotów Field park complex and Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły Park. The campus and most faculty buildings of Warsaw University of Technology are located there. Cultural institutions include the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squares In Warsaw
In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal sides. As with all rectangles, a square's angles are right angles (90 degrees, or /2 radians), making adjacent sides perpendicular. The area of a square is the side length multiplied by itself, and so in algebra, multiplying a number by itself is called squaring. Equal squares can tile the plane edge-to-edge in the square tiling. Square tilings are ubiquitous in tiled floors and walls, graph paper, image pixels, and game boards. Square shapes are also often seen in building floor plans, origami paper, food servings, in graphic design and heraldry, and in instant photos and fine art. The formula for the area of a square forms the basis of the calculation of area and motivates the search for methods for squaring the circle by compass and straightedge, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candelabra
A candelabrum (plural candelabra but also used as the singular form) is a candle holder with multiple arms. "Candelabra" can be used to describe a variety of candle holders including chandeliers. However, candelabra can also be distinguished as branched candle holders that are placed on a surface such as the floor, stand, or tabletop. The chandeliers, on the other hand, are hung from the ceiling. The Romans used the term to describe a form of ornamental lighting, which may be a tall stand that supports a lamp. In Judaism, the menorah and hanukkiah are special kinds of candelabra. Candelabra are also used in churches, in ceremonies such as Tenebrae, in certain Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church liturgy such as the dikirion and trikirion. Candelabra in the form of branched candlesticks also became popular in homes as decorative lighting. In modern times, electricity has largely relegated candleholders to decorative use in homes. The interior designers nowadays conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MDM Hotel
The MDM Hotel () is a three-star hotel in Warsaw, Poland, located at 1 Constitution Square, within the neighbourhood of South Downtown, at the intersection with Marszałkowska and Waryńskiego Streets. It is part of the architectural complex of the Marshal Residential District. The seven-storey-tall building was designed in socialist realism style, with influences from the neoclassical architecture, and was opened on 22 July 1952. History The MDM Hotel was designed as part of the complex of the Marshal Residential District, by team of architects led by Józef Sigalin, wirh other key members being Stanisław Jankowski, Jan Knothe and Zygmunt Stępiński. Its construction begun on 1 August 1950, and it was opened on 12 July 1952. It became the first hotel to be opened in Warsaw after the end of the Second World War.Eugeniusz Szwankowski: ''Ulice i place Warszawy'' Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1970, p. 79–80. (in Polish) Originally, it was envisioned to constru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw Metro
The Warsaw Metro () is a rapid transit underground system serving the Poland, Polish capital Warsaw. It currently consists of two lines, the north–south M1 (Warsaw), M1 line which links central Warsaw with its densely populated northern and southern Dzielnica, districts, and the east–west M2 (Warsaw), M2 line. Three more lines (M3 (Warsaw), M3, M4 (Warsaw), M4, and M5 (Warsaw), M5) are planned. The system is operated by Metro Warszawskie, a company owned by the city, and managed by Public Transport Authority (Warsaw), Public Transport Authority in Warsaw. As of , it is the only metro system in Poland. The first section of M1 was opened in 1995 and the line was gradually extended until it reached its full length in October 2008. The contract for the construction of the initial central section of M2 was signed on 28 October 2009 and construction began on 16 August 2010. The initial segment of M2, measuring with seven stations, one of which, Świętokrzyska (Warsaw Metro), Świ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M1 (Warsaw)
The M1 line is the first line of the Warsaw Metro. It is 23.1 km(~14.4 mi) long, has 21 stations and runs from the Kabaty neighborhood in the Ursynów district to the Młociny district in Bielany. The decision to build it was made in 1982, and a year later the first works in Ursynów began. In 1995, the first section of the route connecting Ursynów and Mokotów with Śródmieście, Warsaw, Śródmieście was launched, and the next sections were put into operation in the following years. In 2008, construction of the Bielany section was completed and crossings on the whole line were started. There is also a plan to add two additional stations around the center portion of the metro line. M1 trains run from approximately 5:00 AM to 12:10 AM (from Monday to Thursday and Sunday) and from approximately 5:00 AM to 3:00 AM (Fridays and Saturdays). Current stations Future stations Rolling stock 81-717.3, Politechnika, 2013-10-30.jpg, Metrovagonmash 81-717/81-714, 81-717.3/714.3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plac Konstytucji Metro Station
Plac Konstytucji () is a planned Warsaw Metro The Warsaw Metro () is a rapid transit underground system serving the Poland, Polish capital Warsaw. It currently consists of two lines, the north–south M1 (Warsaw), M1 line which links central Warsaw with its densely populated northern and sou ... station in the corner of Marszałkowska and Hoża streets, about 300 metres north of the Constitution Square. The original plans for the construction were temporarily dropped in 1989 due to budget constraints. In September 2019, the Warsaw city council announced that the project would finally take place. A contractor was decided, having until 2026 to build the station. See also * List of Warsaw Metro stations References Proposed Warsaw Metro stations {{Warsaw-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Polish Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 June 1989 to elect members of the Sejm and the recreated Senate of Poland, Senate, with a second round on 18 June. They were the first elections in the country since the Polish United Workers Party, communist government abandoned its monopoly of power in April 1989 and the first elections in the Eastern Bloc that resulted in the communist government losing power. Not all seats in the Sejm were allowed to be contested, but the resounding victory of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity opposition in the freely contested races (the rest of the Sejm seats and all of the Senate) paved the way to the Fall of Communism in Poland, end of communist rule in Poland. Solidarity won all of the freely contested seats in the Sejm, and all but one seat in the Senate, which was scored by a government-aligned Independent politics, nonpartisan candidate.Paulina Codogni (2012). Wybory czerwcowe 1989 roku. Institute of National Remembrance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solidarity Citizens' Committee
The Solidarity Citizens' Committee (''Komitet Obywatelski "Solidarność"'', KO "S"), also known as Citizens' Electoral Committee (''Obywatelski Komitet Wyborczy'') and previously named the Citizens' Committee with Lech Wałęsa (''Komitet Obywatelski przy Lechu Wałęsie''), was an initially semi-legal political organisation of the democratic opposition in Communist Poland.''Daily Report: East Europe'', Issues 181-190. United States, The Service, 1990. 50. Formed on 18 December 1988 in the premises of the Shrine of St. Faustina (Warsaw), Divine Mercy church in Warsaw, it spontaneously evolved into a nationwide movement attracting a vast majority of supporters of radical political change in the country after the conclusion of the Polish Round Table Agreement, Round Table talks (6 February–4 April 1989) and the announcement of 1989 Polish legislative election, semi-free general elections for 4 June that year. The relaunched union weekly ''Tygodnik Solidarność'', then edited b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
