Polka dancing enjoyed a resurgence in popularity after World War II, when many Polish refugees moved to the US, adopting this Bohemian style as a cultural dance.

* A Polka Fan's Website Stella's website to carry on the Polish Music Tradition.

The Polish people, or Poles ( ; singular masculine: Polak, feminine: Polka ), are a nation and a West Slavic ethnic group native to Poland.

A large influx of Polish immigrants into Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought Polka music with them ; this music evolved into several local styles.

In 2006, two-time Grammy Award nominated Polka band Jerry Darlak & the Touch recorded the " Everybody's Polish on Dyngus Day " polka.

He was a polymathic poet, painter, pianistic composer, Polka historian, Polish culturalist, cartoonist, writer, editor, and teacher.

Polka music rose in popularity in Chicago in the late 1940s after Walter ‘ Li ’ l Wally ’ Wallace Jagiello created " honky " polka by combining the Polish-American rural polka with elements of Polish folksong and krakowiak.

In 2011, Grammy Award winner Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra recorded the " Polish Prince " song and included it on their Grammy-nominated " Not Just Another Polka " CD.

It is an Anglicisation of the Polish language word Polak, which means a Polish male person ( feminine being Polka ) with a neutral connotation.

* Zieliński, Ryszard, Polka na francuskim tronie, Czytelnik, 1978, ( Polish ).

" Leonid Brezhnev reiterated it in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers ' Party on November 13, 1968, which stated:

* Central Committee of the Polish United Workers ' Party

Witos was an Polish People's Party " Piast " | agrarian party leader and a centrist politician, later Brest trials | persecuted under the Sanation | Sanation regime.

On May 12, 1926, Piłsudski, prompted by mutinous units seeking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister Wincenty Witos of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President Stanisław Wojciechowski and overpowering the troops loyal to him.

After the military service, in 1969, he joined the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ).

Category: Polish United Workers ' Party members

German actions like Kulturkampf, the program of Germanization started to unite and mobilize Polish people in Polish inhabited territories held by Germany including Masuria A Polish-oriented party, the Mazurska Partia Ludowa (" Mazur People's Party "), was founded in 1897.

In 1920 the candidate of the German Party, Ernst Barczewski, was elected to the Sejm with 74. 6 percent of votes and to the Polish Senate with 34. 6 % of votes for the Bloc of National Minorities in 1928.

The Nazi Party became the strongest party in the Masurian constituencies in the elections of 1930 and received its best results in the poorest areas of Masuria with the highest rate of Polish speakers.

According to German author Andreas Kossert Polish parties were financed and aided by the Polish government in Warsaw, and remained splintergroups without any political influence, e. g. in the 1932 elections the Polish Party received 147 votes in Masuria proper.

Another example would be the former Soviet Union where only members of the Communist Party were allowed to vote or hold office ; the French First Republic government under the Directory ; and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( only the nobility could vote ).

* Politburo of the Polish United Workers ' Party

Furthermore, the newly formed Polish United Workers ' Party created a Ministry of the Recovered Territories that claimed half of the available arable land for state-run collectivized farms.

Most of the members who established the party in 1999 had previously been members of the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SdRP ) and the Polish Social Democratic Union, the two parties that were formed out of the remains of the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ).

An alliance between the SLD and the Polish People's Party ruled Poland in the years 1993 – 1997.

After the elections, the coalition was joined by the Polish People's Party ( PSL ) in forming a government and Leszek Miller became the Prime Minister.

* September 19 – Polish parliamentary election, 1993: A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes into power.

* January 28 – The Polish United Workers ' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize itself as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.

** General Secretary of the Polish Communist Party, Władysław Gomułka, resigns ; Edward Gierek replaces him.

Kashubians who were suspected to support the Polish cause, particularly those with higher education, were arrested and executed, the main place of executions being Piaśnica ( Groß Plaßnitz ), where about 12, 000 were executed.

21. 7 % were of German, 12. 8 % English, 11. 5 % American, 9. 9 % Irish and 8. 1 % Polish ancestry according to Census 2000.

On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.

Three cases were disposed of during the Court's first session, one during an extraordinary sitting between 8 January and 7 February 1923 ( the Tunis-Morocco Nationality Question ), four during the second ordinary sitting between 15 June 1923 and 15 September 1923 ( Eastern Carelia Question, S. S. Wimbledon Case, German Settlers Question, Acquisition of Polish Nationality Question ) and one during a second extraordinary session from 12 November to 6 December 1923 ( Jaworznia Question ).

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1. 5 million Polish citizens were transported to the Reich for forced labour ( in all, about 12 million forced laborers were employed in the German war economy inside the Nazi Germany ).

Shortly after its defeat in the battle of Warsaw, the retreating Red Army, in order to delay the Polish advance, ceded the city to Lithuania after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty on 12 July 1920.

On 12 May 2011, Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich said that Poland will lead a new battlegroup of the Visegrad Group.

At the end of the war 12, 000 were in the Czechoslovak Legions and the ethnic Polish Blue Army.

* Śląsk Wrocław — ( previous names: BASCO Śląsk Wrocław, ASCO Śląsk Wrocław, Bergson Śląsk Wrocław, Era Śląsk Wrocław, Deichmann Śląsk Wrocław, Idea Śląsk Wrocław, Zepter Idea Śląsk Wrocław, Zepter Śląsk Wrocław, Śląsk ESKA Wrocław, Śląsk Wrocław, CWKS Wrocław ) men's basketball team, 17 times Polish Champion, 6 times runner-up, 14 times third place ; 12 times Polish Cup winner.

* February 12 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer ( d. 1940 )

* September 12 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer

* November 12 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer

* June 12 – Polish – Soviet War: The Red Army retakes Kiev.

* October 12 – Polish – Soviet War: After the Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced.

* September 12 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer ( died 2006 )

* July 12 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter ( d. 1942 )

* January 12 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist ( d. 1994 )

* April 12 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish Professor of Engineering ( d. 2006 )

* May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter ( b. 1799 )

* May 12 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish politician ( b. 1867 )