The terms przed Chrystusem / po Chrystusie ( before Christ / after Christ ) are possible but nearly never used in contemporary Poland.

In Poland, the number of productions of Hamlet has tended to increase at times of political unrest, since its political themes ( suspected crimes, coups, surveillance ) can be used to comment on a contemporary situation.

However, contemporary critics accused Adenauer of cementing the division of Germany, sacrificing reunification and the recovery of territories lost in the westward shift of Poland and the Soviet Union.

# Many Poles living in emigrant communities ( for example in the USA ), whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic, however, to contemporary visitors from Poland.

Cnut's mother's precise identity is unknown, although it is likely that she was a Slavic princess, daughter to Mieszko I of Poland ( in accord with the Monk of St Omer's, Encomium Emmae and Thietmar of Merseburg's contemporary Chronicon ).

Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.

Four years later he moved to Lwów ( formerly Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine ) and started to sell the vodka under the contemporary French spelling of the name, " Smirnoff ".

Emperor Frederick II, king Charles II of Naples and king Premislas II of Poland evidently used ordinals sometimes during their reign, whereas most of their contemporary monarchs did not.

The Kingdom of Poland was one of the few contemporary constitutional monarchies in Europe, with the Emperor of Russia serving as the Polish King.

The numeral primus ( The First ) was given to him in the almost contemporary Chronicle of Greater Poland.

It is a musical instrument popularized in Hungary and commonly found throughout the group of Central-Eastern European nations and cultures which composed Austria-Hungary ( 1867 – 1918 ), namely contemporary Belarus, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The history of the contemporary Polish university begins on August 24, 1945, following the territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II.

Polish contemporary Stanisław Małachowski claimed that Aleksandra von Engelhardt, a niece of Potemkin and wife to Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, a magnate and prominent leader of the Targowica Confederation, also worried for the fate of Poland after the death of the man who had planned to revitalise the state with him as its new head.

She wrote and edited several books about the contemporary Poland, the history of the Underground University in Cracow in World War II and a guidebook about Masuria and the Masurian Lakeland.

The historical Sprachraum of Low German also included contemporary northern Poland, the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, and a part of southern Lithuania.

Other important Kresy organizations, active in contemporary Poland, are:

Among best known Kresy activists of contemporary Poland are Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, and Dr. Tadeusz Kukiz, father of popular singer Paweł Kukiz.

Some 3 million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust ; however, there's a revival of contemporary Jewish life in the new democratic Poland.

Specific instances sometimes considered to exemplify the concept by historical and contemporary writers include the annexation of most of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany under the Munich Agreement of 1938, the abandonment of the British alliance with Poland during the Invasion of Poland of September 1939 and during the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi Germany in 1944, and the acceptance of the Soviet abrogation of the Yalta agreement of 1944.

Today, the term Mazovians can also be used to refer to the contemporary inhabitants of the Mazovian Voivodeship in Poland.

Thietmar is probably the best informed of the medieval chroniclers addressing the question, since he was contemporary with the events described and well-informed about the events in Poland and Denmark.

Because of this, Frederick William I did not support Poland in the contemporary Russo-Polish war and instead yielded the neutrality agreement he had concluded with Russia in 1656.

Through contemporary times, this anthem, although no longer the anthem of Poland, often accompanies religious and national ceremonies.

The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

Since the development of cannon, the word " artillery " in practice has largely meant cannon ; in contemporary usage it usually refers to shell-firing guns, howitzers, mortars, and rockets.

In the Hebrew of the contemporary State of Israel, the word pilegesh is often used as the equivalent of the English word, mistress — i. e. the female partner in extramarital relations, regardless of legal recognition.

Some Essene rituals, such as daily immersion in the mikveh, coincide with contemporary Hasidic practices ; some historians had also suggested, that name " Essene " is a Hellenized form of the word " Hasidim " or " Hasid " (" pious ones ").

The word island comes from Middle English iland, from Old English igland ( from ig, similarly meaning ' island ' when used independently, and-land carrying its contemporary meaning ; cf.

The most widely-held theory is that the military designation of GP begat the term Jeep and holds that the vehicle bore the designation GP ( for Government Purposes or General Purpose ), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep, in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV ( for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle ) has become known as the humvee.

The use and meaning of the word " philosophy " has changed throughout history: in Antiquity it encompassed almost any inquiry ; for Descartes it was supposed to be the Queen of the Sciences, a sort of ultimate justification ; in the time of David Hume " metaphysics " and " morals " could be roughly translated as the human sciences ; and contemporary analytic philosophy likes to define itself roughly as inquiry into concepts.

In a manner very similar to, the Gospel of Philip presents Mary Magdalene among Jesus ' female entourage, adding that she was his koinônos, a Greek word variously translated in contemporary versions as partner, associate, comrade, companion.

On many occasions Meher Baba promised to break his silence with an audible word before he died, often stating a specific time and place when this would occur, but according to all contemporary accounts, Meher Baba remained silent until his death.

It is based on a corpus linguistics analysis of Oxford's 200 million word database of contemporary American English.

The word " parsley " is a merger of the Old English petersilie ( which is identical to the contemporary German word for parsley: Petersilie ) and the Old French peresil, both derived from Medieval Latin petrosilium, from Latin petroselinum, the latinisation of the Greek πετροσέλινον ( petroselinon ), " rock-parsley ", from πέτρα ( petra ), " rock, stone ", + σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.

The contemporary Italian word is zucchero, whereas the Spanish and Portuguese words, azúcar and açúcar respectively, have kept a trace of the Arabic definite article.

The Old French word is zuchre – contemporary French sucre.

In contemporary English, the word tumor is often used as a synonym for a cystic ( liquid-filled ) growth or solid neoplasm ( cancerous or non-cancerous ), with other forms of swelling often referred to as swellings.

After Rubinstein obtained a report that discussed the abilities of contemporary standalone word processors from IBM, Xerox, and Wang Laboratories, Barnaby enhanced WordMaster with similar features and support for the CP / M operating system.

In 2007, Arthur Laurents stated, " I've come up with a way of doing Side Story that will make it absolutely contemporary without changing a word or a note.

Moreover, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain created characters who used the word as contemporary usage.

For contemporary American English, work has stalled on the American National Corpus, but the 400 + million word Corpus of Contemporary American English ( 1990 – present ) is now available through a web interface.

It was determined by the Recording Academy that the word " gospel " in the gospel genre field tends to conjure up the images and sounds of traditional soul gospel and leaves out the current contemporary Christian music ( CCM ).

The same word is, however, used in contemporary Israel to denote judges whose function and authority is similar to that in other modern countries.

It has extensive annotations explaining the contemporary references ( including the Victorian poems that Carroll parodies ), mathematical concepts, word play, and Victorian traditions ( such as the snap-dragons ) featured in the two books.