The Polish Carnival Season includes Fat Thursday ( Polish: Tłusty Czwartek ), when pączki ( doughnuts ) are eaten, and Śledzik ( Shrove Tuesday ) or Herring Day.

Some spurgos are similar to Polish pączki, but some specific recipes, such as cottage cheese doughnuts ( varškės spurgos ), were invented independently.

In Poland and parts of the U. S. with a large Polish community, like Chicago and Detroit, the round, jam-filled doughnuts eaten especially — though not exclusively — during the Carnival are called pączki ().

The theory of highly super-Eddington black hole accretion, M >> M < sub > Edd </ sub >, was developed in the 1980s by Abramowicz, Jaroszynski, Paczyński, Sikora and others in terms of " Polish doughnuts " ( the name was coined by Rees ).

Polish doughnuts resemble in shape a fat torus ( a doughnut ) with two narrow funnels along the rotation axis.

Thus there are similar Lithuanian and Polish versions of dumplings ( pierogi or koldūnai ), doughnuts ( pączki or spurgos ), and crepes ( blini or blynai ).

Thus there are similar Lithuanian, Litvak, and Polish versions of dumplings ( koldūnai, kreplach or pierogi ), doughnuts spurgos or ( pączki ), and blynai crepes ( blintzes ).

* 1982 – Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.

The details of the agreement are not known ; however, it is known that Gediminas released all Polish prisoners, numbering some 25, 000.

There are also regular catamaran services between Nexø and the Polish ports of Kołobrzeg, Łeba and Ustka.

They are also called, respectively, Polish notation and reverse Polish notation.

Banach spaces are named after the Polish mathematician Stefan Banach who introduced them in 1920 – 1922 along with Hans Hahn and Eduard Helly .< ref >

SOHO's 2000th comet was discovered by Polish amateur astronomer Michał Kusiak on 26 December 2010, and the numbers are expected to continue rising steadily for the foreseeable future.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

There are also several regional and special-interest newspapers and magazines, such as Chicago, the Dziennik Związkowy ( Polish Daily News ), Draugas ( the Lithuanian daily newspaper ), the Chicago Reader, the SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, the Daily Herald, Newcity, StreetWise and the Windy City Times.

During the Warsaw Uprising ( 1944 ), a Poles | Polish couple, members of an Armia Krajowa resistance group, are married in a secret Catholic chapel in a street in Warsaw.

Universal Polish Christmas foods are pierogi as well as some herring dishes, and for desert, makowiec or noodles with poppy seed.

The following notes are based on interpretations by the Polish historian Gerard Labuda.

The German-language Polish laws are based on the Sachsenspiegel and were written down to aid the judges.

Among his contributions to computer science are the shortest path algorithm, also known as Dijkstra's algorithm ; Reverse Polish Notation and related Shunting yard algorithm ; the THE multiprogramming system, an important early example of structuring a system as a set of layers ; Banker's algorithm ; and the semaphore construct for coordinating multiple processors and programs.

Its Indo-European origins are confirmed by the many cognate words in other Indo-European languages: It is cognate with Greek πέρδομαι ( perdomai ), Latin pēdĕre, Sanskrit pardate, Avestan pərəδaiti, Italian pettare, French " péter ", Russian пердеть ( perdet ') and Polish " pierd " << PIE * perd wind loudly or * pezd same, softly, all of which mean the same thing.

For example, the words preservative ( English ), préservatif ( French ), Präservativ ( German ), prezervativ ( Romanian, Czech, Croatian ), preservativ ( Slovenian ), preservativo ( Italian, Spanish, Portuguese ), prezerwatywa ( Polish ), презерватив " prezervativ " ( Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian ), prezervatif ( Turkish ), præservativ ( Danish ), prezervatyvas ( Lithuanian ), Prezervatīvs ( Latvian ) and preservatiu ( Catalan ) are all derived from the Latin word praeservativum.

Polish director, Wojciech Has, whose two major films, The Saragossa Manuscript ( 1965 ) and The Hour-Glass Sanatorium ( 1973 ) are examples of modernist fantasies, has been compared to Fellini for the sheer " luxuriance of his images ".

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that parts of the current Polish population in historical eastern Germany are themselves expellees ( or descendants of expellees ) who were expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union and were forced to leave their homes and property behind as well.

Jadwiga is the Polish version, while Iga and Jadzia are Polish diminutives ; Jadvyga is a Lithuanian version ; Hedvika is a Czech and Slovene version ; Hedviga is a Slovak version, Ядвига ( Jadwiga ) is a Russian version.

All vehicles are modified to meet Polish road regulations and are equipped with Polish communication devices.

In the time of the partition, unemployment arose because the Austrians brought modern equipment which caused a cease of production throughout the city and surrounding areas, due to low wages, forcing were dismiss en masse of Polish miners.

Investigations by the Polish authorities came to the conclusion that the persons responsible for the scandal were low level commanders ; Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne, the Polish Army's intelligence service, had not verified their claims before they were leaked to the press.

Asiana Airlines joined on 1 March, LOT Polish Airlines, the official flag carrier of Poland, joined in October, and Spanair, Spain's low cost carrier, joined on 1 May.

Polish agriculture suffered from the usual handicaps of Eastern European nations: technological backwardness, low productivity, and lack of capital and access to markets.

Inside the church, the Polish regalia were laid on the high altar, while the king was seated on a low chair nearby.

* On May 9, 1987, improperly assembled bearings in Il-62M engine number 2 on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 overheated and exploded during cruise over Lipniki village, causing the shaft to break in two ; this caused the low pressure turbine disc to spin to enormous speeds and disintegrate, damaging engine number 1 and cutting the control pushers.

* Insulting and deriding the Polish nation by propagating its cultural inferiority and low social worth

The Soviets didn ’ t recognise ethnic minorities as Polish citizens, some of the figures are based on those given an amnesty rather than deported and not everyone was eligible for the amnesty therefore the new figures are considered too low.

* N-22 ( radiolocation vehicle ), a Polish radiolocation vehicle based on Dana self-propelled howitzer and used for locating aircraft flying at low altitudes

The UPR consistently enjoys the support of only 1-2 % of voters in general elections, too low to receive public funding under Polish electoral law.

He was a candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential elections, but withdrew from the race because of low vote results ( circa 3 %).

As they were running low on supplies, Kleeberg decided to recapture the town of Dęblin, where Polish Army had large stores of supplies.

Despite immense German numerical superiority, the Polish forces were able to score several tactical victories ; however they were increasingly running low on supplies, including ammunition.

This attack by four bomber groups was of limited effectiveness due to low lying cloud cover and stout Polish resistance by the PZL P. 11 fighters of the Pursuit Brigade, which shot down 16 German aircraft for the loss of 10 of their own.

Manda and the Marbles ' music was featured in several motion pictures, including the low budget thriller Creepies ( 2003 ) and the 1980s throwback Nail Polish ( 2006 ).

The low ergonomy level was addressed in Polish BRDM-2M-96 modernization and its successors, BRDM-2M-96i, BRDM-2M-96ik " Szakal ", BRDM-2M-96ik " Szakal Plus ", BRDM-2M-97 " Żbik-B ", BRDM-2M-97C " Żbik-P " and BRDM-2M-98 " Żbik-A " which have belly wheels removed which gives more space for the crew or space for two soldiers.

There were also plans of breaking the dams on the Biebrza and Narew rivers to flood the area, but the summer of 1939 was one of the driest seasons in Polish history and the water level was too low.

De Wiart met with the Polish commander-in-chief, Marshal of Poland Edward Rydz-Śmigły in late August 1939 and formed a rather low opinion of his capabilities.

The Polish Wikipedia has relatively low depth parameters ( currently 16 ) compared to other major Slavic editions ( which average around 30 ( and 102 in the Russian section )).

* Polsten low cost version of 20 mm Oerlikon ( acknowledging two Polish designers + Sten (= Shepherd, Turpin + Enfield )), from 1944.

Also, even in this historic " showdown " election, the turnout was merely 62 % in the first and 26 % in the second ballot ; low turnouts have remained a problem in all Polish elections since.

Ewa Podleś (; born on April 26, 1952 in Warsaw ) is an internationally celebrated Polish coloratura contralto with more than three octave vocal range ( from a low A2 up to soprano high E flat ) and great vocal agility.

The Polish – Lithuanian army, suffering from lack of ammunition and low morale, failed to capture the Teutonic capital and returned home in September.