Portal:Poland/Did you know/31

...that one of the holiest symbols of Poland, the Black Madonna of Częstochowa according to a legend was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on the table-top of the Holy Family in Nazareth?
...that Poland's largest daily, the Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette), got its name because it was originally set up to campaign for Solidarity in the 1989 democratic elections?
...that the common word for "hi" and "bye" in Poland is "cześć", which actually means "honor"?
...that Zamoyski Code failure in Poland in 1780 was a result of an alliance between the foreign interests of the Catholic Holy See and the Orthodox Russian Empire?