This article describes agrarian reforms of Josef II, the most outstanding reformer in the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th century. He wanted to create a single, strong organism of state. He wanted Habsburg monarchy to be ...

In Nowosolna commune (Neu-Sulzfeld) near Lodz the greatest importance in the past belonged to Skoszewy, today’s Old Skoszewy that received city rights in 1426 two years after Lodz. In the middle of the road from Nowosolna to ...

Sylvia Marie Likens was an American murder victim from Indiana. She was tortured to death by a housewife – Gertrude Baniszewski, Gertrude’s children, and other young people from their neighborhood in Indianapolis. ...

Alexander Treichel was mostly known as an amateur archaeologist. His truest passion was to portray customs of Pomerelian autochthons in 19th century. Having graduated from law and economic studies in Berlin, he decided ...

The author addresses the issue of the ethical aspects of research that are relevant to contemporary anthropological practice. They appear particularly in the study of “difficult problems”, which refer to the hard phenomenon ...

A scout uniform is one of the most important traditional symbols of Polish scouting. The specific arrangement of the elements gives us a variety of information about its owner. The goal of this article is to analyse a ...

Knowledge of folk medicine is still fragmented and not fully tested. Folk medicine are rural home remedies, which are based mainly on raw materials derived from the plant world, ergo of herbs, shrubs, bushes and trees, ...

The author made an attempt to present the different aspects of village life described in lyrics of Polish songs. The analysis was based upon sources from the Internet such as: Biblioteka Polskiej Piosenki, Tekstowo.pl. ...

The martial music has accompanied the people since the antiquity. It has been used to announce military events or accompany marching formations but first of all to intimidate the enemy and to encourage the fighting ...