📖 Caterina Cucinotta published a paper about the Italian filmmaker Rino Lupo, where she explores “his period in Russia and Poland (1916–21), when Lupo began to expand his cinematographic activity beyond directing movies to creating a journal and a film school, the first in Warsaw.”
🇵🇱 "Results showed that the level of differentiation within Polish population is quite low, but some differences were indicated. It was confirmed that the Polish population is characterized by a high degree of homogeneity, with only slight genetic differences being observed at the regional level."
For people researching #HateSpeech, #HumanRights and #Fascism in Europe, today's 4-question referendum in #Poland [1], held in parallel with parliamentary elections, will not count as an unbiased #OpinionSurvey, but it will be a huge sample of how 15 million or so voting-age Poles chose to reply to human rights related questions.
A dice, probably dating from the 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC, has been discovered at the #Celtic settlement of Samborowice in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern #Poland. The oldest dice found in Poland!
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1560 Elizabeth Báthory was born in #Hungary to a noble family (her uncle was king of #Poland ). Elizabeth suffered from seizures as a child, which may have led to an... obsession with blood cures. Later in life, as a widow, she was accused of having murdered over 300 young women. She was tried and put under house arrest for the remainder of her life. Regardless, the huge debt owed to her by the king was declared void at her imprisonment. #OTD#histodons@histodons