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the-empress-7 · 2 years

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A list of all the things THAT HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED that they/Meghan did behind the BRf's back...as an own-goal...which created friction and made them distrust her -

1. The Vanity fair issue in 2017 (she told them it was to celebrate 100th episode of suits)

2. The love-shield statement by Harry (against Jason Knoufs advice, while Charles was on tour. Seems she wanted Harry to legitimize their relationship even after the VF article)

3. The Vogue UK issue in Sept 2019 (kept a secret for about 8 months)

4. The smart works capsule collection.

5. Promoting Misha nonoos label as part of smart works.

6. The dinky Jen Meyer jewellery merching (which BRF publicly put a stop to in late 2019, around US open)

7. The Elephant documentary. (Going to Lion King with Harry to meet Beyonce. Skipping the Deal memorial for the premier.)

8. Getting permission from queen to do an Invictus documentary but later changing that and doing mental health apple doc with Oprah. (And bashing queen and Charles in it for the 'genetic pain' inflicted upon him.

9. Treating the Aus tour as a vacation and thinking everyone was jealous of her. Taking Messica on the tour as part of emotional support group/stylist. (Gifting Messica a Range Rover as payment is not officially confirmed. Existing articles about it are a but wishy washy)

10. Wanting to release Bench with Vogue UK in 2019 to promote herself in the US market.

11. Collaborating on Finding Freedom (court records show she instructed Jason K to provide material to the authors).

12. Megxit. Planning on the US/Hollywood based career since 2018 and having a Us media team (and keeping them.a secret from her palace staff).

13. Using the Queen, Palace, titles as threat or coersion when something did not go her way (and possibly grabbing deals using those titles).

14. Cutting Harry off from his friends as early as the engagement ( 2017)

15. Secret engagement in early 2017 without the queens permission or informing her (and then waiting for her to get back from Balmoral to ask her permission).

(Remember the Botswana elephant pic with Harry? I suspect that's when they got engaged and she put that pic on her IG as a tease/"sweet nod")

16. Moving in with Harry way back in 2017 (and possibly living in with him for a good year and a half before marriage)

(I suspect that she arranged the VF interview and shoot in London as a flex and to show-off).

17. Hating Nott Cott for being too small and non-glamorous. Then planning to move out or get a fancy place (they leased a cottage in Coltswold)

18. Wearing merch jewellery (the HnM initial jewellery even though Jason K explicitly told her not to draw attention)

20. Deliberately excluding her Dad from the wedding and giving flimsy excuses to the BRF as to why meeting him in Mexico would not be practical. (We always suspected that she did that against the BRFs wishes and pissed them off with those antics alone).

21. Cutting off Harry's friends and later his family by pissing them off, acting superior to them.

22. Deliberately love-bombing male journalists or men in power so they would write favorably about her or do as she wishes. While being abrasive towards female staff or women. ( VF journalist, Pierc Morgan, Scoby, Ed Enninful, Markus, Jason K, Prince Charles, David Foster, Craig Ferguson etc etc etc)

(Treated badly - Catherine, Camilla, Queen, Sophie, all the WAGs of Harry's friends, female staff, RPO, AKelly, UN women etc etc)

23. Trying to cut William and Catherine out Harry's life by saying they are jealous of her popularity.

24. Wearing the blood diamonds in Fiji and then again for Charles bday even though PC himself asked her not to)

25. Trying to open a shady foundation with the help of her US agents to dipost the earnings she makes from her royalling.

26. Being too gung-ho about projects, throwing a million ideas and then changing her mind constantly. Being a mean boss.

27. Competing with the Queen, Camilla and Catherine for popularity by deliberately releasing pics, projects, papwalks or articles about herself on their important days.

28. Demanding a separate salary as a working royal. (And asking for all her expenses to be paid by Charles).

29. Harry's asking to be involved in the working of duchy of Cornwall and expecting to be paid for it (and getting pissed that it wasn't possible)

30. Being jealous of Williams and George's position as future Kings, and being paranoid about become irrelevant as a brand in a few years. (Hence leveraging their royal titles for fame, adoration and money)

31. Trying to sabotage Charles because he wanted to slim down the monarchy for financial reasons.

32. Securing Netflix, Spotify, quibi in 2019 before megxit. Planning megxit and the drama to justify these deals.

33. Demanding a wedding more expensive than will and Kate. Expecting a bank holiday to be declared for her wedding. Not planning anything well (and so PC and BP staff had to step in to arrange basic things)

34. Asking the wedding choir for constant re-do (12 times, and then rejecting the final selection anyway).

35. Rejecting the queen and Charles attempts to reconcile her with her side of family.

40. Stood up Charles for his documentary at the last minute.

41. Inviting celebs for her wedding even though she had never met them.

42. Receiving freebies as a royal (so far confirmed is Soho Amsterdam getaway, Jen Meyer jewellery, things she promoted on SR ig, private jets from Rich celeb friends)

43. Demanding separate staff from the Cambridges and being salty for being put under the BP umbrella (they did not like the checks and rules and hid everything from BP)

44. Rejecting palace doctors and deliberately creating controversy with bump clutching for publicity (she was angry palace asked her to remain low-key and to stop patting her belly so much lol)

45. Going behind Williams back and love-bombing Charles. Going behin Charles' back and trying to cosy in with the queen. Insulting queens staff and bad mouthing them in interviews to undermine the queen in the public's eye.

46. Using the Diana template and trying to be Diana 2.0 as a branding strategy. And resorting to self-victimisation to become popular against the best of advice from her UK advisors.

47. Rejecting South Africa as a place they could move to after the palace arranged for the couple to spend their initial years there (this to you dermine Harry and emotionally manipulate him, I believe)

48. Reading everything about themselvesand then berating staff to correct opinions on Tumblr, LSA, YouTube etc. (Doxing bloggers who were critical of her)

49. Weaponizing her fandom, Sussex squad (they acknowledged a super sugar, Scoby frequently collaborates with them, they acknowledged fundraisers etc)

50. Being work-shy. And barging in on Harry's patronages for publicity. Dragging him away in the middle of conversations. Excessive PDA.

51. Oprah interview. And using that to push the racism angle, jealousy angle and suicide angle. (As a retaliation for taking away Harry's patronages)

52. The exorbitant NYC baby shower. Getting freebies from companies as gifts. Saying Serena comped for the shower when it was a publicity stunt and merching gig.

53. Lying to queen about Lily's name. And lying to public.

54. Blackmailing BRF for jubilee using the kids as a bargaining chip. (And then walking off in a huff when rejected)

Please note: These are the things that I believe the BRF got to know about or knew about. Things that are provable with actual reciepts. Proved either in articles over the years or various books published so far. I'm not including the things she "may" have done or rumours or hear-say.

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THIS. SUBMISSION. IS. EVERYTHING.

Can I tell you what I consider to be the most heinous on the list? It's the merching. Her merching was completely against the BRF's financial code of conduct, never mind that fact that universally everyone would agree that a public servant who uses their office for personal profit is CORRUPT.

I am not diminishing the hurt that she caused her staff or even the Cambridges, but I simply cannot abide by people who abuse the public trust and not to mention misuse hard-earned tax payer money. Which is exactly what Meghan did. Every penny spent on her was to prop her up and only her.

My problem with Meghan has always been about her deception and her behavior and this incredible list by you is the proof.

#submission #receipts

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caffeinatedwoman · 2 months

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The 100th Bomb Group Foundation have some very good photos and information in their IG, like this awesome photo of John "Bucky" Egan POW card published in the 24th Feb 2024

Source: 100thBGF (link bellow)

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3vW7APuOIX/?igsh=MXJiMmM1OG5lZjBkZg==

#mastersoftheair #mota #john bucky egan

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mercurygray · 1 month

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Watching this episode while commuting (which means NOT AS GOD INTENDED) and I have F E E L I N G S

A whole lot of them

- your Fred Friend (sadly on anon it doesn't let me add GIFs, otherwise...)

OMG FRED FRIEND WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT TO YOURSELF?

It's a great episode and I'm glad you get to watch it today and I'm *sure* we will both be rewatching it. I would have liked the end credits to be a touch longer but I can't have everything I want in life.

Also! The 100th Bomb Group foundation had a nice post on Facebook the other day about something that the real Brady brought home from the POW camp.

#asked and answered #Kind Anonymous Friend

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brookstonalmanac · 4 years

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Events 9.28

48 BC – Pompey is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII upon arriving in Egypt. 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome. 351 – Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius. 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor. 935 – Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him. 995 – Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty. 1066 – William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest. 1106 – King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray. 1238 – King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia. 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf. 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza. 1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. 1781 – American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown. 1787 – The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval. 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October. 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden. 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796. 1868 – The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France. 1871 – The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves. 1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter. 1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. 1893 – Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto. 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own. 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska. 1924 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army. 1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland. 1939 – World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end. 1941 – World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. 1941 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia. 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. 1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. 1971 – The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of cannabis. 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile. 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. 1986 – The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan. 1992 – A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew. 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup. 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 2008 – Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit. 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400 people. 2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants. 2014 – The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing. 2016 – The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas. 2018 – The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured. 2018 – On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the international project Tree of Peace was established (September, 28). One of the trees was planted personally by Zuzana Čaputová, President of the Slovak Republic.

#Events

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tigerstrikesasteroidnetwork · 5 years

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Orbits

Philadelphia: May 3 - June 15, 2019 Phoebe Grip, Pepon Osorio, Joyce Owens, HK Zamani Opening Reception: Thursday May 9th 6-9pm

New York: May 10 - June 16, 2019 Carol Bruns, Leroy Johnson, Coco Picard, Christian Tedeschi Opening Reception: Friday May 10th 6-9pm

Chicago: May 11 - June 23, 2019 Black Quantum Futurism, Judith Brotman, Sara Drake, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Nina Sarnelle Opening Reception: Saturday May 11th 12-4pm

Los Angeles: May 25 - June 16, 2019 Anne Bray, Gregory Coates, Ruyell Ho, Ivanco Talevski Opening Reception: Saturday May 25th 7-10pm

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce Orbits, a four-part concurrent exhibition spanning all four locations to celebrate our first 10 years as an artist-run organization.

Each exhibition of Orbits draws together the works of four artists from our respective cities to examine their interconnected legacies and the conversations that unfold in placing their work in dialogue with one another. The multigenerational artists included in Orbits were nominated by current TSA members to highlight the work of those that have contributed to their arts communities not only through their own works but also through their support of other artists.

While each TSA location will mount a distinct exhibition, they all share a common goal of bringing these 16 artists to new audiences and placing their work in a different context/conversation. Orbits is a microcosm of what we have been doing as an organization for the past ten years -- providing an alternative space for artists to show together, meet, and build relationships.

At TSA’s New York space we will be showcasing the psychologically charged sculptures of Carol Bruns, a New York artist exploring the power of the archetype. Leroy Johnson’s collaged and twisting inner city landscapes reflecting his native Philadelphia and celebrating makeshift utility. Chicago artist Coco Picard’s intimate graphic novel portrait of the Atomic Bomb, and Christian Tedeschi’s poetic deconstructed and reinterpreted everyday objects.

Since starting in Philadelphia in 2009, we have grown into a nationwide non-profit network of artist-run spaces with additional locations in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. We have shown the work of almost 1000 artists in about 250 exhibitions and projects, and we continue to provide an alternative platform for artists to exhibit and talk about their work. Highlights include: Sabina Ott: All Flowers Tell Me (Chicago, 2018), the first time work from Ott’s Sub Rosa series was exhibited in Chicago; Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night (Los Angeles, 2018), whose display was influenced by the urban planner Otto Wagner on the 100th anniversary of his death; Didier William: We Will Win (New York, 2017), his first solo exhibition in New York; Drawing for Sculpture (New York, 2016), a survey of drawings by forty-one female sculptors; Force Fields (Philadelphia, 2012), a group show examining the legacy of filmmaker Ross McElwee; and the critically acclaimed Artist-Run at Satellite Art Show (Miami, 2015), a project that invited 37 artist-run spaces from around the world to each transform a room in an abandoned hotel into an immersive art installation.

Tiger Strikes Asteroid gratefully acknowledges the David and June Kim Foundation for their generous support of Orbits.

#orbitsny #tigerstrikesasteroid #tiger strikes asteroid

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tripsterguru · 4 years

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Wroclaw attractions - 25 most interesting places

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Wroclaw attractions - 25 most interesting places

Wroclaw – the capital of Silesia and the fourth most populated city in Poland, used to be called Breslavl, which sounds in German like Breslau. The city is famous for a large number of bridges (Odra and its 4 tributaries flow along it) and numerous places associated with its historical, cultural and religious past. Let’s talk about the most interesting sights of Wroclaw.

City Hall

In the main square of Wroclaw, one of the most striking sights is located – the town hall, built in the early Gothic style in the 13th century. The architecture of the town hall of extraordinary beauty attracts crowds of tourists admiring the pointed domes, towers and delicate ligature of metal decorations on the central facade. In 1945, the town hall was almost completely destroyed, but the Poles restored their original appearance, preserving a wonderful monument of majestic antiquity.

On the south side of the facade, under the triangle of the pediment, an astronomical clock is installed, are also the subject of attention of visitors. On the eastern wall, on a high domed tower, there are other mechanical watches with a battle. Everyone who comes to Wroclaw comes to the Town Hall.

Royal Palace

Despite the relatively young age of the palace (built in 1717), the building underwent many restructures in its history, reflecting the ambitions and requests of several owners of the palace. The Prussian king, who initially owned the idea of building, ordered the palace in the Venetian style, very fashionable in the 18th century. The new owner – the Prussian king Friedrich, having bought it, instructed the chief court architect Bumann to improve the building, expanding it and adding elements of the Baroque style from the outside – and elements of the Rococo inside.

As a result, the Royal Halls of receptions and celebrations and the private chambers of the Royal Majesty were decorated with magnificent splendor. The palace began to look more majestic and externally. But the descendant of Frederick the Great wanted to add classicism to the palace, which was entrusted to the architect Langhans, who in 1795 added a new staircase, several outbuildings and utility rooms.

However, in 1846, transformations were still made in the spirit of the fashion trends of the Florentine Renaissance: a building was added on the south side, wings were expanded inside the courtyard.

In 1926, when the palace became the property of the city, the Palace Museum was opened in it, with an exhibition dedicated to Frederick the Great. The royal splendor of the interiors was removed, and the main exhibits of the museum were objects of arts and crafts of Silesia.

After serious destruction in 1945, the palace was partially demolished, and the Archaeological and Ethnographic museums were placed in the remaining rooms. To pay tribute to the historical past, in 2004 began a major reconstruction of the palace, which lasted 4 years, and in 2008 the Royal Palace was opened in it, which became a museum of the whole history of Wroclaw. The majestic buildings of the palace symbolize the power and inviolability of power of the Polish kings, the strong foundations of modern Wroclaw.

Its architecture embodied the majestic severity of classicism, the splendor of baroque and rococo, the grace and irresistible beauty of modernity. The courtyard of the palace is a real masterpiece of street design art: curly green lawns surround a fountain surrounded by statues depicting representatives of the royal dynasties of Poland.

Thousands of tourists are eager to get here, on one of Wroclaw’s most interesting excursions.

Wroclaw Cathedral

Two tall 98-meter high Gothic spiers of a unique cathedral are visible from afar, representing examples of 13th century Gothic architecture. The cathedral is unique in its age: it is considered the very first Gothic cathedral in Poland, built in 1272. Otherwise, it is called the Cathedral of the Patron Saint and Defender of Wroclaw – St. John the Baptist, which deservedly has the status of the most important church not only in the city, but in the whole of Lower Silesia.

Like many other historical sites, the cathedral was badly damaged during the Second World War, but was carefully restored: the best restorers painstakingly recreated the Baroque interiors, made beautiful stained glass windows, which are truly artistic masterpieces.

Inside the church there are chapels built in the 14-16th century, wall panels and decorations of which represent centuries-old spiritual art. The central hall with an altar of white marble, with magnificent statues of saints, with elegant gilding details is unusually beautiful.

The organ, established in 1913, was for several years the largest among the church organs of Poland and the whole world. A reverent respect for the instrument allows it to sound powerful during ceremonial ceremonies and various events. People come here to Cathedral Street to listen to spiritually uplifting music, climb the towers of the cathedral and see below the amazingly beautiful perspective of the ancient Polish monument city.

Zoo

One of the oldest zoos in Poland was opened at the time when the city was called Breslau and belonged to Prussia (1865). Then it had the status of a zoological garden, because its entire territory was literally buried in the greenery of trees and shrubs. Against the backdrop of charming natural landscapes, enclosures with animals and birds were placed. For a long “life” the zoo has undergone many reconstructions and improvements and is now the most beautiful and beloved place for visitors to entertain and watch the “little brothers”.

On an area of 33 hectares there are more than 7000 representatives of tetrapods, birds, amphibians, marine creatures and other individuals (850 species). In a huge aquarium live sharks, rays, whales. Different species of ecosystems are inhabited by rare specimens of animals and birds, which not everyone can see in the natural environment. A visit to the Wroclaw Zoo is an unforgettable journey into the richest world of fauna of our planet.

Address: st. Wrobiewskieqo, 1-5.

Open: every day, 09.00-16.00; Afrikarium: poned. – 10.30-18.00, ex. and idle. – 09.00-19.00.

Admission Fee (PLN): adult – thirty; Stud. up to 26 liters – 25 (on Wednesdays – 10); the seventh (2 adults and 3 children) – 50; pension., inv. – 10 (Thursday).

Century Hall

This grandiose architectural monument commemorates the centenary of the liberation battle of the Poles against the Germans at Leipzig in 1813. In honor of this significant event, in 1907, the authorities organized an exhibition with the projects of architectural masterpieces presented at it, designed to capture the 100th anniversary of the liberation of the city from Prussia in a monumental structure. The large-scale expensive project of Wroclaw architect Max Berg was chosen.

As a result, a real architectural colossus of reinforced concrete and glass of the original design of a round shape, vys. 42 m., With the upper dome – the national pride of Poland. The floors are arranged in the form of a spiral tapering upwards. The huge ceremonial hall is able to accommodate 6,000 people. It is surrounded by spacious corridors, 56 exhibition rooms. By the inauguration of the Hall, the largest in the world, a majestic organ that served until 1946 was installed in it.

Address: Szczytnice Park, Wroclaw, 1 Wystawowa.

Working hours:

Apr-Oct: Mon-Fri, 09.00-18.00; Fri-Sat, 09.00-19.00; Sun – 09.00-18.00 November-March: every day, 09.00-17.00 Entrance (in zloty): adult – 12, concessionary – 9 A group of 10 people. each – 8 zlotys. Seventh (2 adults + 2 children. Up to 16 years – 30 PLN.

Raclawice panorama

In fact, this monumental artwork is unique not only for its impressive dimensions (114 mx 15 m), high visual qualities, but also its historical significance. The Racławice panorama is an artistic story of an episode of the liberation movement of the Poles led by T. Kosciuszko – the battle of Racławice against the Russians on 04.04.1794. The magnificent panorama was created in honor of the 100th anniversary of this victorious battle: the talented artists Joint and Kossak worked on it for almost a year. They painted on a special canvas ordered in Belgium, using 750 kg of paints.

The finished work was placed in the rotunda of Austrian design in Lviv in 1894, at the opening of the General Exhibition. The panoramic canvas was damaged by bombing in 1944, and in 1946 it was transferred to Wroclaw, where it was stored for a long time in folded form. In 1985, after a thorough restoration, the panorama was put on display in a specially erected round building, which became a place of pilgrimage for tourists and local residents.

Address: st. Yana Purkinyi, 11, Entrance ticket – 25 PLN, it includes a visit to the National and Ethnographic museums.

Synagogue “Under the White Stork”

As the name of a religious institution is unusual, so is its history. Built in the 19th century, it managed to survive in the cruel times of the Holocaust, like the mythical bird Phoenix, as a symbol of the victory of good over evil. The synagogue received an unusual name for its status from the eponymous zucchini that once stood here.

In Nazi occupation Poland, it was cynically used by the Nazis as a clothing storehouse for looted property, and its yard served as the starting point for Jews in concentration camps and crematoriums. After the war ended, the Jewish Church became the center of a new Jewish community, where people came to pray and communicate. But after II WW in Wroclaw, the synagogue was subjected to repeated cases of vandalism, and during the anti-Semitic company, it generally lost the status of the church.

For 20 years, there was a library and a music academy in its walls, only in 1995 a private company bought the building from the municipality and returned it to the Jewish community. From the former luxurious decoration in it there was only a skilful wooden carving on the arches. Restoration work was completed in 2010. Now prayers, music concerts, lectures, exhibitions, and theater performances are held in the synagogue.

Address: st. Vlodkovitsa, 7, near the Krupnitsky bridge.

The entrance is free.

Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene

The church, built in strict Gothic style in the 14th century, is not the first Catholic church in this place. Prior to this, two cathedrals managed to stand here, one of which was built in the 11th century, and the second in the 13th. The first was barbarously destroyed by the Mongols, the second – burned down in 1342. The current church of St. Mary Magdalene pleases parishioners already in the 7th century, although during this time it also affected the destruction.

The painstaking restoration work going on in the 20th century not only returned the shrine to its former appearance, but added new elements. A 12th-century Romanesque-style portal was delivered from the Albanian Benedictine monastery to the church of St. Mary and Vincent. The holy entrance has become a real gem of the cathedral: relief images of griffins, roses, plots from the children’s life of Christ are an invaluable relic.

The interior of the central hall of the cathedral is majestically solemn, devoid of lavish pretentiousness, but full of light peace. It is this environment that corresponds to the modest appearance of St. Mary.

Address: st. Olovska, 19.

Admission is free. The cost of climbing cathedral towers is 5 zł.

Old city prison

It is easy to imagine the amazement of an uninitiated visitor to a beer cellar located in a corner building at the intersection of Prison and Nozhovnichy streets when he finds out that he is drinking beer in a former torture room. This is true, because the building with the pub is a former ancient prison, built in the 14th century. At first, the relatively small square building by the 17th century became rectangular due to the outbuildings in which there was a need.

The prison housed 100 prisoners, prisoners of the lower classes, the most dangerous criminals sentenced to death were kept in underground rooms. High-ranking, noble inhabitants of this gloomy institution were located on the ground floor. In the 20th century, the building was restored 2 times, and after the war, 41-45. it lost its prison status: the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology was opened in it. The old name was assigned to a summer cafe opened in a former prison yard. Only the inscriptions of former prisoners carved on the walls remind of the prison. Traditional Wroclaw attractions – funny gnomes – look cute and harmless against their background.

Address: st. Prison, 9, next to the Market Square.

Sculptural group “Transition 1977-2005”

Initially, until 1981, this composition was located in the center of Warsaw, but then it was dismantled, and it was restored only after 24 years, but not in the capital of Poland, but in Wroclaw. This is a monument to victims of martial law. The sculptural composition consists of two elements, each of which includes 7 figures of people, some of which go underground, and the other part, on the contrary, leaves the earth. The first part symbolizes citizens missing during martial law, the second – people who decided to fight and eventually defeated the military regime in the country. The composition is set in a place where, during the difficult political situation in the country, the most active demonstrations and rallies took place.

Catholic church of St. Elisabeth

Church of St. Elisabeth, located on the market square, was built in the 14th century. Over its centuries-old history, the building suffered several fires, due to which the tower and spire suffered the most, by the way, they have not been restored yet and stand out from the general view of the church. In addition to fires, the church of St. Elisabeth was destroyed due to a powerful hurricane in the first half of the 16th century, which destroyed its tower.

The church is made in the Gothic style and is considered one of its best representatives in Europe. On the bell tower of the church, whose height is 90 meters, there is a small observation deck with a magnificent view of the city, and in good, clear weather on the horizon you can see the mountains. A narrow spiral staircase inside the tower leads to the observation deck. The interiors of the Church of St. Elisabeth are decorated with beautiful elegant stained glass windows.

Yas and Malgosia houses

Near the church of St. Elisabeth there are 2 houses that got their names by the names of the heroes of a folk tale, the more famous analogue of which is the German fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm about Hansel and Grettel. The houses of Yas and Malgosia are all that remains of the medieval quarter, where artisans, ringleaders and merchants lived. Two houses, standing at an angle to each other, are made in similar restrained tones: one painted in creamy white, the other in pink and white. The buildings are interconnected by an arch, which forms a passage to the church of St. Elisabeth. Today, the houses of Yas and Malgosia are one of the most popular tourist destinations in Wroclaw, which is found in all guidebooks.

Wroclaw Opera

Wroclaw Opera was built in the 19th century by Karl Ferdinand Langgans. The building, made in the classical style, is recognized as a historical architectural monument. The opera was damaged by flooding in the late 20th century, but was soon completely restored. Her repertoire is very wide and offers the audience works of opera and ballet of different styles and eras, including works by Mozart and Prokofiev. Sometimes the Wroclaw opera gives its performances not in the theater building, but on city platforms: in parks, squares, and in the National Museum. The cost of tickets to the opera varies from 20 to 300 Polish zlotys.

National Music Forum

The National Music Forum is a modern cultural institution built several years ago, which is one of the largest European music centers. In the NFM building there is a recording studio, conference rooms, a library, offices, rehearsal rooms, as well as 4 concert halls with a total capacity of more than 2500 people. The PFM organizes the activity of 11 musical groups of the city. Large international festivals are held in the building of the National Music Forum, tickets for which, as well as for regular concerts, can be bought at the box office or on the official website, where you can also find the full NFM repertoire.

National Museum

The National Museum is one of the most famous and popular museums in the city. It was built in the 19th century and is similar to traditional German art museums. The exposition of the national museum mainly consists of paintings and sculptures, mostly from the creations of local masters. The first floor is devoted to religious subjects, on the second and third floors there are statues, paintings, some of which are dated to the 13-17th centuries, jewelry, sarcophagi and furniture decorated with handmade carving. The museum building itself looks very unusual: it is almost completely covered with climbing plants, and it seems that it has been abandoned for many centuries.

Koleikovo

The Kolejkovo Museum, located in the building of the old railway station near the market square, is Poland’s largest railway model with a total length of 430 meters of railways. The model shows 15 trains running along its territory, the total number of wagons of which is 60, as well as more than 1000 figures of people who are not just randomly arranged, but form certain scenes from life: a wedding, a performance by a local musical group, workers resting after a hard time working day at a local bar.

And all this is so elaborated and detailed that you can see what kind of food the wedding guests have or the prices of vegetables on the local market. Koleykovo is a great place that will be interesting not only for children but also for adults, because it literally returns to childhood.

Hydropolis.

Hydropolis is a modern interactive museum, equipped in a former drinking water tank. This place will let you know almost everything about water. There are equipped lecture halls with projectors, multimedia laboratories, in which master classes and experiments with water are held. Visitors can see an exact copy of the Trieste bathyscaphe, which made a record dive into the Mariana Trench in 1960, mock-ups of unusual inhabitants of the ocean, as well as a mock-up of an example of ancient marine engineering – the ancient Greek ship Siracusa.

It works daily, on weekdays from 9:00 to 18:00, on weekends from 10:00 to 20:00. The entrance ticket costs 27 zlotys, a discount ticket for children under 18 years of age and pensioners costs 18 zlotys, a family ticket that allows two adults and two children to visit the attraction costs 72 zlotys.

University of Wroclaw

The university was opened in 1702, and in 1945-1946 after the end of the Second World War it was reorganized and received the status of a state. However, the first attempts to create a university in Wroclaw date back to the beginning of the 16th century, when King Vladislav II Jagiellon signed a decree on the creation of a higher educational institution, but that period was accompanied by constant wars and armed conflicts, so the idea of establishing a university had to be abandoned.

In 1638, a school was opened in Wroclaw, on the basis of which 65 years later the University of Leopoldin was created, named after the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, who signed a decree on its creation. Today, more than 31 thousand students study at the university, and among its graduates there are such outstanding personalities as the world famous singer Anna German and the director, one of the founders of the Polish film school, Stanislav Lenartovich.

Train Station

The railway station was built in 1857 in the undeveloped area of Wroclaw, then part of Prussia. The first work to expand the station was carried out at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. and were finished in 1904. During the Second World War, the building of the railway station was seriously damaged, and warehouses and shelters were built under the forecourt. At the end of World War II, the station was repaired, having built at the same time premises for a small cinema. A few years ago, the railway station was overhauled, the number of platforms was increased, and shelters from the Second World War were converted into a parking lot.

Sky Tower

Sky Tower (Sky Tower) – a skyscraper, which is the tallest building in the city, the third tallest building in the country, was built in 2012. Sky Tower is a complex consisting of three buildings, the first of which is given to galleries and an entertainment center, the second contains residential apartments and offices, the third building is also occupied by apartments and offices, and also has the highest observation deck in Poland, which opens panoramic view of the city. Entrance fee – 10 zł.

Grunwald Bridge

The Grunwald Bridge is one of the longest bridges in Poland (112 meters), built more than 100 years ago, in 1910. At the grand opening personally attended by Emperor Wilhelm II. In different years it was called the Imperial Bridge and the Liberty Bridge. The Grunwald Bridge connects the old part of Wroclaw with the Tumsky Island, separated from each other by the Oder River.

Tumsky bridge

Tumsky Bridge leads from the old city to Tumsky Island, where the Catholic Church, University Library and Elena Chodkowski School of Management and Law are located. This pedestrian steel bridge was built in 1889 on the site of an old wooden bridge. Before entering the bridge from the side of the old city, statues of saints Jadwiga and John the Baptist are installed. For tourists, the bridge is familiar from the frames from the movie “Kill the Dragon” directed by Mark Zakharov.

Shchitnitsky park

Szczytnice Park is one of the largest parks in Wroclaw, with an area of about 100 hectares. The park arose in the 18th century, when local residents chose a forested area near the village of Shchitniki and began to regularly get out here for the weekend. At the end of the 18th century. garrison commander Breslau F.L. Hohenlohe acquired part of the forest park on which he created the park in the English style. In the 19th century For over 70 years, horse racing has been held here. In the park there is a wooden church of St. John of Nepomuk, built in the late 16th – early 17th century. It is interesting that the church was originally located in another place and was transferred to the Shchitnitsky park only in 1913.

Japanese garden

The Japanese Garden is a garden and park complex that is part of the Schitnitsky Park, created in the early 20th century by Count Fritz von Hochberg. The famous Japanese gardener Mankishi Arai took part in the creation of the park, whose work and stone fragments brought from Japan predetermined the unique style of the garden.

The Japanese garden was abandoned during the First World War and was restored only in 1997, but after 2 months it was seriously damaged due to severe flooding. The new restoration of the garden took 2 years. The Wroclaw Japanese Garden is a real oasis of Japan in the center of Europe, on its territory there are several fish ponds, artificial waterfalls and arbours made in the Japanese style. Today, the Japanese Garden is one of the main places of rest in the city for locals and tourists.

Light and music fountain

The musical fountain, opened in 2009, is located near the visual-sports hall “Centennial Hall” in Szczytnice Park. The area of the fountain pool, which has 300 taps for water supply, is about 1 hectare. In addition to water taps, fire nozzles and many points of light supply are installed in the fountain, as well as a projector and a laser system, thanks to which local residents and guests of the city can watch a magnificent light-music performance in the evening. The fountain is open from late April to late December, and in winter it is used as an open ice rink.

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Now that's what I call a tracklist: how the compilation's 100th edition sells its history short

Released on 20 July, the 100th edition of Now That’s What I Call Music shifts from its regular programming: instead of summarising the last quarter in pop, the second disc condenses 35 years of Now into 80 minutes. It uses the biggest names – UB40, Phil Collins, Wet Wet Wet, Kylie, the Justins (Timberlake and Bieber), Coldplay – to tell its story, which rather misses the point. Now compilations are tamper-proof time capsules, where the most pleasure is found in one-hit wonders and sub-genres that were genuinely – but only briefly – popular. They are proof that history isn’t always written by the winners.

Here is how it could have looked. (Listen along below.)

The most significant sound of 1983 – for teenagers and the future of pop – was electro, represented on the first Now by the Rocksteady Crew with Hey You, which sounded like Peppermint Patty jumped ship from Peanuts while holidaying in the Bronx. Frankie Goes to Hollywood were huge in 84, and over by 85, but Propaganda (Dr Mabuse, Now 3) foreshadowed a new kind of European pop. Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder created a sad goodbye to the era (Together in Electric Dreams, Now 4) and British pop went into hibernation for much of the rest of the decade. US music became dominant on the dancefloor, with Prince’s success creating space for Cameo (Single Life, Now 6) and glorious one-offs such as Sly Fox’s Let’s Go All the Way (Now 7).

Not all was hopeless in mid-80s Britain. Stock, Aitken and Waterman, before they relied too heavily on pre-set buttons, gave us Mel and Kim’s weekend anthem Showing Out (Now 8), while mild experimentalism came via the Communards’ creepy So Cold the Night (Now 9), which used the bassoon as a rhythmic instrument. It wasn’t enough. Some turned to soft metal and the Brontëan passion of Heart’s Alone on Now 10, but the slick and tinny high-80s sound was dying by 1988; Johnny Hates Jazz’s puny but endearing Turn Back the Clock (Now 11) desperately attempting to stop the 90s from ever beginning.

1991’s biggest-selling singles act … the KLF perform at the 1992 Brit awards. Photograph: Richard Young/Rex Features

The rising sound of 1988 came from Chicago, and the media panic over acid house, but London played its part: the aerosol snare of Theme from S-Express (Now 12) signified an imminent DIY future for dance music. Soul II Soul (Back to Life, Now 15) instigated Paul Oakenfold’s Movement 98 and a tranche of early Ibiza-friendly 98bpm records (the Grid’s Floatation; JT & the Big Family’s Moments in Soul). By 1990, the primary colours of acid house and the frivolity of hip house resulted in Betty Boo (Where Are You Baby, Now 18) becoming a Smash Hits cover star. The major labels, iron-fisted in the 80s, had lost control of pop and in the chaos the KLF (3AM Eternal, Now 19) became 1991’s biggest selling singles act in Europe. The underground went overground – breakbeat-led hardcore (SL2’s On a Ragga Tip, Now 22) was the foundation stone of jungle, drum and bass, and genres yet to come.

Future thwarted … Tasmin Archer. Photograph: Mick Hutson/Redferns

Enough futurism – there was other stuff going on. Latin superstar Gloria Estefan was one of the biggest artists of the 90s never to have featured on a Now, but Jon Secada was her songwriter and backing singer, and the slippery, discomforting chords of his Just Another Day (Now 23) went Top 5 in 1992. A TV ad for the Soft Reggae compilation went with the bawled tagline “The softest reggae yet!” – as if L’Oréal had been trying to perfect a formula. UB40’s sound was inescapable in the early 90s, but Chaka Demus & Pliers’ Tease Me (Now 25), was soft, witty, and should be an oldies radio staple. The Brit awards saw the future in the form of Guiseley’s Tasmin Archer, (Sleeping Satellite, Now 26), named 1993’s best British breakthrough act – they were wrong.

Britpop’s year is remembered as 1995, but dance music was bigger, invigorated by happy hardcore (N-Trance’s Set You Free, Now 30), uplifting handbag house (Livin’ Joy’s Dreamer, Now 31) and whatever the Bucketheads’ joyous disco cut-up The Bomb was meant to be. Oasis aside, the most consistently successful UK act between 1993 and 1997 weren’t Pulp or Suede but Eternal (Power of a Woman, Now 32), whose run of homegrown, Topshop R&B singles – 12 Top 10 hits between 93 and 97, twice as many as Pulp, Shed Seven, Sleeper and Menswear combined – ran parallel to Britpop.

Spice Girls (Say You’ll Be There, Now 35) brought back a bubblegum sensibility in 1996 that dominated British chart pop for the rest of the nineties (All Saints’ I Know Where It’s At, Now 38; Steps’ Heartbeat, Now 41; Billie’s Honey to the Bee, Now 42). On Now 40, Aqua’s Doctor Jones – the second of three No 1s – was up against portentously titled post-Britpop items such as the Verve’s Sonnet and Legacy by Mansun.

A new golden age of R&B … Kelis. Photograph: Tim Roney/Getty Images

A new sound was needed for a new century. Still in demand in 2018 according to posters dotted around the North Circular, DJ Luck and MC Neat’s A Little Bit of Luck (Now 45) was urban, British, minimal and hard as nails, while So Solid Crew’s 21 Seconds (Now 50) was arguably the last time the media was scared by a No 1 single. British bubblegum was killed off by the more grownup, complex and beautifully baffling R&B emerging from the US at the turn of the century. Sisterhood may have suffered with the breakups of 90s R&B groups such as Jade, TLC and En Vogue, but solo singers produced a new golden age of R&B (Aaliyah’s More Than a Woman, Now 51; Ashanti’s Foolish, Now 52; Kelis’s Milkshake, Now 57). Previously a backroom songwriter, Christina Milian produced a masterpiece in Dip It Low (Now 58) – it’s a scandal of Vienna-type proportions that it was held off No 1 in 2004 by the tiresome Fuck It/F.U.R.B. (Fuck You Right Back) craze.

Almost undocumented by the music press but huge north of the Wash in the early 00s was the Blackburn-based All Around the World label, which provided donk-heavy foot fodder from acts such as N-Trance, Aquagen and Ultrabeat (Pretty Green Eyes, Now 56). Down south, 3 of a Kind were the ultimate one-hit wonder – one single, one No 1 hit in Babycakes, a last gasp of UK garage and one of its most endearing moments. Based in rural Kent, Britain’s Xenomania production team had scored their first No 1 in 2002 with Sugababes’ Round Round (Now 53) but by 2006 their main project, Girls Aloud (Biology, Now 62), had become broadsheet critical darlings. Girls Aloud were, of course, the product of the 2000s’ talent show craze. While you have to wade through a swamp of Sneddons to find anything else worthwhile, Shayne Ward’s Max Martin-produced gem No U Hang Up (Now 68) is worth a nod.

A brief flutter of excitement … Beth Ditto of Gossip. Photograph: Simone Joyner/Getty Images

Girls Aloud’s Something Kinda Ooooh and Justin Timberlake’s equally invigorating SexyBack fought drear like Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars and America by Razorlight on Now 65. The Magic Numbers (Forever Lost, Now 61) were physical and musical exceptions in a landfill indie landscape of identikit Wombats, Maccabees, Frays, Views and Hoosiers. There was a brief flutter of excitement as a bunch of exciting and excitable female-fronted guitar bands (CSS, New Young Pony Club, the Gossip) emerged in the mid ‘00s: the Gossip’s Standing in the Way of Control was on Now 66, alongside the first appearance by Calvin Harris who, along with David Guetta (Flames, Now 100), seems set to remain a Now regular until the apocalypse. Amerie’s Take Control (Now 67) provided a more imaginative way of using guitar riffs than any band in the UK could manage, though it presaged the oddly rock-heavy summer of 2008 (Sex on Fire, I Kissed a Girl, Pink’s So What).

The biggest country act of all time … Taylor Swift at BBC Radio 1’s 2012 Teen awards. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Brian Rasic/Getty Images

November 2008: in came Obama and, lo, a new lightness (Shakira’s She Wolf, Now 74), playfulness (Lady Gaga’s run of 2009 No 1s), and a sense of something regained (Alicia Keys’ Empire State of Mind, Now 75). This optimism soon bled into an over-ripe maximalism, and some of the scientifically loudest records ever made (Rihanna’s Only Girl (In the World), Now 77). Meanwhile, David Cameron’s Britain dabbled in the darker arts of loud but sombre stadium dubstep (Chase & Status’ Blind Faith, Now 78; Nero’s Guilt, Now 79). As Madonna and Britney Spears’ careers suddenly faded, a new heroine emerged from the world of country. There had been R&B/country crossovers before (Usher and Tim McGraw, Now 60) but adopting that internationalism made Taylor Swift (We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Now 83) the biggest country act of all time. She even had Obama on her side, with the president calling Kanye West a “jackass” after he invaded her prize acceptance at the 2009 MTV Video Music awards.

Foxes was an example of an emerging, less thrilling, 2010s British pop; her Let Go for Tonight (Now 87) was perfectly fine, but it represented a shift to a rather blank, home counties sound, as if Tim Henman had been appointed pop tsar. Sam Smith, Jess Glynne, Tom Odell, Ellie Goulding, and tousle-haired jack of all trades Ed “Hello Dave” Sheeran – this was chart pop as a career, in the way insurance or banking used to be, with a professional distance and a pre-rock attitude. At least Foxes had a proper stage name.

Stressed out … Drake. Photograph: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images

The charts were starting to become harder to read – in 2014, Oliver Heldens and Becky Hill’s Gecko (Overdrive) (Now 88) was the last UK No 1 to have made it on sales alone, as streaming became incorporated into the chart the following week. It was also becoming harder for outliers to break through, though Philip George’s Wish You Were Mine (Now 90) – deep house made in his bedroom – was an exception from a period when Robin S’s Show Me Love appeared to have been the most influential record ever made.

And so we enter the very recent past, the era of Trump, and some exceptionally good but also exceptionally mopey R&B. There was the new tough-but-weepy Bieber (Let Me Love You, Now 95), the Weeknd’s The Hills (Now 93) claimed “when I’m fucked up, that’s the real me”, while Drake bemoaned how “stressed out” he was as a Timmy Thomas sample played on Hotline Bling. Black British music had begun to dominate the second side of Nows (Stefflon Don’s Hurtin’ Me, Now 98; Dave’s No Words, Now 99). Indeed, the second disc of Now 99 was as exciting a sequence as Now had ever produced – Ramz, J Hus, B Young, Not3s, Mabel et al – at least until it weirdly petered out with Maroon 5, James Bay and U2.

The rather conservative “greatest hits” choices on Now 100 are therefore all the more disappointing, but no matter – the pop continuum is what counts with Now. I’m already looking forward to 35 years from today, and seeing the future of pop from the vantage point of Now 200.

Bob Stanley is a founding member of Saint Etienne and the author of Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop

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