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Warsaw has historically been a destination of internal and foreign immigration, especially from Eastern Europe. For nearly 300 years it was known as the Paris of Eastern Europe. Demographically it was the most diverse city in Poland, with as much as 20% of its population being either Jewish Poles or foreign born. World War II changed all of this, and to this day there is much less ethnic diversity than in the previous 300 years of the city's history. Most of the modern day population growth is based on internal migration and urbanization.
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- Robert Korzeniowski from Warsaw, Poland - a renowned athlete who, after overcoming a serious rheumatic illness when he was a teenager, went on to win four Olympic gold medals in race walking. Robert now serves as a member of the Board of RMHC Poland and is an active supporter of World Children's Day.
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Warsaw's intellectual and cultural elite had a distinct gay component at this time. The Skamander circle of poets, the most important in inter-war Poland, was dominated by homosexual men. Such figures as the composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), the writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (1894-1980), the poets Boleslaw Lesmian (1877-1937) and Jan Lechon (1899-1956), as well as the novelists Tadeusz Breza (1905-1970), Jozef Czechowicz (1903-1939), and Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) demonstrated the strength of gay life in the Polish capital. However, most Poles looked down upon homosexuality as a perversion, an outlook encouraged by the conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy.
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Warsaw has a large number of touts, who mainly congregate at the subway station "Centrum", near the northeastern corner of the Palace of Culture and Science. They pass out fliers and brochures for all kinds of imaginable and useless services. If you don't want to start a collections of fliers, a simple and easy way to beat the touts at their own game is to simply make a gesture indicating stop with your hand while stating in English "No, thank you" or "I can't understand Polish". This works surprisingly well, especially on touts who pass out fliers for English language instruction schools.
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July 29, 2007 - -- Warsaw knew that it had to sweep through the divisional tournament they hosted on Saturday to make any run at the post season a possibility. The Tribe came out playing flawless ball early and took a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the 6th inning. At that point starting pitcher Andy Miller had not allowed a hit and seemed to be in control of the game. The Portland Rockets scored once in the bottom of the 6th and three more times in the bottom of the 7th to take a 4-2 lead. The Indians continued to fight but left two runners on in both the 7th and 8th innings. Warsaw is now eliminated from any post season births and will look to rebuild and bounce back in 2008.
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In Warsaw, you can see most clearly how the city is taking full advantage of the tremendous and unique opportunities arising from the emergence of free market and the development of democracy. Poland's capital is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. The investment boom is visible everywhere you look. The city has become one big construction and renovation site. The office and commercial buildings commissioned in the recent years accommodate hundreds of businesses, research institutions, banks and international organisations. Scores of new ones are going up in Warsaw, and the demand for high-class office space is still enormous.
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