Krakow
About Krakow
Kraków, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 (2023), with 1,428,363 people living in the Kraków metropolitan area. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life. Its Old Town was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, one of the world's first sites granted the status.
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At least 70 years before the siege of Vienna, in a Jewish Krakow, there was a statute saying you are allowed to give bagels to a woman who's given birth — it was a kind of fertility thing.
from No Such Thing As A Peanut Hall of Fame, 2023-09-07 at 00:13:14 · read transcript
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You're walking by you can text the dragon and ask it to breathe fire and it will do it on command so it can actually go every 15 seconds if it needs to 15 second intervals between breathe fire Polish leaders of Krakow have had fun names over time I realised looking into the history of Krakow like particularly like the 1200s where the Duke of Krakow was called Tanglefoot that was in 1210 and he died and was replaced by spindle shanks I think.
360: No Such Thing As May Pole Syrup, 2021-02-12 · listen
He couldn't find the original picture that they were all referring to, to deduce which of those two it was. He was obsessed with this. So he looked all over Europe to find this ancient picture. Finally he ended up in a library in Krakow, going through this massive crate. He was like, oh my god, I found this 1648 picture, and it's definitely a herring. I've absolutely nailed it.
272: No Such Thing As A Non-Judgemental Herring, 2019-06-07 · listen
Sigmund the Third Vassar who became actually like one of the great leaders in Polish history there's your sequel but he was actually the one who moved the capital of Poland away from Krakow to Warsaw so thumbs down from this episode because we do the Warsaw episode in 100 years he's a hero I'll buy it with a way for Americans you call it Krakow just in case you've been wondering all this time what.
360: No Such Thing As May Pole Syrup, 2021-02-12 · listen
Over herself she pushed her nephew who was called Sigmund the Third Vassar who became actually like one of the great leaders in Polish history there's your sequel but he was actually the one who moved the capital of Poland away from Krakow to Warsaw so thumbs down from this episode because we do the Warsaw episode in 100 years he's a hero I'll buy it with a way for Americans you call it Krakow just in case you've been wondering all this time what.
360: No Such Thing As May Pole Syrup, 2021-02-12 · listen
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