Well, 2020 has certainly been eventful... But although this Christmas will look slightly different to how it should do, we wish you all a safe and merry-ish Christmas and a much happier New Year.
Today, 26 April, in history in Poland: born in Warsaw in 1980 - Anna Maria Mucha, a Polish film and television actress and journalist. She is best known to Western audiences as the character of Danka Dresner (the little girl with the round glasses) in the film Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg. In Poland she is known for her regular role in soap opera M jak miłość (2003–present).
The winner of the Polish version of 10th season of Dancing with the Stars - Taniec z Gwiazdami. In 2010 she became a member of the jury in the Polish version of So You Think You Can Dance (You can dance: Po prostu tańcz).
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Mucha
Today, 22 April, in history in Poland: died iin 1736 - Anthony Sadowski (born circa 1669), a Polish-born Indian trader and interpreter employed by the provincial governor of Pennsylvania as an Indian agent in the western country.
Antoni Sadowski was born in about 1669 in Poland. He hailed from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski near the town of Kielce. His father was Marcin Sadowski, who was a chamberlain at the Polish king's castle in Gostyń and, as a deputy of the Polish Sejm, an inspector of the king's land holdings in Ukraine.
During the Great Northern War in 1701, Sadowski was taken captive with his brother at Riga. He managed to escape captivity, and made his way to Scotland and England. He sailed to the British colonies, landing in New York City in 1704. After Sadowski moved to the colony of New York, he married Marya Bordt (anglicized as Mary Bird), daughter of Andrew Bird of Newtown, New York. They had six children together.
Sadowski moved his family from New Jersey to Pennsylvania in 1712, to a 400-acre property along the Schuylkill River. He, along with George Boone—grandfather of the noted frontiersman Daniel Boone—was a founder of Amity Township in Berks County in 1719.
Sadowski worked to establish friendly relations with the Native Americans in the area, learning the Delaware (Lenape) and Iroquois languages. He served as an interpreter to other settlers. He became an Indian trader, traveling as far as Logstown (a village near the site of modern Ambridge, Pennsylvania). With two other Indian traders, he established a trading post at present-day Kittanning, Pennsylvania, in June 1729. He became a citizen of Pennsylvania in 1735.
Sadowski died on April 22, 1736, in Amityville, Pennsylvania, and is buried in the cemetery of Old St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church in Douglassville. His grave marker bears the following inscription: Whether or not he opened an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie and gave his name to Sandusky, Ohio, here lies the gr
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