Polish

Polish (BrE: /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/ or AmE: /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/) may refer to:

  • Anything from or related to Poland, a country in europe.
  • Polish language
  • Poles, people from Poland
  • Polish (chicken)
  • Polish cuisine
  • Polish space, in mathematics

Polish ( /ˈpɒlɪʃ/) may refer to:

  • Polishing, the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing or chemical action
  • Nail polish
  • Shoe polish

Other articles related to "polish":

Paweł Jasienica
... Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar (10 November 1909 – 19 August 1970), a Polish historian, journalist and soldier ... World War II, Jasienica (then, Leon Beynar) fought in the Polish Army, and later, the Armia Krajowa resistance ... He is best known for his 1960s books on Polish history—on the Kingdom of Poland under the Piast Dynasty, the Jagiellon Dynasty, and the elected kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ...
Bolesław III Wrymouth
... (also known as Bolesław III the Wry-mouthed, Polish Bolesław III Krzywousty) (20 August 1086 – 28 October 1138) was Prince of Poland from 1107 until 1138 ... and most of his rule attending to the policy of unification of Polish lands and maintaining full sovereignty of the Polish state in the face of constant threat from expansionist eastern policy of the ... Bolesław III also upheld the independence of the Polish archbishopric of Gniezno ...
Grudziądz - Notable Residents
... Ernst Hardt (1876–1947), writer Georg Jalkowski(1852–1902) Polish publisher Waldemar Kophamel (1880–1934), U-Boat commander Leo White (1882–1948), stage ...
Polish People's Party
... The Polish People's Party (Polish Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, abbreviated to PSL (traditionally translated as Polish Peasants' Party), is a centrist, agrarian, and Christian democratic political ...
Polish People's Party - History - Before 1945
... led by Wincenty Witos, becoming one of the most important political parties in the Second Polish Republic until it was removed by the Sanacja regime (see ... time there were two parties using the term "Polish People's Party" Polish People's Party "Piast" and Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" ... During World War II, PSL took part in forming the Polish government in exile ...

Famous quotes containing the word polish:

    “Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
    Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
    crackers’—”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)