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Top 10 Blueberry Destinations
August 23, 2010 by Susan McKee
Over at Gadling, travelwriter Andrew Evans has compiled his list of the top ten blueberry destinations in the world.
Your Road Trips Foodie doesn’t agree with all of them (she’d add both Indiana and Finland to the list), but, for what it’s worth, here are his choices:
*Maine
*Iceland
*Québec (especially in the the Saguenay-Lac St. Jean region of northern Québec)
*New Jersey (epicenter of commercial blueberry farming)
*Nova Scotia (Wild Blueberry Festival)
*East Texas
*Michigan (National Blueberry Festival)
*South Korea
*Poland
*Alaska
Poland: History, Culture and Economy
July 31, 2010 by Victoria Levy
Poland /ˈpəʊlənd/ (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north.
The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union.
The establishment of a Polish state is often identified with the adoption of Christianity by its ruler Mieszko I in 966, when the state covered territory similar to that of present-day Poland.
The Kingdom of Poland was formed in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a long association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin, forming the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth collapsed in 1795, and Poland’s territory was partitioned among the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, and Austria. Poland regained its independence as the Second Polish Republic in 1918, after World War I, but two decades later it was occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. Poland lost over six million citizens in the war…
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Karwowski: Displaced Between Poland and America
July 27, 2009 by Renee Blodgett
Pauline Karwowski talks about being displaced between Poland and the U.S.
