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Lockdown and isolation: the summer a Polish city defeated an outbreak of one of the world’s deadliest diseases

Medical staff in protective clothing battle the disease. Public domain

TFN takes a look at back at a previous epidemic Poland had to face, and how smallpox was contained.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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