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The World According To Google - satellite pictures of the most interesting places on the World, satellite maps » Towers. There is an old legend about king Popiel and his wife Rycheza: Prince Popiel (or Duke Popiel), legendary 9th century ruler of the Polanie or Goplanie tribe. For now there is no archeological evidence of the existence of any such person. According to legend, he was the last member of pre-Piast dynasty, Popielids.

According to the chroniclers Gallus Anonymus, Jan Długosz and Marcin Kromer, as a consequence of bad rule he was removed from the throne and died eaten alive by mice (or rats) in a tower in the Kruszwica settlement. As the legend goes, Prince Popiel was an inadequate ruler who cared only for wine, women, and song and who was greatly influenced by his wife Ryska, a beautiful German princess who desired power. Because he was a poor ruler, his twelve uncles tried to remove him from the throne, but at his wife's instigation he had them poisoned at a banquet. (more..) Ogle Earth | Notes on the political and scientific impact of digital maps and geospatial imagery. Google Lat Long. Google Earth Blog - The amazing things about Google Earth.

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