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It does not really make sense in Polish 😅. First translator just switched Jane with Valancy and called it a day.

You can see on a screen, that he deleted some of the original paragraph. I'd back-translate Karol B's version as:

Her full name was Joanna-Walencja. Joanna-Walencja - a bit too pompous, but Joanna liked a little out-land sound of name Walencja. Apparently her maternal grandfather, old Amos Barraclud, named* her that way. "Joanna" was added by father, to make his daughter's name sound a little more homely, and whole family got out of the difficulty by giving her nickname Buba**.

*Even if translator used more specific term ochrzcił (literally: to christen, to baptize), in Polish it can mean (with christian subtext but none taken literally) just to give someone or something a name or a title.

**I see no direct substitute for Buba in English. But it's a lot more childish than Doss. It can come from bubu which is affectionate way to adress newborn (gibberish way to communication by just doubling the same syllabe like in mama (mum), tata/papa (dad) etc.). I researched that also in some parts of Poland it was common to refer to cow as buba. Sweet.

Comming back to the second matter: was Joanna popular name? Very much! It was name well known and quite popular as we can read in book about ethymology of Polish names published just one year before The Blue Castle premiere. It is reflected in the numbers as well: till 1920 there were more than 9 thousands females in Poland registered with name Joanna, in the next decade (30s) there were next 9k born, in the following one another 9k and the numbers are just going up until 1994 when this particular statistic is ending.

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Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

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Vogue Paris, August 1992