Hotel Europejski and Cursor grass mouse

Contents 1 Overview 2 History 3 Future 4 References 5 External links

Overview

It is located on the historical Royal Route and close to Warsaw Old Town. Facilities include an art gallery and a coffee and pastry shop. The rooms vary in size and shape and most have views overlooking historic parts of Warsaw, including the Royal Tract and the Pilsudski Square. Facade of the Hotel Europejski. The Europejski as it appeared prior to WWII. History

The hotel originally opened on January 1, 1857. Designed by Enrico Marconi, it was one of the most luxurious hotels in the Russian Empire. It was expanded in 1907 to designs by Czeslaw Przybylski. In 1921, the hotel's owners took on partners to form the company Hotel Europejski Spółka Akcyjna (HESA).

The hotel was renamed the Europäisches Hotel during the German occupation in World War II and was almost completely destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. In 1945, after the liberation of Warsaw, the original owners received permission from the government to rebuild the hotel and set up a cafe in the remaining portion of the building. However before they could rebuild, the hotel was seized by the government in 1948. The building was rebuilt from 1949-1951 to designs by Bohdan Pniewski with a recreation of the historic facade and a modern interior, serving as the Military Political Academy (Akademia Wojskowa Polityczna) from 1951-1954 and then as offices for the Ministry of Transport.

The building was transferred to the Orbis state tourist company in 1959 and converted back to a hotel, reopening to guests on July 2, 1962 as the Orbis Hotel Europejski. In 1965, The Golden Gate Quartet performed their only concert in Poland here.

After the fall of communism, in 1993, the heirs of the hotel's original owners sued to regain the hotel from the state-run Orbis Hotels chain. The case took 12 years, as Orbis claimed they had constructed the current building and invested a great deal of money in it. Future

Reconstruction is set to begin in early 2013 and the hotel will reopen in 2015 with 100 hotel rooms managed by Raffles Hotels & Resorts and 6,500 m² of Class A office space.

Cursor grass mouse and Hotel Europejski

Contents 1 Description 2 Distribution and habitat 3 Biology and behaviour 4 References

Description

The cursor grass mouse is a moderately sized rodent, with a head-body length of 11 to 13 centimetres (4.3 to 5.1 in), and a tail 8 to 11 centimetres (3.1 to 4.3 in) long. Males are larger than females, weighing an average of 54 grams (1.9 oz), compared with 43 g (1.5 oz) for females. They have a typical mouse-like appearance, with short whiskers and stubby claws on the feet. They dark to golden brown fur over most of the body, with paler greyish or yellowish underparts. Some have a whitish spot between the ears, but this is not present on all individuals.

Cursor grass mice are members of the A. cursor species group, and very similar in appearance to other members of the group. In particular, they cannot easily be distinguished from the closely related montane grass mouse, which inhabits neighbouring regions to the immediate south. Although the cursor grass mouse is, on average, slightly larger than the montane species, there is too much overlap for this to be a reliable guide. Instead, they can most readily be distinguished by the presence of a gall bladder in A. cursor (absent in the montane species), by karyotypic analysis, or by means of PCR based techniques. Distribution and habitat

The exact geographic range of the cursor grass mouse is disputed. It is definitively known to inhabit eastern Brazil from Paraiba to Paraná, where it lives in patches of tropical Atlantic Forest and restinga scrubland at elevations from sea level to 1,170 metres (3,840 ft). Some sources also report it as being found further south, in extreme southern Brazil, in eastern Paraguay, and in northern Argentina. These latter sources lack a definitive genetic analysis of the individuals identified, and it has been argued that they may represent members of other species, such as the montane grass mouse. No subspecies are recognised. Biology and behaviour

Cursor grass mice are omnivorous. Their primary diet consists of small arthropods, especially Hymenoptera, beetles, and spiders; this is supplemented by seeds of Cecropia and other plants. They search for food through leaf litter and patches of dense vegetation, and are strictly terrestrial. Individuals have a home range of 0.1 to 0.7 hectares (0.25 to 1.73 acres), with the ranges of males being larger than those of females. Although the size of their home ranges does not change, the population density of cursor grass mice becomes significantly higher during the rainy season, when insects are most abundant.

Cursor grass mice breed throughout the year, although most births occur during the dry season between June and September. Pregnant females construct globular nests, and give birth to a litter of two to nine young, with an average of four, after a gestation period of 23 days.

This species is particularly important for public health since it has been implied as a Hantavirus reservoir.

A cell line derived from a liposarcoma in a cursor grass mouse has been used by biomedical scientists in the construction of a panel for the identification of human chromosomes in hybrid cells.
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