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Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...

Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...

Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...

Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Twenty-five years ago, Ukraine was the world's third-largest nuclear power, with more warheads than the United Kingdom, France and China combined. The government in...

Valery Khodemchuk was born on 24 March 1951 in the village of Kropyvnia which is almost exactly halfway between Kyiv and Chornobyl. With the...

"Terrance Gordon Sawchuk (December 28, 1929 – May 31, 1970) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey...

One of the most popular posts on Reddit recently with over 50,000 likes was the one in the 'Today I Learned' section with the...

Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești, Romania...

Per Wikipedia, the Battle of Shelon was a battle between the forces of the Duchy of Moscow under Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and the...

In his 1898 short story “The Cossack Way,” Ivan Bunin writes: “I liked the khokhly very much at first sight. I immediately noticed the...

"We met frequent caravans of the Malo-Russians , who differ altogether from the inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their features are those of...

In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "I had several hobbies. For a time I was making electrical batteries and...

Dec. 19, 2024. During his annual end-of-year press conference a smirking Putin said the following: "When everything is calm, measured, stable, we are bored...

Joseph Vincent Charyk (September 9, 1920 – September 28, 2016) was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born...

al-Kindi (801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab...