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Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
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...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
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...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
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....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
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...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
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...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
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Working against the clock to build weapons that might end a long and bloody war strained life at Los Alamos but also heightened it…...
Helping Ukraine win is the best option for the West, allowing...
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Stalin re-established the Russian Orthodox Church in September 1943. Why?
After the Bolshevik Coup of 1917, the Russian Orthodox church was forbidden and many cathedrals were ruined. But for some reason, almost a quarter...
Ilya Repin was born on August 5, 1844 in Ukraine. Story...
On 26 July 1878, he did his first pencil drawing of the merry Zaporozhians drafting their defiant letter to the sultan. Although Repin was...
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Terry Sawchuck, the famous Hockey Hall of Fame goalie, was named...
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The founder of Geosynchronous Communications Satellite industry Joseph V. Charyk was...
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Ukrainian who played the most crucial role in creating the first...
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Igor Sikorsky decided to build World’s First Four-Engine Airplane while still...
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Dnieper River in the 5th century B.C. Description by Herodotus
"The fourth river is the Borysthenes, which is the largest after the Ister , and in our opinion the most productive, not only of...