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Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
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 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...
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Hague International Criminal Court publishes a Preliminary Report
"266. ...The Office also assessed that direct military engagement between the respective armed forces of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, indicated the existence of an...
Ivan Bunin describes Russian faces: no need branding them ‘Beware of...
"Their voices are hollow, primitive. The women have Chuvash and Mordvinian faces; and the men have criminal features that make them look like a...
Cossack Country-Ukraine as seen by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo in...
Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...
‘Battle of Pygmies with Cranes’ theme in the Bosporan Kingdom: Flight...
The legend of the Battle of Pygmies with Cranes was very popular in the Bosporan Kingdom in ancient times. As a reminder, the Bosporan...
Valuev Circular banning Ukrainian language in Ukraine was issued on July...
Valuev Circular was a secret decree (ukaz) issued by Pyotr Valuev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire, by which publications (religious and educational literature recommended for the use...
Russians are semi-Asiatic, drilled, but not civilized; they resemble ‘trained bears...
"Russians… tread in the steps of European elegance, without knowing that refinement of habits has no value except as it announces the existence of...
Kyiv Rus’ borders ca. 1000 AD: Largest Kingdom in Christendom
Although this map was published by National Geographic in 1987 and should be commended for marking what is now the present-day Kerch Strait as being controlled...
Lessons for modern-day ‘Chamberlains’ 85 years later
85 years ago, on 30.09.1938, Neville Chamberlain after negotiating with Adolf Hitler proudly proclaimed to have achieved Peace in Our Time. Part of that...
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...
Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, 1948
Natalia Zakharenko is the real name of this Hollywood star actress (“West Side Story” film had 11 Academy Award nominations). Her grandparents had to leave...
How Father of the US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones and...
By the 16th of June, 1788, the experienced Turkish admiral Hassan el Ghazi often referred to as Captain Pasha advanced past Ochakov and into...
Scythian Boar’s Head Sword with Golden Scabbard from Velyka Bilozerka in...
The sword was discovered in a burial mound near the village of Velyka Bilozerka, Zaporizhia Region, Ukraine. It dates to the last third of...