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Circular city of Baghdad and its predecessors
The picture in the previous article shows how the round city of Baghdad looked in 768 AD after its construction was completed. The city's...
GitLab with Ukrainian roots raises $100M and becomes unicorn
GitLab, the developer service that aims to offer a full lifecycle DevOps platform, announced that it has raised a $100 million Series D funding...
Russia’s War on Ukraine is about Stolen Identity
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St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. Sviatopolk II of...
Ukrainian Cossacks, their Black Sea naval raids on Chaika long-boats in...
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of...
Armenia’s most famous rulers were of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty, –...
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Toughest Open-Air Gym in Europe
It is situated right in the center of Kyiv, on the island amidst Dnieper river which divides Kyiv on two almost equal parts - "left bank Kyiv" and "right...
Signature of Ukrainian Hetman Mazepa. Signature of Moscovy Tzar Peter I
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In 1937, 300 Ukrainian poets, writers, and artists were executed in...
Executed Renaissance was a generation of Ukrainian language poets, writers, and artists of the 1920s and early 1930s who lived in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and who...
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Europeans perceive in Russians barbarians ‘rejoicing over the thought that something...
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Voltaire depicted Muscovies-Russians of his time: born the slaves of masters...
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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...
Ukraine to send rockets into space from Australia’s Kimberly?
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In May of 1594, Erich Lassota von Steblau, a special envoy of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II to the Zaporozhian Cossacks arrived in Kyiv....
Vasily Ignatenko, one of the Chornobyl firefighters to die in May,...
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