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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...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...
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Monument to legendary founders of Kyiv
"... There were three brothers, Kyi, Shchek, and Khoriv, and their sister was named Lybid. Kyi lived upon the hill where the Borichev trail...
A nightmare foretold. Prophetic 1994 speech about current Russia’s aggression by...
"in 1994 the late Lennart Meri, then president of Estonia, gave a prophetic speech in Hamburg. The Kremlin had just growled that the problems...
Ukrainian who opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev was born Jan....
The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...
Chornobyl firefighters at Kyiv clinic with their doctors
Yurii Shcherbak's first major literary work 'Chernobyl' was published in the USSR in 1986 already. Starting the following year, it was translated into many...
Hohol, Ukrainian Cossacks’ famous haircut was worn by a Kyiv ruler...
"The distinctive mark of a Black Sea Cossack, borne by the lower order among them, of a braided lock from the crown of the...
Black Stork Coin Commemorating the 38th Anniversary of Chornobyl
The National Bank of Ukraine provides a description of the numismatic coin:
The largest pre-WW1 plane – Sikorsky’s S-22 ‘Ilya Muromets’ – made...
Igor Sikorsky flew "Ilya Muromets" plane personally from Petersburg to his native Kyiv setting several world records. As it turns out though, the true...
Ukraine gave up 5,000 nukes. Russia’s attack may have broken the...
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...
Kyiv Golden Gate at Winter Solstice
The picture was taken by the author of this post at noon (13 o'clock 'winter time') on December 20, 2023. The actual Winter Solstice...
Scythian Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogila, Ukraine
Dr. Dmitry Raevsky: "The discovery of this pectoral by the archaeologist from Kyiv B.N.Mozolevskiy in 1971 caused an unprecedented sensation in Scythian studies at...
‘In Russia cannot be even one man who would not be...
"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...
