In 1650, Kyiv had impressive ramparts remains, deep protective ditches, tombs of several kings,...

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Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Here is his description of Kyiv around the year 1650: "Kiow, otherwise called...

During his speech in Kyiv in 1972, President Nixon named Kyiv the “City of...

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"As I think of a way to describe our feelings on this occasion, I noted that in history--and this city is so full of...

Anne of Kyiv became a Queen of France. By naming her first son and...

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"In the spring of 1048, having covered 3,000 kilometers, the envoys of French King Henry I arrived in Kyiv. Yaroslav welcomed the delegation and...

How Australia Welcomed ‘Sky Monster’ – AN-225 Mriya

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX_W_rR5J6w&t=219s

Sport Illustrated’s 2018 Boxing Trainer of the Year: ‘Papachenko’

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There’s one man who works with more fighters in the current wave of Eastern European boxing champions than any other. That’s Anatoliy Lomachenko,...

Turret of Russian tank: ‘I can fly, my friend!”

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This Russian tank was blown up by Ukrainian defenders on May 6th near Novoazovsk in Donetsk region. Novoazovsk has been occupied by Russia since...

The founder of Geosynchronous Communications Satellite industry Joseph V. Charyk was born in Canada to a...

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

SpaceX turns to Ukrainian AN-124 plane for emergency delivery of oversized rocket parts to...

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"Jan 3, 2018 Subject: Request for Antonov Support SpaceX requests An-124 to transport rocket hardware (payload fairing halves) to expedite processing of the coming missions.. US Domestic...

55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]

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https://youtu.be/A7szL7wiBuY Discovery On June 21, 1971, while working inside the Scythian Kurgan, the head of the expedition, Borys Mozolevsky, began clearing the dromos, where a large...