Kateryna Yushchenko – inventor of Address Programming Language (APL) and Pointers. APL was more...
Plankalkul was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer. It designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between...
Turret of Russian tank: ‘I can fly, my friend!”
This Russian tank was blown up by Ukrainian defenders on May 6th near Novoazovsk in Donetsk region. Novoazovsk has been occupied by Russia since...
AN-124 helps out Boeing in extreeme freezing conditions in Canada
Ukrainian plane delivered a Boeing 777 engine from Zurich to Canadian Iqaluit where the Boeing was stuck with 233 passengers travelling to Los Angeles. With the temperature being -30C, many specialists say...
Jack Palance, Oscar-winning Ukrainian-American cowboy was born Feb. 18, 1919
Jack Palance born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor of Ukrainian descent. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best...
In 1650, Kyiv had impressive ramparts remains, deep protective ditches, tombs of several kings,...
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...
Duga-3 Over-the-Horizon Monster Radar near Chornobyl. The Russian Woodpecker
"you are in the middle of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and your tour guide asks, with just a hint of guile, if you would like...
Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Bracelets from Mezin in Ukraine May Be the Most Ancient...
Iryna Vavilova and Tetyna Artemenko from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine in their 2009 article ‘The ancient cultural framework of...
How Ukrainian hackers help out American farmers – Vice
It could be a funny situation, but the American farmers are very serious about it. They want to prove that after they buy John Deer tractor,...
Kistiakowsky, Truman, Stalin, dental drill, 10-dollar bet with Oppenheimer: The Trinity Atomic Bomb Test...
The quotes below are taken from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb by American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes: "On April...
Ukraine in Space
Sergei Korolev - the leading Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer was born in Zhytomir, Ukraine. It is due to his genius, the Soviet Union...
