Leland Sklar, a living legend of the bass guitar, played on 2000 albums and...

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"Having survived five decades on the road with James Taylor, Phil Collins, and just about everyone else on the planet, Lee Sklar is a...
Painting “Mazeppa” by Louis Guisnet, 1874

Ukrainian Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa and Lord Byron’s poem devoted to him

Near the end of the 17th century, Ukrainian Cossacks had a Hetman whose name would be known all over Europe and later on around...

Ukrainian who opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev was born Jan. 12, 1907

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The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907   in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...

Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, 1948

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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...

‘Flying Cossacks’ US Aviation Subdivision during the Vietnam War

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"DALLAS — Twenty-five years after being formed in Texas, the Flying Cossacks of 1964-1965 held their first reunion. The surviving pilots who could be...

Monuments to Igor Sikorsky in Kyiv opened by Mayor Vitaly Klitschko

Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv and achieved world fame while still living in it. For example, he set the World Speed Record and...

Ukrainian Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force credited for initiation of GPS: Michael...

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But Yarymovych knew the idea of space-based navigation was beautiful; it just wasn’t being sold right. He went to his boss, Air Force...

Women Ukraine is Proud of

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Every nation honors their mothers, sisters, daughters. Ukraine does too. Ukraine has all the reason to be proud of its women and here are...

In the 16th century, a Ruthenian/Ukrainian woman was taken captive and brought to Istanbul...

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Born in Ruthenia (now Rohatyn, Ukraine) to a Ruthenian Orthodox priest, she was captured by Crimean Tatars during a slave raid and eventually taken via the Crimean slave trade to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital. She entered the Imperial Harem where...