Quiet Ukrainian behind IBM, Apple success: Lubomir Romankiw was born Apr. 17, 1931
Lubomyr Romankiw was born in 1931 when the city of Zhovkva was part of Poland. After WWII, the Romakiw family traveled to Munich, where...
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...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
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WW2 Master Sergeant Nicholas Oresko, son of Ukrainian immigrants, received Medal of Honor from...
Nicholas Oresko (January 18, 1917 – October 4, 2013) was an American combat veteran of World War II who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in Germany on January...
Igor Sikorsky decided to build World’s First Four-Engine Airplane while still living in his...
"The general idea of a large flying ship with several motors, and comfortable closed cabins, had been an ideal for a long time, but none had been designed. It...
Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’
Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722 – 1794) was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a poet, a teacher, and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations...
Igor Sikorsky’s record-breaking 1,200 km-long flight on ‘Ilya Muromets’ plane from Petrograd to Kyiv...
"There was one more important test flight as well as demonstration left to be accomplished, namely a long journey across the country. Until then...
George Kistiakowsky: Ukrainian who made Manhatten Project work and first Atomic bomb explode
The US Government called on Dr. Kistiakowsky to help solve the problem with the new weapon the physicists at Los Alamos had been struggling...
The founder of Geosynchronous Communications Satellite industry Joseph V. Charyk was born in Canada to a...
Joseph Vincent Charyk (September 9, 1920 – September 28, 2016) was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born...
World’s first Anti-Reflection Lens Coating invented by Ukrainian A. Smakula in 1935 became German...
Without the invention of anti-reflection lens coatings, modern lenses couldn’t exist. With nothing added to the surface of a glass lens, about 4% of...














