Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, 1948
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...
First ever X-ray in the US was performed on the invention of Ukrainian scientist...
“On January 19, 1896, young Eddie McCarthy of Hanover fell while skating on the Connecticut River and fractured his left wrist”. He was attended...
Usyk and Klitschko Brothers 15 Years Ago
Not the Onion Material: The Man in the Middle will become the Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and Will Surpass the Achievements...
Two Ukrainians Launched World’s First Satellite into Space Oct. 04, 1957. Both Were Denied...
A Soviet newspaper of early October, 1957: "On 4 October 1957 at 10:28 p.m. Moscow time a violent flash of light illuminated the night...
‘Mustang Wanted’, a world famous roofer
Grisha "Mustang Wanted" is the roofer who climbs tall buildings in different countries without any support and is the one who painted a star on one of the tallest Moscow building...
Mykola Pymonenko whose works inspired Kazimir Malevich. His Hopak painting was bought by the...
Mykola Pymonenko was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. Pymonenko is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of...
Did the U.S. Constitution Begin in Ukraine?
< The division of powers - legislative, executive, judicial - could have been first introduced by Ukrainian hetman Pylyp Orlyk in his Constitution of...
Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj
As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...
Powerful speech in Canadian Parliament by “proud Ukrainian-Canadian” Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ms. Chrystia Freeland who called herself a proud Ukrainian-Canadian delivered a strong speech in Canadian Parliament yesterday. "The single most important pillar of this, which emerged following the...
Ukrainian Yevdokia Zavaliy, the only Soviet female commander of a Marines platoon during WW2:...
Born in 1924, Yevdokia Zavaliy was raised in a small village in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, where she worked on a farm. She was brutally exposed...
