Alex Len’s trade to Kings has been ‘pleasant surprise’ this season – NBC Sports
Len will play a big role in the Kings' playoff chase, assuming the NBA season resumes with Sacramento still in contention. That isn't where Len...
Catherine II brought German Mennonites to Ukraine. A century later they had to immigrate...
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the excommunicated Roman Catholic chaplain Menno Simons (1496–1561) from Friesland, part of the Holy Roman...
John Steinbeck on Ukrainian bee farm
"We moved on to a flowered meadow where there were hundreds of beehives, and a little tent where the beekeeper lived. The air was...
Ukrainian women at work. As seen by John Steinbeck and Robert Capa in 1947
" Shevchenko has never been one of the best farms because its land is not of the first quality, but before the war it...
Yin-Yang symbol originated in the area of present-day Ukraine
The earliest known depiction of Yin-Yang symbol belongs to the Trypillia culture and dates to 5200 B.C. The oldest preserved drawing of this symbol...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
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Name of Lithuanian capital Vilnius may have derived from Ukrainian word “vilnyi” which means...
Speaking of Kyiv, by 1327, Kyiv had freed itself from the Mongols and had been part of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania for 7...
Megalithic Ukraine migrants built Stonehenge and founded Troy and Mycenae?
According to the Wiltshire Museum, the man buried close to Stonehenge in the Bush Barrow, was given Britain’s richest Bronze Age burial. The Bush...
Ukrainian Novikov, 24, World’s Strongest, Sets New World Record in Deadlift
November 17, 2020 during the World's Strongest Man Finals, Oleksii Novikov set a New World Record - 537.5kg (1185lb) 18-Inch Deadlift. But in this...
