Why Crane. About this Website

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Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...

Extra-realistic flag of Ukraine

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Britannica: More than a thousand years ago a powerful state, Kyv Rus, was founded in an area that is now part of Ukraine. National flags...

Catherine II brought German Mennonites to Ukraine. A century later they had to immigrate...

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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...

Alex Len’s trade to Kings has been ‘pleasant surprise’ this season – NBC Sports

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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...

John Steinbeck describes post-WW2 Ukraine. (1947 Kyiv trip)

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Excerpts are from “A Russian Journal” written by John Steinbeck after his trip with a famous war photographer Robert Capa to the Soviet Union...

Ukrainian Igor Klymenko wins Global Student Prize

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"Igor Klymenko, a student from Ukraine, passionate about raising awareness of and solving the global landmine problem, he developed the ‘Quadcopter Mines Detector’.  Igor has...

Name of Lithuanian capital Vilnius may have derived from Ukrainian word “vilnyi” which means...

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Speaking of Kyiv, by 1327, Kyiv had freed itself from the Mongols and had been part of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania for 7...

Instagram star Ukrainian Cat Stepan raised $ 10 000 for other pets in Ukraine’s...

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Here is Stepan's Instagram handle for those who want to follow him and donate to the cause right meow!

John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians

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Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...