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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

In 1892, a prominent maritime painter of Armenian descent born in Crimea, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), made a gift to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,...

In her PhD dissertation 'Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origin' presented at the University of London (available at Academia.edu), Anna Marie...

"On Saturday night in Riyadh, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tyson Fury by unanimous decision to retain his WBO, WBC, and WBA world heavyweight titles. Following...

Camille Ewald was born March 10, 1905, in Staromishchana, Ukraine, and was the daughter of the late Hnat and Anastasia Pershyn Ewaschuk. "Ms. Ewald...

According to Ukr Wiki, the unique statue was accidentally discovered while digging a silo pit in 1973 near the village of Kernosiv in the...

E. Minns in the "Scythians and Greeks" book published in 1913: "An isolated example recalling this type is the barrow called Perepjatikha, in the...

"While the Romans were in consternation at this din, suddenly their enemies dropped the coverings of their armour, and were seen to be themselves...

Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote: “On...

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"Maritime Launch Services is a Halifax based startup looking to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia to launch satellites. They plan on initially...

"The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an...