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Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...
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Monuments to Igor Sikorsky in Kyiv opened by Mayor Vitaly Klitschko
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Trump-Putin Pact resembling Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact seems to be in the works:...
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Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’
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‘Stalin broke every promise he made at Yalta,’ – President Roosevelt’s...
At Yalta resort in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin to determine the fate of post-war Europe. Roosevelt misread Stalin—and proved...
Russia steals grain from Ukraine. Uses the same wording as in...
Russia officially authorized robbing Ukraine of its grain. In the scanned document above, Krasnoyarsk legislators permit "expropriation of the surpluss of last year's and...
Hague International Criminal Court publishes a Preliminary Report
"266. ...The Office also assessed that direct military engagement between the respective armed forces of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, indicated the existence of an...
William Kurelek’s book presented in Lviv
NIAGRA FALLS GALLERY WILLIAM KURELEK *Kurelek, William , b 3 March 1927 in Whitford,Alberta, d 3 November 1977 in Toronto. Painter. Son of a Ukrainianimmigrant farmer,...
Scythian Amazons’ Skincare
Herodotus in his 'Histories' wrote: "But the women pour water into a mixture of cypress, cedar, and frankincense wood, which they have ground...
Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, 1948
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Ivan Bunin describes Russian faces: no need branding them ‘Beware of...
"Their voices are hollow, primitive. The women have Chuvash and Mordvinian faces; and the men have criminal features that make them look like a...
The founder of Geosynchronous Communications Satellite industry Joseph V. Charyk was...
Joseph Vincent Charyk (September 9, 1920 – September 28, 2016) was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born...