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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

"The film "Between Hitler and Stalin" chronicles the struggle between the Nazi and Soviet regimes, from a Ukrainian perspective. The documentary recounts the events...

Ukrainian AN-124 "Ruslan" made a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Canadian Iqaluit with an engine for Boeing-777 which had to make an emergency landing...

al-Masudi (c. 896–956), was a historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'. A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic...

"..engineer of Ukrainian origin and inventor of the world's first railways electrification system and electric tram. While the commercialization of his inventions in Russia...

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...

Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

Comte de Césy (full name Philippe de Harlay, comte de Césy) was the French Ambassador to Istanbul (then Constantinople) during the early 17th century. According...

Nature of some of the Russian wars starting from Ivan IV 'the Terrible' >

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769 – 1834) was a French diplomat known primarily for his close relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. His 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte' is a...

Uysk has become the first Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World in 24 years. He becomes just the 6th man to win all...

Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book the way Moscow became the capital of the...

Rafał Lemkin was a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing) (Wikipedia). On September...