Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase

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Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...

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Ukraine Can Fly

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Igor Sikorsky  was born in Kyiv and before immigrating to the United States and founding Sikorsky Aicraft Corporation there,  became famous by building world’s first four-engine...

World’s first Anti-Reflection Lens Coating invented by Ukrainian A. Smakula in...

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Without the invention of anti-reflection lens coatings, modern lenses couldn’t exist. With nothing added to the surface of a glass lens, about 4% of...

Sculptured birds on Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan

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"Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus" book has some insights about Gorden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla.

Russian is a dialect of Ukrainian language, – famous lexicographer Vladimir...

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The most prominent lexicographer of the Russian language Vladimir Dal was born in 1801 in what is now Lugansk oblast of Ukraine. His Danish father and...

Glimpse into the life of a small Ukrainian community in Canadian...

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"Ukrainian culture lives strong in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba — and sometimes that means making over 15,000 pierogies for the whole town." https://www.facebook.com/cbc/videos/689948747872458/?fref=mentions

Most lasting Chornobyl Conspiracy Theory: Moscow needed a nuclear accident to...

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Another conspiracy theory derives from the state the USSR was in at the time of the Chornobyl Disaster. The war in Afghanistan had been...

Honoré de Balzac in Ukraine: the Kingdom of Wheat, the Prairies...

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a well-known French writer who produced an enormous number of novels and short stories depicting the French society of...

Banksy’s “Trolley hunters” appears prophetic after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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Created in 2006, the painting was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2021 for $6 698 400.

Little Hope for “Little Russia”, – The American Interest

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"There is a curious assertion in some circles that a Ukrainian national identity is somehow narrow and bigoted, failing to embrace the country’s...

Iranians are Ukrainians, a recent DNA study shows

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Why does a picture of a defiant Iranian girl have the vibes of a Ukrainian girl? Especially if one substitutes the picture of the...

Ronald Reagan’s AI-generated Speech on Ukraine

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Dietmar Pichlet conducted an experiment. Since President Reagan is no longer with us, he was curious and asked ChatGPT what Ronald Reagan might say...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s family original last name was Chaika (Seagull) and it...

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PyoTchaikovsky wrote more than 30 compositions while in Ukraine, because - "I found a feeling of peace in my soul, which I couldn't find...