Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks

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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...

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...

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‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge

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https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge

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How China Used Ukrainian Missiles to Improve Its Own Nuclear Arsenal...

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Given all the different vectors through which rocket and missile technology are flowing from Ukraine to China, it’s reasonable to say that Ukraine...

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Bob Dylan’s Family Ties to Odessa, Ukraine

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https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sounes-01highway.html

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John Steinbeck depicts Kyiv after WW2

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Russia’s Systematic Falsification of History Condemned by EU Parliament

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Vsevolod the Bui-Tur/ Fierce Bull, a main character of The Tale...

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