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Zombies Comparing Russian soldiers to "zombies" is a common metaphor in the Ukrainian media and among the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine...
Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...
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Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
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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
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Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian eccentric Chess Grandmaster
Vasyl Ivanchuk was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three...
Why Crane. About this Website
Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...
Warrior in Chamber-Grave at Golden Gates in Kyiv: King Dir, ‘the...
The first known ruler of Kyiv, Dir, is mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and a Redaction of the Novgorod First Chronicle. Although the...
Ukrainian Kistiakowsky, not Oppenheimer, should be credited for the first U.S....
American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, named George Kistiakowsky a key figure in...
Did the U.S. Constitution Begin in Ukraine?
< The division of powers - legislative, executive, judicial - could have been first introduced by Ukrainian hetman Pylyp Orlyk in his Constitution of...
Russia-Nazi Cooperation
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‘Russians’ have been sadistic cowards all their history. Ivan the Terrified...
In 2022, the civilized world shuddered with horror at the images of executed civilians in the city of Bucha. Then there was the bombed...
Ukrainian Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught painter-virtuoso praised by Pablo Picasso
In Dec. 2020, Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of a Ukrainian painter with the following words: "Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught virtuoso earned international renown for...
The name of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, consists of two words...
According to Wikipedia, "the name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated...