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Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
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
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...
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’20 Days in Mariupol’ Documentary brings Ukraine its first Oscar
Director Mstyslav Chernov while accepting the Best Documentary Feature Oscar for 20 Days In Mariupol: “This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history. And...
Panteleimon Kulish, a 19th-century writer at the forefront of Ukrainian national...
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Zoroastrian Circular Cities: Darabgerd, Gur, Balkh
The city of Darabgerd was one of the most famous of the Persian cities. Its ruins are located 9 km southwest of the modern...
13-year-old Ukrainian Oleksiy Sereda became the youngest European champion in the...
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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...
Zoroastrian King of Armenia Tigranes II: Halley’s Comet on his Crown
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Ukrainian Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison...
The man who would open space to humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 (30 Dec 1906 old calendar), in Zhitomir,...
Kazimir Malevich showed the tragedy of Holodomor, himself fell victim to...
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Scythian Supreme Goddess Tabiti: The only Indo-Aryan female Fire Deity
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Usyk and Klitschko Brothers 15 Years Ago
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During his speech in Kyiv in 1972, President Nixon named Kyiv...
"As I think of a way to describe our feelings on this occasion, I noted that in history--and this city is so full of...