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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

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...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

Veterans fighting for Ukraine’s foreign legion label president a ‘coward’ who won’t stand up to Putin. US military volunteers fighting alongside Ukraine’s armed forces have...

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

The experience of the Crimean War of 1854 has several striking analogies with Putin’s war on Ukraine that started in 2014 with the invasion...

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...

"Maritime Launch Services is a Halifax based startup looking to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia to launch satellites. They plan on initially...

Dynamo Kiev is not just the best and most titled football team in the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe - the British Football Magazine 4-4-2 ranks...

"DALLAS — Twenty-five years after being formed in Texas, the Flying Cossacks of 1964-1965 held their first reunion. The surviving pilots who could be...

Professor of History at the University of London Orlando Figes in his book Crimea: The Last Crusade described the consequences of the Crimean War...

His first wife who was Ukrainian presented it to him. See other famous people in this traditional Ukrainian attire >

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "The town of Kertchy, standing on...

The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...

Do you want an example of a perverted logic of international scale? Here it is: In 2014 Putin annexes Crimea, part of Ukraine, on the grounds that Kyiv (!)...