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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...

People with an arrogant imperialist complex from the neighboring country try to claim that the name “Ukraine” means “borderland” implying desolate community on the peripheria...

Here is how it looked back then: "Ukraine dismantled its last strategic bomber during a May 17 ceremony at an airfield in Uzin attended...

Torque with terminals in the form of lion's heads and filigree plant ornament with colored enamels, 4th century BC. Zaporizhzhia oblast of Ukraine. Excavations...

The unique Antonov AN-70 short takeoff and landing (STOL) multipurpose cargo aircraft flew from Gostomel air terminal near Kiev to UAE for its international debut at the...

Yaroslav Osmomysl (c. 1135 – 1 October 1187) was a knyaz of Halych (now in western Ukraine). He is best-known for appearing in The Tale of Igor's Campaign. His sobriquet,...

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Ms. Chrystia Freeland who called herself a proud Ukrainian-Canadian delivered a strong speech in Canadian Parliament yesterday. "The single most important pillar of this, which emerged following the...

Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of...

Quotes below are from "The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999" by Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing year should remove possible accusation...

Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...

Google translation of the original text in Swedish: "When the host of the documentary series "The first Swedes tested its DNA, showed that his genetic makeup...

According to Wikipedia, St. Cyril’s Church was founded in 1140 by Vsevolod Olgovich, the Kniaz' (prince) of Chernigiv, in the Dorohozhychi neighbourhood of Kyiv...