Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows

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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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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...

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John Steinbeck praises Ukrainian hospitality and cuisine: ‘Ukrainian borscht is a...

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Ukrainian Village House There is a hall, which is a combination storeroom and entrance.From there one goes into the kitchen, a white plaster room, with...

Ukraine demonstrates its new anti-ship cruise missile test

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=89&v=nQUO5LvKw1I&feature=emb_logo "Neptun cruise anti-ship missile is capable of striking warships with up to 5000 tons of water displacement at a distance of up to 280...

Tunnel of Love, Ukraine

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Ukrainian Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught painter-virtuoso praised by Pablo Picasso

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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...

Israel Zangwill: Russia was largely responsible for the Anti-Jewish pogroms in...

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Israel Zangwill Commends New Republic's Attitude Toward the Jews in Ukraine (A letter from Israel Zangwill, noted writer and President of the Jewish Territorial...

Name ‘Iran’ came to Near East from Europe together with Aryan...

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According to Wikipedia, the term Iran derives from Middle Persian Ērān, first attested in a third-century A.D. inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam, with the accompanying...

Scythian Battle-Scene Golden Comb from Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine

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A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in Solokha Royal Kurgan in Zaporizhzhia region of...

How Australia Welcomed ‘Sky Monster’ – AN-225 Mriya

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX_W_rR5J6w&t=219s

Russian Orthodox Church, KGB outlet

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Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: "There is another critical legacy of the Soviet experiment with...

Early Ukraine as part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Heirs of Kyiv Rus

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Quotes below are from “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999” by Yale Professor Dr. Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing...