British WWII Hurricane planes unearthed outside Kyiv
The remains of eight British Hawker Hurricane fighter planes from World War Two have been discovered in a forest soil south of......
Why did our ancestors eat each other 1.45 million years ago?
A hominin tibia exhibited in Kenya’s Nairobi National Museum since being discovered in the Turkana region in 1970 by famous......
New clues why Neanderthals lost to modern humans
Contrary to widespread beliefs that the prehistoric rivals of our direct ancestors were brainless or weaker brutes, science has......
41 years ago, in June, a democracy beat an authoritarian aggressor
In April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands and two smaller islets under the United Kingdom’s......
A native of Ukraine took over the supreme post in the Soviet Union 45 years ago
On 16 June 1977, Leonid Brezhnev, a political commissar turned politician who got promoted to the top of the administrative and......
Roman invasion of Britain began from modern-day Netherlands
In late 2001, archaeologists discovered the ruins of an ancient fortress and items from the arsenal of Roman legionaries. The......
A princess from Kievan Rus became the queen of France 972 years ago
On 19 May 1051, Anna, the youngest daughter of the grand knyaz (yarl) of Kievan Rus, Yaroslav I the Wise from the Ryurihk......
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What dowry did Vladimir Putin offer his ex-wife, who remarried? [part 1]
PART 2 IS HERE The fact that President Vladimir Putin took care to marry his daughters Maria and Ekaterina with "the right......
What are the odds (and consequences) of Russia’s disintegration?
Founded in 1263 on the ruins of Kievan Rus, in the following 7 centuries, the Grand Duchy of Moscow subjugated vast territories......
Khan Tamerlane curse and Joseph Stalin's superstitions
Timur Lenk, also called Teymur, but better known as Tamerlane, was a warlord who in the 14th century conquered the largest......
In 1940-41, the Soviet Union was preparing to attack Nazi Germany. The Germans ...
On 22 June 1941 – or 81 years ago - Adolf Hitler's Germany attacked the Soviet Union, ruled by another tyrant, Joseph......
The Rise and Decline of the Scythian Empire
Although they had no central authority and did not represent a homogeneous ethnicity, the Scythians became a formidable power in......
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