Ukraine List

I was searching the web and came upon this map on Wikipedia. It shows the distribution of Americans with Ukrainian heritage, and I thought some locations were a bit striking, such as the red areas in North Dakota and Alaska. I guess I always knew there would be clusters in New York and Pennsylvania, but […]

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The BBC has an interesting (short) piece on the first photographer, Anatoly Rasskazov, on the scene at Chernobyl. Some of his film he shot just came out black from the radiation and graphite, but some other rolls made it with only some clouding and discoloration.

Photo from BBC 
After taking the photos his rolls of film were […]

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I came across an interesting satellite photo of the Black Sea and thought I would post it, but then I did a bit more searching and came up with my favorites images along with some interesting information. All images are from NASA, and I will give the links for each photo as the larger images […]

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ForUm had an article that says the number of tourists going to Ukraine is at 15 million this year. The article is a bit vague though as it says this number starts from ‘early’ 2006, and this story was reported on 15 December. So is it from February though November? Or January through December? I […]

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In 1894 Tsar Nicholas II decided to build a great winery in the Crimea. Lacking proper storage facilities, local miners were called in to dig three layers of cool, humid cellars. He wanted some vino for his Livadia Palace — fair enough. The resulting winery, Massandra, is pictured below.

As for Tsar Nicholas’ wine tastes the […]

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Here are four perspectives on World War II (The Great Patriotic War) from Ukraine. One is from a French priest, another is from a film director, yet another is from a cave explorer, and the last is of an amateur archaeologist.
Part I (A French Priest)
This story comes from the Christian Science Monitor and is about […]

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I am experimenting with Swickis. These are basically customized search engines that you can use for special interests in order to produce more refined and relevant results. You can also ‘teach’ the search engine by promoting certain websites. The custom Google search page in the left sidebar of this site is a similar concept, but […]

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I came across this page on the Ukraine Tourism site that has some nice photos of a Ukrainian still used to make vodka. The site appropriately cautions one about making his/her own vodka and also correctly notes that it is probably not legal. With that said, he goes on to give the recipe for making […]

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