Interesting facts about history of Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Ukraine On the basis of historical facts Kiev Pechersk Lavra is one of the monasteries in Rus, which set up a monachism. St. Anthony and Foektist, the abbot of Esphigmenou Monastery, on distant Mount Athos created the monastery ...
Let’s take a look at ten interesting facts about the English language: 1“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 2 A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language. For example, the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”...
is said to be the limit between Northern France, where the Oïl dialects are spoken, and Southern France, where the Occitan dialects prevail. It is also the boundary between the butter and olive oil cuisines. In a wider European context, the 45th parallel roughly marks...
Germany has the most hospital beds per inhabitant (8 per 1000 people in 2017) in the EU and the 5th highest in the world (after Japan, South Korea, Russia and Ukraine). Culture & Sciences Classical music has been widely dominated by German-speaking composers. A few famous ones born on t...
Canada has lots of superlatives on offer as you will read below. Also have a look at our separateCanada country facts page with more information about the country here. 25 Canada Facts and Amazing Canada Superlatives 1. Canada is the largest country in the Western hemisphere and the second la...
“Hungary” has remained consistent, representing the country and its people. Today, Hungary is a landlocked country located in Central Europe. It shares borders with several countries, including Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It has a rich cultural heritage, ...
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Kiribati is one of those countries you never hear anything about yet has some very unique and interesting geographic anomalies. These 3 maps created by reddit user evening_raga show a few facts about this overlooked part of the world. This video cannot be played because of a technical error....
Facts aboutpussy willowsfrom the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Great sallowfacts from the Missouri Botanical Garden (The site refers to it as a pussy willow, but it has the scientific name of the great sallow. If there’s any doubt about a common name, the scientific one should be used. These ...
“We’ve started celebrating Christmas on December 25, since we switched from the Julian to the Revised Julian calendar. But we save the gifts for New Year’s Eve,” says our collegue Liuda Drobushenko from Ukraine, explaining that they used to celebrate Orthodox Christmas onJanuary 7for ma...