The right to print the money is one of the attributes of statehood. The first state on the territory of today’s Ukraine – Kiev Rus – strengthened its sovereignty by minting its own coins in X-XI centuries.
Valentin P. Glushko was born in Odessa, September 2, 1908. In the 1919-1924 he studied at a vocational technical school. At the same time in 1920-1922 he studied at the Conservatoire to play a violin.
The history of humanity is comparable to the rapid flow of water, historical materials not stored by society or its individual personalities disappear like a fallen leaf that falls into this stream.
One hundred years ago, on April 22, 1908 Ivan Efremov paleontologist outstanding scientist and science fiction writer was born. Somebody, however, mentioned this event a year ago, because the writer in his youth to find work added some years to his age.
O. P. Skoblikov was one of the masters whose works added to the memory of eminent creators who had greatly contributed to science, education and culture of Ukraine.
About Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga (Shovhenova), we know very little. For a long time her name was buried with the body in a mass grave, hidden under Soviet ideological restrictions and controls, unfair erased from people's memory.
"I forever understood and acquired: folk art - the primary source of art forms... It is known very long time ago, it lived, gained strength in the people, in its subsoil. Ethnographic, subject, other signs are yet a nationality.
On the 3d of December 2007 it is turned 285 since the birth of one of the most prominent representatives of the New Age of Philosophy, the great Ukrainian sage Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda.
"Many people think that I'm busily about the rocket and care about its fate for the rocket itself. It would be a grave mistake - wrote Tsiolkovsky. – The rocket for me is just the way only, a method of penetration into the depths of space, but not an end in itself.
The famous English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, military engineer, a close friend of Newton - Edmund Halley (actually Halley - Halley) was born on October 29,1656 in the town of Hagerston (near London) ,the son of a prosperous soap-maker.
