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8th of March is traditionally called "Women's Day" and is considered to be "Holiday of Spring and Beauty" which is devoid of political overtones. But it was not always.

I, as a historian, has long wanted to express my opinion on the said topics, but all the time something prevented.

For many years, Dovzhenko garden, located on the territory of the National Film Studio, along with the architectural ensemble of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and factories that work in these areas are the symbols of Shulyavka.

Kendo - Japanese art of fencing with swords, is descended from the ancient art of Ken-jutsu. sword fighting.

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.

Name Sadi Carnot often sounds in different classrooms of our university. "The ideal Carnot engine", "Carnot cycle", "Carnot's principle", "Carnot's theorem" ...

When several of our outstanding scientists were asked to name the three greatest, in their view, physicists of all time,their opinions devided, but none of them forgot Maxwell.

Up to the XIII century, people knew only nine chemical elements: seven metals - gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead and mercury, as well as two non-metals - sulfur and carbon.

March 8th - it is the one of our favorite holidays. Over the years, this holiday exalts the woman, her beauty, tenderness and love, something changed and transformed into various socio-political forms.

Perhaps there’s no polytechnics who would not know about Carnot's theorem, according to which the efficiency of the Carnot heat engine does not depend on the nature of the working fluid.