In the book, Food and History, Vol 11 (pp. 27-34) by Boursiquot, Lacombe, Laucou, and Bakasietas, there is a description of the ancient Greek vine: “In order to contribute to the development of ...

An earlier dam on the Dnieper was breached twice during World War II, once in August 1941, when the Soviet NKVD blew it up to hinder the Nazi advance, killing between 3,000 and 100,000 Soviet ...