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...I cannot
rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone...
from Tennyson's
'Ulysses'
Ukraine
in the summer of 2006
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Workers still run corporate farms now being privatized.
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Here comes the village herd.
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Memorial to the WWII dead in a village where only 7 men returned from the war.
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Kiev's Cathedral of Vladamir the Great.
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Cossack history rings through the music.
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Bargaining with Tartars in the market place.
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Lavadia Palace where Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met for the Yalta Conference.
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Modern farm experiments promise a return to status of Breadbasket of Russia.
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The Khan's Palace where the Princess died of a broken heart and Pushkin wrote her story in poetry.
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Fighter pilot turns entrepeneur selling helicopter rides to willing tourists.
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