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Toastmasters! It is interesting

What makes you like a particular person? What famous person would you invite to your party? What is Kherson’s best-kept secret? These and other thought-provoking questions provided the gist of several spirited discussions at the library’s Talk Lab English Club meeting on Sunday, Oct. ...

Spanish in America

Hola, amigos! That’s Spanish for “Hello, friends!” And that was just part of the presentation at the Sept. 25 session of the library’s Talk Lab English Club. The topic was National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated in the United States from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.The ...

Happy birthday, Kherson!

Members of the library’s weekly Talk Lab English Club contributed to the celebration of Kherson’s 233rd anniversary by making several interesting presentations about the city’s extraordinary history at the Sept. 18 meeting. Highlights included a review of how Gregori Potemkin founded ...

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September 11,2011

Participants in the library’s Talk Lab English Club commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America by sharing their memories of the day and their feelings about such violence on Sunday, Sept. 11, in the library’s Foreign Language Department. On ...

Labor Day

Why is the American Labor Day observed on the first Monday of every September instead of on May 1, the date that many other countries, including Ukraine, celebrate May Day-International Workers’ Day? That information and other aspects of American labor history were discussed at the Sunday, Sept. ...

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Independence Day

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These are perhaps the most famous and powerful words in the American Declaration ...

Constitution Day

True or False? Pylyp Orlyk, an 18th century hetman, wrote the first constitution for Ukraine in 1710. True or False? Adult Ukrainians are required by the constitution to take care of their parents if their parents are unable to work. True or False? Constitution Day is not a national holiday, according ...