For shame, Yahoo Answers! I asked 3 important q-s & got NO answers. On mail.ru (Russia) q-s are truly answered

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I am from Ukraine. Well, first of all, I found out there are no selfless and helpful persons among you at all, Yahoo Answeres! I asked 2 times someone to send on my e-mail a SHORT text - piece by Maeterlinck "Jeanne D'Arc", not translated into Russian, but nobody was friendful enough to help. Then, I asked who adores Morricone's music? No his admirers!!! SHAME! Moreover, my q-n was misunderstood, someone thought I need an explanation is Morricone at all worth listening or not!!!!!!!
And in the end, I decided to find out whether anyone of you knows anything about the history of Ukraine, and asked: "Who is Dovbush?" (our historical hero). And what an answer I got? - "Does not exists"!!! Shame thrice.
Does anyone think I have any more desire to participate in such a project any more?...

Answer 1

I understand how you feel. If you look at my handle (kalusz) you can figure out where my roots are.However,most Americans are unaware of Ukraine and confuse it with Russia.They only know of the pogroms which were the work of the Russian czar and do not realize Ukraine was a vassal of Moscow since 1654.They do not know that only for a very brief time from January 28,1918 to 1920 an independent Ukrainian state existed before coming under Bolshevik domination.They know nothing about St. Olga,St. Vladimir(Volodymyr),Yaroslav the Wise,Taras Shevchenko,Symen Petlura or Andrei Sheptycky.They know nothing of the Ukrainian Holocaust, known as the Holodomor. They know nothing of the millions who perished in the gulags. The battle by Moscow to assimilate the Ukranian people and to destroy their language and culture is never mentioned. Our world history courses,even on the college level barely mention Ukraine. If I see your questions, I shall try to answer them.Szcze ne umerla Ukraina. Trymaj szia.

Answer 2

There isn't one of those questions that I would consider important ... but maybe I'm confused on the definition,...it may have a different meaning in the Ukraine.

It is NOT shameful to refrain from commenting on questions that perhaps you don't know the answer to or have an interest in, and most people do not email someone directly that they don't know.

Its also not shameful to not be an expert on the Ukraine. If I came to a predominantly Ukrainian forum and started asking questions about John Burgoyne or Homer Plessy.... and then got nasty and abusive cause nobody answered them,.... or implied that you were stupid or ignorant because you had no familiarity with the subject,.... wouldn't you be annoyed?

If you don't want to participate on this forum, then feel free not to. If you're looking for people with similar interests,.... try an online group that specializes in your areas of interest.

No need for the nasty tone.

Answer 3

Well, here's the thing. I only bother answering questions that I feel something useful to say. I wouldn't have had anything helpful to say to those questions, so I wouldn't have answers.

I don't think it's shameful at all. I think it's just courteous to stay out of discussions when you've nothing helpful to add. So, that's what I do.

Oh, and Morricone is okay, but I don't adore him. I only say that to illustrate my point. If I've nothing good to say, it's better that I say nothing. You're asking questions that people have no connection to here. That's why you're getting no answers. Imagine walking into a crowded room and saying: "Hey, who here would like to hear about the second cousin of Vincent Marsh?" It just doesn't strike any interest with people.

It's not shameful at all. It's polite that people are not answering questions that they don't relate to.

Answer 4

I'm sorry, buddy, but I didn't see those questions.

Pity nobody helped.

Here's something I found on Jeanne D'Arc:


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St. Joan of Arc was born at Domrémy circa January 6, 1412. Citing a mandate from God to drive the English out of France, she was eventually given an escort to bring her before Charles of Ponthieu (later known as King Charles VII). After gaining the approval of the Church scholars at Poitiers in March of 1429, she was granted titular command of an army which quickly lifted the siege of Orléans on May 8, 1429, captured Jargeau, Meung-sur-Loire, and Beaugency in mid-June, and defeated an English army at Patay on June 18. After accepting the surrender of the city of Troyes and other towns, the army escorted Charles to the city of Rheims for his coronation on July 17. An unsuccessful attack was made on Paris on September 8, followed by the successful capture of St-Pierre-le-Moutier on November 4. As a reward for her service, Charles VII granted her noble status along with her family on December 29, 1429. She returned to the field the following year, despite predicting her own defeat. Captured at Compiègne on May 23, 1430 and transferred to the English, she was placed on trial in Rouen by a selected group of pro-English clergy, many of whom nevertheless had to be coerced into voting for a guilty verdict. Convicted and executed on May 30, 1431, she was subsequently declared innocent by the Inquisition on July 7, 1456 after a lengthy re-trial process which was initiated shortly after the English were finally driven from Rouen, thereby allowing access to the documents and witnesses associated with her trial; the presiding Inquisitor, Jean Bréhal, ruled that the original trial had been tainted by fraud, illegal procedures, and intimidation of both the defendant and many of the clergy who had taken part in the trial, and she was therefore described as a martyr by the Inquisitor. After the usual lengthy delay associated with the sluggish process of canonization, she was beatified on April 11, 1909 and canonized as a saint on May 16, 1920.

Ennio Morricone was an associate of Sergio Leone and had 553 compositions to his credit some very famous ones like the"Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Untouchables etc.

Oleksa Dovbush - Ukrainian "Robin Hood", is not such a well known figure here, but I had a Russian friend who told me about him.

Don't lose heart, tavarisch.

Das vidhanya.

Answer 5

Without running a google search, would you be able to tell me who is Crispus Attucks? Or General John Stark? Probably not! Why? Because you are a Ukrainian...and I wouldn't expect you to know the "historical heroes" of colonial New England!!

Answer 6

The questions that get a hundred and forty solutions are frequently a team of folk attempting to get common factors. each and all the solutions are particularly a similar, and/or do no longer require a large variety of theory.

Answer 7

gOOD your questions were boring, sorry to say. I know something about the Ukraine My grandparents were kicked out of there by Czar Nicholas because they were Jewish and that your soldiers caused Pogrums on the Jews shame on who? how about your ancestors who did this

Answer 8

Maybe it's because there are so many unanswered questions out there. Stop the selfishness.

Answer 9

Apparently you do because you are still here asking questions.

Answer 10

maybe none of us Americans were able to answer your questions...