Throughout the past three years of the war in Ukraine, TOS Sections from countries around the world have sent financial aid to Ukraine. In 2024, TOS-USA sent $1,500 to the TS/TOS in Ukraine to be used as they thought best. Ukrainian TS/TOS members have been busy using those funds to best advantage, trying to







There is a touch of the 19th century scramble to divide Africa among European colonial powers in the decision of Russia to drop a capsule containing a Russian flag on the Arctic sea floor not far from the North Pole on August 2. In preparation for the 1885 Berlin Conference which was to draw the boundaries of the African colonies, there was a mad rush to place national flags on all the commercial outposts so that France, England, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Portugal could claim prior possession of the area.