tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36956260930346580602024-03-15T11:53:46.550-07:00Speak EstoRead about neat Estonian people, places and music!Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-19339346706866451512012-04-24T07:56:00.000-07:002012-04-24T14:40:18.010-07:00St. George's Eve Uprising - Jüriöö ülestõusThis is a re-enactment of the St. George's Day Massacre that happened 669 years ago on APRIL 23, 1343. To mark this anniversary, 340 people from all over Estonian had registered for the event, which also included a work bee <i>(talgud)</i> at the fort<i>. </i>Wouldn't it be fun for all Estonian scouts and guides to enjoy at Kotkajärv? Here is the story in Estonian from Postimees: <a href="http://www.postimees.ee/816790/galerii-rollimangijad-meenutasid-jurioo-ulestousu/">LINK</a><br />
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<i>Back in April 2005, 130 roleplayers, interested in historical re-enactments, gathered at Kassinurme Hills, Jõgeva County, where an ancient fort was being reconstructed. The event's popularity has increased over the years. In 2009, there were 425 roleplayers involved.</i> <a href="http://www.muinasmaa.ee/index.php/en/events/georges">LINK</a>
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<b>MORE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.histrodamus.ee/?event=Show_event&event_id=2397&layer=146&lang=est#">www.histrodamus.ee</a> has a great website with a timeline, map and facts. Here is an excerpt in Estonian:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">1343. aasta aprillis algas</span> Jüriöö ülestõus <span style="color: blue;">Harjumaal.</span> Selle põhjuseks oli ilmselt kohaliku aadli omavoli eestlaste kallal ja ka see, et maa hakkas peremeest vahetama. Lühikese aja jooksul tapsid eestlased kõik sakslased, kelle nad kätte said ja vallutasid Padise kloostri, mis põletati maha ning 28 munka tapeti. Nii oli lühikese ajaga kogu Harju (va. Tallinn) võõrvõimust vabastatud. Järgmisena asus eestlaste väidetavalt 10 000-meheline vägi Tallinna lähistele laagrisse, abi paluti ka Turu foogtilt (Rootsi kuninga Soome asehaldurilt). <span style="color: blue;">Rootsi vägi lubaski eestlastele appi tulla.</span></blockquote>
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The massacre started at <b>Padise Abbey</b> and spread across Harjumaa. Although it lasted 3 years, it was ultimately unsuccessful and the Teutonic Knights had a much stronger position than ever. </div>
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<a href="http://www.imperialteutonicorder.com/id58.html"><b>From an interesting source</b>:</a> <i>(Imperial Teutonic Order)</i><br />
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After the Estonians of Harria rebelled in the St.George's Night Uprising of 1343 the Teutonic order occupied the territories. The overthrow of the Danish government came 2 days after the Order had defeated the Estonian revolt and the Danish viceroy was imprisoned in cooperation with the pro-German vassals. The castles in Reval and Wesenberg were handed over to the Order by the pro-German party on May 16, 1343 and the castle at Narva in 1345. In 1346 Estonia (Harria and Vironia) was sold for 19,000 Köln marks to the Teutonic Order, the shift of sovereignty from Denmark to the Teutonic Order took place on November 1, 1346.</blockquote>
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The present 60th Hoch und Deutschmeister of the Teutonic Order has formally decreed that on the 1st of January 2010, the Teutonic Order of Saint Mary's Hospital in Jerusalem, reclaimed all the Teutonic Orders formerly held possessions, rights and patrimony to the Teutonic Duchy of Estonia, which was sold by the King of Denmark to the Teutonic Order on the 1st of November in the year 1346 and was <span style="color: blue;">never legally re-sold or given away</span> by the Teutonic Order to any other Country, State or Person, but infact was<span style="color: blue;"> illegally taken by force</span> without due consent or compensation given to the Teutonic Order of Knights, therefore the present 60th Hoch und Deutschmeister of the Teutonic Order, formally assumes from the date of the aforementioned decree issued, the complete <span style="color: blue;">Feudal Overlordship of the Duchy of Estonia</span> together with Title and Rank of <span style="color: blue;">Duke of Estonia</span>, to be henceforth held, born and enjoyed as such upon all present and future Hoch und Deutschmeisters of the Teutonic Order in perpetuity as the sole possession of the Teutonic Order and Brotherhood of Knights.</blockquote>
The <i>60th Hoch and Deutschmeister</i>? Is this a joke? Does the Teutonic Order still exist? Wait and find out!Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-2087520898920853542011-11-20T05:50:00.001-08:002011-11-22T14:50:52.937-08:00Ages in Estonia<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take a peek into Estonia's past: crusaders, conquerors and independence! </span></b>
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<b>Hiigla suur linnumuna</b> kivisamba otsas ei ole tavaline. Miks ta seal on? Kas on tegemist Kalevipojaga? </div>
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Eestimaal leidub palju huvitavaid kujusid, nii muinasajast kui ka muinasloost. Samamoodi on Eesti ajalugu põnev, keeruline ja erinev teistest Euroopa riikidest, kuigi ta on paljude riikidega seotud. Igal nädal paneme pilte, jutte ja mõtisklusi, tule kaasa minevikku!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Why would anyone place a huge granite egg on a monument? Was it Kalevipoeg? Estonia is full of peculiar statues and sculptures; likewise its history is intriguing, complicated and very different from the rest of Europe. And yet not completely - many states and cultures have left their mark over the centuries. Come along for the journey through time! Every week we include stories and quizes along with the battles.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Olulised ajaloo etapid – Significant timelines:</span></b><br />
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<b>Esimene etapp</b><br />
<b>1200</b> <b>Saksa ristirüütlid Eestis</b> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(Teutonic Order)</span></i><br />
<b>1210 </b> <b>Ümera jõe lahing</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><i>(Battle of Ümera, in Latvia)</i></span><br />
<b>1217</b> <b>Madisepäeva lahing</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><i>(Battle of St. Matthew's Day, near Viljandi)</i></span><br />
<b>1343</b> <b>Jüriöö ülestõus</b> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(St. Geroge's Day Uprising, April 23)</span></i><br />
<b>1535 </b><a href="http://www.histrodamus.ee/?event=Show_event&event_id=2077&layer=119&lang=est#2077"><b>Esimene raamt eesti keeles</b></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><i>(First book published in Estonian)</i></span><br />
<b>1575</b> <b>Esimene aabits</b> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(First Estonian primer)</span></i><br />
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<b>1600</b> <b>Rootsi aeg</b> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(Swedish Rule)</span></i><br />
<b>1700 Vene tsaari võim</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><i>(Csarist Rule)</i></span><br />
<b>1918</b> <b>Eesti iseseisvus</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><i>(Estonian Indepedence)</i></span><br />
<b>1944 Nõukogude Vene okuptsioon</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><i>(Soviet Occupation)</i></span><br />
<b>1991</b> <b>Taasiseseisvus</b> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(Re-Independence)</span></i><br />
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Ja linnumuna? See on <b>kaarnakivi (raven’s stone)</b>. Eesti rahvalugu seletab, et<b> kaarnakivi võim annab inimesele kõik, mida ta tahab</b> – kui inimene selle leiab ja oskab targalt soove kasutada. <a href="http://www.folklore.ee/tagused/nr1/linnud.htm"><b>Kaaren</b></a> on vanast ajast mitmele ravhvale müstiline lind.</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LGCYsjj0XYo/TseXGStU2aI/AAAAAAAAA5k/gPAjtW0KtJo/s1600/rouge.vapp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LGCYsjj0XYo/TseXGStU2aI/AAAAAAAAA5k/gPAjtW0KtJo/s1600/rouge.vapp.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b>In mythology, the raven</b> is associated with dark and magical powers. In southern Estonia, if you find a certain kind of raven’s egg, rub at exactly the right time and then make a wish – it will come true! Juhan Jaik was born in <a href="http://www.rauge.ee/?id=kkivi">Rõuge, Võrumaa</a>. His short story collection „ The Raven’s Stone” was published in 1980. He died in 1948 – this is his monument.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Eesti lipp - Estonian flag</span></b><br />
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<b>Sinine väljendab</b> helget tulevikku ja tähistab põhjamaist taevast. </div>
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<b>Must meenutab</b> rahva minevikku ja tähistab mullapinda. </div>
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<b>Valge märgib</b> rahva püüdlusi vaimuvalguse poole ning tähistab talvist valget lund ja suviseid valgeid öid. (<b><a href="http://valitsus.ee/et/riigikantselei/riigi-ja-omavalitsuste-symbolid/eesti-lipp">www.valitsus.ee</a>)</b></div>
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Valge meeutab ka puhtust ja lootust paremale tulevikule.</div>
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Sini-must-valge trikoloor võttis eelmisel sajandil kasutusele esimene eesti üliõpilasorganisatsioon <b>EÜS</b> (<b>Eesti Üliõpilaste Selts</b>) ja õnnistati <b>4. juunil 1884 Otepääl. (<a href="http://www.eys.ee/lipulugu.htm">Loe lipulugu siit.</a>)</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">The colours of the flag reflect Estonian nature: blue-sky, black-soil and white-purity, hope and of course, white nights. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">The original flag, which went into hiding during the Second World War, is now 127 years old. Fewer than 10% of the world's flags can claim that distinction!</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Eesti Riigihümn on </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">„Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm“</span></b></div>
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„Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm“ kirjutati <b>1869. aastal</b> esimesel üldlaulupeol ettekandmiseks.</div>
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<b>Sõnad: Johann Voldemar Jannsen</b></div>
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<b>Muusika:</b> <b>Friedrich Pacius</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">The cornflower has grown on Estonian soil for more than 10,000 years, from the time when the first humans came to Northern Europe. The plant grows commonly in rye fields, creating a strong connection in the minds of Estonians between the flower and their daily bread."</span></div>
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When sorting out photos of Estonia, I came across<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>this beautiful pink house with the guards in front. Is it the Stenbock House or not? Actually, the two mirror each other: both are pink baroque-style buildings with the Estonian Coat of Arms on the portal. And both are state buildings.</div>
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Below:</b> The Office and Residence of the President of Estonia in Kadriorg was <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">designed by architect</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Alar Kotli for President Konstantin Päts in 1938, in Kadriorg, near the huge Palace. It also houses a wonderful art collection - but unless you are a guest of the president, you won't be able to see it!</span></div>
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The Republic of Estonia undertook its current restoration in 1996; it was inaugurated in 2000 and houses the government session hall and executive offices.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Only Estonian citizens may participate in parliamentary elections. The Parliament chooses a president, who can be in office for a five year period for a maximum of two terms. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">The President is the Supreme Commander of the National Defence of Estonia."</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the fall issue, "Picturesque South Estonia", columnist Triin Tammert interviewed <b>Mari Pokinen</b> from Tartu, a 23-year-old singer, songwriter and actress, and a recent graduate of the Viljandi Culture Academy (at the University of Tartu). Her debut album “22”, released in 2010, was an overnight success and has remained in the Estonian Top 10 all year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her songs are simple, captivating and timeless. Having Estonian Air use her hit single <b>"Sõpradele"</b> as a theme song for their commercial <b>“Olulised hetked” </b><i>(Important Moments) </i>certainly helped a lot!<br />
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Does she have mixed feelings about releasing her song to a commercial? Yes. Raadio-2 recently asked her that question on <a href="http://r2.err.ee/saated?saade=256&sub=283"><b>„Siin me oleme“</b></a> (<i>Here we are</i>), a talkshow airing weekdays around noon :</div>DIV<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">“See pole lennureisi lugu. Ühel ilusal soojal päeval kirjutasin selle oma sõpradele," lisas Pokinen, kes ei aimanud, et tema loodud kaunis laul hakkab reklaamis oma elu elama". Read the interview <a href="http://publik.delfi.ee/news/inimesed/miks-mari-pokinen-kahetseb-laulu-sobrad-andmist-estonian-airile.d?id=59138218">here.</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://publik.delfi.ee/news/inimesed/miks-mari-pokinen-kahetseb-laulu-sobrad-andmist-estonian-airile.d?id=59138218"></a>The song was written on a beautiful warm day and dedicated to her friends, which is why it is so honest, powerful and heartfelt. And now it has a life of its own, which must feel strange to her, since her goal was to become an actress, not a singer, although singing and writing music were always a part of her life. „Ma ei ole julgenud ennast määratleda lauljana ega valida muuikat elukutseks, leivateenimiseks.“<span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Read <a href="http://www.pokinen.blogspot.com/"><b>pwww.pokinen.blogspot.com</b></a> for inspiration: see how simply the expresses her feelings about the essence of time and space in words!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"Mäletan, kui Luha tänavale kodu ehitasime, istusin oma uues tühjas kajavas toas ja kuulasin ballaadi, mis kostus üle ehitusteipide, avamata kastide, parkettpõranda liistude teise maja otsa. Ja mina vaatasin lage ja seinu ja põrandat ja kujutlesin, missugune kord olema saab nende lugu. Kui soojaks ja targaks nad saavad. Paigutasin mõttes asju kohtadele. Uurisin kõiki nurki. Ja ballaad oli vabaduseks. Kuulutas uut algust".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"I remember when we were building our home on Luha street and I was sitting in my empty new room, listening to a ballad that floated over boards, planks, unopened cartons; from one end of the house to the other. As I sat there, I imagined the life these items would have, what would be their story. How warm and smart they would become. And as I looked at all the nooks and crannies, I created a room. And the song in the air was about freedom, announcing new beginnings."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>And now for something completely different....</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">How about a rock and roll cabaret based on <b>"The Brothers Karamazov"</b> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky? How wild is that? Very! The „12 Karamazovs”, directed by Kristjan Smeds, is currently playing at the Von Krahl Theatre on Rataskaevu Street in Tallinn until Novemeber 24. <b>The cast: </b>new professional actors, including Mari Pokinen, from the Viljandi Culture Academy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b><a href="http://www.vonkrahl.ee/">Von Krahl</a></b> is an experimental theatre, an ultra cool nightclub and restaurant - AND an academy all in one! The small theatre, led by Peeter Jalakas of the VAT Theatre, opened in 1992 and focuses on alternative modes of performance. <i>(<b>Estonian Theatre</b>, Jaak Rähesoo)</i>. Sigismund Von Krahl was an Australian philosopher of Baltic German origin, whose his ideas have inspired the theatre group named for him. Interested? Read the complete history in the article by <b><a href="http://wwx.postimees.ee/230806/esileht/kultuur/214357.php">Katrin Ruus here</a>. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And how does Mari Pokinen feel about Tartu and Tallinn?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"Käisin kodus. Tartus liigub aeg võrratute pisikeste sammudega. Tallinna aeg on jämedam ja jookseb rahust ja ilust tihti üle. Nii tundsin vajadust pealinnast eemale saada. Ja tegigi kodu mind jälle mõnusamaks. Sügis on Tartus samuti hoopis tundlikum. Sügis annab ennast seal päriselt kätte ja kõik sealne annab ennast sügise kätte." </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"I went home. Time in Tartu moves at a much slower pace. Tallinn’s time moves forward quickly and often tramples over beauty. I felt a need to escape from the capital. And I was comfortable again at home. Fall is more sensitive in Tartu and lends itself to people and they are able to relate to it more there."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although penned in October 2010, before the release of her debut album "22", I bet she still fells the same way - Tartu or Tallinn?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div></div></div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-13336347589271115002011-10-22T04:12:00.000-07:002011-11-05T04:24:33.538-07:00Paha Polly: Tartu or Tallinn?<div style="text-align: justify;">
Our tendency is to join things, to associate places and things and to remove what doesn't fit. Maybe the things that don't necessarily fit are what make life interesting. Maybe the pieces of a puzzle don't even have to fit, strange as that may seem.</div>
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<li>The Estonia Theater (now the Estonian National Opera) in Tallinn,</li>
<li>Professional cyclist Rein Taaremäe and sculptor Mati Karmin (<i>Kissing Students</i>) from Tartu</li>
<li>Leelo Tungal (Ruila) and Raimond Valgre (Rapla) in Harjumaa, not far from Tallinn</li>
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Listen to <i><b>Paha Polly</b></i>, a folk rock band from Võru (2005) now based in Tartu. The band consists of Liana Kolodinskaja (vocals), Kaur Pai (guitar), Toomas Oks (guitar), Ervin Sokk (bass guitar), Marek Manglus (drums) and Taavet Schotter (accordian). Their first album <b>"Ei jäägi üle muud..."</b><i>(Naerame)</i> was released in 2009, followed by <b>"Killud"</b> in 2010 <i>(Ma olen Tartu).</i><br />
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Are you curious about how bands get their names? Take <b>Paha Polly </b>(bad Polly).<b> </b>One of their favourite groups, Nirvana, had some great songs: <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmj7Z-ZElFg">"Polly"</a> </b>and <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbbdif1Vy4">"Molly's lips"</a>.</b> Another band member was really into <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oCDAXQC34"><b>"Good Charlotte"</b>.</a> Play around with these names and what else could you get but "Bad Polly"? Read the story here in <b><a href="http://www.lounaleht.ee/index.php?page=1&id=3189">Lõuna Leht.</a></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">ma olen Tartu</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="Apple-style-span">ma olen Tartu ja sina oled Tallinn</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="Apple-style-span">ma olen Tartu</span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Me vahel laiub paarsada kilomeetrit</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">musta lõhnavat asfaltteed</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sa oled kivist ja mina olen puust</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>A a couple of hundred kilometres separate us </b></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">But complicated words you'll hear from us both</span>.</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ning sinu jaoks mu linn on kitsas nagu puur</span></div>
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<b style="color: #134f5c;">All I can do is gaze at you from afar,</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>I think it's best we both stay where we are.</b></span></div>
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Su linnas pidutseb glamuur, on kõrge lend</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ning tähtsaim sõna seal kindlasti on trend</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">boheemid minu linnas tegutsevad endiselt</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Your city is filled with style and glamour, </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>The key word there is "trend";</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Needing only sweaters and running shoes, not more.</b></span></div>
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In many European cities older wooden houses have long since been replaced by stone buildings and facades. Fires and wars did not help. Tallinn is known for its stonework, although sections like Kalamaja and Pelgulinn still maintain their wooden houses.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://foursquare.com/v/villa-margaretha/4b7149d4f964a520933f2de3">Villa Margaretha</a> Foursquare link with map</span></b><br />
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If you are in Tartu, be sure to visit <b><a href="http://www.visittartu.com/8284">Karlova</a>,</b> <b><a href="http://www.visittartu.com/8234">Supilinn</a> </b>and <b><a href="http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A4htvere">Tähtvere</a>. </b>The wooden buildings in these historic districts are rare in Europe and slowly disappearing in Estonia as well. The <a href="http://www.karlova.ee/majaloo_voldik.pdf"><b>Karlova Assocatio</b>n</a> has kept an archive of the buildings along with individual house histories, they are quite fascinating - but unfortunately all in Estonian!<br />
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Mart Siilivask has written a <a href="http://www.arcchip.cz/w11/w11_siilivask.pdf"><b>wonderful article in English</b>:</a><br />
"The Historic Town Structures of Tartu – The Historical Overview and Main Preservation Problems Today".<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Foursquare link with map to <a href="https://foursquare.com/v/anna-edasi/4c174bd574fb20a1a9575112"><b>Anna Edasi kohvik/cafe/restaurant</b></a></span><b>.</b><br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Karlova: </b>This wooden district of more than 300 mainly perimetral two storey tenement-houses arose outside of the town-limits in 5 years (between 1910 and 1914), the latest houses are from beginning of the 1920s. The main building contractor and designer was building-engineer Fromhold Kangro, but most of the buildings </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">were probably designed and built by local master-builders."</span> </div>
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Drummer Marek is leaving for Sweden in October, 2011. Last concert was in <a href="http://trehv.ee/"><b>Trehv</b></a>, Tartu - but hey, maybe the next song will be <b><i>Ma olen Tartu, sa oled Stockholm</i></b>! Ha! <br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://foursquare.com/v/trehv/4cc586d7d43ba14317ff6df8">Trehv Foursquare link</a></span></b>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-78318490832899483332011-09-30T11:50:00.000-07:002011-10-22T04:22:41.173-07:00Raimond Valgre ja Metsatöll - mis on side?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vaatame neid pilte. Nad on väga erinevad aga siiski leidub nende vahel ühiseid jooni. Mis võiks neid siduda?</span><br />
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<b>TUNTUD & TUNDMATU</b> <b>METSATÖLL, </b>Äio, 2010<br />
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<b>Oli 1940.aasta suvi</b>. Pärnu Rannasalongis kõlasid Raimond Valgre orkestri Merry Swingersi helid nii valjusti, et Valter Ojakäär, siis 17-aastane koolipoiss ja autor Jaak Ojakääre isa, "kuulas neid kõlakojapoolsete avatud akende all". Muidugi olid Pärnu rannas ka üles pandud kõlarid. Kuulda oli Valgret ise laulmas kuid ka plaatidelt Bing Crosbyt, Django Reinhardtit ja Ella Fitzgeraldit.<br />
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<b>Paremal:</b> Bing Crosby laulud lindistatud detsember 1931.aastal <a href="http://www.jazz.com/music/2009/8/6/bing-crosby-and-the-mills-brothers-dinah">LINK.</a><br />
Valgre häält ei leidu ühelgi plaadil; mõned arvavad, et oli väga sarnane Bing Crosby toonidele.<br />
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Valter Ojakäär polnud veel Raimond Valgrega kohanud. Ja Merry Swingers said ainult kaks nädalat mängida kuni tuli teade, et Rannahotell tehakse tööliste puhkekoduks. Sinna aga paigutati hoopis Nõukogude lendurid.<br />
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<b>Raimond Valgre saatus: vale koht, vale aeg</b><br />
<b>7. juunil 1941</b>.<b>a</b> lõpetas Valter Ojakäär Pärnus Poeglaste Gümnaasiumi ja samal ajal kutsuti teda taasavatud Kaubastu restorani (Rannasalongi) mängima Raimond Valgre orkestrisse.<br />
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<b>13.juunil 1941</b>.<b>a</b> õhtul oli orkestri trompeti mängija Robert Tilgari 20.nmes sünnipäev, orkestri liikmed pidasid seda koos. Öösel oli kuulda veoautode mürinat, küüditamine hakkas peale. Peale küüditamist mängis orkester edasi, maksti palka, restoran oli rahvast täis. Keegi ei julgenud kodus olla, võibolla tullakse järele.<br />
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<b>22. juunil 1941.a</b> mängis orkester viimast korda Rannasalongis, pimedas, elektrit ei tohtinud kasutada. Mobilisatsioon oli peale hakanud ja restoran suleti. Saatus oli senini Valgrele hea olnud.<br />
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Kuna Rannasalong pandi kinni, piirdus Valgre Tallinna poole, mängima Pirita bussijaama ligidal restornis <b>"Bussijaam"</b>. Sel ajal olid pillimehed, eriti akordionistid, olulised rahva meeleolu tõstjad, neid otsiti kohvikutesse ja restoranidesse, nad olid siis mobilisatsioonist vabastatud.<br />
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Oleks Valgre vastanud hoopis teise ansambli kutsele, kes mängis <b><a href="http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Marina">Grand Marinas</a></b>, oleks ta elu võibolla teisiti läinud. Akordion, millega ta teisi lõbustas, sai temale endale saatuseks. <i>Bussijaamas</i> läks poistel kakluseks, kutsuti sõjaväepatroll, pandi jooksu aga süütu Valgre oma pilliga jäi akna vahele kinni. Nii muutus tema saatus.<br />
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Valgre ja teised noored mehed kutsuti kokku Lauluväljakule. Oli juuni lõpp, juuli algus, soojad suve ilmad. Kolme päeva toiduga ja suve riietusega pandi neid noori mehi teele Venemaale tööpataljonidesse ja vene sõjaväkke.<br />
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It is the theme song (<i><b>tunnusmuusika</b></i>) for the Estonian television series "Tuulepealne maa" (<i>Windward Land</i>). It has also been immortalized by Metsatöll - listen to their version <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbg9iDpQp00">HERE with English subtitles.</a></div>
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Estonian lullabies often begin with "Äiu, Äiu".And those are probably the last words that Raimond Valgre's mother spoke to him as he dying in a coma on December 31, 1949. He had become famous for his songs written in Russia, but he never did find his song when he arrived back in Estonia after the war ended. Perhaps he is the inspiration for the music written by his bandmate, Valter Ojakäär, and the words by Leelo Tungal.</div>
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Films, movies and operas have been made about Raimond Valgre's short life from <b>1913 - 1949.</b> And Valter Ojakäär has written a brilliant story about the musical history of the 1930s, 40s and 50s in Estonia. This book, which also comes with a CD, should be translated. And soon!</div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-8296066803771000722011-09-16T11:03:00.000-07:002011-09-21T08:38:09.009-07:00RKlubi suvelõpupidu<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-megQ4o0JIDA/TnNkTiPIV2I/AAAAAAAAAxY/Z2G9bz4qwKg/s1600/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-megQ4o0JIDA/TnNkTiPIV2I/AAAAAAAAAxY/Z2G9bz4qwKg/s320/002.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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Kooli algus oli tulemas, veel oli aega süveneda suvesse. Ja nii tegime raamatukogu klubi liikmetega <b>18.augusti </b>õhtul väikese koosviibimise, pühitsedes samal ajal <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcadX0l0Kig">Eesti Vabariigi Taasiseseisvumispäeva</a>.</span></div>
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Ettenähtud äikese torm jäi tulemata, roosa taevas säras <a href="http://www.eki.ee/dict/ekss/index.cgi?Q=h%C3%A4marik&F=M">hämarikus</a>, küünla valgusel jagasime muljeid Eesti reisidest ja suvekodu tegevusest. Ja ka raamatutest, mida olime suvel lugenud.<br />
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<b> Jama 1. ja Jama 2. </b>(puudub).</div>
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Was this the work of our fearless, frisky raccoons? Not at all - the tiny holes were the homes of our <b>bumblebees</b> <b>(<a href="http://www.postimees.ee/366405/kimalaste-arvu-kahanemine-voib-mojutada-saake/">kimalased</a>)</b>. The gashes were made by our newest resident, <b>Mr. Woodpecker</b>! In Estonian, <b><a href="http://bio.edu.ee/loomad/Linnud/DRYMAR2.htm">musträhn</a>. </b>He left after his doorframe was replaced, but not without a fight. (We assumed the hammering was our neighbour building his porch!)</div>
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<b>Vastus/Answer: Loksa</b>. On see linn? Ikka. Nii oli kaardile märgitud, nii peab olema.<br />
<b>33.11 </b>on ikka mul peas koolist saadik. Mis see on? 33 linna ja 11 maakonda, loomulikult!<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><a href="http://www.loksa.ee/"><b>Loksa</b></a>,</span> <b>Lahemaa rahvuspargis</b>, polnud siis linn!<br />
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<b>Mida võiks teada Eesti kohta</b>? <b>Eestimaa suurus on</b>: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">45,226 km2<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;">.</span></span></em></span></b></span> (But <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><b>45,227</b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">km2 </span></b></span>has also been stated by different sources!)</div>
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Aren't sure about Estonian statistics? Just keep playing this game! Is there a <b>Latvian version</b>? Their politicians sure could use one! When asked about the size of their country, only one came close. <a href="http://www.bakutoday.net/the-lowest-level-of-cultures-at-the-candidate-for-premier-of-all-latvia-tbdnnl-latvia.html">Story and link here.</a> (What is it about the number of teeth - it appears in every trivia game:-)</div>
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<i>"The newspaper Diena tested at the erudition of representatives of leading political forces in Latvia. None of them answered all <b>30 questions</b>, but the best results showed the leader of the Reform Party, former President Valdis Zatlers, and the worst – candidate for prime minister of “All – Latvia!” -TB/DNNL, Ex-Minister of Justice Gaidis Berzins". </i></div>
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And the size of Latvia is..... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><b>64 589</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">km2</span></b></span>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><b>65,000</b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">km2 </span></b>was the closest answer - </span>give or take a few hundred square kilometres:-) </div>
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<b>Jaak Sooäär:</b> "võib pidada Eesti üheks parimaks jazzkitarristiks"<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tuule Kann</b>: "on tuntud kandlemängu pedagoog, levitaja ja esitaja; 2009. aastal pälvis Tuule Kann pärimuskultuuri auhinna väljapaistva tegevuse eest kandlemuusika traditsioonide hoidmisel ja arendamisel." Siin ta mängib kromaatilist kannelt. Read more here about them and the Viljandi Folk Festival :<a href="http://www.folk.ee/festival/et/Programm/Tuule-Kann-ja-Jaak-Sooaar"> </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><b><a href="http://www.folk.ee/festival/et/Programm/Tuule-Kann-ja-Jaak-Sooaar">LINK</a> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A kantele in Finnish or kannel in Estonian is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family native to Finland, Estonia, and Karelia. It is related to the Russiangusli, the Latvian kokle and the Lithuanian kanklės. Together these instruments make up the family known as Baltic psalteries. The instrument is also known as the kusle among the Volga-Finnic Mari people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000; font-weight: bold;">From the Tuule Kann performs in the Chromatic or Concert Zither.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000; font-weight: bold;"><br />
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Factory in 1988. <a href="http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilt:Kromaatiline_klaverivabriku_kannel.jpg">Photo: Adeline</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000; font-weight: bold;">From the Estonian Wikipedia:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kromaatiline kannel (täpsemalt kromaatiline kontsertkannel) on keelpill.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">See on klassikaliste muusikainstrumentide kõrval uustulnukas. Oma praeguse kuju sai eesti kromaatiline kannel 1952. aastal kandlemeister <a href="http://et.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=V%C3%A4ino_Maala&action=edit&redlink=1">Väino Maala</a> käe all.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kromaatilisus võimaldab mängida piiranguteta kõigis helistikes ja annab suuri võimalusi erinevate ajastute muusika ettekandmiseks. Kromaatilise kandle keeled on ristuvad, see tähendab, et diatoonilised keeled suunduvad kõlalaua kohal paremalt ülalt vasakule alla ja altereeritud keeled vasakult ülalt paremale alla. Seda võib võrrelda klahvide paigutusega klaveri klaviatuuril (mustad ja valged klahvid).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kromaatilisi kandleid valmistas <b>Tallinna Klaverivabrik alates 1950ndatest kuni 1990ndate aastateni</b>. Need kandled on 46 keelega. Praegu on võimalik tellida kromaatilisi kandleid Soomest või eesti kandlemeistritelt. Uuematel Soomest pärit kanneldel võib olla kuni 50 keelt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When was the first chromatic zither manufactured? In Finland, by <b>Elias Lönnrot</b> between 1835 and 1840; one of these early models is stored in the museum of Finland. </div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000; font-weight: bold;">The Kalevala and the kannel-zither:</span></div><div><a href="http://kalevala.gov.karelia.ru/kantele_e.shtml">http://kalevala.gov.karelia.ru/kantele_e.shtml</a></div><div><a href="http://www.folklorefellows.fi/?page_id=592">http://www.folklorefellows.fi/?page_id=592</a></div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-68508326646984142682011-07-30T05:01:00.000-07:002011-07-30T06:25:07.432-07:00Rainy Tallinn - vihamane Põhja-Eesti<a href="http://uudised.err.ee/?06232215"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">ERR uudistes:</span> </b></a><br />
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</div><div><b>Siin on kaart: (ERR)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xHGTdSbpJ38/TjPyCYm69-I/AAAAAAAAAwg/zGZavfFublE/s1600/Capture.rainy.eesti.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="377" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xHGTdSbpJ38/TjPyCYm69-I/AAAAAAAAAwg/zGZavfFublE/s640/Capture.rainy.eesti.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br />
</div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-47434923993135349432011-07-16T05:18:00.000-07:002011-07-16T05:26:29.427-07:00Estonian Word of the Week: Pantvang (Hostage)<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>Valgamaalane</b>, July 14, 2011</div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pantvangid pääsesid vabadusse</span></b><br />
<div><div>Neljapäeva varahommikul vabastati Eesti, Liibanoni ja teiste partnerite koostöö tulemusel Liibanonis röövitud seitse Eesti kodanikku. (Some of the cyclists are from the province of Valgamaa,<b> <a href="http://www.valgamaalane.ee/498296/pantvangid-paasesid-vabadusse/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">read the story here</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">.</span>)</div><div><div><br />
<div><div><b>The Baltic Times</b>, July 15, 2011</div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Estonian Hostages Freed</span></b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">TALLINN -- "The seven Estonian men who were kidnapped while cycling through Lebanon in March have been set free and are back on home soil." (English roundup of Baltic news, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/29076/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">here</span></b></a>)</span>.</div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The most captivating Estonian news headlines this week must be the happy end to the 113 day hostage crisis. Yesterday the Lebanon NOW <b><a href="http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=291533"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">headline read</span></a> </b>"<b>Estonians freed, but mystery remains</b>"; it went so far as to state: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"The truth of what happened to the men, and who was behind their abduction, therefore may not come out for weeks or months, if it ever does."</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">We hope the opposite is true and that <i>truth will out</i>. (From Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice")</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are the origins of the words "<i>hostage"</i> and "<i>pantvang"</i>?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I8zy-1KcNmI/TiFrisJFJsI/AAAAAAAAAwM/sgeNOChQRE4/s1600/Capture.hostage.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I8zy-1KcNmI/TiFrisJFJsI/AAAAAAAAAwM/sgeNOChQRE4/s640/Capture.hostage.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><blockquote></blockquote></div><div><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Both the Finnish "panttivanki" and Estonian "pantvang" are similar in origin and are divided into two words, <i>pant </i>and <i>vang. </i><b>Pant, pantti </b>originate from the Latin <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b>pīgnus, pīgnoris (pīgneris) n.</b></span> a pledge, gage, pawn, security, guaranty; they were loan words from the Germanic base <b>Pfand</b>, a pledge, pawn, security.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hZoSwEBz_dM/TiFxUZJI-RI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/K4l6f_BpDMo/s1600/Capture.pledge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hZoSwEBz_dM/TiFxUZJI-RI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/K4l6f_BpDMo/s640/Capture.pledge.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<b>Vang, vanki</b> (prisoner) derive from the Germanic root <b>Gefangene </b>and are similar to the Swedish <b>fånge</b> and the Icelandic <b>fangi </b>and can also be traced back to the English word<b> fang. </b><br />
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<b>Vang </b>is also a nautical term:<br />
<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vang">A <b>boom vang</b> </a>(US) or <b>kicking strap</b> (UK) is a line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on the boom and thus control the shape of the sail. An older term is "martingale".The vang typically runs from the base of the mast to a point about a third of the way out the boom.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Here are the Estonian definitions from <b><u><a href="http://www.eki.ee/dict/ekss/index.cgi?Q=vang&F=M">"Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat"</a></u></b></div></div><div><blockquote><b>Pant: </b><br />
<b>1. vara, millega tagatakse laenu vm. kohustuse täitmine.</b> Maad, talu panti panema. Andis raha eest kella, sõrmuse pandiks. Tal on kogu varandus panti viidud. Raamatuid laenutati pandi vastu. Pandiks võeti kaks sõjavangi. Ls. kinnis|pant, vallaspant. (mortgage, security, collateral).<br />
<b>2.</b> <b>tagatis millegi saavutamiseks</b>. <b>Õnne pant. </b>See ennastsalgav tegu sai meie sõpruse pandiks. Teaduse arengu pandiks oli ta seos praktikaga. Annan pandiks oma mehesõna. Lapsed on rahva tuleviku pant. Töö on edu pant. (pledge of security, future happiness).<br />
<b>3</b>.<b> pandimängus ese</b>, mille mängujuht võtab mängijalt ja mis tuleb mingi ülesande täitmisega välja lunastada. Kes mängureeglite vastu eksib, annab pandi. Mängisime pantide lunastamist. Mida peab see tegema, kelle pant minu käes on? </blockquote><b> Vang: </b><br />
<b>1.</b> vanglas karistust kandev v. eelvangistuses viibiv isik. Paljaks pöetud peaga vang. Sunnitööle mõistetud vangid.<br />
<b>2</b>. vaenlase poolt kinni võetud isik (näit. sõjavang, pantvang). Sõjas võetud vangid. </div><div><b>3</b>. PILTL a. keegi, kes on kuskil kinni, ei saa liikuda v. lahkuda. Et võtit polnud, oldi vangid omas kodus. Teedelagunemise aegu oleme oma koduküla vangid. b. (inimese kohta, kes on millegi kütkes, lummuses). Ta on oma kujutluste, iseenda, armastuse, töö vang. </div><div><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And last, but not least: vàng in Vietnamese means gold. Coincidence or not?</b></span><br />
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</div><div></div></div></div></div></div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-29552035785575308732011-07-14T21:55:00.000-07:002011-07-15T07:14:22.990-07:00Tour de France - Rein Taaramäe is moving up!<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NU1QB7JBjAs?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NU1QB7JBjAs?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object><br />
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<div class="author" style="color: #274e89; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px;">Jul 14, 2011<br />
Jared Grellet</div><div class="tbtspace" style="clear: both; color: #274e89; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img border="0" height="9" src="http://www.baltictimes.com/visual/1x1.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="1" /></div><div class="tbtspace" style="clear: both; color: #274e89; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/29075/"><b>Baltic Times Link</b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e89; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">PARIS, France – "Estonia’s Rein Taaramae has moved up to 16th overall in the Tour de France despite losing time on race leader Thomas Voeckler of France. After 12 stages Taaramae is sitting </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e89; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">seven minutes, 27 seconds behind Voeckler and just under three minutes outside of the race top 10". He is c</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e89; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">urrently in 16th place - 2nd best best young rider overall!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rein is 24, born in Tartu, Estonia, rider number 151 for Cofidis. His code name is <i>vader, </i>short for <i>reinuvader</i> (fox).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The hardest segments of the Tour de France for an Estonian loom ahead: the mountains. Rein has faithfully been writing his blog - read it and keep your fingers crossed (hoia põialt!) that he makes it to the finish line. A top 10 finish is a lofty goal but not impossible! Next Stage: Touri mägedeetapp!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><b>Rein Taaramäe's blog: : <a href="http://www.rattaprofid.ee/blogi?author_id=43">http://www.rattaprofid.ee/blogi?author_id=43</a></b><br />
<b>Tour de France link: <a href="http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/RIDERS/us/coureurs/151.html">http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/RIDERS/us/coureurs/151.html</a></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storming of the Bastille, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="extiw" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Hou%C3%ABl" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #3366bb; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" title="fr:Jean-Pierre Houël">Jean-Pierre Houël</a> (1735-1813)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>July 14, 1789</b> - Storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris, France: the beginning of the French Revolution and the birthday of the modern French nation celebrated by fireworks and the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"Besides holding a large cache of ammunition and gunpowder, the Bastille had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government". </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, the Marquis de Sade. He then managed to write "The 120 Days of Sodom" IN the Bastille - but missed the storming, having been transferred to Charenton in early July 1789.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"As it happened, at the time of the siege in July 1789 there were <b>only seven inmates</b>, none of great political significance." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day">LINK</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span>According to Antonia Fraser's book "Marie Antoinette - The Journey", the list included two madmen, four forgers and one nobly born criminal. (page 283).</div><div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Estonian Hostages Freed</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the same day over two hundred years later<b> seven other prisoners</b> (hostages), this time Estonians, were released with the help of the French government from the tiny Eastern Bekaa village of Arsal, an area known as the Wild West of the Middle East: </div><div><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">If you’re a farmer, you carry a gun, locals say. The lands of most people in Arsal lie at the hudud, the border with Syria, which has never been properly demarcated. And because no Lebanese authority guards the border, the Syrian farmers have been encroaching on and stealing Lebanese land, villagers contend".</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Read the article from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b>Lebanon Now</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=112964">HERE</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>.</b></span></span></div><div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14149682"><b>BBC</b></a>, "a previously unknown group called Haraket Al-Nahda Wal-Islah, or Movement for Renewal and Reform, claimed to have carried out the kidnap, and demanded a ransom". Estonia relied on France and other NATO allies for their release as it has very few diplomatic staff in the region. Read the story from <a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Estonian-Tourists-Kidnapped-While-On-Bicycle-Tour-In-Lebanon-Have-Been-Freed-After-Four-Months/Article/201107216030469?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_16030469_Estonian_Tourists_Kidnapped_While_On_Bicycle_Tour_In_Lebanon_Have_Been_Freed_After_Four_Months"><b>Sky News</b>.</a>, here is the Estonian new source: <b><a href="http://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/eesti/fotod-pantvangistusest-paasenud-ratturid-joudsid-tagasi-eestisse.d?id=49600485&l=fplead">delfi.ee link</a>. </b>It is interesting that Estonia has an embassy and six consulates in France - the same as in the United States!</div><div><br />
<b>Question: Which country is home to the largest number of Estonian citizens living abroad?</b><br />
<ul><li>Russia</li>
<li>Canada</li>
<li>United Kingdom</li>
<li>Finland</li>
</ul><b>Answer: </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Finland </b>(28,489), followed by <b>Russia</b> (12,686), <b>Sweden</b> (3155) and <b>Canada</b> (2693). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>United States</b> has 2514 Estonian citizens, the <b>United Kingdom </b>2289<b>,</b> while <b>France</b> has 319. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">And the country listed with the fewest? <b>Bulgaria</b> - 22. <a href="http://www.ekspress.ee/news/kaardid_ja_edetabelid/edetabelid/avaldamata-edetabel-kui-palju-eesti-kodanikke-elab-valisriikides.d?id=38784307"><b>Source: </b></a> Eesti Ekspress, 20. jaanuar 2011</div><div><br />
</div><div><b>Bastille Day Military Parade 2011 - </b>View the amazing photo gallery here: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.life.com/gallery/62791/bastille-day-2011-photos#index/18"><b>LINK</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This year's parade highlighted France's overseas territories, such as Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Reunion, Mayotte, New Caledonia and Polynesia but was overshadowed by the worst French losses in Afghanistan since 2008. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #084929; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"Another French soldier was killed on Thursday, meaning that seven have died over the past week<b>.</b> On Wednesday five French soldiers and an Afghan civilian were killed, and four other troops injured, in a suicide bomb attack on a meeting of local village leaders in Joybar, in the Kapisa province north east of Kabul.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><br />
</span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">’We are now faced with more terrorist-type actions, not just military action’, Mr Sarkozy told reporters after meeting wounded soldiers in Afghanistan at the Percy military hospital. ’It is a new situation and to deal with this new situation requires new safety measures’ ”<b> <a href="http://www.globalmediapost.com/2011/07/15/france-suffers-worst-afghan-losses-since-2008/">LINK.</a> </b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NK8CST-p0hI/Th8oMTZzM5I/AAAAAAAAAvk/MtU1_RnYEoY/s1600/french.maid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NK8CST-p0hI/Th8oMTZzM5I/AAAAAAAAAvk/MtU1_RnYEoY/s320/french.maid.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>Bastille Day USA - Washington, DC</b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Do you happen to be in Washington and love to party? Then you are probably near (or in!)....</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">... the French Maid's race! Party starts at 4 pm and the race at 8 pm! Got a broom - gotta go!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Where: </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b>L'Enfant Cafe and Bar</b></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b>Block Party - 2000 18th Street NW</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b>Website:</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b> </b></span><a href="http://www.lenfantcafe.com/?page=main"><b>http://www.lenfantcafe.com/</b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Foursquare link: <a href="https://foursquare.com/venue/8839">https://foursquare.com/venue/8839</a><br />
An amazing 1250 check-ins!</div></div></div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-27711645804407350132011-07-06T07:50:00.000-07:002011-07-06T07:50:57.558-07:00Come and Visit Saaremaa!Raamatukogu Võlusaared on suve kogemuste rännakul! Otsime uusi ja toredaid suve hetki, siin on tore leiutis!<br />
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Last year, one of the winning films in the Estdocs competition posed the question: "Estonians, are they ever happy?" *If you missed it, here is the link:<a href="http://www.estdocs.com/node/163">http://www.estdocs.com/node/163</a><br />
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We at the Magic Islands Library are asking a similar question: "Estonians, are they ever funny?" Intentionally, that is. Watch this video for the true history of Saaremaa and its people. Are they funny?<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/25225302">The Estonian Island of Saaremaa</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user7478130">VisitSaaremaa</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-59897698315894473762011-06-23T07:45:00.000-07:002011-06-23T10:35:50.852-07:00Võnnu - Cēsis - Wenden 1.osa<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Võidud Võnnus ajaloos...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cēsis, ehitatud 1209.a Foto: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Brunswyk </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Ja</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> kui nad lähenesid Võnnule, ennäe, eestlased, tulles suure sõjaväega, piirasid Võnnu sisse. Ja Rodolf koos omadega pääses sellesse linnusesse. </span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Ja</b> eestlased võitlesid Bertoldi, tema vendade ja võndlastega kolm päeva vana linnuse juures, kus veel elasid vennad koos võndlastega.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Ja</b> langes palju eestlasi ammuküttide poolt haavatuina, samuti tapeti ka võndlastest mõned vaenlaste odadega. Eestlased tegid nimelt suured puude kuhjatised, pannes neile tule otsa linnuse mahapõletamiseks, lohistades metsadest suuri puid koos juurtega, panid neist kokku midagi kaitsetorni taolist, toetades ning kindlustades seda teiste palkidega ning võideldes alt ja ülevalt, nad kiusasid tule ja suitsuga väga neid, kes linnuses olid. </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Ja</b> kui sõja päevi poleks lühendatud, oleksid nad igatahes suuremat kurja teinud, sest mõnede lohakuse tõttu jõudsid kuuldused riialasteni mitte esimesel ega teisel, vaid piiramise kolmandal päeval. </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Ja</b> need, sealt teele asunud, tulid neljandal päeval Siguldasse."</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Väljavõte Henriku Liivimaa kroonikast Võnnu piiramise ja Ümera lahingu kohta 1210. aastal (Heinrici Chronicon Livoniae. Henriku Liivimaa kroonika. Tõlkinud Richard Kleis, toimetanud ja kommenteerinud Enn Tarvel. Tallinn, 1982, XIV, 8): </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://vikerraadio.err.ee/saade/eesti_lugu/1570">LINK</a> </span></b>Vikerradio, Eesti lugu. <a href="http://vikerraadio.err.ee/helid?main_id=1420391"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7lfWEgkoajU/TgN4tX5JxhI/AAAAAAAAAts/7vBGU9KsPg0/s1600/Capture.audio.art" /></a><b><a href="http://vikerraadio.err.ee/helid?main_id=1420391"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">LUGU VÕIB SIIT KUULATA</span></a></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Võnnu (Cēsise) võidusammas. <br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Saadud wõitude puhul meie põlise ja äraandliku waenlase üle linnades ja maakondades saaks lipud välja pantud ning kohalistes garnisonides sõjawäe paraadid toime pantud." </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sellest päevast sai hiljem võidupüha.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kindralmajor Ernst Põdder, 23. juuni 1919.a</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eesti Vabadussõda I, 1937: 177</div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-86232044048092328332011-06-21T00:10:00.000-07:002011-06-21T07:28:25.478-07:00The O-Sound (O-Töne)<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>TON <i>*German</i></b> - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="BAB_CPPOSStyle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">n.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">sound, tone, pip, note; intonation, rise and fall of the voice in speech; clay, type of soil used to make pottery and bricks, soil which contains high percentage of silicates of aluminum. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-T%C3%B6ne"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">O-Töne</span></a> </span></b>(sound bites, "original sounds") - annual contemporary Literature Festival held in the <b>Museum Quarter</b> in Vienna during July and August. This year the Festival had a head start with a preview concert on June 20 (Summer Solstice). After a reading by Hungarian author Péter Esterházy, Estonian singer Siiri Sisask performed a series of songs from her latest CD, "Linga Mea" to coincide with 20 years of Estonian re-independence (celebrated on August 20th.) See the article in <a href="http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/599724"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Eesti Päevaleht here</span></b></a> and read the<a href="http://www.mqw.at/de/programm/detail/?event_id=6397"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">German here.</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Siiri was accompanied by Kristjan Randalu (piano) and his jazz quartet: Carsten Netz (clarinet, saxophone,, synthesizers) Oliver Potratz (bass) ja Paul Wiltgen (percussion), and the string quartet Helenos from Germany. Listen to clips from <b>"</b><b>Lingua Mea"</b> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.legalsounds.com/download-mp3/siiri-sisask/lingua-mea/album_421198">here</a>. </span></b>Can you here the influence of Korean and Mongolian music intertwined with Estonian Setu?</div><div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mqw.at/en/the+mq/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Museum Quarter in Vienna</span></a> - celebrates 10!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You could call this "Mother of all Museums" the European remedy to giant North American shopping malls, such as the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><a href="http://www.vaughanmills.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Vaughan Mills Mall</span></a> </span></b>(north of Toronto). But without the <a href="http://www.basspro.com/homepage.html?affcode_c=17kw832239&SST=3851604f-90dd-6a89-9a04-00005ec3dbdd"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Bass Pro</span></b></a> bait shop:-) Imagine 20 museums and cultural organizations presenting programs in performing arts, architecture, music, fashion, theater, dance, literature, children's and digital culture all in one area in roof, so to speak. Along with 40 living spaces and terrace cafés, bars, shops and a wonderful courtyard. This summer:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leopold Museum</b> - Egon Schiele lovers paradise.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MUMOK</b> - exhibits moved outside, re-opening September 8 <b>Kunsthalle</b>- Salvador Dali exhibit. More exhibit info<a href="http://www.mqw.at/en/category/?filter_keyword_ids=18"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">here</span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">.</span></b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MRRchqhbGPU/TgAqBFs6PrI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/GxsuLrhR9eU/s1600/MQ.Vienna.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MRRchqhbGPU/TgAqBFs6PrI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/GxsuLrhR9eU/s640/MQ.Vienna.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>The O-Töne Festival was started by Gabriela Hegedus and Christoph Möderndorfer in 2005 and featured contemporary Austrian authors presenting original works (unpublished) every Thursday evening in July and August. This summer, from July 7 to August 25, an Austrian and European author will present as a duo - here's the lineup - what an amazing place to visit!<br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Opening concert: <a class="new" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meaghan_Burke&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #ba0000; text-decoration: none;" title="Meaghan Burke (page not available)">Meaghan Burke</a><br />
Opening lecture: <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Gruber" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Sabine Gruber">Sabine Gruber</a> (AT): "Still Bach or The Longing"</div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-image: url(data:image/png; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Nadj_Abonji" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Melinda Nadj Abonji">Melinda Nadj Abonji</a> (CH): "doves fly"<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Stift" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Linda pen">Linda pin</a> (AT): "Not a single day"</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="new" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giorgio_Vasta&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #ba0000; text-decoration: none;" title="Giorgio Vasta (page not available)">Giorgio Vasta</a> (I): "The glass-eaters"<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Haderlap" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Maja Haderlap">Maja Haderlap</a> (AT): "Angel of Forgetfulness"</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="new" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roel_Verschueren&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #ba0000; text-decoration: none;" title="Roel Verschueren (page not available)">Roel Verschueren</a> (B): "Shut up, if you speak"<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_J._Setz" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Clemens J. Setz">Clemens J. Setz</a> (AT): "The love child at the time of Mahlstädter"</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_C%C4%83rt%C4%83rescu" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Mircea Cărtărescu">Cărtărescu Mircea</a> (RO): "The Body"<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schuh_(Autor)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Franz Schuh (Author)">Franz Schuh</a> (Austria): "The crutch Cactus"</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Hvoreck%C3%BD" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Michal Hvorecký">Michal Hvorecký</a> (SK): "Eskorta"<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Haslinger" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Josef Haslinger">Josef Haslinger</a> (Austria): "Jachymov"</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Rudi%C5%A1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Jaroslav Rudis">Rudiš Jaroslav</a> (CZ): "Konec v Punku Helsinkách"<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Schlag" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Evelyn blow">Evelyn shock</a> (AT): "The freedom of the great Ferenc Puskas"</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Raittila" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Hannu Raittila">Raittila Hannu</a> (FIN): "Clarification"<br />
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Henisch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Peter Henisch">Peter Henisch</a> (AT): "Grand Finale for Novak"</li>
</ul></div></div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-30941449538376073412011-06-18T04:33:00.000-07:002011-06-18T04:33:12.621-07:00Öö nagu ööbik<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foto: Saarte Hääl</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Syktyvkar, Komi Republic - June 12, 2011</span><br />
Can you guess what this is? A symbol of the Finno-Ugric people, language and culture! The letter Ö was carved into granite by sculptor Aleksandr Võborov and unveiled in a ceremony in front of the Komi Cultural Centre last week. Although the idea to create a single unifying symbol was initiated by the Komi language and history expert Aleksei Rassõhajev in 2008, it took some time to organize. The final location was decided by internet voting on the official administration website.<br />
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The letter Ö is revered by the speakers of the Komi, Khanty, Hansi and Udmurtia languages in Russia belonging to the Finno-Ugric family. It is interesting that the õ vowel is found in Russian, but ö, ü and ä are not!<br />
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In Estonian, from <a href="http://saartehaal.ee/index.php?content=artiklid&sub=5&artid=26128&sec=13">Saarte Hääl:</a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Komi keelt, rahvast ja kultuuri sümboliseeriva mälestussamba püstitamise idee pakkus välja komi keele, kirjanduse ja ajaloo instituudi teaduslik töötaja Aleksei Rassõhajev. Samba autor on skulptor Aleksandr Võborov.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sammas sai valmis juba möödunud aastal, kuid selle kunstilise väärtuse ja asukoha üle käis seni tuline vaidlus. Sobiva asukoha leidmiseks korraldati Sõktõvkari administratsioonijuhi blogis internetihääletus, kus enamus hääli anti selle poolt, et sammas püstitataks komi kultuuri keskuse ette.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Komi, aga ka handi, mansi, mari ja udmurdi keeles on soomeugrilik ö-täht igati auväärsel kohal. Venemaa keele- ja kultuurikeskkonnas on aga tegemist pigem ainulaadse tähega.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aavita Aabits, Edgar Valter</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;">When learning the following Estonian vowels or <i>täishäälikud</i>, we learn to associate them with the following words: </div><div style="text-align: right;"><b>Õ</b> = õun, <b>Ä</b>= ämblik, <b>Ö </b>= ööbik, <b>Ü </b>= ümbrik</div><br />
....but does Ö in Estonian always stand for ööbik? Here's a list of the many possible variations in Estonian counties, from <a href="http://www.estinst.ee/">http://www.estinst.ee</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Our </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://aare.edu.ee/dictionary.html?query=%F6%F6bik&lang=ee&meth=part&switch=et&otsi=otsi"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>nightingale</b></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> has gone elsewhere this year.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Meie </span><a href="http://www.eki.ee/dict/ekss/index.cgi?Q=%C3%B6%C3%B6bik&F=M"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">ööbik </span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">on tänavu mujale läinud.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Hiiumaa:<br />
Saaremaa:<br />
Muhumaa:<br />
Läänemaa:<br />
Vigala:<br />
Kihnu:<br />
Harju-Risti:<br />
Kuusalu:<br />
Järvamaa:<br />
Põhja-Virumaa:<br />
Vaivara:<br />
Kodavere:<br />
Karksi:<br />
Southern-Tartumaa:<br />
Võrumaa:<br />
Setomaa:</div></td><td><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Meide ööbik aa seaesta maeale läin<br />
Meite ööbik oo siasta mäale läind<br />
Meite üöbik uo sieoasta mõjale läin<br />
Meite ärjälend oo tänäkond maale läin<br />
Mede künnilind uu tänabö maeale läind<br />
Mede künniljõnd ond tänävasta maalõ läin<br />
Mete üöbik oo tänabu maeal läin<br />
Meie üöbik on tänävu muuale mend<br />
Me õitselind on tänavu maale läind<br />
Meie kirikiut one tänävu mojale lähänd<br />
Mei sisokaine ono (olo) tänä vuo mojale mennö<br />
Meie sisask one tänävuade mõjale lähnud<br />
Mee kiriküüt' om täo muial lännü<br />
Meie tsisask om tinavu muiale lännu<br />
Mii sisask um timahavva muialõ lännüq<br />
Mii sisas'k om timahavva muialõ l'änüq</div></td></tr>
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<b>Did you know that:</b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>- </b></span><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #141414; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"><i>ö</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> is a</span> character used in several extended Latin, Uralic as well as the Azeri, Turkish,Turkmen, Uyghur (Latin script), Crimean Tatar, and in the Uto-Aztecan language Hopi alphabets?<br />
- In Seneca <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #141414; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"><i>ö </i></span></b>is used to represent [ɔ̃], a back mid rounded nasalized vowel?<br />
- <b>Sweden</b> <b>to phase out Å, Ä and Ö</b>, true or false? Read the story <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><a href="http://www.thelocal.se/6867/">here</a>.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">- There is actually a wonderful Estonian signer, Siiri Sisask? </span></b><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">June 14, 2011</span> The Canadian Press</span></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">TORONTO - "Air Canada's customer service agents and other airport workers are on strike after negotiations between their union and the airline failed to reach an agreement." <b><a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/air-canada-talks-continue-clock-ticks-down-midnight-080008349.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">LINK</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">.</span></b></span></div><div><br />
</div><a href="http://dea.nlib.ee/fullview.php?frameset=3&showset=1&wholepage=keskmine&pid=s210962&nid=109827"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">June 14, 1940 Päewaleht</span></b></a></div><div><b>(viimane väljaanne <a href="http://dea.nlib.ee/fullview.php?frameset=3&showset=1&wholepage=keskmine&pid=s163106&nid=109966"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">26. juuli 1940</span></a>)</b></div><div>TALLINN - Saksa sõjateade </div><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;">"Ületati 1915.a lahinguwäljad St. Valery ranniku ääres saadi 26,000 vangi. Kogu pealetungi-rindel on operatsioonid kiiresti arenemas. 5. juunilt saadik on saadud üle 100,000 wangi." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>70 aastat tagasi</b>, ööl vastu 14. juunit 1941 algas esimene massiküüditamine, Eestis, Lätis, Leedus ühekorraga. Eestis oli plaanis küüditada 14 471 inimest, paari päevaga veeti ära üle kümne tuhande inimese.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;"><b><a href="http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/599426">June 14, 2011 Eesti Päevaleht</a></b></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">TALLINN</span></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;"><b>LOE TÄISMAHUS: Surmalaagritest nopiti eestlasi „Traviatat” ja „Silvat” laulma</b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;">Jaanus Piirsalu</div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<b>Täna 70 aastat tagasi</b> küüditas Nõukogude võim Eestist Siberisse veidi üle 10 000 inimese, neist kolmandik olid alaealised. Teel ja Siberis hukkus 6000 inimest. Kuid see oli alles algus. Järgnevatel aastatel vangistasid kommunistid veel tuhandeid ja tuhandeid Eesti elanikke, kes saadeti kodust kaugele surema. Tänane lugu põhineb koorilaulja <b>Juhan Sillaku</b> <b>unikaalsetel memuaaridel </b>sellest, kuidas uskumatul kombel võis isegi surmasuus <b>Kolõma</b> vangilaagrites vedada ning sattuda kullakaevanduse asemel tööle… <b>teatrisse</b>!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elusat „rahvaste isa” Stalinit nähes tabas teda pettumus. „<b>Ta oli vana roti näoga, hallid sorakil vuntsid rippusid suure nina all. Nägu oli rõugearmiline ja kahvatu. Aga portreedel oli nagu operetikangelane, üles puhvitud.</b>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Need read on pärit 1908. aastal Lätis Liibavis (Liepajas) sündinud Juhan Sillaku seni avaldamata mälestustest. Stalinit nägi ta sõja ajal 1942. aastal Kremlis lavalt, kus ta laulis Eesti NSV riiklike kunstiansamblite meeskooris Harri Kõrvitsa juhatamisel. Stalin istus lava poolt vaadates kolmandas reas." <b>Praegu on täis jutt lehes - lugege edasi</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><a href="http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/599426">SIIT.</a></b></span></div></div><div><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div><div><h2 class="contentheading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></h2><div style="text-align: justify;">"Okupatsioonide muuseum on esimene muuseumiks ehitatud hoone Eestis. Selleks korraldatud arhitektuurivõistlusel osales 50 võistlustööd. Arhitektuurivõistluse programm määras ehitise otstarbe - anda adekvaatset informatsiooni Eesti lähimineviku okupatsioonirežiimide kohta, jäädvustada hukkunute mälestus memoriaalina ning võimaldada ka väiksemate seminaride läbiviimist. Ette oli antud ka erakapitalist rahastatava ehitus-eelarve suurus 1-1.5 miljonit US dollarit." </div></div><div><br />
</div><div><a href="http://nap.arhliit.ee/siiri/okupatsioonide-muuseum/">http://nap.arhliit.ee/siiri/okupatsioonide-muuseum/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.okupatsioon.ee/et/naeitused">http://www.okupatsioon.ee/et/naeitused</a><br />
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</span></h2><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Muuseum on avatud T-P 11:00 - 18.00</span></h2></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Toompea 8, 10142 Tallinn</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Telefon 66 80 250, Faks 66 80 251</span></div></div></div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-17251049586140612712011-06-04T06:24:00.000-07:002011-06-04T07:03:30.442-07:00Jänku Jussi lipu päev Järvamaal<object height="349" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mwHIoCQqDD4?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mwHIoCQqDD4?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br />
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"Kuhu meie sõidame?" <br />
"Teeme väikese ekskursiooni".<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Tuttav lugu, eks ju? Võibolla sõidame söögipoodi, või hoopis neli tundi maale suvilassse, on ikka pikk sõit lapsele.<br />
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Aga kas teate, kus Jänku Jussi elab? Lasteka maal, muidugi, teleka võrgu sees, eks? ETV arhiivides? Mitte täpselt. Võrumaa metsade ja mägede vahel sünnib interaktiivne lasteraamat lastekas.ee ja kui otsite sealt, leiate. Leiate väikese Kündja küla, kus elavad Janika ja Jaanus Leoste, oma kolme lapsega Karl, Johan ja Leo. Leiate ka nende toreda jutu Lasteka algusest, lugege <a href="http://www.maaleht.ee/news/tarbija/tarbijauudised/article.php?id=23956849"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Maalehest</span></b></a>. Siin on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.lastekas.ee/?go=ilm">ilm Jänku Jussi talus täna</a>, </span></b></span>Eesti lipu päeval.<br />
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Ja täna, 4. juunil, seletab <a href="http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/599036"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Eesti Päevaleht</span></b></a>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Eesti lipu heiskavad kõik riigi- ja kohaliku omavalitsuse asutused ning avalik-õiguslikud juriidilised isikud, teatas riigikantselei. Eesti lipu võivad heisata ka kõik teised. <i>(And Estonian Air, are they up today?)</i></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lipud heisatakse päikesetõusul, kuid <b>mitte hiljem kui kell kaheksa hommikul</b> ja langetatakse päikeseloojangul, kuid <b>mitte hiljem kui kell kümme õhtul.</b> Kui lippu ei langetata, tuleb lipp <b>pimedal ajal valgustada."</b><br />
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</b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ja Otepääl?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="http://www.puhkaeestis.ee/et/laupaeval-tahistatakse-otepaal-taas-eesti-lipu-paeva"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Otepää Maarja</span></b></a> koguduse vaimuliku Marko Tiirmaa sõnul heisatakse tradistiooniliselt 4. juunil kell 10 koos Eesti Üliõpilaste Seltsiga rahvuslipp Otepää kirikumõisas. Kell 11 siirdutakse Otepää vanale kalmistule, kus avaldatakse austust seal puhkavatele EÜSi vilistlastest kirikuõpetajatele. Kell 16 viiakse Otepää kirikus läbi Eesti lipu õnnistamise 127. aastapäevale ja <b><a href="http://www.worldstampnews.com/2011/04/estonia-stamp-issue-commemorated-villem-reiman/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Villem Reimani 150. sünniaastale</span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> </span>pühendatud pidulik jumalateenistus. Jutlustab EÜS-i vil! emeriitõpetaja ja -kaplan erukolonel <b>Tõnis Nõmmik (Torontost) </b>Jumalateenistuse järel esinevad Lõuna-Eesti memme-taadi suvepeo koorid kontserdiga."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xT9OJJtuQX4/Teou7ssJIRI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/SO3k7d8h6_0/s1600/villem.reiman.stamp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #444444; float: right; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xT9OJJtuQX4/Teou7ssJIRI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/SO3k7d8h6_0/s1600/villem.reiman.stamp.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1;">Estonia Stamp Issue Commemorates the Estonian Figure, Villem Reiman </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.worldstampnews.com/2011/04/estonia-stamp-issue-commemorated-villem-reiman/">*from World Stamp News</a></span></h2></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"As member of the Estonian Student Society, <b>Reiman</b> took part in the consecration of the blue, black and white flag on 4 June in St Mary’s of Otepää and in 1886 became chairman of the society. In 1887 he graduated from Tartu University as a candidate of divinity and began working as clergyman at Kolga-Jaani in 1989, first as assistant minister and from late 1890 as minister."</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps Jänku Jussi is in Otepää today; after all, it's not too far from his home. And did he manage to add this stamp to his collection? Let's hope so! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And Happy 127th Birthday to the Estonian flag!<br />
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Here are the original words to the immortal song we always sing, written by....<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Martin Lipp<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span>(14. aprill 1854 – 8. märts 1923) </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Ehitagem eesti kojad kolme kodu-värviga!<br />
Võtku nendel Eesti pojad ennast ükskord ühenda',<br />
võtku kuldse armuköie venna-arm neil veerita',<br />
vastaku neil vägev hüüe: «Eesti, Eesti, ela sa!»</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Sinine ja must ja valge ehitagu Eestimaad!<br />
Vili võrsugu siin selge, paisugu tal täieks pead!<br />
Vaprast meelest, venna-armust eesti kojad kõlagu,<br />
kostku taeva poole põrmust: «Eesti, Eesti, ela sa!»</div><br />
</div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-77765223878843815852011-06-03T06:29:00.000-07:002011-06-03T08:11:53.807-07:00Sookolli Saladus<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mõõda õõtsuvat sood ja lagedat raba elas üks muretu olend. Rebasest veidike vähem, siilist ivake suurem. Ümariku keha küljes lühikesed käed ja tillukesed jalad. Peas lamedad kõrvad ja suured tumedad silmad. Selg tihedalt karvane. Ise kõndis jalgade peal püsti kui pisike inimene. Aga inimene see mehike ei olnud. See oli sookoll." Aino Perviku seletus.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">See väikene olend ilmub tuntud aegadel, tuttavates kohtades. Üks neist on Soomaa, tema sünnimaa. Jaaniööl, kui leegitsevad lõkked ja kõlab rahvalaul, ärkab ta sügavast unest ja hillib vaikselt ringi. Tihti nähekse teda laukasoos hommikul pesemas, sooja päikse käes päevitamas. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sookollil on oma söögituba, mille nimi loomilikult on "Sookolli Söögituba". Sellel on ka oma võrguleht, otsige <a href="http://www.sookollisoogituba.edicypages.com/et"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">siit</span></b>.</a> Mida leida? Nõgesesuppi, rabapadat ja kuusekasvu jooki. Kui see ei täida, saate juurde tellida karaskit või porgandipirukat. Ja magustoiduks? Kodust kohupiimast pirukat või ka omakorjatud jõhvika torti! </div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Kas soovite metsaolenditega varahommikul kohtuda ja tema menüüd maitsta? Seda võite ette tellida tuntud olendi käest, kes toob isegi kohale, kui ilusti küsitakse gtema käest!</div><br />
<b>KUS? <a href="http://www.festivals.ee/?s=16">Suure-Jaani Muusikafestival</a></b><br />
<b>23. juuni, kell 03</b><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Hüpassaare soosaar</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Päikesetõusukontsert</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">ETV tütarlastekoor Aarne Saluveeri juhatusel ja soo-orkester</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">solist Toomas Vavilov (klarnet)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Kavas : Mozart, Saar, Ernesaks, Tormis, Grieg</b></div>Saate ka jalutada mõõda Hüpassaare matkarada Mart Saare maja juurest, kulgeb loogeldes puude vahel ja turnides mööda kummuli paisatud juuremätastest. Umbes 4 km pikkune rada viib meid algul läbi siirdesoometsa ja jõuab siis rabasse ehitatud laudteele. Näete raba kauneimaid ehteid – selgeveelisi rabalaukaid, mille puhas vesi kutsub janu kustutama. Laudtee viib esimese lauka juurde, kus Mart Saar olevat ujumas käinud.<br />
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Ja muidugi toredat olendit - aga ärge edasi rääkige, see on Sookolli saladus!Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-68659594097696172012011-06-01T05:05:00.000-07:002011-06-03T08:12:38.185-07:00Hüpassaare talu Soomaal on 100!Kas Debussy või Saar?<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Mart Saar, tuntud eesti helilooja, sündis Hüpassares, Soomaal, 1882.a Isa oli Suure Jaanis orelimängija ja Mart hakkas juba väikse poisina seda proovima, hiljem käis Peterburis koolis ja võttis tunde Rimski-Korsakovi käest. Teda inspireerisid Debusssy ja Skrjabin; ta soovis eesti rahvamuusikat sajandivahetuse<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;"> </span></span>muusikaga kokku põimida</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ssaar elas ja õpetas Tartus. Aastal 1921.- tulekahju! Koduga hävisid hulk teoste käsikirju ja suurepärane raamatukogu. Kolides Tallinnasse, Saar tegutses peamiselt heliloojana, kuid esines ka pianisti ja organistina, nii saatjana kui ka improvisaatorina.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aastal 1932.a sai Hüpassare talu omanikuks ja kolis sinna, kus loodus teda inspireeris, kus ta kirjutas enamik oms teost.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ester Mägi<a href="http://www.koolielu.edu.ee/eesti_muusika/composers/saar/elu.htm">, Saare õpilane</a>, on kirjutanud: "Mida tähendas Saarele Hüpassaare, seda märkasin eriti kevaditi. Ikka sagedamini hakkas ta sellest rääkima. Unustamatud muljed on mul esimesest külaskäigust Hüpassaarde. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seal alles nägin, kuidas ta oli kokku kasvanud oma kodujuurtega. Kohtusime õhtul, kui ta tuli koju oma tavaliselt metsamatkalt - reibas, särav, pruun ja metsahõnguline, paljajalu ning valgeis toorsiidist pükstes ja särgis kui piduline. Järgnevail päevil näitas ta mulle uhkuse ja vaimustusega oma metsi ja puid, käisime rabas käsikäes, sest ta kartis, et teen ettevaatamatu sammu ja vajun laukasse, istusime metsas mahalangenud puudel, rääkisime, aga rohkem vaikisime." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hüpassare talu, ehitatud 1911.a Foto: Elmo Riig, Sakala</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.sakala.ajaleht.ee/?id=451394">Sakala ajaleht kirjeldab</a> 31. peetud Lepakosest;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>«Lepakose lugemised»</b> algatas Lepakoselt pärit põllumajandusprofessor Jaan Lepajõe, kes korraldas aastatel 1992―1999 suviti koduloo- ja rahvuskultuuriteemalisi talusümpoosione. Neid peeti nii Lepakosel, Hüpassaares kui heliloojate Kappide majamuuseumis Suure-Jaanis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sel aastal toimub talumuuseumis hoone 100.a juubel. Järgmisel aastal peetakse Mart Saare 130.a sünnipäeva; ootame kavat!</div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-59508874864309770212011-05-18T04:36:00.000-07:002011-05-18T13:45:08.305-07:00Lahe Vahe-Eesti: Soomaa - Cool!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7xEQ0VdKN0U/TdOrNrOstFI/AAAAAAAAAro/mdkGoqQyrvI/s1600/map.soomaa.new0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7xEQ0VdKN0U/TdOrNrOstFI/AAAAAAAAAro/mdkGoqQyrvI/s320/map.soomaa.new0001.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">"<b>Vahe-Eesti lõunapoolne osa</b> - <a href="http://www.soomaa.ee/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Soomaa</span></b></a> - on võrdlemisi hõredalt ja suhtleliselt hilja asustatud. Siin on veel säilinud palju Eesti ürgsest taimkattest. Kõnelemata suurtest rabadest, mis aastatuhandete jooksul on küll omandanud teisi piirjooni, kuid vaevalt muutunud oma iseloomus, on ka metsad kohati tõelised ürgmetsad." Nii krijutas <a href="http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodor_Lippmaa"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Teodor Lippmaa</b></span></a>, 1935.aastal.</div><br />
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</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">1957.a loodi puiniidu kaitseala Halliste jõe ääres; 1981.a moodustati Eestis 30 sookaitseala, millest neli kuuluvad praeguse Soomaa rahvuspargi piiridesse. Taasiseseisvuseajal loodi uusi ja taastati ellu vanu.looduskaitse organisatsioone. Hans Trass pani käiku ala endise nime "Soomaa". Praegune 371. ruutlilomeetrine kaitseala määrati seaduse kaudu rahvuspargiks 1993.a.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.soomaa.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Soomaa (Land of Bogs)</span></a></b> is a national park consisting of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"> </span>“a vast complex of raised bogs, wet alluvial forests with fens, transition mires and unregulated rivers with flood-plain and wooded meadows.” <i>Aivar Ruukel. </i> </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Soomaa is also a leading destination for wildlife and nature enthusiasts - it has become an ecotourism hotspot: a <b><a href="http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/corine-biotopes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">CORINE biotope area</span></a></b>, endorsed by<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"> <a href="http://www.panparks.org/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Pan Parks of Europe</span></b></a></span> and currently under review by the <a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">UNESCO World Heritage</span></b></a> Committee. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Travel Word has some great stories:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://there%E2%80%99s%20soomaa-ch%20to%20discover%20in%20the%20european%20ecotourism%20hotspot%20of%20estonia/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">There’s Soomaa-ch to Discover in the European Ecotourism Hotspot of Estonia</span></a></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.thetravelword.com/2011/04/08/top-five-ways-to-experience-biodiversity-hotspots/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Canoeing the Fifth Season Floods in Estonia</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><b></b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wilderness Experience in Estonia</span></b></span></b></div><br />
<div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span">Do you love roughing it in the great outdoors and seek adventure? Would you like to improve your Estonian, make new friends and learn about wildlife and park preservation</span>? Here's a unique opportunity presented by the Toronto Estonian Supplementary Schools:<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Become a water guide with Soomaa National Park this summer!</b></span></b></div></div><div></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Aivar Ruukel</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Lead <b>canoe tours</b> through the pristine river network and navigate the wetlands</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Learn about the diversity of wildlife in <b>Kuresoo Bog</b> and gain an understanding of this unique ecosystem.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Participate in the <b>floodplain meadow</b> and <b>bog preservation</b>: help clear and mark trails; preserve native species of grasses using traditional methods of cutting (by hand) and assist park leaders.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Accommodation, meals and training provided.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Suitable for ages 17+ </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings;">v<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span>Vaccinations for Lyme Disease are recommended</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; line-height: normal;">v<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>2 - 3 week volunteer opportunities start <b>July 7!</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><b><br />
</b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Would you like more information? Please contact <b>Aivar Ruukel: aivar@soomaa.com. </b>We can also arrange a group Skype conference call, please email <b>speakesto@gmail.com</b></div></div><div><br />
</div></div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3695626093034658060.post-85117895755645976862011-05-15T09:43:00.000-07:002011-05-18T04:43:27.340-07:00Ell/Nikki from Azerbaijan - Eurovision 2011 winners!<div style="text-align: justify;">Eldar Gasimov and Nigar Jamal, known as Ell/Nikki, won the Eurovision Song Contest with their duet <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZlEAP5Z28"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">'Running Scared'</span></b></a>. Raphael Gualazzi placed second with <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">'</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYcB2hrI4-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Madness of Love</span></a>',</span> </b></span> the first appearance for Italy since 1997. Eric Saade was third with<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfx0OMM2u0A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">"Popular"</span></a>,</span> </b></span>Sweden's best result in the contest since 1999.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a strong Swedish presence surrounding Eldar and Nigar. "Running Scared" was written by Stefan Örn, Sandra Bjurman and Iain Farguhanson, who also authored the Azerbaijan entry "Drip Drop" (performed by Safura in Eurovision 2010). Safura eventually placed fifth. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><a href="http://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhzx7zOGwDw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Shirley's Angels</span></a>, </span></b></span>their backup singers, competed in the Swedish Song Contest Melodifestivalen, which was won by Eric Saade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the traditional winner's press conference after the competition, they were asked about how their song could help solve problems in Europe: "We want to bring Europe together with our song", said Eldar. Nigar said, "A few months ago I was a housewife but now I am the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. It is my biggest dream". Nigar Camal (30), lives in North London with her husand and two children while Eldar Gasımov (21) lives in Azerbaijan.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ell/Nikki arrived in Tallinn in early May as part of their promo tour, which also included stops in St. Petersburg and San Marino<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">.</span></span> They met with<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span>Kroonika correspondent Meelis Kapstas; <a href="http://www.kroonika.ee/index.php?id=45033&ref=toidutare"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">here is the interview</span></b></a>, in which Nigar commented that she didn't see any Estonians in London. The explanation provided by the Latvians and Lithuanians: they must be doing very well in their homeland!</div><br />
The visit in Estonia was brief but they did have time to appear on Estonian Television's morning show, <b>Terevisioon:</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Poolfinaalidest edasipääsejad pakuvad finaalis konkurentsi sinna automaatselt saanud Saksamaa, Hispaania, Itaalia, Prantsusmaa ja Suurbritannia lauludele. Edasipääsejate väljaselgitamiseks said oma hääle anda vaid I poolfinaalis osalenud riikide ning lisaks Suurbritannia ja Hispaania televaatajad ja ekspertidest koosnevad žüriid - igas riigis loeti žürii ja rahva punktid kokku 50/50 põhimõttel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eesti televaatajad saavad täna ka oma lemmikule hääle anda, sest II poolfinnalis esineb Getter Jaani. Eestile on fännide ennustuste paikapidavus positiivne, kuna nad on edasipääsu ja head tulemust ennustanud ka Eesti esindaja Getter Jaani esituses kõlavale "Rockefeller Streetile", mida kuuleb neljapäeval toimuvas II poolfinaalis 15ndana.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nii poolfinaalide kui finaali õhtujuhid on saatejuht, muusik ja koomik Stefan Raab, uudisteankur Judith Rakers ja näitleja Anke Engelke. ETV otseülekandeid poolfinaalidest ja finaalist kommenteerib traditsiooniliselt Marko Reikop, II poolfinaali ja finaali ajal toimub otseülekanne ka Raadio2-s, kus saatejuhtideks on Mart Juur ja Andrus Kivirähk. Hääletamisvõimalus on nimelt neil riikidel, mille esindajad saates osalevad. Ülekannet kommenteerib Marko Reikop.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">12. mail möödub 10 aastat Eesti võidust Eurovisioni lauluvõistlusel Taani pealinnas Kopenhaagenis. Kas mäletate?</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Eestlaste "Everybody" oli üks ootamatumaid võite Eurovisionil, kuna hääletustabelites ega kihlveokontorites sellele edu ei ennustatud. Ometi oli Ivar Musta ja Maian-Anna Kärmase loodud võidulaul mitmel põhjusel silmapaistev: üks lauljatest, Dave Benton, oli vanim esikoha saanud osaleja (oli esituse ajal 49aastane).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Samuti oli see esimene Eurovisioni võidulaul, mida esitas tumedanahaline laulja, ning Eesti oli esimene endistest Nõukogude Liidu liiduvabariikidest, mis võitis Eurovisioni lauluvõistluse.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Üheksa riiki andis Eestile 2001. aasta lauluvõistlusel maksimumi ehk siis 12 punkti. "Everybody" kogus poolehoidjaid Hollandis, Prantsusmaal, Türgis, Suurbritannias, Maltal, Kreekas, Lätis, Leedus ja Sloveenias. Sellest hoolimata jäi laulu menu tagasihoidlikuks: lugu figureeris vaid ühe nädala Saksamaa singlimüügi tabelis TOP 100, mõnevõrra kauem aga Rootsi raadiote edetabelites.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><a href="http://eestilaul.err.ee/uudised/b2b15dc7-4fbf-42fa-b9d2-6cc2e79e2a5a"></a></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://eestilaul.err.ee/uudised/b2b15dc7-4fbf-42fa-b9d2-6cc2e79e2a5a">Eesti Rahvushääling</a> kirjutab: "Getter annab tõepoolest endast parima, kuid kogu laulu juures on midagi veidi kalkuleeritut ja kunstlikku ning kui Euroopa jätkab hääletamist selliste laulude poolt nagu Šveitsi ja Soome omad, siis on see Eesti jaoks halb uudis. Teiselt poolt, "Rockefeller Streetil" on tempo ja temperament, mis puudub enamikus teise poolfinaali üldiselt keskmise tempoga lauludes."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kui Eesti pääseb täna finaali, siis on see teine kord pärast poolfinaalide rakendamist 2004. aastal. Eelmisel korral õnnestus Eestil edasi pääseda 2009. aastal, kui Urban Symphony "Rändajad" saavutas finaalis kuuenda koha.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Okas kurku ja kivi kotti!</div><br />
Eura Visioon</div>Võlusaaredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04484760611321958617noreply@blogger.com0