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	Encyclopedia: Daina
		The first collection of dainas was published between 1894 and 1915 as Latvju Dainas by Krišjānis Barons.
		Daina was registered with the Russian government in 1905, with the official purpose of being a church choir.
		Daina's staging of America in the Bath-House and the choir's performance of several nationalist songs was a great cultural event that gave momentum to the nationalist movement, and Daina spread across the country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Daina (321 words)

	Daina -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Dainas are very short, usually only one or two unrhymed (A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem) stanzas, unrhymed and in a four-footed trochaic metre.
		Lyrically, dainas concern themselves with native mythology but, in contrast to most similar forms, does not have any legendary (A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength) heroes.
		The most prominent of these was called Daina (song in the (additional info and facts about Lithuanian language) Lithuanian language), formed by composer Juozas Naujalis in 1899.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/daina.htm (295 words)

	KMODDL - Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library
		David Henderson is a Co-Principal Investigator on the NSF-funded component of the KMODDL project and the author or co-author, with Daina Taimina, of many of the KMODDL tutorials.
		Daina Taimina is a mathematics educator and research associate.
		She is author, or co-author with David Henderson, of many of the KMODDL tutorials and she collaborates with teachers and KMODDL’s Museum of Science partners to integrate kinematic mechanisms into middle school mathematics education.
	kmoddl.library.cornell.edu /contributors.php (1836 words)

	Mathematics in Latvia Through the Centuries, by Daina Taimina and Ingrida Henina
		Unfortunately none of the people to inhabit the land of present-day Latvia in the ninth millennium B.C. left their memoirs.
		All we can tell now about their using numbers and calculations is what we find from the oral tradition in ancient Latvian folk songs (dainas) and folk tales, and from archaeological sources.
		[Sostaks, 1998] Daina Taimina presented a paper at the Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and MAA (San Antonio, TX, USA, 1999, Washington, DC, 2001).
	www.math.cornell.edu /~dtaimina/mathinlv.html (16065 words)

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