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  Estonians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Estonians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Estonia and the Finnic Estonian language.
Estonian language belongs to the Balto-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric group of languages, as does the Finnish language.
Estonians have strong ties to the Nordic countries stemming from strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Scandinavian and German rule and settlement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Estonians   (325 words)

  
 Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, Part 06/21
List owner: hau4300@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Arthur Hau) Last change: Jun 95 eagles Contact: majordomo@langevin.usc.edu Purpose: The primary purpose of this list is to provide a forum for Scouts, Scouters, and former Scouts who are gay/lesbian/bisexual to discuss how they can apply pressure to the BSA to change their homophobic policies.
This list is aimed at all researchers who are working in the field of economic growth and at those who export concepts and/or methodology from that field to their own.
This list was created for the express purpose of discussing anything from the care and feeding of your beloved pet bird to the scientific research concerning any aspect of wild or domestic exotic bird populations.
web.bilkent.edu.tr /Online/Mail/mailing-lists/part06/faq.html   (3725 words)

  
 Estonia
The Republic of Estonia is a small country in Northeastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea to the west, the Gulf of Finland to the north, and sharing a land border with its fellow Baltic state Latvia to the south and with Russia to the east.
Estonia expects to complete its preparations for EU membership by the end of 2002 and is one of the economic front-runners of those seeking entry in 2004.
A majority of the Estonians is Lutheran, whereas the Russian minority is Eastern Orthodox.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ee/EE.html   (599 words)

  
 The Definitive Guide to Estonia XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Estonian pirates conducted similar raids in the Viking age and sacked and burned the Scandinavian capital of Sigtuna in 1187.
The Estonian economy is growing quickly, partly due to a number of Scandinavian companies relocating their routine operations and Russian oil transit using Estonian ports.
The Estonian government is intending to adopt the Euro as the country's currency on 1 January 2008 due to continued high inflation, and finalised the design of Estonia's Euro coins in late 2004.
www.xxxx.com /s/Estonia   (2656 words)

  
 FUNERAL CUSTOMS OF CAUCASIAN ESTONIANS
According to the information obtained from Estonian settlers, their Caucasian neighbours are strictly forbidden to take part in the preparations for funerals: "But among fls the relatives must not do anything, they only sit by the coffin day and night and lament, its a question of honour" *11 (Kuldkepp).
Estonian settlers got a remedy from Armenians against excessive yearning for the dead - some earth was taken from the bo ttom of the grave and put on the shoulder (EA 203, 184).
At the funerals of Estonians the coffin and the cross are mostly carried by male neighbours or relatives.
haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol5/mikko.htm   (15507 words)

  
 Aile Möldre. Estų knygos metų projektas "100 įtakingiausių Estijos knygų"
The first place of this novel on the list is not surprising - it has long been the favourite book of the Estonian public, valued by all strata of the readers as the questionnaires on the favourite books from the end of the 1960s to the 1980s demonstrate.
Among the Estonian literature created during the Soviet period, the readers gave preference to the works that expressed the tragic destiny of Estonians after the loss of independence and dealt with the problems of preserving the national identity in the Soviet empire.
Comparing the Estonian "golden library", the Finnish list, compiled by the experts and the "LOGOS" list brings to the conclusion that the "Catcher in the Rye" by J. Salinger is the book that has the strongest international image as it is included in all three lists.
www.leidykla.vu.lt /inetleid/inf-mok/20/str18.html   (3552 words)

  
 general list
The Estonians are related to the Finns, and their music shares some similarities.
Estonian runo-song has been extensively recorded and studied, especially those sung by women.
Much of the early scholarly study of runo-song was done in the 1860s by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, who used them to compose the Estonian national epic, Kalevipoeg By the 20th century, though, runo-song had largely disappeared from Estonia, with vibrant traditions existing only in Setumaa and Kihnu.
xoomer.virgilio.it /pfreelance/regioni/Estonia.htm   (332 words)

  
 Articles - Estonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After the Estonian Liberation War and Treaty of Tartu signed in February 2, 1920 Estonia maintained this independence for twenty-two years, and the very same parliamentary government was reinstated in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Estonian government is intending to adopt the Euro as the country´s currency on 1 January 2007, and finalised the design of Estonia´s Euro coins in late 2004.
The predominant religion of indigenous ethnic Estonians is the Christian belief in the form the Protestant Evangelical Lutheran confession, however less than a quarter of ethnic Estonians define themselves as active believers at present.
www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Estonia   (1703 words)

  
 LIST OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS
The empirical premise of the study proceeds from the notion of temporal continuity of Estonian language serving as the central factor in the reproduction of the Estonian ethnic identity.
As Estonian society is governed by clear-cut symbolic borders that are established by the language, then the emergence of a double identity (Berry, 1992), which would correspond to one's instrumental skills, is inhibited.
The results confirmed the claim that an increase in the instrumental significance of Estonian is accompanied by an increase in the role of Russian as a marker of group-belonging manifestation and the intergroup symbolic border.
www.psych.ut.ee /esta/online/2000/chronicle/vihalemm_sum.htm   (2325 words)

  
 Evertype: List of Language Lists
This file lists e-mail distribution lists devoted primarily to the linguistic study of individual languages and groups of languages (though a couple of others, in particular lists for language learners, have been included as well).
Liste de nature multilangue pour parler de toute sorte de musique francophone.
Primarily a list focusing on Taiwan's language and language education reform, language activism, vernacular literature, cultural critique, and relevant issues (plus greeting and announcements).
www.evertype.com /langlist.html   (2386 words)

  
 Russia encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Russia politics and officials, Russian History. Travel to Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With assistance from the European Union, the World Bank and the Nordic Investment Bank, Estonia completed most of its preparations for EU membership by the end of 2002 and now has one of the strongest economies of the new member states of the European Union, which it joined on 1 May 2004.
The Estonian economy is growing quickly, partly due to a number of Scandinavian companies relocating their routine operations to the country and Russian oil transit using Estonian ports.
Russian is also widely spoken as a secondary language by 30- to 70-year-old ethnic Estonians, because Russian was taught as a compulsory second language during the Soviet era.
www.russiaiworld.com /wiki-Estonia   (2681 words)

  
 List of Russians - Simple English Wikipedia
See also List of Marshals of the Soviet Union.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union many nations (rightfully) chose to "regain" their nationality in the eyes of the world.
Therefore some names may be missing from the list above and you may wish to look into the following lists.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Russians   (1034 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Index
List of Allied warships that served at Gallipoli
List of federal subjects of Russia by population
List of characters in The Chronicles of Narnia
encyclopedie-en.snyke.com /ndx/page_667.html   (351 words)

  
 Estonia
The supreme judiciary court is the National Court or Riigikohus, with 17 justices whose chairman is appointed by the parliament for life on nomination by the president.
About seventy percent of the population consist of ethnic Estonians, with the rest from other former Soviet republics, mainly Russia, who predominantly live in the industrial north eastern county of Ida-Virumaa and in the capital Tallinn.
The predominant religion of Estonians is the Christian belief in the form the Evangelical Lutheran confession.
creekin.net /n62-estonia.html   (1244 words)

  
 BONJOUR L'ESTONIE: Estonians dissatisfied with airBaltic
The Estonian businessman Urmas Soorumaa has announced that the company is irresponsible.
Another Estonian entrepreneur, Mauno Leppik, claims he has also had problems with airBaltic, however, the company informed him about the changes a week before the departure.
The Estonian Football Federation, the former Prime Minister, Juhan Parts, and football fans were also dissatisfied with the quality of services offered by airBaltic.
shaan.typepad.com /shaanou/2005/11/estonians_dissa.html   (375 words)

  
 SparkNotes: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Character List
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov - An inmate of a Stalinst labor camp somewhere in Siberia in 1951.
Eino and the other Estonian chat in their own language constantly, interacting with each other much more than with anyone else.
The Estonians represent the necessity of maintaining a private world set apart from the horrors of camp existence.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/denisovich/characters.html   (738 words)

  
 Estonians in North America, 1627-1896
The first era of Estonian migration to North America is the period of time that lasted from the establishment of New Sweden until almost the start of the twentieth century.
The next known Estonian presence in North America came on the west coast of the continent, in Alaska.
This, added to the fact that the immigrants coming to North America at this time were categorized as Russians rather than Estonians, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to gain an accurate understanding as to the true picture of Estonian immigration in the nineteenth century.
www.geocities.com /Vienna/8921/colonial.html   (518 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Estonian bank, 2 men charged   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
NEW YORK — Federal regulators called timeout Tuesday on an Estonian investment bank and two twentysomething traders, accusing them of hacking into the computer system of a business news service and peeking at the headlines of company press releases before they were sent out to the public.
All told, the two men and the Estonian investment bank pocketed at least $7.8 million in illegal profit since the beginning of this year, the SEC charges.
Over several months, after seeing the list of announcements and tracking what releases were then issued, the Estonians must have figured out what the releases were, Lokey says.
www.usatoday.com /money/industries/banking/2005-11-01-bizwire-bust-usat_x.htm   (580 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Estonia and the Estonians (Studies of Nationalities): Books: Toivo U. Raun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In this comprehensive survey of Estonian history, Toivo Raun places recent events into historical perspective with up-to-date information on the era of glasnost and perestroika (1985-1991), analyzing the striking process of rebirth, renewal, and de-Sovietization.
He stresses the role of Estonia's strategic geopolitical location and the small number of ethnic Estonians as crucial factors that have shaped the history of the area and its inhabitants.
Attention is also paid to historiography and to differing interpretations of major issues; throughout the book the history of Estonia is viewed in the larger context of northern and eastern Europe.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0817928529?v=glance   (864 words)

  
 epunkt141
According another list published by the BNS on 29 September there were 27 survivors on the 'Silja Europa' - in spite of the fact that there should only have been six according to (20).
When the Estonian embassy staff according to consular principles tried to visit the Estonian survivors at the hospitals, they were turned away and the hospitals refused to name any Estonian in the hospitals!
One reason for the refusal of the Swedish authorities to name the Estonian survivors at the hospitals was that the list of rescued Estonians in Sweden on 1 October 1994 was 'preliminary'.
heiwaco.tripod.com /epunkt141.htm   (5548 words)

  
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It was the Vietnam family member who recognized the names on the list and immediately knew this list required further investigation.
Based on Ann Holland's inquiries an "investigation" of the list was begun, in the fall of 1993.
The list was conveniently "misplaced" for 15 months until it was "accidentally" discovered with some documents in a Korean War families' records.
pages.prodigy.net /lynnpowmia/990123.htm   (2059 words)

  
 Those wacky Estonians... - Futurelooks Community Forums
SONKAJARVI, Finland (Reuters) - Estonians ran off with the world wife-carrying title for the fifth year in a row despite new rules on the weight of the spouse.
Using the trademark "Estonia carry," in which the woman squeezes her thighs on the sides of the man's face while hanging upside down along his back, Meelis Tammre, 24, and Anna Zilberberg, 21, were fastest round the 278-yard course.
"Estonians win because they have thin and beautiful women," she said with a smile.
www.futurelooks.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3116   (753 words)

  
 Estonians pump WiFi with petrol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SOME ENTERPRISING Estonians are setting up a Wireless LAN network in a petrol station in Tallinn.
Like WiFi activists around the world these Estonian geeks are ensuring that the networks are open to passers-by to use easily.
Indeed since many are in pubs and restaurants the idea is to encourage visitors to stay and surf the web, spending money all the while.
www.theinquirer.net /?article=5118   (328 words)

  
 EERL (Estonia Research List) - START HERE
List all place names that are important to your search if you know them.
Also the names of the people listed are followed by the father's first name (rarely the mother's), birth data, death, and arrest and trial dates and outcomes.
We do have her Estonian passport, which still has the passport number (066079302).
feefhs.org /baltic/ee/eerl/eerl.html   (3411 words)

  
 DC Estonian
Couples from Junior Worlds expected to leave for seniors, Estonian dancers Grethe Grunberg, 17, and Kristian Rand, who turned 19 in June, hope to reach the podium at the 2007 Junior Worlds in Oberstdorf, Germany.
The dancers finished ninth overall in 2006, although they were eighth in each segment.
The bronze was the first by an Estonian dance couple at a Junior Grand Prix event.
www.dcestonian.com   (244 words)

  
 Eesti Loodus
Altogether there are about ten thousand mires with the total territory of over a million hectares, occupying more than a fifth of Estonian territory.
Detailed diagrams indicate that peat is not renewed as fast as it is believed and that in last 50 years, 70 per cent of our mires have disappeared as a result of drainage, peat extraction or afforestation.
Starting with von Bellingshausen, the list of Estonians in Antarctica now includes more than 25 names.
www.loodusajakiri.ee /eesti_loodus/artikkel309_280.html   (688 words)

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