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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
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In response the Estonian SSR was formally annexed by the Soviet Union (USSR) on August 6, 1940, and nominally became the 16th constituent republic of the USSR.
Population of the Estonian SSR grew from 1,054,000 in 1940
Although the percentage of Estonians in the total population of the Estonian SSR declined due to Soviet migration policies, total number of ethnic Estonians was increasing in the Soviet period.
www.mind42.com /wiki/Estonian_SSR   (5678 words)

  
  Counties of Estonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A county (Estonian: maakond) is an administrative subdivision of Estonia.
In 1793 were formed Võru County in the south of Tartumaa, Viljandi County between Tartu and Pärnu counties, and Paldiski County in the west of Harjumaa.
Counties were re-established in 1 January 1990 in the borders of the Soviet-era regions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Counties_of_Estonia   (599 words)

  
 Estonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 fast, 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Estonia   (2540 words)

  
  Riigikogu > Riigikogu > Election of the X Riigikogu > Election of the X Riigikogu > Riigikogu ...
Estonian citizens with the right to vote who have attained twenty-one years of age by the last day of registration of candidates may run as candidates for member of the Riigikogu.
The candidates at the top of the list in favour of whom the number of votes cast is at least ten per cent of the simple quota are elected.
That is, the candidate who appears toward the top of the national list of a political party and in favour of whom the number of votes cast is at least five per cent of the simple quota receives the compensation mandate.
www.riigikogu.ee /?rep_id=27712   (1042 words)

  
 Rank Definition / Rank Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A separate set of ranks was additionally used for secular, and occasionally ecclesiastic, rulers, as discussed in Ranks of nobility and peerage.
Ranks of nobility and peerageThe nobility represents, or has represented, the higher stratum of a society in which social classes can be distinguished.
Rank of an abelian groupIn mathematics, the rank, or torsion-free rank, of an abelian group measures how large a group is in terms of how large a vector space one would need to "contain" it; or alternatively how large a free abelian group it can contain as a subgroup....
www.elresearch.com /Rank   (922 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/es/Estonian.html   (599 words)

  
 Ranked ballot Definition / Ranked ballot Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A ranked ballot or preferential voting system is a type of voting system in which each voter casts their vote by ranking candidates in order of preference.
It is a voting system giving a voter an option to vote for one of the party lists and then additionally express a preference for one of the candidates of this list.
ranked ballot is a ballot in which a voter expresses either complete or incomplete preferences among the alternatives.
www.elresearch.com /Ranked_ballot   (503 words)

  
 Top20Estonia.com - Your Top20 Guide to Estonia!
Estonian pirates conducted similar raids in the Viking age and sacked and burned the Swedish town of Sigtuna in 1187.
The Estonian government finalized the design of Estonia's euro coins in late 2004, and is now intending to adopt the euro as the country's currency in 2010, later than planned due to continued high inflation.
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.
www.top20estonia.com   (3239 words)

  
 VVK
On the general candidate list in the electoral regions candidates are ranked according to the number of their personal votes.
In the calculation of the comparative figures of each list, as many first elements of the series as there are mandates distributed on the basis of the simple quota to the same list in the electoral regions, is disregarded.
On the general candidate lists in the electoral regions candidates are ranked according to the number of their personal votes.
www.vvk.ee /english/overview.html   (8005 words)

  
 England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
These counties all still exist in, or near to, their original form as the traditional counties.
The list of England's largest cities is much debated because in British English the normal meaning of city is "a continuously built-up urban area"; these are hard to define and various other definitions are preferred by some people to boost the ranking of their own city.
Note that London is not on this list (Greater London is a region and the City of London is tiny), and that one of the two candidates for the status of England's "second city", Manchester, is down in sixth.
www.educhy.com /index.php/England   (4701 words)

  
 Estonia Hotels
Estonians have strong ties to the Nordic countries today stemming from strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Scandinavian colonization and settlement.
From 1945-89 the percentage of ethnic Estonians in Estonia dropped from 94% to 61%, caused primarily by the Soviet program promoting mass immigration of urban industrial workers from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as by wartime emigration and Stalin's mass deportations and executions.
On June 28, 1992, Estonian voters approved the constitutional assembly's draft constitution and implementation act, which established a parliamentary government with a president as chief of state and with a government headed by a prime minister.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/57/estonia-hotels.html   (1911 words)

  
 Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
These historical county lines were usually drawn up before the industrial revolution and the mass urbanisation of England.
The counties each had a county town and many county names were drawn from these (for example Nottinghamshire, from Nottingham).
The list of England's largest cities is much debated because in English the normal meaning of city is "a continuously built-up urban area"; these are hard to define and various other definitions are preferred by some people to boost the ranking of their own city.
www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki?title=England   (5471 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page : R/RA/RAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rana is: A municipality in the county of Nordland, Norway, see Rana, NorwayThe Rana family, who usurped control of Nepal from the mid-19th century until 1951, reducing the monarch to a figurehead and ruling through hereditary government positionsA genus of frogs (rana is Latin for frog)La Rana is n..
Randers is a municipality in central Denmark, in the county of Aarhus, on the peninsula of Jutland.
Randolph is a heavily forested town located in Coos County, New Hampshire, extending from the northern slopes of the White Mountains of the Presidential Range (to the south) to Berlin (to the north), with U.S. route 2 cutting through the middle.
www.wikien.info /browse.php?title=R/RA/RAN   (11179 words)

  
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The plant list is divided into groups of trees, shrubs, vines, forbs, grasses, and aquatics, including indications of species that are currently sold by plant nurseries in the U.S. State of Wisconsin.
The lists present a selection of plants for each State, rather than a comprehensive list of all the plants that might be undesirable in the State.
Some of the plant species listed are not generally considered weeds but may have toxic or poisonous properties, or are otherwise of general interest as wildflowers or herbs.
www.gisinetwork.org /Documents/DraftIASDBs.txt   (15063 words)

  
 Lithuania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian - Lietuva, Polish - Litwa, German - Litauen, French - Lituanie, Spanish - Lituania, Estonian - Lituania, Finnish - Liettua) is a republic in Northeastern Europe.
The counties are subdivided into 56 municipalities, both cities and districts (see: List of municipalities in Lithuania).
The largest and most populous of the Baltic states, Lithuania is a partly maritime country with about 100 km of sandy coastline, of which only 38 km face the open Baltic Sea.
www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/lithuania.html   (1010 words)

  
 Estonia
After the Estonian War of Independence 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.
Indigenous Estonian-speaking ethnic Estonians constitute nearly seventy percent of the population and the majority amongst the remaining thirty percent are mostly first and second generation immigrants from various parts of the former Soviet Union, mainly Russia.
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.measuroo.com /eth-E/Estonia.php   (1538 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review
The EU also expressed concern regarding the voting rights of Serb refugees, methods of voting for the diaspora list, representation of minorities in the Sabor, the monitoring of the elections, transparent financing of election campaigns and the unusual date for the elections (23 December).
She stated that this demarche meant that the EU favoured the opposition, adding that she found it "odd" that the opposition was invited to Brussels on 11 November, in the middle of the election campaign.
As far as the voting rights of the diaspora are concerned, the bill envisages the introduction of an unfixed quota which counts one mandate as an average mandate in an electoral unit in Croatia.
www.ce-review.org /99/19/croatianews19.html   (1134 words)

  
 Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist: 06/01/2005 - 06/30/2005
The guest list was, at least in part, a veritable who's who of southern Ontario neocalvinism, including more than one Redeemer colleague, several of our alumni, CLAC people and a television host from CTS, who (though probably not herself a neocalvinist) introduced the speaker.
Because my grandmother still lived in the community when I was growing up, we spent a lot of time there during my childhood, generally visiting two or three times a year and, especially during the summers, spending as many as 6 or 7 weeks at a stretch.
Whenever we would drive past this building on East Main and County Streets, my mother told us that, when she was growing up, the public library was located in the second storey of what was then a fire hall.
byzantinecalvinist.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_byzantinecalvinist_archive.html   (8045 words)

  
 RFE/RL Newsline, 03-10-21
One of them was Rus, whose list of 39 candidates includes Lyubov Yegorova, a six-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion, and former soccer star Vagiz Khidiyatullin, newsru.com reported on 20 October.
The signature lists presented by Rus were found to have a comparatively large number of fake signatures -- 11,057 out of 80,000 checked, or 13.82 percent.
Valentin Danilov, a physicist who is currently on trial on charges he spied for China, turned in signature lists supporting his candidacy for the 7 December State Duma election to the election commission in the Krasnoyarsk Krai city of Yeniseisk, newsru.com reported on 20 October.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2003/03-10-21.rferl.html   (9513 words)

  
 Articles - Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
According to archaeological evidence, the area now comprising Finland was first settled around 8500 BC during the Stone Age as the ice shield of the last ice age receded.
Legislation may be initiated by the Council of State, or one of the Eduskunta members, who are elected for a four-year term on the basis of proportional representation through open list multimember districts.
Dialects, folklore, customs, and people´s feeling of affiliation are associated with these historical provinces of Finland, although the re-settlement of 420,000 Karelians during World War II and urbanization in the latter half of the 20th century have made differences less pronounced.
www.quickize.com /articles/Finland   (3986 words)

  
 The Radio Equalizer -Brian Maloney: 02 January 2005
In King County, a record 27,641 provisional ballots were counted in the election; 1,791 others were disqualified either because the voter wasn't registered or the signature on the ballot envelope didn't match the signature on file.
If King County and at least four other counties can't adequately explain their inability to say who cast ballots, it could be a basis for contesting the election, state Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance said yesterday.
King County elections officials are trying to figure out why their list of Nov. 2 voters fell short of the number of ballots cast.
radioequalizer.blogspot.com /2005_01_02_radioequalizer_archive.html   (6469 words)

  
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The fact that the counties were so small meant, and still means, that there was no regional government able to coordinate an overarching plan for the area.
It may not be as precise as "English", but it will avoid offence in the event the person is actually from a different part of Britain.
Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving epic poems in what is identifiable as a form of the English language.
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 Printed Version
As this report is written, several Estonian politicians are demanding that the country cooperate with neighbouring Lithuania to build a new nuclear power plant after the facility at Ignalina closes due to EU safety concerns.
Usually, the national list was openly displayed in the common area, while the list of candidates running in the particular district was inside the polling booth.
In the calculation of the comparative figures of each list, as many first elements of the series as there are mandates distributed on the basis of simple quotas to the same list in the electoral district shall be disregarded.
www.bhhrg.org /Print.asp?ReportID=195&CountryID=31   (7049 words)

  
 Botany: Focus on Species   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This site is well-designed, informative, and includes a plethera of photos and facts about the structure, classification, life cycles, and habitat of the small green plants and colorful fungi that carpet New Zealand's forest floor.
Bryology is the scientific term for the study of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
Lists of Estonian bryophytes, history of bryology in Estonia, and protected species.
www.nbii.gov /disciplines/botany/species.html   (3083 words)

  
 Estonia - Gurupedia
Sword Brethren and Denmark conquered the land by 1227.
The Estonian economy is growing fast, partly due to a number of
Although foreign missionaries have been working in Estonia for over a thousand years, Estonians are not by and large a religious people.
www.gurupedia.com /e/es/estonia.htm   (655 words)

  
 All articles - Dic.blogopt.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ranks and insignia of NATO Air Forces Enlisted
Ranks and insignia of the National Socialist Flyers Corps
Ranks and insignia of the National Socialist Motor Corps
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 RFE/RL Newsline, 03-08-19
In the 1990s, Sorrento was ranked among the top 10 European racehorses, but more recently he fell upon hard times and came to Tyumen completely skin and bones, according to Shilokhvostov.
In an interview published on 15 August in the Estonian daily "Postimees," Akhmed Zakaev, who serves as deputy prime minister in the government of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, argued that Chechnya should be declared an international protectorate following the withdrawal of Russian troops, Interfax reported.
The counties affected are Alba, Caras-Severin, Constanta, Dolj, and Galati.
www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/balkans/rferl/2003/03-08-19.rferl.html   (9523 words)

  
 DataRepositories in DataInTheClassroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Data are often available for the country as a whole and at the state, county, and city level.
FASTATA is a detailed list of health-related summary data by topic area at the national and state level.
The resources listed here are, for the time being, simply an initial gesture in that direction; they barely scratch the surface of what is available.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /soc/classroom/index.pl?DataRepositories   (3267 words)

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