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Endel Nääb
Endel is an Estonian masculine given name and may refer to: *Endel Aruja (1911-2008), Estonian physicist active in Canada *Endel Eero (1930–2006), Estonian politician * Endel Edasi (1929–2002), Estonian swimmer *Endel Kiisa (born 1937), Estonian motorcycle rider *Endel Laas (1915- 2009), Estonian forest scientist and professor *Endel Lippmaa (1930-2015), Estonian physicist, academian and politician *Endel Nelis (1925–1993), Estonian fencer and fencing coach * Endel Nirk (1925–2018), Estonian literary scientist, critic and writer *Endel Pärn (1914–1990), Estonian actor and singer * Endel Press (1929–1982), Estonian swimmer *Endel Puusepp (1909–1996), Estonian Soviet World War II pilot *Endel Ratas (1938–2006), Estonian freedom fighter and politician *Endel Redlich (1923–1949), Estonian partisan * Endel Rikand (1906–1944), Estonian sport shooter * Endel Rivers (born 1959), Estonian-Australian musician, composer and music producer *Endel Ruberg (1917–1989), E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endel Puusepp
Endel Puusepp (russian: Эндель Карлович Пусэп; 1 May 1909 – 18 June 1996) was a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin, who completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns during World War II. He was a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award for flying a high-ranking delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington, D.C. and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front. Early life Endel Puusepp was born into a family of Estonian peasants who had settled in Yeniseysk Governorate, Siberia, during the Stolypin land reform. Ever since early childhood, Puusepp dreamed of becoming a pilot. His parents, however, envisaged a different career for him: either a teacher or an agronomist. Having completed 7 grades of school, Puusepp moved to Leningrad to study at the Estonian-Finnish Teachers' College. Aviation career After completing one year of studies at the teacher's college, Puusepp transferred to a pilot's school, first in Volsk a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endel (app)
Endel is a paid generative music app that creates personalized sound environments (called ''soundscapes'') to match user activities. The app provides preset modes for relaxation, focus, sleep, and moving, and reacts to time of the day, weather, heart rate, and location to create unique compositions. Endel is available on iOS and Android devices, as a standalone Apple Watch app, and Amazon Alexa Skill. History Endel was launched in 2018 as an application that generates individual soundscapes fitted to the user's immediate conditions. The app's Endel Pacific engine was built based on scientific principles about sound's effect on the human body and mind. The same year the app passed the Techstars Music startup accelerator and raised investments from the Amazon's Alexa Fund (focused on voice-powered products and conversational computing). Soundscapes In January 2019, Endel signed a distribution deal with Warner Music Group to produce and release 20 algorithmically created al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving (born May 26, 1927) is an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. In his research on human memory he proposed the distinction between semantic and episodic memory. Tulving is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. He joined the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences in 1992 as the first Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and remained there until his retirement in 2010. In 2006, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour. Biography Tulving was born in Petseri, Estonia, in 1927. In 1944, following the Soviet re-occupation of Estonia, Tulving (then 17 years old) and his younger brother Hannes were separated from their family and sent to live in Germany. In Germany, he finished high school and worked as a teacher and interpreter for the U.S. army. He briefly studied medicine at Heidelberg University before he immigrated to Canada in 1949. In 1950, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endel Taniloo
Endel Eduard Taniloo, born Danilov (5 January 1923 – 28 November 2019), was an Estonian sculptor and recipient of Order of the White Star in 2002. He was born in Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of .... References 1923 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Estonian sculptors 20th-century Estonian male artists Artists from Tartu Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class Male sculptors {{Estonia-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endel Ruberg
Endel Ruberg (21 May 1917 – 29 December 1989) was an Estonian-Canadian artist, naturalist, and humanitarian. He is best known for his leather and watercolour artwork as well as his volunteer work with children. Biography Endel Ruberg was born in Virumaa, Estonia. After the Occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet invasion and occupation of Estonia, Ruberg became a member of the Forest Brothers and fought against the Soviets. In 1941, he fled to Finland and participated in the Continuation War as part of the ''Finnish Infantry Regiment 200, soomepoisid''; a unit in the Finnish army during World War II made up mostly of Estonian volunteers, who preferred to fight against the Soviet Union in the ranks of the Finnish army instead of the armed forces of Germany. He was severely wounded in action in 1942. In August 1944, he returned to Estonia to fight against the advancing Red Army. In September 1944, fled by boat across the sea to Sweden. In 1951 he emigrated from Sweden to Canada. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
