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Heiki Raudla
Heiki Raudla (born 20 May 1949 in Võhma) is an Estonian educator, cartoonist and politician. Rausla graduated from the Department of Physics and Chemistry of Tartu State University in 1972 with a degree in physics. He later worked as a physics teacher. Since 1972, he has been drawing cartoons for newspapers such as ''Edasi'', ''Tee Kommunismile'', ''Sakala'', '' Oma maa'', and magazines such as Pikker and Noorus. He was a member of VII Riigikogu VII Riigikogu was the seventh legislature of Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu The Riigikogu (; from Estonian ''riigi-'', of the state, and ''kogu'', assembly) is the unicameral parliament of Estonia. In addition to approving legislation, the Pa .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Raudla, Heiki Living people 1949 births Members of the Riigikogu, 1992–1995 Estonian cartoonists University of Tartu alumni Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class People from Võhma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võhma
Võhma (german: Wöchma) is a town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ... in Põhja-Sakala Parish, Viljandi County, central Estonia. History The settlement dates to the sixteenth century. It began to grow when a railway station, located on the Tallinn - Viljandi railway line operated by Elron (rail transit), opened in 1899. Võhma was named a borough in 1945 and a town in 1993. In the period from 1928 to 1996 it was largely known for its slaughterhouse. The closure of the slaughterhouse caused a spike in unemployment, but the town has somewhat rebounded since then. During the Cold War it was home to Võhma air base. Notable residents *Jarmo Ahjupera (born 1984), professional footballer. *Riho Lahi (1904–1995), writer, journalist and cartoonist. Gallery File:Võ ... [...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] |
University Of Tartu
The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest and most prestigious university. It was founded under the name of ''Academia Gustaviana'' in 1632 by Baron Johan Skytte, the Swedish Governors-General, Governor-General (1629–1634) of Swedish Livonia, Swedish Ingria, Ingria, and Karelia (historical province of Finland), Karelia, with the required ratification provided by his long-time friend and former student – from age 7 –, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, shortly before the king's death on 6 November in the Battle of Lützen (1632), during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Nearly 14,000 students are at the university, of whom over 1,300 are foreign students. The language of instruction in most curricula is Estonian, some more notable exceptions are taught in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edasi
''Edasi'' (Estonian: ''Forward'') was a newspaper published in Tartu, Estonia. The paper was published with this name between 1948 and 1994. History and profile The paper was the successor of ''Postimees'' of which the name was changed to ''Edasi'' in 1948 to make the paper more Soviet. It worked, and the paper became a true Soviet publication. Its headquarters was in Tartu. The paper was controlled by the Tartu Communist Party. However, it was one of the Estonian media outlets not used by the Soviet officials to control Estonians. ''Edasi'' was first a local paper, but later it became a national publication. During the period between 1955 and 1979 when Estonia was subject to the mental Sovietization Sovietization (russian: Советизация) is the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils) or the adoption of a way of life, mentality, and culture modelled after the Soviet Union. This often included ... it was one of the publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oma Maa
''My Own Land'' (Finnish title: '; sometimes translated as ''Our Native Land''), Op. 92, is a single-movement cantata for mixed choir and orchestra written in 1918 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece, which is a setting of (a pseudonym for Samuli Kustaa Bergh) Finnish language poem of the same name, is the first in a series of four "little known but beautiful", patriotic cantatas from the composer's mature period—including ''Song of the Earth'' (Op. 93, 1919); '' Hymn of the Earth'' (Op. 95, 1920); and '' Väinämöinen’s Song'' (Op. 110, 1926). ''My Own Land'' premiered on 25 October 1918 in Helsinki with conducting the Helsinki Youth League (the predecessor to the Finnish National Chorus)—the commissioning ensemble and dedicatee—and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestration ''My Own Land'' is scored for the following instruments and voices: *Vocalists: Mixed choir (SATB) *Woodwinds: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pikker (magazine)
''Pikker'' was an Estonian magazine of satire and humor published between 1943 and 2001, named for the Estonian lightning god Pikker. During 1943–1944 ''Pikker'' existed as satire and humor supplement to the Soviet Estonian newspaper ''Rahva Hääl'' and printed in Moscow and Leningrad. In 1945 its editorial office was moved to Tallinn, Estonian SSR. In 1973 Pikker published two articles which criticised the planned economy which were censored by the authorities soon after the publication. In 1987, on April Fools' Day the magazine issued a humor award, Meie Mats Meie Mats, named after an Estonian folk song, is a prestigious yearly humour award issued since 1987 and originally initiated by Edgar Spriit, the chief editor of '' Pikker'', a long-time Estonian humour magazine.Maaleht 18 January 2001Kellest .... References 1943 establishments in the Soviet Union 2001 disestablishments in Estonia Defunct magazines published in Estonia Magazines published in the Sovie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VII Riigikogu
VII Riigikogu was the seventh legislature of Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). The legislature was elected after 1992 election, the first after the Estonian Restoration of Independence. Election results Results: Officers Speaker of the Riigikogu: Ülo Nugis Ülo Nugis (28 April 1944 – 18 November 2011) was an Estonian politician and economist. As Speaker of the Supreme Council of Estonia on 20 August 1991, he presided over the Supreme Council's historic session when it voted for the restoration o .... List of members of the Riigikogu References {{Riigikogu Politics of Estonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian National Library
The National Library of Estonia ( et, Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu) is a national public institution in Estonia, which operates pursuant to the National Library of Estonia Act (). It was established as the parliamentary library () of Estonia on December 21, 1918. According to the act, the National Library of Estonia is the custodian of Estonian national memory and heritage, and acts as the repository centre of the Estonian literature and national bibliography, the main information provider for the Estonian parliament and many other constitutional institutions, a national centre of library and information sciences, a site for the continuing education of librarians, and also as a cultural centre. Since September 16, 2008, the director general of the National Library is . Functions The National Library of Estonia is: * a national library, collecting, storing and making publicly accessible the documents published in Estonia or about Estonia, regardless of their place of publication, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Riigikogu, 1992–1995
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Cartoonists
Estonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe * Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent * Estonian language * Estonian cuisine * Estonian culture See also * * Estonia (other) * Languages of Estonia * List of Estonians This is a list of notable Estonians. Architects * Andres Alver (born 1953) *Dmitri Bruns (1929–2020) * Karl Burman (1882–1965) * Eugen Habermann (1884–1944) *Georg Hellat (1870–1943) *Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883) * Erich Jacoby (1885 ... {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
