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Astra Klovāne
Astra Klovāne ( Ērgle, born 13 October 1944 in Baldone) is a former Latvian chess player. Astra Klovāne won the Latvian Chess Championship for women seven times - 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1977, and 1978. She won also the Latvian women speed championship in 1977, 1978, and 1981. Chess career She learned to play chess at the age of 11. Her first teachers were her father and brother, but her first coach was Zigurds Pigits. In 1959, at the age of 15, she won the Latvian Girl Championship, and two years later she won the Baldone Club Championship. In 1961 she shared 1-3 prize in a Moscow tournament. Astra Klovāne won three Latvian Ladies Championships in a row - 1963, 1964, and 1965, without losing a game, and won also the Riga Ladies Championship in 1964. Astra Klovāne played for Latvia in Soviet team competitions: * In 1962, the best result at ten board in the 8th Soviet Team Chess Championship in Leningrad (+3, =5, -0). * In 1967, the best result at nine board in the 10th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldone
Baldone (; ) is a town in Ķekava Municipality, in the Semigallia region of Latvia. The town is famous for its sulfur water springs and was a spa resort. Viktors Arājs was born here in 1910. Gallery File:Mercendarbes muiža.jpg, Mencendarbe Manor File:Baldones observatorija.JPG, Observatory in Baldone File:Baldones luterāņu baznīca un sarkanarmiešu brāļu kapi.jpg, Baldones luthenaruan churck and the red army brother graveyard File:The reconstructed cabin of horse tram in Baldone 01.jpg, Baldone horse wagon File:Meža galerija 1.jpg, Walking route with paintings in the forest File:Sanatorijas centrālā strūklaka.jpg, Baldones sanatorium park File:Kannenieku brāļu kapi.jpg, Kannenieku brother cemetery File:Sarkanās armijas brāļu kapi Mežvidos (1134 karavīri), Baldones pagasts, Baldones novads, Latvia - panoramio (3).jpg, Red army graves in Mežvidu brother cemetery File:Mazais Kausezers.jpg, Kausezers File:Riekstukalns - ogre11 - Panoramio.jpg, Riekstukalns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Ķekava Municipality
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |