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Eduard Pütsep
Eduard Pütsep (21 October 1898 – 22 August 1960) was an Estonian wrestler. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympics and won a gold medal in the bantamweight division in 1924, becoming the first Olympic champion in wrestling from Estonia. In 1928 he placed sixth in Greco-Roman and ninth in freestyle wrestling. Career Eduard Pütsep was born in Vastseliina Parish (present-day Võru Parish). He took up wrestling during World War I and in 1917 placed third at the Russian championships. At his first international competition, the 1920 Olympics, he lost in a semifinal to the eventual silver medalist Heikki Kähkönen. Next year he finished fourth at the world championships, and in 1922 won a silver medal. He retired from competitions in 1933 and attended the 1936 Summer Olympics as the head coach of the Latvian wrestling team. During World War II he moved to Finland and continued to coach wrestlers there. Since 1977 an annual international wrestling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vastseliina Parish
Vastseliina Parish (; ) was a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. It had a population of 2,165 (2008) and an area of 222.8 km². Settlements ;Small borough Vastseliina ;Villages Haava, Vastseliina Parish, Haava - Halla, Estonia, Halla - Heinasoo - Hinniala - Hinsa - Holsta - Illi, Võru County, Illi - Indra, Estonia, Indra - Jeedasküla - Juraski - Kaagu - Käpa, Estonia, Käpa - Kapera - Kerepäälse - Kirikumäe - Kõo, Võru County, Kõo - Kornitsa, Estonia, Kornitsa - Kõrve, Võru County, Kõrve - Külaoru - Kündja - Lindora - Loosi - Luhte - Mäe-Kõoküla - Möldri, Vastseliina Parish, Möldri - Mutsu, Estonia, Mutsu - Ortuma - Paloveere, Vastseliina Parish, Paloveere - Pari, Estonia, Pari - Perametsa, Võru County, Perametsa - Plessi - Puutli - Raadi, Võru County, Raadi - Saarde, Võru County, Saarde - Savioja, Vastseliina Parish, Savioja - Sutte - Tabina, Estonia, Tabina - Tallikeste - Tellaste - Tsolli, Vastseliina Parish, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona on the 29th IOC Session on 26 April 1931. The 1936 Games marked the second and most recent time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city bidding to host those Games. Later rule modifications forbade cities hosting the bid vote from being awarded the games. To outdo the 1932 Summer Olympics, 1932 Los Angeles Games, Adolf Hitler had Olympiastadion (Berlin), a new 100,000-seat track and field stadium built, as well as six gymnasiums and other smaller arenas. The Games were the first to be Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries.Rader, Benjamin G. "American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports", 5th ed. Filmmaker Leni Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestlers At The 1928 Summer Olympics
Wrestling is a Martial arts, martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves different grappling-type techniques, such as clinch fighting, throw (grappling), throws and takedown (grappling), takedowns, joint locks, Grappling hold#Pinning hold, pins, and other grappling holds. Many different wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sports, and Military education and training, military systems. Wrestling comes in different forms, the most popular being professional wrestling, which is a form of athletic theatre. Other real life, legitimateThe term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to predetermined professional wrestling, which is very different from the legitimate (or Real life, real-life) wrestling combat predominantly detailed in this article. competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestlers At The 1924 Summer Olympics
Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves different grappling-type techniques, such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins, and other grappling holds. Many different wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sports, and military systems. Wrestling comes in different forms, the most popular being professional wrestling, which is a form of athletic theatre. Other legitimateThe term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to predetermined professional wrestling, which is very different from the legitimate (or real-life) wrestling combat predominantly detailed in this article. competitive forms include Greco-Roman, freestyle, judo, sambo, folkstyle, catch, shoot, luta livre, submission, sumo, pehlwani, ''shuai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Kreis Werro
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] |
Sportspeople From Võru County
An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track and field and marathon runners but excluding e.g. swimmers, footballers or basketball players. However, in other contexts (mainly in the United States) it is used to refer to all athletics (physical culture) participants of any sport. For the latter definition, the word sportsperson or the gendered sportsman or sportswoman are also used. A third definition is also sometimes used, meaning anyone who is physically fit regardless of whether they compete in a sport. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise, accompanied by a strict dietary regimen. Definitions The word "athlete" is a romanization of the , ''at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Võru Parish
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] |
1960 Deaths
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9–January 11, 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change (speech), "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, , is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper , accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. February * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitates the United States' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tšeka Komissar Miroštšenko
''Tšeka komissar Miroštšenko'' (The Cheka Commissar Miroshchenko) is an Estonian feature film made in 1925 directed by Paul Sehnert. Nikolai Root was the set designer. In 2012, the film was digitized. Plot In Soviet Russia of the 1920s, the girl Agnes, her mother, Agnes's childhood friend the engineer Karl Raudsepp, and his fiancée Erna are among other Estonians waiting for permission to relocate to Estonia. Love, however, does not ask about people's plans, miserable lives, or the general atmosphere of violence. The mutual feelings between Karl and Agnes make Erna so jealous that she sends a false complaint against Agnes to the Cheka. Commissar Miroshchenko and the secret agent Hewelyn are attracted by the beauty of Agnes, who has fallen into the hands of the Cheka. Each man decides that the girl must become his. Cast * Mihkel Lepper as Miroshchenko, a commissar in Soviet Russia *Valentine Vassiljeva as Agnes Tõnisson, an interned Estonian *Niina Ormus as Marie Tõnisson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Märska
Konstantin Märska ( in Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 30 August 1951 in Tallinn) was an Estonian cinematographer and film director. Märska is buried at Rahumäe Cemetery in Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and .... Filmography *1924: '' Mineviku varjud'' *1929: '' Dollarid'' *1929: '' Vigased pruudid'' *1929: '' Jüri Rumm'' *1930: '' Kuldämblik'' *1936: ''Pühad Petseris'' *1937: ''Vaated Osmussaarelt'' *1937: ''Nobedate näppude linn'' *1939: ''Isoviha'' *1940: ''Simo Hurtta'' *1948: ''Eesti põlevkivi'' *1949: ''Hülgepüük'' *1950: ''Nõukogude Eesti kalurid'' *1951: ''Rünnak soodele'' References External links * 1896 births 1951 deaths People from Kuressaare People from Kreis Ösel Estonian cinematographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
