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Jakob Mändmets
Jakob Mändmets (July 29, 1871 – December 25, 1930) was an Estonian writer and journalist. Jakob Mändmets was born in Paiküla, Kärla Parish (now Saaremaa Parish), Kreis Ösel on the island of Saaremaa. He studied from 1885 to 1888 at the Teachers' Training College of Kaarma. He then worked in the counties of Saaremaa, Läänemaa and Harjumaa as a teacher. He then embarked on a career in journalism. From 1903 until its ban in 1905, he worked as an editor at the Estonian newspaper ''Uus Aeg'', and then between 1906 and 1910 at Päevaleht. From 1910 to 1916, he was employed at Tallinna Teataja, and from 1916 until his death, he worked again at Päevaleht. He began writing books in 1897, writing mainly stories, novellas and short stories that describe life in Estonia. A large part of his work he dedicated to the humble daily life on his native island of Saaremaa, and became known for writing village stories like ''Night-Herdsmen'' (1901), ''The Pastor Romer'' (1917), and ''Thr ...
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Karl August Hindrey
Karl August Hindrey (15 August 1875 Abja Manor, Kreis Pernau – 9 January 1947) was an Estonian writer, journalist and cartoonist. He is mostly known through his psychological short stories and historical novels. He is also considered to be the founder of Estonian comics. From 1904, he worked in the editorial offices of the newspapers ''Postimees'' and ''Päevaleht''. He used the pseudonym Hoia Ronk, when he made contributions to the two newspapers mentioned above. He established two satirical magazines: '' Sädemed'' and ''Kratt''. During the Second World War, his activities were anti-Soviet. He was also one of the Forest Brothers The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic states, Baltic (Latvian partisans, Latvian, Lithuanian partisans, Lithuanian and Estonian partisans, Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956. Known .... He died in 1947. He is buried in Metsakalmistu Cemetery. Works * 1906: comic book "Piripilli-Li ...
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Estonian Writers' Union
The Estonian Writers' Union (, abbr. EWU is a professional association of Estonian writers and literary critics.Marje Jõeste, Küllo Arjakas, ''The Baltic States'', Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers, 1991, page 64 History The Estonian Writers' Union was founded on 8 October 1922 under the name ''Eesti Kirjanikkude Liit'' at the 3rd Congress of Estonian writers held at the Tallinn Town Hall. One of its founding members was the poet Anna Haava. On 27 April 1923, the union began the publication of the monthly magazine '' Looming'' (''Creation''), which is one of the most important literary magazines in Estonia. In 1927, the union expanded to Tartu with the opening of a branch there. With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the Estonian Writers' Union was dissolved on 19 October 1940. The occupation authorities launched the ''Estonian Soviet Writers' Union'' (Estonian: ''Eesti Nõukogude Kirjanike Liit''), on 8th or 9 October 1943 in Moscow, Soviet Union. From 1958, it was called ...
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Estonian Male Short Story Writers
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People From Kreis Ösel
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 ...
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People From Saaremaa 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, ...
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1930 Deaths
Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on January 1, 2257, at . * January 26 – The Indian National Congress declares this date as Independence Day, or as the day for Purna Swaraj (Complete Independence). * January 28 – The first patent for a field-effect transistor is granted in the United States, to Julius Edgar Lilienfeld. * January 30 – Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Slutsk in the Soviet Union. February * February 10 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launch the Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French Indochina, French colonial rule in Vietnam. * February 18 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a celestial body considered a planet until redefined as a dwarf planet ...
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1871 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Bapaume – Prussians win a strategic victory. * January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the south German states unite into a single nation state, known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. The Constitution of the German Confederation comes into effect. It abolishes all restrictions on Jewish marriage, choice of occupation, place of residence, and property ownership, but exclusion from government employment and discrimination in social relations remain in effect. * January 21 – Battle of Dijon: Giuseppe Garibaldi's group of French and Italian volunteer troops, in support of the French Third Republic, win a battle against the Prussians. * February 8 – 1871 French legislative election elects the first legislatu ...
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Tallinna Teataja
''Tallinna Teataja'' was newspaper published 1910–1922 in Tallinn, Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru .... (retrieved 21 March 2020) Publishers were: *M. Schiffer (1910-1911 nr. 97) *A. Kampf (1911 nr. 98-184) *H. Ant ja J. Masing (1916 nr. 261 - 1917) *Ed. Sarepera (1918 nr. 1-62). References Newspapers published in Estonia Mass media in Tallinn {{Estonia-newspaper-stub ...
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Paiküla
Paiküla is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Paiküla is the birthplace of Estonian writer and journalist Jakob Mändmets (1871–1930). Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Lääne-Saare Parish Lääne-Saare Parish () was a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality of Estonia, in Saare County. It was located on the western part of Saaremaa island. The municipality has a population of ca 7,200 and an area of 807 km2. Lääne-S .... References Villages in Saare County {{Saare-geo-stub ...
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