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in the north-eastern land area of modern #Estonia, known as #Kaleva(la)? Web-designers will be pleased to know that #Joomla could also mean ‘place of drinking’, hence ‘bar’, but it’s actually a phoneticization of #Swahili #jumla, meaning ‘all together’.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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#Kõue (Kõu)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
#Thunder. Alternative name for and/or brother of #Pikne, etc.

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#Weather #Ilm
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September 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#Tapri (Tapper)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sõjamäe
Battle-axe. Named for probable weapon used during the #JüriööÜlestõus. See #Nuia.
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#Military #Sõjaline
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July 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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#Sirbi (Sirp)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Sickle. Where we say hammer and sickle, they say sirp ja vasar (see #Vasara).
#SovietOccupation #NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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#Engineering #Tehnika
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Sirbi. View along Sirbi, Tallinn, from the Kopliranna direction. House festooned with climbing-plants and greenery in Sirbi, Tallinn. View of the Stroomi Rand (Stroomi beach), aka Pelgurand, shoreline from the end of Sirbi, Tallinn.
June 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#Kuukivi (Kuukivi)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Tondiraba
Moonstone. Not an erratic boulder, a new (2018) member of the magico-mythological group. See #Loitsu.
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August 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#Loitsu (Loits)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
#Spell, charm, incantation. Renamed (1979-1994) as #Oki F. during the #SovietOccupation. Part of a magico-mythological group. See #Lummu.

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November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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#Kunderi J. (Juhan Kunder, 1852-1888)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Torupilli
Writer known mainly for folk tales or fairy tales, e.g. #EestiMuinasjutud (usually translated as Estonian Fairytales).
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#Literature #Kirjandus
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name J. Kunderi. View along Kunderi, Tallinn, from the Pronksi direction alongside Politseiaed. Drab, six-storey, Soviet-looking block of uncertain occupation (offices or flats?) on Kunderi, Tallinn. Surprisingly-elegant flag-holder on previous drab building in Kunderi, Tallinn.
June 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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#Vasara (Vasar)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Hammer. Which also, appropriately, crosses #Sirbi.
#SovietOccupation #NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Vasara. View along Vasara, Tallinn, from the Kopli direction. Green house hidden among the trees in Vasara, Tallinn. View of the pilot house of a container ship between a building and container at the seaward end of Vasara, Tallinn.
June 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#Taara (Taara)
Supreme but possibly pseudo-mythological god in #Estonian #folklore (often suggested as related to the #Norse god #Thor, [coincidental chicken-egg here: #Sanskrit तारा, tāra, means ‘star’, and
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kivimäe #Hiiu
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March 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I am told, of great physical sensitivity and awareness and, true to form, one of the earliest uses (1278) of the term #bourse (Mod. Fr. les bourses) was #scrotum. And where better to keep a bag containing your valuables than next to another bag containing your valuables?
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March 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Amburi (Ambur)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Archer, bowman, Sagittarius. Close to #Maleva and #Uus-Maleva, and hence member of a mini military mêlée. See #Kilbi.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Amburi. View along Amburi, Tallinn, from the Kilbi direction. Doorway of one of the apartment blocks built during the Soviet Occupation for naval workers, in Amburi, Tallinn, dated 1959. Plaque above a doorway in Amburi, Tallinn, with the Russian letters 'ВМФ' (2nd letter intertwined with an anchor), abbreviation for 'Navy', literally (I think) Военно-Морской Флот, or military maritime fleet.
June 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#Taani Kuninga (Taani Kuningas)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
King of Denmark. The king in question being Valdemar II, or Valdemar the Victorious (1202-1241) who, the papers say, founded Tallinn (he didn't). But he did get a garden.
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View of the city walls with Neitsitorn in the background of Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn. The Flag of Denmark, Dannebrog, or Taani lipp in Estonian in the Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn. Monk sculpture in the Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn. Memorial to the Paul & Kristjan Raud brothers who once lived in a tower in the Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn.
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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employees at the ARS ceramics workshop and #Hallivanamehed a #nickname given them, perhaps by the relatively cleaner #Kalev chocolate factory workers in the #Kohila plant on the other side of #Parnu mnt.
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View from the NE end of Hallivanamehe towards the Pärnu maantee cadastral unit on which ARS Kunstilinnak is located, with not a curve in sight! According to Tallinn street-naming regs, if the street is a humanly-recognizable single unit (which these 2 are), it should not have two different names. View from the end of probably Pärnu maantee (lots of disagreement as to exact location of Hallivanamehe with respect to Pärnu maantee) past the ARS Kunstilinnak towards Hallivanamehe.
July 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Part of a magico-mythological group. See #Varraku.

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#Folklore #Folkloor
#MeToo
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December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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is, I couldn’t say.

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November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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southern #Småland may be based on truth) that fuelled the #Valkyrie myth... former name of #Vikerlase.
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August 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#Kloostri (Klooster)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
Abbey, cloister, monastery, convent. Close to Pirita convent.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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#Olevimägi). Part of a #Kalevipoeg street-name group. See also #Sulevi. There is another Kalevipoeg-themed street group in #Kalamaja, see #Kalevi or #Linda.
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July 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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the #comet which manifested the adoption of a medieval belief in the #moneygoblin (perhaps a hand-me-down from old legends of finders of hoards of gold [see #Kalevipoja], not forgetting that #Estonia has one of the richest collections of hoards in #Europe),
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May 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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#patronsaint of #Russia. Saint’s day: Dec. 6, evolution into #SantaClaus (St Nicolas > St Niklaus > Santa Claus) began during #MiddleAges. For a variation on the theme, see #Vene. First recorded as platea beati Nicolai in 1377, then going through
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Relief sculpture of lion's head outside Niguliste church looking like he's eating a giant donut, but probably just has a large ring in his mouth.
May 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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(they’ll clear the forest one day, unless they’re hoping that an appeal to the god of electro-celestial tree-hugging might do it for them). #Pikne (Pitkne, old spelling) was also another term for snake.
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April 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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the jilted, pregnant girls or even their drowned infants – living on in the water, and leaving it to lure handsome men to their death. Adamson lived at No. 8 (house no longer there) while working on the Russalka.
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#NotableEstonians #MärkimisväärsedEestlased
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March 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM