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> On May 6, 8:19 pm, Pēteris Cedriņš (Peteris Cedrins)
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>>On 7 Maijs, 05:25, lorad...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>On May 6, 2:32 am, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>><lorad...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>news:1fc44075-4186-4224-b0a4-97c48e575681@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>For educational purposes:
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>>>>>The cause of the
>>>>>accident has not been determined.
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>>>>It seems that the captain had turned the ship too soon in order to
make it
>>>>easier for the passengers to take pictures of the lighthouse at
Kolkasrags.
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>>>>I hope the pictures turned out well. Since the ship didn't.
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>>>>In our media there has been confusion about what to call the sound
between
>>>>Kurzeme and Saaremaa. Some call it 'Irben salmi' after its Latvian
name
>>>>'Irbes ðaurums' (irbe meaning partridge), and some use 'Kuurin
kurkku' after
>>>>the Estonian 'Kura kurk' (Couronian gorge).
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>>>'ðaurums' means 'narrow (passageway)'.. or it could be translated as
>>>'channel'
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>>The most common word is "strait."
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>>>correct on the 'irbe'.. not very informed on the ornithology.. I had
>>>guessed that they were something like sandpipers.. thanks. (It's a
>>>pain to match up corresponding flora and fauna - if there's even a
>>>match)
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>>It's much easier than it used to be -- for birds, try sites
likehttp://www.putni.lv/index_citaslapp.htmWith
the Latin names, I've had
>>little difficulty lately even with obscure flora or fauna.
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>>>(I am thinking of introducing Fireflies and Hummingbirds to the
>>>Baltics)
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>>Fireflies and other creatures that don't exist here are indeed a
>>problem (the usual dictionary translation of "firefly" is
>>"jâòtârpiòð" ["jantarpins"], but that is more correctly a glow-worm
--
>>they do not fly). Such similar but quite different beings can cause a
>>lot of confusion -- I kept waiting for the "jâòtârpiòi" to take off
in
>>my first summer here, to everyone's amusement...
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>>A "hummingbird is a "kolibri."
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>>Re the ship -- according to the latest reports, the first mate is to
>>blame (for giving the wrong orders to the... "stûrmanis"; "helmsman"?
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> Isn't it always the case that Sturman, Bootsman, Helmsman and Katzman,
> along with Iceberg and Eisenberg, are blamed for all World problems?
Oh? I thought Ivanov, Petrov and Sidorov are to be blamed for everything.
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