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Simon Hamilton
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Everything you never wanted to know about Tallinn.
Esimene täielik Tallinna tänavanimede sõnastik pärast Aleksander Kivise "Tallinna tänavad".
Parandused ja tagasiside teretulnud.
For a more light-hearted 'analysis' of the French language, see @frogologue
If Trump can annul all Biden EOs, can the next guy not annul all Trump's pardons and put his pardoned co-criminals back in prison?
Money…

How much he charged for 🇭🇳 former president pardon?

It’s not about drugs.
It’s all about the money.
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Reposted by Simon Hamilton
#Putin has ratified Russia's budget for 2026. One third of all Russian government expenditure is dedicated to the Ukraine War. A third. This is not a government that wants peace. Putin is all-in. Why does the West dither? Seize all Russian assets and use them to fund Ukraine's defense. Nothing less.
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Excuse me but this is not a "great fringe going on", it's the collateral damage of domestication. Would you, personally, enjoy not being able to see where you're going, where the food is, etc., because your imbecile owner watched too many Disney films?
Day 1248 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and somehow managed to get a stylist post 2 days running
This lovely cow looks to have had a nice pamper day, great fringe going on and the mud pack was for its feet! 🤗🐮🐮❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
#Moskva (Moskva)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Moscow. Street existed in potentia since 1981, over which another street, #SaaremaaPuiestee was laid in 1986 and extended northwards to #Narva. In October 2024, for reasons purely related to street-naming conventions, the 250-m northern stretch of the
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November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Kiive (Kiive)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Ülemiste
One of the numerous alternative or dialectal names for #kiivitaja, the #lapwing. Other local names include #hirmutaja (the ‘frightener’), kiivits, #PoolaKana (Polish chicken), sookajak (marsh gull), tillvitt, tüvitaja and #vaenulind (hostile bird).
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November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#Reindorffi G. (Günther-Friedrich Reindorff, 1889-1974)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Estonian #typographer and graphic designer. In 2008, the Estonian State bank issued a 10-#krooni collector banknote (i.e. was desperate for cash) featuring an identical copy of the front of its pre-war granddaddy
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November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
AVA Opera - The Doll's Song from "Tales of Hoffmann"
YouTube video by AVAOpera
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#Tähtpea (Tähtpea)
#NotInTallinn #TallinnasMitte
#Scabious, gipsy rose, mournful widow, flowers all. #ScabiosaSpp., genus of the "Dipsacaceae family, flowers named for their use in treating #scabies and other skin disorders, not to be confused with related genera such as #Knautia (see
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November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#Väina (Väin)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Merivälja
#Strait (as in Dover), sound, pass. #Kalevala hero #Väinämöinen’s name is sometimes accused of having originated, in part, from this: the modern-day term for old #Finnish #väinä is #suvanto and one of Väinämöinen’s alternative names is #Suvantolainen.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#Üliõpilaste (Üliõpilased [pl.])
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Mustamäe #VanaMustamäe
#UniversityStudents (Sing.: #Üliõpilane), for bordering on land belonging to #TallinnaTehnikaülikool or Tallinn School of Technology, now more commonly/affectionately called TalTech.

#Education #Haridust
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#Pesa (Pesa)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme
#Nest. Formerly known as #Greeni from which the ‘G’ disagreeable to the #Estonian palate often disappeared to produce #Reeni and transliterated into #German and #Russian as #Greenstraße and #Ренская ул (renski) indicating a personal name but whose
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November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Kingissepa V. (Viktor Kingissepp, 1888-1922)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Sinister-looking leader of the #EstonianCommunistParty, arrested by the #KAPO (#Kaitsepolitsei, ‘Secret’ or Security Police) on May 1st and executed for treason three days later. #Revenge was got during the 1941 War Tribunal
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November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Vikimõisa (Vikimõis) #Allasum?
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Pikaliiva #Vikimõisa
Uncertain 2023 addition to Tallinn’s streets, currently in the planning stage, named after former manor house, itself named after whichever whim went through its benighted owners’ minds: ranging from #CramersHöfchen
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November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The first reporter to say: "Are you fucking nuts?! Can you not see that you are the one that's stupid, that you are the world's village idiot that everyone's laughing at? may well be barred from WH press conferences, but could also trigger the tsunami of public shaming he deserves? (+ benefits).
It is time to seriously consider the possibility that this failed president doesn't even know what the term "vetting" means
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#Tuulemaa (Tuulemaa)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
Land of wind. Also collection of poetry written by #GustavSuits (1883-1956) in 1913 where he thus portrays #Estonia, literally and metaphorically. Renamed under The #SovietOccupation, along with #Vihuri (1953-1995), as #Belinski V.
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#Ussilaka (Ussilakk)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Mähe
#Paris, truelove, true-lover’s knot, or herb paris, #ParisQuadrifolia, from the #Latin par:paris, equal, due to its regular leaves, not the city. Also #poisonous, perhaps suggesting its #Estonian name: snake’s mane. But #uss also means worm; see #Ussimäe.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#Vaprate (Vaprad [pl.])
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Brave/Gallant/Valiant lads/men, etc. After the 3 Communists and 1 farmer on whose land a shoot-out with police occurred on the night of 1924-12-4/5, after the failed coup d’état (see Vakmanni R.). all now subsumed under present-day #Vabaõhukooli.
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#Vaablase (Vaablane)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Sääse
#Sawfly, hornet. Probably the European hornet, #VespaCrabro common in #Estonia. Part of an insect street-name group. See #Kiili.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Nature #Loodus
#Animal #Loom
#Insect #Putukas
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Kuninga (Kuningas)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#King. But #NoKings. Possibly named after a certain Lambert Konnigisbergh, recorded 1436, or even after a surname, #Koning, used for/by citizens of the then #King. As a side note, the term may also have been used for ‘county elders’,
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November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Tuulemäe (Tuulemägi)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sikupilli
#WindyMountain, windy hill, windswept peak, dare I say it... #WutheringHeights? translated as #Vihurimäe, see #Vihuri, which seems a bit strong. Actually, street parallel to #Majaka, so there may be a high point around somewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#Kirilase (Kirilane)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
As #McCruiskeen would say: “quite a pancake this one”. After a long process of elimination, given its almost totally #lepidopteran neighbors, we can almost certainly exclude the following fancies: a) a ‘k’ omitted from #kiriklane, churchman;
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November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#Vahulille (Vahulill)
#Milkwort, or snakeroot, #PolygalaSpp. Lit. tufted(±) flower. Believed to increase milk yield in cows, hence its #Latin name from #Greek (much milk). One of a meadow flower or grass group. See #Helmiku.

#Nature #Loodus
#Vegetable #Taimne
#Flower #Lille
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM