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- Latviešu tautas dziesmas
- etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/latvian
- You don't need to go dusting off those printed volumes of Latvian folk songs anymore. The dainas are now at your fingertips whenever you're on the Web. The University of Virginia Library has made the full set of 12 volumes of Latviešu tautas dziesmas (Latvian Dainas) available to all on the Web. The online version is browsable and also allows readers to search by volume, page, and word or phrase. The work originally was published from 1952-1956 in Denmark and edited by Arveds Švābe, Kārlis Straubergs and Edīte Hauzenberga-Šturma. The online version is made possible in part by the Milda Zīlava Memorial Fund, established in memory of the Latvian stage and film actress. The university received permission from the holder of the copyright to the printed edition, Eiženija Reitmane, and has also made use of Imants Freibergs' Boston-Montreal Dainas Data Base to create this searchable version (Freibergs is the husband of Latvian President Vaira Vīķē-Freiberga). EN LV (Reviewed February 2006)
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11 Feb 2012
Despite 25 years of making music, Bumerangs has just two albums
Bumerangs, from the northern Latvian city of Valka, has long been a Latvian schlager music institution. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in December 2011, the band has been one of the hardest working—playing, in some years, hundreds of concerts, and entertaining audiences not just in Latvia, but elsewhere in the world.
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09 Feb 2012
Ar videoklipu biedrība mudina latviešus celties un iet balsot valodas referendumā
Biedrība “Par latviešu valodu” 9. februārī Rīgā atklāja akciju mudināt latviešus piedalīties 18. februāra referendumā un balsot pret grozījumiem Latvijas satversmē, kas noteiktu krievu valodu kā otro valsts valodu. Akcija ieskaita televīzijas reklāmas videoklipu ar nosaukumu “Celies un ej”, kurā dažādi sabiedrībā pazīstami cilvēki aicina skatītāju piedalīties referendumā.
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08 Feb 2012
For upcoming language referendum, absentee ballot applications top 1,200
The hot-button language referendum scheduled Feb. 18 apparently has lots of voters abroad interested in letting their voice be heard, if figures from absentee ballot requests are any indication.
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