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TALLINN ESTONIA
ESTONIA CHRISTMAS CARD

December 13th 2009
Based on my book: OUR SUMMER IN ESTONIA Amazon.com Just in time for Christmas is the story, likely a fable, of how Tallinn, Estonia has been identified as the site of the first Christmas Tree. Guidebooks and some historians cite 1441 as the year when in the Town Square of Tallinn the first Christmas tree appeared. Most historians dispute that, noting that the Christmas tree evolved over many ye ... read more
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Estonian Flag After centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, Estonia attained independence in 1918. Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940, it regained its freedom in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the last Russian troops le... ... read more
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