US cinema. Predictable?

#Rajametsa (Rajamets)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #VanaMustamäe
#BorderForest, forest boundary. See #Raja for details.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Forest #Mets

#Plasti (Plast)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Sõjamäe
#Plastic. Apparently still in the planning stage: road connecting #Punane with (one day) #Peterburi.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Industry #Tööstus

about, rather than this. Another meaning, usually in the plural, #rajad, refers to very simple oval-shaped #snowshoes or #rackets made of wicker and cord for walking on snow or marshes.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Geography #Geograafia
#History #Ajalugu
#Folklife #Rahvaelu
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*approximately* bordering the southern marches of modern-day #Lviv and #Kharkiv, in other words a #geographical and not political #designation. Obviously, all this is intricate, complex and mists-of-time material. For a better understanding, read someone who knows what they’re actually talking
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the earliest record of the name (1187) is considered to come from the lost #KievanChronicle (±1200), source material for what is known as the #HypatianCodex (±1425), itself primary source of knowledge about #KievanRus’, the main city of which was #Kiev, in which it referred to steppe
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common enough in the 1st millennium but evolving into #Slavic #izhitsa ‘ѵ’ and gradually disappearing, from #Russian at least (see #Myrrh in Intro), by the 20th C. And while ‘some people’ (don’t @ me) claim this to indicate #Ukraine to mean a ‘borderland’ and hence appurtenance of Russia,
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#Russia) and ‘ultimately’ from a #PIE root *krei, meaning ‘to cut’, later ‘edge’. This, of course, forked ito various #Slavic derivatives – edge, end, shore, bank side, rim, border, frontier etc. – hence #Ukraine, designated as ‘in/at/by the border’, as seen in the initial digraph ‘uk’, Ꙋ,
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#Raja (1. Raja; 2. Rada)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Nõmme #VanaMustamäe #Kadaka
1) #Boundary, border; 2) #Path, walk, possibly derived from a path typically along the edge of a field. Both for its running along an N-S stretch of #Nõmme district. From #Russian #край (krai, an administrative division of
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#Madala (Madal)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
#Shoal, #shallow. Renamed (1963-1995) as #Nekrassovi N. during the #SovietOccupation.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Water #Vesi

Cheese has entered the chat…

and not #buttermaggots? (Actually, the word comes from #OldFrench: #chatepelose, hairy cat (reminiscent of #WoollyBears, see #Piksepeni), later modified by the verb #piller, to pillage, plunder, reflected in the Est. name: #röövik, plunderer, robber, etc.). See also #Kedriku.

#Insect #Putukas
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#Kannustiiva (Kannustiib)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Two sorts, the #JalakaKannustiib, the white letter hairstreak, #StrymonidiaWAlbum; and #ToomingaKannustiib, the black hairstreak butterfly, #SPruni. Part of a swarm of butterflies in the Lepiku District. Why are their young called #caterpillars
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FYI: if the MAGA bots arriving mass report me and I lose this account, you can find me at www.muellershewrote.com or by listening to the Daily Beans podcast. Both are free to subscribe.

#Lehe (Leht)
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Linnu
#Leaf, also sheet of paper, but not here.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Plant #Taim

Burmese script: beautiful, but not sure if a language or knitting instructions. And the buggers don't even have a full stop...

သဘာဝပတ်​ဝန်းကျင်​၏ ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်အရာသည် လုပ်ယူဖန်တီးထားသော ပတ်​ဝန်းကျင်​ဖြစ်​သည်​။ စိုက်ပျိုးမြေများနှင့် မြို့ပြနေရာများအဖြစ် ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းကဲ့သို့သော လုပ်ယူဖန်တီးထားသည့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်များကြောင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရှုခင်းများသည် အခြေခံကျကျ ပြောင်းလဲထားသည့် ရိုးရှင်းသော

The face of anyone having to tolerate listening to the smug and fatuous fool.

Pretty much the same argument as put by Robert Ressler about serial killers: keep them alive, put them inside and, in due course, learn from them.

JFK!

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#Laevastiku (Laevastik)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Paljassaare
#Fleet, shipping, navy. Close to Paljassaare harbor.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Maritime #Merendus
#Ship #Laev

Loopealse (Loopealne) #Asum
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Grassland ridgeway? See #Loo and #Mäepealse.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Geology #Geoloogia

The fact that **only** hundreds...