Latest posts tagged with #Loopealse on Bluesky
Patriarh Aleksius II dressed in gold hat, necklaces, stole and miscellaneous paraphernalia such as candles and stuff. When a church frowns upon transvestism, does that exclude cross-dressing?...
#Patriarh Aleksius II (Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger, 1929-2008)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
Patriarch Alexy II, real name Алексе́й Миха́йлович Ри́дигер. Born in Estonia, altar boy in...
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#Narva (Narva)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Lasnamäe #Pirita #Südalinn #Sadama #Kompassi #Raua #Kadriorg #Kurepõllu #Paevälja #Loopealse #Katleri #Kuristiku #Priisle #Iru
Town on #Russian border. Earliest records of present name...
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#Lageloo (Lagelood)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Lage means #open, bare or bleak, and #loo is the genitive of three words: #lugu, story; #loog, swath (of grass); and #lood, a synonym of #Alvari. Since its nearest listed neighbor is the Alvari mentioned above, and since it is located atop
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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
#Puju (Puju)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Mugwort, #ArtemisiaVulgaris, plant with a long and... legendary past. Alternative names tell interesting stories. #English: sailor’s tobacco (fairly obvious), naughty man (used in the #MiddleAges to flavor #beer, and perhaps for its #hallucinogenic
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#Rähkloo (Rähklood)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
Shingly limestone region covered with thin soil and stunted vegetation (see #Lageloo).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Limestone #Lubjakivi
#Meeliku (Meelik)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
One of the #FeatherMosses, either the yellow feather-moss, #HomalotheciumLutescens, or the silky wall feather-moss, #HSericeum. Possibly too an nty-nth variant on the theme of #Meleka. A street, helpfully, which starts at 21 and ends at 29.
#Samblad
#Rähkloo (Rähklood)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Shingly #limestone #region covered with thin soil and stunted vegetation (see #Lageloo, see also my back garden).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Limestone #Lubjakivi
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Rähkloo (Rähklood)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Shingly #limestone region covered with thin soil and stunted vegetation (see #Lageloo).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Construction #Ehitus
#Limestone #Lubja
#Rocks #Kivid
Marana (Maran)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
Cinquefoil, Potentilla, herb of the rose family. Its #English name comes from the #French: ‘five-leaves’, and may also be called ‘five-fingers’. Another English name refers to the similarly in appearance but not taste of its fruit: ‘barren strawberry’.
#Lavamaa (Lavamaa)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse #Paevälja
Tableland, plateau, mesa.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Topography #Topograafia
#Loometsa (Loomets)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
Possibly forest swathe, or a wood on limestone with stunted trees. Streetname apparently replacing that of the eastern stretch of #Alvari.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Forests #Metsad
#Trees #Puud
Kiviriku (Kivirik)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
Saxifrage, Saxifraga spp. #Estonian name reflects the #Latin: #saxum, coarse, unworked stone, rock, & #frangere, to break: #kivi, stone, rock, & *rik, defect, ruin, decay,
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#Liikuri (Liikur)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Kurepõllu #Laagna #Paevälja #Loopealse
Vehicle. Derived, one is requested to believe, from the verb #liikuma, to betake or stir oneself. Known until 1989 as #Reindorffi G.. Road still, apparently , under development. Naming history uncertain.
#Cars #Autod
Narva (Narva)
Town on Russian border. Earliest records of present name (as Narvsche Straße, Нарвская ул, etc.) date back to 1872, before which
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Lasnamäe #Pirita #Südalinn #Sadama #Kompassi #Raua #Kadriorg #Kurepõllu #Paevälja #Loopealse #Katleri #Kuristiku #Priisle #Iru
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#Alvari (Alvar)
Limestone region covered with thin topsoil and stunted vegetation (see #Lageloo). Anagram of #Ravila.
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Geography #Geograafia
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Anagrams #Anagrammid
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Angerpisti (Angerpist)
Dropwort, fern-leaf #dropwort, sometimes known as queen of the meadow, Filipendula vulgaris, a herb. Bizarre, someone doesn’t like the dropworts, both this and Angervaksa some 9 km away are simply muddy tracks.
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Loopealse
#Herbs #Maitsetaimed
