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• the corporate chambers in interwar Estonia were inspired by the example of Fascist Italy?
• the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia's election campaign costs for the 1992 elections of Riigikogu, the first post-Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia, were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats?
• the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004?
• the ancient people known as the Oeselians, who lived on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, carried out raids against the Scandinavian Vikings?
• in Estonia, a digital signature is considered legally equivalent to a manual signature through the successful Estonian ID card project?
• nearly half the area of Estonia's 342 km² (132 sq mi) Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve was once a Soviet Air Force bombing range and its surrounding buffer zone?
• the Indrikis chronicles are the oldest written history of Latvia and Estonia?
• the Phosphorite War is regarded in Estonia as a catalyst that led to the dissolution of the Soviet regime?
• the only operating cable ferry in Estonia crosses the Emajõgi river (pictured) in Kavastu?
• the year 2008 is the 90th Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia?
• the most powerful recorded earthquake in Estonia, measuring 4.7 magnitudes in Richter scale, occurred in 1976 near the Baltic Sea island of Osmussaar (pictured)?
• the flag on the top of the Tall Hermann tower on Toompea Hill is one of the best-known symbols in Estonia of the government in power?
• the film based on the novel Names in Marble is the most successful Estonian film in terms of box office profits?
• the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed?
• every autumn more than 23,000 Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in Estonia, making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe?
• during the Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940-1941 and 1944-1951 the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonian citizens to Siberia?
• Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi, aged 14, blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946?
• Estonian-Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich?
• Estonian chemist Paul Kogerman, known for his study of oil-bearing shales, was deported by Soviet authorities with his family in 1941 to a prisoner camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast?
• Estonia created project EstWin to connect all citizens to the internet with 100 Mbit/s speed by 2015?
• Estonia joined World War II in 1940, after the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed?
• Estonia attempted to re-establish independence before the Soviets reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944?
• forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps, had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981?
• Grandmaster Valentina Golubenko, the first and only World Youth Chess Champion born and raised in Estonia, is a Russian citizen playing under the Croatian flag?
• Raeapteek in Tallinn, Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe?
• a Rotarian and an active sponsor of sports Joakim Puhk was one of the richest men in pre-WWII Estonia?
• Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, now a protected area in Estonia, used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era?
• Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke, an Irish Count born in Estonia, became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honoured with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
• Hugo Raudsepp, one of Estonia's greatest comedic playwrights, became a "non-person"?
• Jüri Vilms, a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later?
• "Stop Lasnamäe!" was one of the slogans of the Estonian Singing Revolution?