A legend says two wedding parties collided and the groom from one and the pride from
the other were killed. The groom and pride left behind married themselves and marked
the fatal spot with a cross. A less theatrical explanation for the thousands ...
The Holocaust monument in Klooga near Tallinn stands in the
exact place of burning the bodies of 2000 Jews murdered there.
Klooga is one of the two gloomy concentration camps located
in German occupied Estonia during the II World War. The 2000 ...
It was in 1916 that oil shale was industrially mined for the first time. Done so by a
foreign estate owner. Local postman Juul however new the substance’s burning nature
a long time ago – burning stone being the name for it in Estonian. He had bui...