Moscow / Guggenheim / Oxford / Washington / D.C. / Pittsburgh / Wetzlar / New York City / Oslo / Minneapolis / Düsseldorf / London / Riga / /
Company
BBC / Aquila / Corning / IBM / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
Estonia / Bulgaria / Latvia / Portugal / United Kingdom / Lithuania / Germany / Italy / Sweden / United States / Soviet Union / Czech Republic / / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
Grammy Award / the Newport Music Festival / Oscar / the Grammy / the 2004 Cannes / /
Event
Person Travel / /
Facility
Tate Gallery / Leipzig University / University of Michigan Law Library / Riga VEF factory / National Gallery of Art / IBM Corporate Computer Centre / Institute of Civic Engineering / National Library building / Corning Museum of Glass / Houston Contemporary Arts Museum / Mannheim Opera / /
IndustryTerm
laser technology / energy / high tech / nonaqueous solutions / oil / /
Movie
The Turning Point / /
MusicGroup
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Amsterdam / /
NaturalFeature
Baltic Sea / /
Organization
New York School / IBM Corporate Computer Centre in New York / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam / U.S. Embassy in Helsinki / British Academy / Riga Polytechnic and Leipzig University / Shostakovich’s Symphony / United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Federal Reserve Bank / Mannheim Opera / Sovet Union / Institute of Civic Engineering in St. Petersburg / the University of Michigan / /
Person
Gidon Kremer / Wilhelm Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner / Mikhail Eisenstein / Arvid Jansons / Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov / Walter Zapp / Friedrich Zander / Wilhelm Ostwald / Pauls Valdens / Emmett Leith / Mark Rothko / Paul Walden / Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov Sh / Gidon Kremer V / Juris Upatnieks / Vaslav Nijinsky / Isaiah Berlin / Gunnar Birkerts / Mariss Jansons / Rudolf Nureyev / Inese Galante / / /
Position
Riga-born chemist / chief conductor / Composer / president / one of the founders of classical physical chemistry / composer / conductor / theatre director and essayist / architect and civil engineer / historian / professor / conductor / violinist and conductor / chemist / scientist / scientist / surgeon and distinguished public opinion leader / spy / artist / musical director / director of orchestras / choreographer and actor / /
The name “Latvija” comes from the ancient Latgallians, one of four Indo-European Baltic tribes, who along with the Couronians, Selonians and Semigallians formed the ethnic core of today’s Latvian people. Latvia is