Culture in a Box: Lithuania

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Culture in a Box Lithuania

• As a result of our project called Culture in a
  Box,
• Let us tell you some basics about Lithuania!

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Lithuania
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Let me introduce you - Lithuania
Lithuanian flag and coat of arms
Lithuanian motto is Tautos jega
vienybeje!, meaning The strength of the nation
lies in unity!
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Something from Geography
Capital Vilnius (54 41 N, 25 19 E) Total
Area 65 200 km2 Water (in percentage)
1,35 Population 3,575,439 Density 55 people /
km2
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Before you go to Lithuania...
Official language is Lithuanian. (If you are
lucky, you may find people who speak English or
Russian) Currency used in Lithuania is
Lithuanian litas (sg. - lit), one worth about
0,35 euro) Time zone is EET (UTC 2), in summer
it is EEST (UTC 3)
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SURVIVAL LANGUAGE
LITHUANIAN
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USEFUL PHRASES

• Good morning.
  Laba diena.
• Thank you.
  Aciü.
• Please..
  Praau.
• Sorry.
  Atsipraineti.
• How are you?
  Kaip sekasi?
• Excuse me.
  Leiskit.
• My name is.
  Mano vardas.
• How do you do?
  Malonou.
• Good Bye.
  Viso gero.
• Not at all.
  Nera u ka.
• Ano / ne
  Taip / ne
• WC ladies
  WC moterys
• WC gentlemen
  WC vyrai
• Whats the time?
  Kiek valandu?
  

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USEFUL PHRASES

• How much does it cost?
  Kiek tai kainuoja?
• Lékárna
  Vaistine
• I am hungry.
  A alkanas.
• I am thirsty.
  A noriu gerti.
• Enjoy your meal.
  Gero apetito.
• Cheers!
  I svekata !
• Bill, please.
  Paruokite
  man saskaita.

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Cinema in Lithuania
History
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Famous people in Lithuanian film
The important film directors are Bartas arünas

Lapinskaité Janina The important film actors
areAdomaitis Regimantas
Mainelyté Yaiva The
important film cameraman is Gricius Jonas
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Festivals

• Kaunas Jazz Festival
• it started in 1991, soon after Lithuania declared
  independence from the Soviet Union
• Villnius Jazz Festival
• is the oldest jazz festival held in Vilnius
  (1987)
• jazz, free improvised music, ethnic music, rock,
  industrial music.
• Klaipeda Jazz Festival
• first in 1993

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Temperatures

• The country's climate, which ranges between
  maritime and continental, is relatively mild.
• Average temperatures on the coast are 1.6 in
  January and 17.8 C in July. In Vilnius the
  average temperatures are 2.1 C in January and
  18.1 C in July.

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Temperatures

• The country's climate, which ranges between
  maritime and continental, is relatively mild.
• Average temperatures on the coast are 1.6 in
  January and 17.8 C in July. In Vilnius the
  average temperatures are 2.1 C in January and
  18.1 C in July.

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Temperature records

• The longest measured temperature records from the
  Baltic area cover about 250 years. The data show
  that there were warm periods during the latter
  half of the 18th century, and that the 19th
  century was a relatively cool period. An early
  20th century warming culminated in the 1930s,
  followed by a smaller cooling that lasted until
  the 1960s.

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Rainfalls

• The average annual precipitation is 717
  millimeters on the coast and 490 millimeters in
  the eastern part of the country. The growing
  season lasts 202 days in the western part of the
  country and 169 days in the eastern part.

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Iron wolf

• Gediminas, went on a hunting trip in the holy
  woods of the Valley of Sventaragis.Grand Duke
  settled for the night near a hill at the
  convergence of the Neris and Vilnia rivers. He
  fell asleep soundly and had a dream. A huge iron
  wolf was standing on top of this hill and the
  sound of hundreds of other wolves inside it
  filled all the surrounding fields and woods.
  After the hunting trip and consulted the pagan
  priest. And the priest told him. The iron wolf
  means a formidable castle and town which will be
  established by the ruler on this site. The city
  will stand as strong as iron and its walls will
  protect the land from its enemies. The massive
  sound dwelled inside the wolf, symbolized the
  fame of the city shall echo beyond their borders
  and proclaim throughout the centuries the glory
  of Lithuania. Gediminas heeded and pleased with
  the priests reveal of his dream. He begin to
  summon artisans and craftsmen around the country
  and Europe to design and construct his new strong
  and beautiful kingdom, which would surround this
  hill where he had the dream of the iron wolf.
  Upon the completion Gediminas moved his home,
  signaling the establishment of a new capital for
  his country Vilnius.

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LITHUANIAN TRADITIONAL FOODS

• Lithuanians like to eat good, tasty and filling
  foods.
• They cook prepare simple but tasty foods. A good
  cook can create delicious meals using simple
  ingredients.
• Before food was prepared using only seasonal
  products, however during the last twenty-five
  years, fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs have
  been available all year round, imported or grown
  locally.
• The same applies to meat, now more fresh meat is
  used than salted or smoked.
• A good example is potato cake - kugelis, which
  Lithuanians adapted from the German kitchen.
• This has now become a favorite dish throughout
  Lithuania.

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Different foods
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Important dates of history

• The beginning of the Lithuanian Customs dates
  back to the 11th-13th century
• Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth (1569-1795)
• Under Imperial Russia (1795-1914)
• World War I. (1914-1918)
• Independent interwar Lithuania (1918-1940)
  freedom
  wars (1918-1922)
  democratic Lithuania
  (1922-1926)
  authoritarian regime ( 1926-1938)
  collapse of the
  state (1938-1940)
  
• World War II. (1940-1945)
• In the Sovet Union (1944-1990)
• Independent modern Lithuania (1990-2004)
• Lithuania in th European Union (2004)
  
  

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MUSIC OF LITHUANIA
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Luthuanian music

• Lithuanian folk music is based on songs which
  include romantic,wedding songs, work songs and
  more archaic war songs.
• Lithuania is the home of many folk music
  festivals.

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Rock and popular music

• The communist government of the Lithuanian SSR
  criticized rock music which was considered a
  decadent and corupting cultural invasion from the
  West.
• In the 1980s rock bands Foje, Antis and Bix made
  a big impact in Lithuania. In 1987,88 and 89
  Lithuania saw several big rock festivals such as
  Roko Maras. It was connected to the ideology of
  Sajudis.

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Rock music festivals
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Famous Lithuanians
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Famous Lithuanians

• Joseph Weber
• Physicist 'father" of gravity
  wave detection
• experiments at The University
  of Maryla

• Jonas Pleksys USSR submarine captain whose
  ordeal was made famous in "Hunt for Red
  October"

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Famous Lithuanians

• Mykolas NorkunasFounder of the Knights of
  Lithuania

• Monica Lewinsky

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Famous people

• Victor Brenner (Baranauskas), Designed Lincoln
  penny

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History of famous people

• Alexander Bruce Bialskis, 1st FBI director
  (1912-1919)

• Birute Galdikas Orangutan specialist/write

• Sister Mary Veronica Klimkevicius, First woman
  Army nurse Civil War (1861)
• Sara Lee, Father founded current corporate giant

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