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...that Saaremaa was once the wealthiest county of ancient Estonia and the home of notorious Estonian pirates, sometimes called the Eastern Vikings?
... that Baron Karl Eduard von Liphart discovered a new Leonardo da Vinci painting?
... that the Estonian Sports Museum has helped organise an exhibition to celebrate Estonia's first Olympics in London?"

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...that Saaremaa was once the wealthiest county of ancient Estonia and the home of notorious Estonian pirates, sometimes called the Eastern Vikings?
...that the capital of Danish Estonia was named Lyndanisse on their invasion in 1219?
...that Pärispea is the northernmost point of mainland Estonia and the northernmost point of the contiguous part of the European Union?
...that the Academia Gustaviana (now University of Tartu) in the then Swedish province of Livonia was the second university founded in the Swedish Empire, following Uppsala University (in Uppsala, Sweden proper) and preceding the Academy of Åbo (in Turku, Finland)?
...that the Estonian river which flows from Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, is called Emajõgi, meaning "Mother River" in Estonian?
... that Baron Karl Eduard von Liphart discovered a new Leonardo da Vinci painting?
... that Raadi Manor land was used by the Estonian National Museum and a secret Soviet airfield?"
... that Peter the Great had outlawed stone buildings in Tartu before the Great Fire of 1775?
... that in 1940 the Supreme Court of Estonia accepted an order, given by the government of the Estonian SSR, to disband itself?
... that Alatskivi Castle in Alatskivi, Estonia was designed to be a smaller version of Balmoral Castle?