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  => Freewheeling => Topic started by: sam on March 25, 2006

Title: The Latvian Connection
Post by: sam on March 25, 2006
Go to the Pretty Good Britain library (http://prettygoodbritain.com/library.html), five shelves down. The project is currently dormant, though liable to lurch into life at unexpected moments. During a recent search I unearthed this entry on Riga (http://www.latvians.com/en/Reading/RigaNatlEncy/riga1897.php).

Have I started something - or jumped on a bandwagon?

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Title: Don't spend it all in one place
Post by: sam on April 30, 2008
Speaking of Latvijas Republika, which celebrates four years of membership in the European Union on May Day (I'm so excited I couldn't wait until the anniversary tomorrow to post), a pound and change at the current rate should get you this at face value:

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clicky (https://www.bank.lv/eng/main/all/lvnaud/jubmon/smp/syd2000/cycling/)
that's right: lats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_euro_coins)

It celebrates the country's participation in the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney. Latvian cyclists didn't take any medals home. Arvis (https://www.avis.lv/avisonline/lv/avis.nsf) Piziks finished 1:38 behind winner Jan Ullrich in the men's road race... in case it ever comes up in Trivial Pursuit. Do people still play that? If so, surely Latka Gravas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman) should also feature in the Baltic version.

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clicky (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/acf/pics/andy3.jpg)
Title: Thank you very much!
Post by: sam on October 07, 2009
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Latvia's chief export: domestic livestock. And now 'bots. (https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/acf/pics/stopforumspam.gif)

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Guess there's not much money (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/6263039/Banks-brace-for-Latvias-collapse.html) in either.