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| | Antanas Smetona and The Nationalist Movement |
 | | Antanas Smetona became the first president of Lithuania in April 4, 1919. | | | Smetona resigned his position with the appearance of a parliamentary government. | | | Smetona fled to Cleveland, Ohio where he died in a fire at his son's home in Jan.9, 1944. |
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http://www.bu.edu/econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Baltics/Lithuania/smetona_l.htm
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| | Smetona Antanas: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library |
| | ...108 Antanas Smetona, Lithuanias president from 1919-1920...Lozoraitis, and its president, Antanas Smetona. | | | Antanas Smetona 1874-1944, a lawyer and future...restoration of an independent, Antanas Smetona, president of the Lithuanian... | | | SMETONA, ANTANAS anta nas sme tona, 1874 1944, Lithuanian...1926) against the Socialist government, Smetona was elected president with Augustin Voldemaras...Parliamentary government was suspended, and in 1929 Smetona forced Voldemaras to resign and assumed... |
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http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/smetona_antanas.jsp
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| | President of the Republic of Lithuania - Antanas Smetona |
| | Antanas Smetona was elected President of the Republic of Lithuania on 17 December 1926, re-elected in 1931 and 1938 and remained in office until 15 June 1940. | | | From 4 April 1919 to 19 June 1920 Antanas Smetona served as the first President of the State of Lithuania. | | | Antanas Smetona died in a fire in Cleveland (U.S.) on 9 January 1944. |
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http://www.president.lt/institution/istorija/1
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| | Antanas Smetona was born in the village of Uzulenis of the present Ukmerge District on August 10, 1874 |
| | Smetona was buried in the Cleveland cemetery (the USA). | | | On April 4, 1919, the State Council of Lithuania elected A. Smetona the first President of the Republic of Lithuania. | | | At the same time he was one of the main organizers of the Lithuanian Conference in Vilnius (September 18-23), a member of its presidium, and at the conference was elected to the Council of Lithuania (later the State Council), became its chairman. |
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http://www.ktl.mii.lt/prezidentai/Smetona_e.html
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| | Lithuania - Independence, 1918-40 |
| | Antanas Smetona, a former acting president, was elected to the presidency by a rump parliament. | | | Smetona established Tautininkai, a nationalist political party, which reappeared in the parliament in 1991 after Lithuania regained independence from the Soviet Union. | | | Antanas Snieckus, the Communist Party of Lithuania leader, returned from Moscow with the other officials who had fled before the advancing German armies. |
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http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-8285.html
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| | The Decision of the Lithuanian Government to Accept the Soviet Ultimatum of June 14, 1940 - Thomas Remeikis |
| | President Antanas Smetona, who left the country on June 15, 1940 (for a while he was interned in Germany, finally he was allowed to move on to the United States, where he died in Cleveland in 1944), wrote a Pro Memoria between July 1 and 25, 1940, while he was interned in East Prussia. | | | A special meeting of the Council of Ministers with the President of the Republic Antanas Smetona was held during the night of June 14-15, 1940. | | | Smetona here is referring to the informal role that the opposition parties came to play in governmental decisions and politics. |
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http://www.lituanus.org/1975/75_4_02.htm
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| | President of the Republic of Lithuania - History |
| | Shortly afterwards, on 19 December, Antanas Smetona was elected President of the Republic of Lithuania a second time. | | | On 4 April 1918, the Council of the State established the office of President and elected Antanas Smetona the first President of the Republic of Lithuania. | | | On 15 May 1920, the Constituent Seimas declared Lithuania a democratic Republic. |
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http://www.president.lt/institution
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| | Cleveland.com's Printer-Friendly Page |
| | Democratically elected Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona was forced to flee his country by the invading Soviet army in 1940. | | | After looking for a permanent home in Portugal, Brazil and New York, Smetona in 1942 settled in Cleveland, where he wrote for Lithuanian newspapers and was centrally located to his steering committee members in New York and Chicago. | | | The Cleveland house where Smetona lived was consumed by fire on a frigid January morning in 1944. |
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http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/heritage/more/lithuania/lithhome.html
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| | Augustinas Voldemaras |
| | Smetona asked him to drop the matter and, as he was still minister of foreign affairs (even in the new cabinet), Voldemaras led the Lithuanian delegation at the conference. | | | In September of 1918 Voldemaras and other members of the Taryba (including Antanas Smetona, future president of Lithuania) proceeded to a conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, with these various groups. | | | He was replaced, not by way of resignation, but of expulsion, by the cabinet of M. Sleževičius."2 News leaked out that Smetona and Voldemaras were overthrown in a revolution, but the new government made it appear to be a routine reorganization. |
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http://www.lituanus.org/1984_3/84_3_06.htm
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| | Timeline Lithuania 1930-2004 |
| | Antanas Smetona protested the occupation and left Lithuania. | | | 1944 Jan 9, Antanas Smetona, former Lithuanian president, died in Cleveland, Ohio. | | | Also featured were prime minister Juozas Tubelis and president Antanas Smetona. |
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http://www.bonus.com/contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/LITH_B.HTML
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| | WHKMLA : History of Lithuania, 1918-1922 |
| | ANTANAS SMETONA, chairman of the COUNCIL OF LITHUANIA, was an advocate of a policy leaning on Germany. | | | Compared with other newly established nation-states in eastern central Europe, Lithuania lacked the protection of a victorious power - Poland enjoyed the sympathy of France, Britain, the States, Latvia and Estonia British support; Lithuania was perceived as a German creation. | | | In 1919 Lithuania became a REPUBLIC and he was elected the first president; in 1920 he was succeeded by ALEKSANDRAS STULGINSKIS |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/eceurope/lithuania191822.html
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| | NMR: School1 |
| | In 1938 parents appealed to President A. Smetona and asked him to expand the school. | | | The majority of the secondary school buildings in Lithuania are of the typical designs, but Ukmerges Antano Smetonos Vidurine Mokykla was built according to an individual project in 1938. | | | From 1938 — 1940 the school was named after A. Smetona. |
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http://www.new-millennium-ride.org/scool36.html
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| | "Johnny" Walker's Scouting Milestones Pages - Calgaric |
| | President Smetona signed the document declaring Lithuania to be a republic on February 16th, 1918. | | | At the head of one spoke was B-P and President Smetona. | | | I was just giving up when I read about a monument to Antanas Smetona, 'The Father of Lithuania'. |
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http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/calgaric.htm
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| | Antanas Smetona: bio and encyclopedia article |
| | Antanas Smetona (August 10, 1874 - January 9, 1944) was the first president of Lithuania (Lithuania: A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea) from April 4, 1919 to June 19, 1920. | | | He died in exile in Cleveland, Ohio (Cleveland, Ohio: more facts about this subject), in the United States (United States: North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776). | | | List of Lithuanian rulers (List of Lithuanian rulers: more facts about this subject) |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/antanas_smetona
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| | Rimantas SMETONA, Member of the Seimas 1996-2000 |
| | Grandson of Ignas Smetona, brother of Antanas Smetona, President of the Republic of Lithuania (1919-1920, 1926-1940). | | | Born on 1 November 1945 in Ukmergė region, the village of Užkulėnis into a family of farmers. |
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http://www3.lrs.lt/seimu_istorija/w3_lrs.seimo_narys-p_asm_id=7200&p_int_tv_id=784&p_kalb_id=2&p_kade_id=3.htm
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| | A short history of Lithuania |
| | The conference adopts a resolution demanding the restoration of an independent Lithuania and elected the Lithuanian Council, a standing body chaired by Antanas Smetona. | | | During World War I, Germany occupies Lithuania in 1915 and the occupation administration allows a Lithuanian conference to convene in Vilnius in 1917. | | | Between 1924 and 1926 the Lietuvos Krikščionių Demokratų Partija (Lithuanian Christian-Democratic Party, LKSP) leads the government with Antanas Tumenas, Vytautas Petrulis and Leonas Bistras as prime ministers. |
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http://www.electionworld.org/history/lithuania.htm
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| | She went on to graduate from the Lithuanian National Conservatory in 1935, where she met her future husband Julius, an athlete and an assistant law professor who was also the son of Lithuania’s President Antanas Smetona. | | | Birute, born in Subacius, Lithuania, began her distinguished career as a concert pianist by soloing with the symphony orchestra in Kaunas -- then the capital of Lithuania. | | | After the start of World War II, she had to leave a respected music conservatory in Paris to return to Lithuania with her husband and infant son, Anthony. |
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http://dewine.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=207081
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| | Central Europe Review - Lithuania: Who Runs Lithuania? |
| | However, those early years preceded the re-establishment of the presidency (Lithuania had not had a president since 1940, when President Antanas Smetona fled the country with impending invasion from Moscow) and the Seimas Chairman was seen as the de facto head of state. | | | So upon his return to the post in 1996 he executed his duties as the head legislator closer to Newt Gingrich than Betty Boothroyd. | | | Landsbergis defined the role of Seimas Chairman in 1996 similar to the role in 1991, when he previously held the position. |
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http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/amber_archive/amber19old.html
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| | Paradox Interactive Forums - A Baltic Empire - Lithuanian AAR |
| | Lozoraits: (calling Smetona) Sir, we have been called to the great Republic Senate in New York to answer to why we have declared war. | | | The place was arranged so all the nations diplomats was sitting around the President Roosvelt. | | | Later on Smetona went better and had the big meeting in the senate. |
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http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110052
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| | Struggle1831 |
| | Obviously Lithuania's Council could not agree with such conditions and when Germans did not invite Lithuanian representatives to the Brest-Litovsk negotiations, Smetona resigned and Jonas Basanavicius was elected as his successor. | | | Soon also Germany decided to aid Lithuania and they proposed to liberate Lithuania from Russia, but also to become a part of German empire under four conditions: finance, military affairs, transport and union customs. | | | They elected Lietuvos Taryba (Lithuanian Council) and Antanas Smetona became the chairman. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~vpodagel/struggle1831.htm
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| | WHKMLA : History of Lithuania, 1926-1938 |
| | In a coup d'etat on Dec. 17th 1926 ANTANAS SMETONA seized the presidency; in 1927 he dissolved the SEJMAS (parliament), in 1928 he promulgated a new constitution widening presidential powers. | | | List of Presidents etc. of Lithuania, from World Rulers by Ben Cahoon Convention between Lithuania and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the Definition of Aggression. | | | Lithuanian Stamp featuring President Antanas Smetona (in office 1918-1920, 1936-1940), issued in 1934 |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/eceurope/lithuania192638.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Smetona Antanas |
| | Smetona, Antanas (1874-1944), dominant political figure in the first independent republic of Lithuania. | | | Smetona was born in the district of Ukmergė... | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Smetona Antanas |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/Smetona_Antanas.html
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| | On a congress in Vilnius, from 18 to 23 September 1917, a National Counsel 'Lietuvos Taryba' was chosen. | | | This counsel consisted of 20 members with Antanas Smetona as chairman. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/jtckaptein/philatelyoflithuania/vileng3.htm
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| | Smetona flees and Lithuania is incorporated into the USSR. | | | 1926: Nationalist party leader Antanas Smetona seizes power in a military coup after the left wing wins elections. |
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http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Centeur/Baltics/Lithuania/040419facts.txt
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| | Sea Festival brings people flocking into Klaipeda |
| | It was 70 years ago that Antanas Smetona, Lithuania's interwar president, held the first sea celebration in Klaipeda, the aim of which was to promote marine culture among Lithuanians and to introduce Klaipeda as a dependable port to foreigners. | | | In addition, this year's Sea Festival, which runs July 23 - 25, will be the 45th time that it has been staged. |
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http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/10502
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| | Planted by Antanas Smetona President of Lithuania Oct. 12, 1941 | | | Memorial plaques bear dates of planting and the names of Lithuanian Presidents who planted them. |
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http://www.friendshipgardens.org/gardens3.htm
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| | Aldeas Infantiles SOS : Country Information on Belarus |
| | Country Information on Lithuania Lithuania suffered a military coup in 1926, and was ruled by Antanas Smetona as a corporate state from 1929 onwards. | | | Country Information on Latvia Climatic conditions in the west are dominated by the ocean, with relatively mild winters and warm summers. |
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http://es.sos-childrensvillages.org/html_es/country_information_on_belarus.html
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| | Samogitia. Palanga |
| | This oak was planted in honor of Antanas Smetona, president of Lithuania (1926-1939) and leader of the Tautininkai Party, known to many as the People's Leader. | | | The inter-war president Antanas Smetona is one of the most famous pupils of the school. | | | Count Tiskevicius culturally enhanced the town by establishing a preparatory school, where a number of Samogitian youth and young people from other regions of Lithuania were educated. |
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http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/Samogitia/LANKYTINOS_VIETOS/palanga.en.htm
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| | A lawyer, he became a leader of the... | | | Antanas Smetona - Smetona, Antanas, 1874–1944, Lithuanian dictator. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0829974.html
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| | National Labour Law Profile: Lithuania |
| | The first democratic constitution was adopted in August 1922, but the Government was overthrown in a military coup in December 1926. | | | Antanas Smetona established an authoritarian regime which lasted until 1940. |
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http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/ll/profiles/li.htm
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| | Lietuvos Aidas - About Us |
| | The founder and editor of it was the first (and future) president of Lithuania Antanas Smetona. | | | The well known poet and publicist, the signatory of independence act Sigitas Geda, political analyst Vilius Litvinavièius, also the well known journalists Vytautas Þeimantas and Linas Jonuðas work in the newspaper. | | | Professor Ona Voverienë, doctor of social sciences Antanas Petrauskas, publicist Algimantas Zolubas, famous political analyst Èeslovas Iðkauskas, famous publicist in our emigration Vilius Braþënas contribute in the newspaper. |
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http://www.aidas.lt/about.htm
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| | Who wants to be the Lithuanian president? |
| | And with the Soviet occupation in 1940, the curtain was drawn on the presidency when Lithuania's interwar President Antanas Smetona was forced to emigrate from the country. | | | It witnessed the military overthrow of President Kazys Grinius in 1926 that led to 14 years of authoritarianism. | | | Three out of all six Lithuanian presidents were sentenced to jail for dabbling beyond their jurisdiction, and a fourth may soon follow. |
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http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/10467
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| | Museum of Ukmerge A. Smetona secondary school with gymnasium classes |
| | The exposition presents the ethnic culture of Lithuania, the school’s history, activity of teachers and pupils and also displays material about life and activity of the president of Lithuania Antanas Smetona (1919-1920. | | | The gymnasium of Antanas Smetona was opened in 1938 on the initiative of the president A. Smetona. | | | Museum of Ukmerge A. Smetona secondary school with gymnasium classes |
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http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/muziejai/ukmerge/smetonos_mokyklos_muziejus.en.htm
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| | Augustinas Voldemaras at AllExperts |
| | On two occasions, Voldemaras attempted to overthrow the government and return to power: in 1931, for which he was acquitted, and in 1934, for which he was sentenced to twelve years in prison--he was pardoned four years later, in 1938, to mark the twentieth anniversary of Lithuania's independence, and sent into exile. | | | He returned to power in 1926 as head of a military coup that deposed prime minister Mikolas Sleevičius and ruled together with Antanas Smetona as virtual dictator of the country. | | | Later that year, while attending a meeting of the League of Nations, he was ousted in a coup by President Smetona, who ruled as dictator until the Soviet invasion in 1940. |
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http://experts.about.com/e/a/au/Augustinas_Voldemaras.htm
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| | Testimony of Zvi - Hirsch Griliches |
| | When the Germans came, Zvi's uncle -- who had been the manager of the family's factory and was a personal friend of Antanas Smetona, Lithuania's president -- was arrested for possessing a weapon (that was used for hunting). | | | The factory was nationalized, but Zvi's father continued to work there. | | | He was taken to the Ninth Fort and ordered to dig his own grave, but in the end was released thanks to his connections. |
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http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kovno/kovno_pages/kovno_stories_griliches.html
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http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/thopf/classes/ps555countries/Lithuania3.doc
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Careful Smetona -- Dec. 26, 1938 |
| | Vignette StoryServer 5.0 Sat Apr 08 00:18:14 2006 | | | Vignette StoryServer 5.0 Sat Apr 08 00:18:16 2006 | | | Adolf Hitler likes Smetona's most potent political rival, Augustine Valdemaras, and Nazis have pressed for his inclusion in Lithuania& Cabinet. |
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http://www.time.com/time/archive/printout/0,23657,772189,00.html
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| | www.findagrave.com |
| | Click “Search” at the bottom, and you will get his name on the left, with the name of the cemetery on the right. | | | One is Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona, and the other Lithuanian numismatist Dr. Aleksandras Rackus. | | | Type in the name “Antanas Smetona,” and below choose “Ohio.” You don’t have to fill in the dates. |
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http://www.albionmich.com/history/histor_notebook/LMR209.shtml
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| | Uzugiris mnor of the president Antanas Smetona |
| | President Antanas Smetona was born in 1874 in the village of Uzulenis, in the old farmstead belonging to the Smetonas family. | | | While celebrating the 60th anniversary of the President Antanas Smetona, it was decided to present him a farm in his country home. | | | For the first time President Smetona spent summertime in Uzugiris in 1937 and he named this farm “The Uzugiris courtyard”. |
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http://www.heritage.lt/dvarai/smetonos/rec.htm
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/wiki/Ukmerge
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| | The Center Did Not Hold |
| | Lithuania (1926): military coup, which allowed to president Antanas Smetona to establish a dictatorship (1926-1939/1940) | | | Poland (1926) - military coup Josef Pilsudski eliminated political parties continued also after Pilsudski's death (1935) to 1939 |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~irinal/hist200/outline20.html
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/ref/antanas_smetona
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| | Palanga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Tyszkiewicz palace park was converted into a botanical garden in 1960 and today it has 200 different types of trees and shrubs, including an oak tree planted by President Antanas Smetona. | | | Alas, the Russian authorities stepped in with Vaineikis and 25 other people punished by deportation to Siberia in 1901. | | | The palace, now the Amber Museum, has a nice display of amber jewelry and other artifacts. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palanga
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| | 15 Jun 1940 - 17 Jun 1940 Antanas Merkys (acting) (b. | | | 2 Nov 1918 - 19 Jun 1920 Antanas Smetona (1st time) (s.a.) | | | 18 Sep 1917 - 9 Jul 1918 Antanas Smetona (b. |
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