Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The IKEA Catalogue (US spelling: IKEA Catalog; Swedish: Ikea-katalogen) was a catalogue published annually by the Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA. First published in Swedish in 1951, [ 1 ] the catalogue was considered to be the main marketing tool of the company and, as of 2004, consumed 70% of its annual marketing budget. [ 2 ]
With 203 million copies distributed to design lovers around the globe, Ikea's yearly catalog sits beside the Bible, the Quran, and the "Harry Potter" series as one of the most popular books in the ...
Name Stores Parent; LaTS: 700 [1]: SIA Latvijas Tirgotāju savienība: Aibė (Latvian called Aibe) : 536 Aljansas AIBĖ, UAB: Maxima X: 125: Maxima Group: Maxima XX ...
After the war, while Latvia was under Soviet rule, the institution was known as State Library of the Latvian SSR (Latvijas PSR Valsts bibliotēka). [1] According to Soviet customs, in 1966 the library received an honorary name, commemorating Vilis Lācis, a writer and the late prime minister of Soviet Latvia.
Latvia (/ ˈ l æ t v i ə / ⓘ LAT-vee-ə, sometimes / ˈ l ɑː t v i ə / LAHT-vee-ə; Latvian: Latvija ⓘ), [14] officially the Republic of Latvia, [15] [16] is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south.
The first attempt at creating a national encyclopedia in independent Latvia was launched in the interwar period by the publishing house of Ansis Gulbis [].The first edition of the Latvian Dictionary of Conversation [] was published in 1927, but after 21 volumes (the last one ending with the article about Giovanni Battista Tiepolo) the work was cut short by the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940.
www.opera.lv The Latvian National Opera and Ballet ( LNOB ) is an opera house and opera company at Aspazijas boulevard 3 in Riga . [ 1 ] Its repertoire includes performances of opera and ballet presented during the season which lasts from mid-September to the end of May. [ 2 ]
The museum houses more than 52,000 works of art reflecting the development of professional art in the Baltic area and in Latvia from the middle of the 18th century until the present time.