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- proper noun A town on the west coast of
Estonia .
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The idea draws on variable experience overseas including eroding concrete benches in the Estonian resort of Haapsalu, where Tchaikovsky composed his Pathétique symphony.
National Trust's talking benches to use voices of celebrities 2011
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There were 37 children and nine adults inside the wooden building when the fire started Sunday afternoon in the coastal town of Haapsalu, said a spokesman for the Western Estonia Rescue Services Center.
World Watch 2011
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Firefighters were called out to the Haapsalu home at 2:30 pm 1230 GMT, and took two hours to control the blaze.
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Thirty-seven children and nine adults were inside the wooden building in the coastal town of Haapsalu when the fire started at 2.30pm yesterday, said Viktor Saaremets, a spokesman for the Western Estonia Rescue Services Centre.
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The Haapsalu orphanage was opened as a home for disabled children in 1950, when Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union, according to its website.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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"Today's tragedy in Haapsalu has shocked the whole of Estonia," President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said in a statement after news emerged of the grim toll in the northwestern town, scene of the nation's deadliest care-home fire in more than a decade.
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"The tragic accident in the Haapsalu orphanage shocked the whole of Estonia today," he said.
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Ten children killed in Estonian orphanage fire TEN children were killed today when fire ripped through an orphanage for disabled youngsters in Estonia's western coastal resort of Haapsalu.
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The Haapsalu orphanage was opened as a home for disabled children in 1950, when Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union, according to its website.
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Interior Minister Marko Pomerants said that investigators hoped to determine "in the nearest future" what caused the blaze at the orphanage for disabled children in Haapsalu, western Estonia.
The Seattle Times 2011
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