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4 reasons why you should start looking for Christmas presents right now

With three more months still to go until the most beautiful holiday of the year, you should really start Christmas shopping right now, especially if you are planning to do it online. It is no secret that deliveries fall behind schedule which makes commencing your search for presents on the World Wide Web right now the best way to prevent them from running late. Besides, if you start to shop early, you could gain financially as well, a DPD press release states. So, what does it pay to do your Christmas shopping in fall? […]

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The court has made a decision – “Jacquet” instead of “Žakė“

After examining the case of the records of surnames of a children with dual citizenship in the records of civil status, Vilnius city District Court has decided to oblige the Civil Registry Office to change the surnames of children from “Žakė” to its original surname “Jacquet”, and to issue a birth certificate, a press release from the European Foundation of Human Rights states. […]

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Time for those dearest to us: one hour a week is not enough

In September, when the family rythm returns to its routine pace there is increasingly less time left for those closest to us. Some of us do not even devote one hour per week to communicating with our family members. At home we often lack time for conversations with our children or the adults in the family. Psychologists have issued a warning that we communicate too briefly and too seldom with each other, a press release from Gjensidige states. […]

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Names of Holocaust victims to be read out in Seimas

Names of the Holocaust victims will be read out in the Lithuanian parliament on Monday to mark the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews and in support of a civic initiative, Names. […]

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Pope Fancis might ask Lithuania for solidarity in accepting refugees

Pope Francis, arriving in Lithuania on Saturday, might ask the Baltic states for solidarity in accepting refugees escaping war conflicts, Vatican journalists told BNS Lithuania. […]

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36 years after the first emoji: five facts you may not know

Exactly 36 years ago today, an American professor and computer scientist Scott Fahlman used a smiley symbol – ‘:-)’ for the first time in an electronic message. He also used another well-known symbol – ‘:-(’. By using these symbols, the professor sought to distinguish which messages were of serious content and which were meant as a joke. Scott Fahlman most probably didn’t realise at the time just how much interest the symbols would later attract. More and more emojis emerged, and today no digital communication can be imagined without them. So, on the occasion of the birthday of the first emoji, Bitės Profai offer an opportunity to see for yourself just how big the emoji world is, and possibly learn some interesting facts you didn’t know before, a press release from Bitė states. […]

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Jew savers to be honored in Lithuania

People who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during WWII will be honored in Lithuania on Friday. […]

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Lithuanian chemists have synthesised ultrafast cyanide detector

A group of synthetic organic chemists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania have synthesised a new material, which can be used as a detector of cyanides in water. In contact with cyanides it changes colour in half a minute – more than 20 times faster than currently used colorimetric commercial cyanide detection products, a press release from the university states. […]