Paper mills, their key characteristic being the use of water energy, were an important element of the technology revolution. The production of paper, which replaced parchment, encouraged the spread of literacy and book reading, because the price of paper could sometimes account to as much as half of all costs of printed materials. […]
A task force set up by the Lithuanian minister of health has prepared a draft to legalize outdoor daycare centers, submitting the draft to other relevant institutions for further discussions. […]
Pre-Christian Lithuania was a land of oral culture. Peter of Dusburg, the chronicler of the German Order, retold an ironic joke in the early 14th century about the pagans gazing at written characters for the first time: “[Prussians] did not use writing /…/ They were completely amazed to find out that a human was able to convey his wishes to another person, who was not here, through writing.” If we leave the theories about “Lithuanian runes” aside as legends, we can safely assume that Lithuanians did not use writing for communication between themselves until the late 14th century. […]
The Lithuanian government signed on Monday the first cooperation agreement with the Order of Malta, which has been carrying out charitable activities in the country for more that two decades now. […]
After the State of Moscow, which grew into the Russian Empire in later ages, became the centre of Slavic statehood, Lithuania acquired a fierce rival with whom more than once it had to fight both on the battlefield and with the help of diplomatic measures. In the 15th -16th centuries, tension between the states determined not only the problems of foreign policy but also diplomatic contacts. […]
The rate of tuberculosis (TB) cases among Lithuanian children has almost doubled over the past three years, the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS said. […]
In an effort to counterbalance Russian propaganda, three Polish television channels will be made available to viewers in Lithuania’s southeastern districts with large ethnic Polish communities. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuania’s basketball legend who now heads the country’s Basketball Federation, and Edmundas Jakilaitis, a journalist with the public broadcaster LRT, are ranked as the country’s most influential people, the Delfi.lt news website reported on Monday. […]
Archeologists are believed to have found the remains of the two most famous leaders of the 1863 uprising against Tsarist Russia — Zigmantas Sierakauskas (Zygmunt Sierakowski) and Konstantinas Kalinauskas (Konstanty Kalinowski) — on the top of the Gediminas Hill in downtown Vilnius. […]
Tajik national Alisher Toshev was detained at Vilnius Airport on Thursday over national security concerns. […]
Pope Clement XVI’s decree pronouncing the closure of the Jesuit Order reached the Lithuanian and Polish Commonwealth in 1773. Jesuits financed a number of schools in Lithuania and Poland, including the Academy of Vilnius. The state faced the tasks of making use of the huge wealth of the Order and of finding new supervisors of the schools or, in other words, of solving problems in the area of education. […]
Nao, a friendly looking robot from Lithuania’s Robotikos Akademija, will be the guest of honour at the Future of Life Seminar on the occasion of the European Business Network 10th anniversary event. The seminar will take place in Vilnius’ Kempinski Hotel on 21 September. In addition to the robot, some of Lithuania’s leading scientist will explain how progress in science and technology will affect our daily lives in the near future. […]
Dalius Misiūnas, chairman of the management board and CEO of the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), on Thursday was questioned by Special Investigation Service (STT) officials. […]
Three men suspected of stealing records of over 22,000 clients from the cosmetic surgery clinic Grožio Chirurgija were detained in Lithuania’s second-biggest city of Kaunas on Wednesday, police said on Thursday. […]
The Spaniard Alfonso Salmerón (1515–1585) was one of the closest companions of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, and he played an active role in the affairs of the order in its early life in Paris and later in Italy. Salmerón and Loyola met at the Sorbonne in 1536, where they were studying theology. Not long afterwards, with a few other friends, they founded the Society of Jesus. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis wants the country’s tax and law-enforcement authorities to step up their fight against the shadow economy. […]
The City Council of Vilnius decided on Wednesday to allocate 500,000 euros to the Lietuvos Rytas basketball club and the Žalgiris football club each. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is putting forward amendments aimed at overhauling the country’s vocational education and training system. […]
In early 1648, a Cossack uprising led by Bogdan Chmelnitsky broke out in Polish-ruled Ukraine, which the country’s leaders did little to suppress. As was usual in the first half of the 17th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania did not keep a standing army, only garrison units in Smolensk and Daugpilis. Whenever the threat of war loomed, it had to form a new army from scratch each time, so the private armies of the nobles were always the first to go into war, and were only later joined by conscripts. […]
Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuania’s basketball legend who now heads the country’s Basketball Federation, Virgilijus Alekna, a former discus thrower and now a lawmaker, and Rūta Meilutyte, an Olympic gold-winning swimmer, are ranked as Lithuania’s most influential sports figures, Delfi.lt reported on Wednesday. […]
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