Search results for "Finnish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- " (from Russian through Finnish, "small lake," as in Russia's Lake Ilmen), used to form part of the early, very deep river ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- In 2008, a Finnish tourist chipped a piece off the ear of one moai. The tourist was fined $17,000 in damages and was banned from the island for ...33 KB (5,262 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- [[Image:Finnish lax.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Lacrosse being played in Finland]] The World Lacrosse Championships have been dominated by the United ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- predominantly Dutch, German, Polish, Finnish, among others. Since general freight these days is transported by railroads and trucks, domestic ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 19:37, 24 May 2024
- controlled the colony, the Swedish and Finnish settlers continued to enjoy a degree of local autonomy, having their own militia, religion, court ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- reality. Reflections on concepts and practices in Finnish rural tourism, Nordia Geographical Publications 30(4) (2001):21–34. For many countries ...36 KB (5,227 words) - 15:44, 5 July 2023
- In the Winter War, a combination of fierce Finnish resistance and Soviet mismanagement ... of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish civilians, troops and fortifications ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- |Finnish socialists |align=“left”|Social Democratic |align="center"|14,000 |- |Belarusians |align=“left”|Ethnic |align="center ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
- The Finnish author Zacharias Topelius' historical allegory Tähtien Turvatit also portrays her, like her father, as having a mercurial temperament ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- of long and short phonemes, as in Finnish and Japanese, where consonant gemination and vowel length are independent. ===Tone=== In most languages ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- the Winter War. Despite outnumbering the Finnish troops by over 50:1, the war proved embarrassingly difficult for the Red Army. Although the ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- Finnish Field Marshal Mannerheim and general Aksel Airo were avid readers of Art of War; Airo kept the book on his bedside table in his quarters. ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- Manufacturer of rolloader cranes include the Dutch Kennis and the Finnish company Hiab (Hydrauliska Industri AB). ===Stacker crane=== ...37 KB (5,784 words) - 20:21, 28 May 2024
- By 1644 Swedish and Finnish settlers were living along the western side of Delaware River from Fort Christina to the Schuylkill River. New Sweden ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Mishra, Molly Kaushal, and Raghavan Payanad. Finnish folklorist Dr. Lauri Honko conducted important field work on the Siri Epic, and by analyzing tales ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- The Finnish famine of 1866-1868 was the last famine in Finland and northern Sweden. In Finland the famine is known as "the great hunger ...36 KB (5,441 words) - 00:40, 25 March 2024
- the Paris Conference 1904, organized by the Finnish dissident Konni Zilliacus. Milyukov returned to Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1905 ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- Brothers," the most famous book of Finnish literature. *Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a book written by T. E. Lawrence. *The Secret Seven, name ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- in Swedish, wasbeer in Dutch, pesukarhu in Finnish, araiguma (アライグマ) in Japanese, orsetto lavatore in Italian, huànxióng (浣熊 ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- Alumnus Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect of such notable structures as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Washington Dulles International ...40 KB (5,720 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
