Search results for "Finnish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of the Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists in the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts in Saint-Petersburg. Bakst would also show his work ...13 KB (1,809 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- |ethnic_groups=79.6% Swedes 1.9% Syrian 1.4% Iraqi 1.3% Finnish, ... recognized as minority languages: Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sami ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- Breuer in 1951. Noyes House was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. A good example of an attempt to use passive solar design can be ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- Finland) by Erkki Wessmann. (website and book in Finnish only) ... of a Rebel"), Suomen Kuvalehti (a Finnish magazine, online [http://www ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- and gadolinite were named after the Finnish chemist and geologist Johan Gadolin. Today, gadolinium is isolated by techniques such as ion exchange ...13 KB (1,750 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- The concept and name lyceum (or lyseo in Finnish) entered Finland through Sweden, and was used for schools which prepared students to enter universities ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- One of few fantasy writers in Swedish literature was the Finnish writer ... and research." The Society offers Finnish visitors an ideal forum ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- to rapid deforestation: it has been estimated all Finnish forests are younger than 300 years. The end of tar production in the end of the nineteenth century ...15 KB (2,216 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius dedicated his Solitude to her. In 1935 impresario Sol Hurok took over as her manager and was with her for ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 23:31, 1 September 2023
- boarding a ship on his way to Stockholm, Finnish police arrested him; he ... On March 13, Finnish customs officials found Reed in a coal bunker ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- Windows. 2002. The distinguished Swedish-speaking Finnish paleontologist Björn Kurtén has entertained and expanded this theory to determine that trolls ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- such as the playwright George Bernard Shaw, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and famous filmmaker, Charlie Chaplin. During World War II Saroyan ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- in the vicinity of Urho Kekkonen National Park in Finnish Lapland, includes snow igloos for sleeping, an ice gallery, an ice chapel popular for weddings ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:41, 4 February 2023
- Costa de Marfil in Spanish, Norsunluurannikko in Finnish, Pantai Gading in Indonesian, Ivoorkust in Dutch, Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej in Polish, Costa ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- with the broader meaning of firth or inlet. In Finnish language, a word vuono is used although there is only one fjord in Finland. ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- with Gen. Nikolai Yudenich and the Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim before leaving for Western Europe. Struve represented Gen. Anton ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- in other countries—in Sweden, for instance, the Finnish-born Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld made such a proposition in 1880. The Scottish-American naturalist ...17 KB (2,403 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. According to the story, whoever ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- Bridget's book of her Celestial revelations (Finnish Nationalmuseum, Helsinki)]] Bridget prayed for a long time to know how many blows Christ ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- Ganander's Mythologia Fennica, a dictionary of Finnish mythological words and names (the Swedish original was published in 1789). Peterson's ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 23:59, 18 March 2022
