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
- 039;boom' or 'rang'), is made of Finnish birch plywood, hardwood, plastic or composite materials and comes in many different shapes and ...18 KB (2,904 words) - 19:33, 20 November 2023
- Åland Islands. The Islands remained under the Finnish control, but were disarmed and granted autonomy, averting a possible armed conflict (See also ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- * Mehilaisten elama (Finnish) * Our Friend the Dog * Pelleas and Melisande * La sagesse et la destinee (French) * The Unknown Guest ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- Masalin (Massalin) (1809–1859), a Finnish peasant who had made a fortune ... and sisters, English with her nanny, Finnish with the peasants at a family ...55 KB (7,707 words) - 20:09, 30 July 2023
- victory against the Soviets, and then against the Finnish team in the gold medal game, is widely considered the greatest upset in a sporting event in ...18 KB (2,744 words) - 14:09, 9 February 2022
- A survey and spatial studies carried out by Finnish and British archaeologists in the area of Qumran in the 1990s supports the theory ...18 KB (2,848 words) - 16:03, 7 December 2022
- * [http://www.kendoliitto.net/ Finnish Kendo Association] * [http://www.kendo.lv Latvian Kendo Federation] * [http://www.kendo.org.nz/ New Zealand ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 22:07, 3 March 2023
- Finland denounced the occupation. Nonetheless, Finnish president Urho Kekkonen was the very first Western politician to officially visit Czechoslovakia ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- minutes long interview of Yuri Gagarin by The Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1961] * [http://www.yurisnight.net Yuri's Night - World Space Party] ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- Like in Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish, Telugu words have vowels in inflectional suffixes harmonized with the vowels of the preceding syllable. ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- and Russian schools on his German, Polish, and Finnish subjects, by fostering Eastern Orthodoxy at the expense of other confessions, by persecuting ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Rouergue mutiny. Two Jewish officers of the Finnish army and one female Lotta Svärd member were awarded Iron Crosses, but they would not accept them. ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- Notably, the Finnish symphonic folk-metal band Turisas used to have a full-time accordionist, employing classical and polka sensibilities alongside ...52 KB (7,685 words) - 01:50, 27 February 2024
- Image:Hirvieläimiä 155.svg|Finnish moose warning sign Image:Skilt146 01.png|Norwegian moose warning sign Image:Ahlgrens älgskylt.jpg|Swedish ...18 KB (2,884 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- German word for "lion"). Leevi is a Finnish variation. Having a last name related to Levi, however, does not necessarily mean a person ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- (this is thought to be due to influence from Finnish, which doesn't distinguish these sounds). So, цапля ("heron") has been recorded ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Japanese son), Luis (Colombian son), Jarry (Finnish son), Jean-Claude (Canadian son), Moïse (French Jewish son), Brahim (Arab son), Marianne (French ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- on-film process, which improved on the work of Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt, and called it the De Forest Phonofilm process. It recorded sound directly ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 18:59, 25 October 2022
- writing a Communist Party pamphlet about the Russo-Finnish War. In (Politics and Letters) Williams recounts that they "were given the job as people ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- have been cited by researchers such as Finnish Indologist Asko Parpola as being strong evidence for a proto-Dravidian origin of the ancient Indus ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Debs was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Finnish Communist Karl H. Wiik on the ground that "Debs started to work actively for peace during ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- . Other juniper-flavored beverages include the Finnish rye-and-juniper beer known as sahti, which is flavored with both juniper berries and branches ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- Folklorists of the "Finnish" (or historical-geographical ... A Classification and Bibliography. Finnish Academy of Science and Letters ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- and then on to Haparanda on the Swedish-Finnish border. From there, they ... health herself. He left Petrograd for the Finnish village of Neivola, where ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- with the systematic rigor of Germanic forms. The Finnish Kalevala and the Estonian Kalevipoeg both use alliterative forms derived from folk tradition ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- in Dutch, Bensin (Swedish and Norwegian), Bensiini (Finnish), Benzyna (Polish), Benzina (Catalan), Benzină (Romanian), Бензин (Russian), and other ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- navigation of ships from the Baltic Sea to Finnish ports on Lake Ladoga via ... Baltic port of Hanko. The about 400,000 Finnish inhabitants of the occupied ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- #039;s equivalent, the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), has about one million members out of a total country population of 5.2 million. ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- most of Michigan. People of Nordic (especially Finnish), British (notably Cornish), and French ancestry have a notable presence in the Upper Peninsula ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- British and French fleets destroyed forts on the Finnish coast including Bomarsund on the Åland Islands and Fort Slava. Other such attacks were not ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
