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  • 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
  • #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 (3,698 words) - 06:32, 10 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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