Search results for "Finnish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- General-Admiral Apraksin as well as stranded Finnish fishermen were saved in the Gulf of Finland because of exchange of distress telegrams between ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- British & International Sailors’ Society, the Finnish Seamen's Mission, the Norwegian Sjømannskirken and the Apostleship of the Sea. They ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- addorsed (back to back), as in the arms of the Finnish town of Uusikaupunki, Finland. {| |[[File:Uusikaupunki.vaakuna.svg|thumb|120px|Uusikaupunki ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 18:12, 26 February 2022
- Norwegian and Finnish skaters won all the gold medals in World Championships between the world wars, with Latvians and Austrians visiting the ...27 KB (4,168 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- * [http://www.museot.fi/en.php Museot - Finnish Museums] * [http://www.museums.ca/ Canadian Museums Association] * [http://www.russianmuseums ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- status as a national church alongside with the Finnish Orthodox Church, whose position however is not codified in the constitution. || Evangelical Lutheran ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- of the European Union: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. In the expansion of the Union ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- early visitor was Gustaf Nordenskiöld, son of Finnish-Swedish polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, in 1891. Nordenskiöld, a trained mineralogist ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 10:33, 10 March 2023
- in 1889. Two expeditions of the Helsingfors Ugro-Finnish society in 1890, and one by the Russian Academy of Sciences under Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- The new Polish, German, Czech-Bohemian, Slovenian, Norwegian, Finnish and Spanish immigrants brought the polka with them in various forms from ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[File:Human migrations and mitochondrial haplogroups.PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- Germanic and Norse mythologies, Finnish mythology and the Bible. ... based on Latin, with ingredients from Finnish and Greek. ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- after the Great War, being used in the Russo-Finnish conflicts (1939-1940 and 1941-1945). The Japanese launched thousands of balloon bombs to ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- but may never have actually visited. Some credit Finnish-Swedish naturalist Pehr Kalm with the original firsthand description, penned during an expedition ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- of one performance's proceeds to go to Finnish relief, while Hellman (an equally staunch Stalinist) vehemently disagreed. Their feud, which ...25 KB (3,800 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- * The Finnish CP * The Communist Party of Poland * The Communist Party of Estonia * The Communist Party of Latvia * The Lithuanian CP ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pamuk.htm "Pegasos," Finnish literary website] From 1985 to 1988, while his wife was a graduate student ...30 KB (4,557 words) - 10:43, 11 March 2023
- File:Varassaari5.JPG|A traditional Finnish house from the beginning of 20th century in Jyväskylä File:Gokayama Suganuma 五箇山菅沼地区 ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- " Scripta Humanistica (150) (2003). The Finnish government was so touched that it raised the necessary money by other means and returned her medal ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- touched off the Winter War, Undset supported the Finnish war effort by donating her Nobel Prize on January 25, 1940. ==Exile== When Germany invaded ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- " (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) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- 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=== ...36 KB (5,771 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- 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
- *MacBeth — 1999 Finnish comic book, adapted by Petri Hannini and artwork by Petri Hiltunen. *The Third Witch — 2001 novel by Rebecca Reisert ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- declined, various methods are used. An example is Finnish, where a colon is used to separate inflection from the letters: *An acronym is pronounced ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- story "Mr. Spaceship" was aired by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yleisradio) in 1996 under the name Menolippu Paratiisiin. Radio dramatizations ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War of 1808–1809 and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the Gulf of Bothnia ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- between the White (anti-Bolshevik) Finns of the Finnish Civil War and the Bolsheviks. From Reval (Tallinn), Estonia, he cabled Bryant, "Passport ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- and main city, Oslo. Norway also has a small Finnish community. Like the Sami, the Finns speak a native Finno-Ugric language in addition to Norwegian ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- being 208 IU (139 mg). A 1994 review of 5,133 Finnish men and women aged 30-69 years suggested that increased dietary intake of vitamin E was associated ...53 KB (7,528 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- The Soviet invasion of Poland and the subsequent Soviet-Finnish War led a call for military action against the Soviets, but Chamberlain believed ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- of Leningrad. After the Winter (Soviet-Finnish) war in 1939–1940, the ... venture between Russian Railways and VR (Finnish Railways), has been running ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- played with the Kirkkonummi Salamat in the Finnish men's Suomi-sarja league. Several women have competed in North American minor leagues ...69 KB (11,304 words) - 17:15, 10 February 2024
- The name "Russia," together with the Finnish Ruotsi and ... land swap that would redraw the Soviet-Finnish border further away from ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- There are also large communities of people of Finnish (Fitchburg/Gardner); Armenian, Lebanese (Worcester); Italian and French descent. Other influential ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- language and distantly related to Finnish and Estonian. Hungarian is one of the few official languages of the European Union that is not of Indo ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- on both sides of Lake Ladoga reaching the old Finnish-Soviet frontier. At this stage Hitler ordered the final destruction of Leningrad with no ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- to take the Russian throne. In 1609 the Swedish-Finnish army, led by Count Jacobus (Jaakko) De la Gardie ("Lazy Jaakko") and Evert (Eetvartti ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- repeated requests from Germany to deport its Finnish Jews in Germany. German requirements for the deportation of Jewish refugees from Norway and Baltic ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- ;Soviet-Finnish War The Soviet Union attacked Finland on November 30, 1939, starting the Winter War. Finland surrendered to the Soviet Union in ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- retired after little more than a year. In 1914, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt was granted German patent 309,536 for his sound-on-film work; that same ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- In November 1939, Stalin sent troops over the Finnish border provoking war. The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland proved to be ...78 KB (11,852 words) - 06:34, 6 May 2024
