Search results for "Finnish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Finnish engineer DI Toivo J. Kaario, head inspector of Valtion Lentokonetehdas ... The Finnish Navy designed an experimental missile attack hovercraft ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- fascists in disguise. This conflicts with Finnish self-perception, which considers ... The Finnish government was very careful to nurture this political ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- level." This is reflected by some Finnish schools giving English titles such as Bachelor of Science, with no Finnish translation. ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- * Kurkuma in Finnish * Gurkmeja in Swedish * 欝金 (ukon) in Japanese * ขมิ้น (kamin) in Thai * Geelwortel (literal: Yellow Root) ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- Jean Sibelius wrote music based on the Finnish epic, the Kalevala and his ... Tchaikovsky and Borodin), and also Czech, Finnish and French nationalist styles ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- Gods" (Zeus, Jupiter, Indra and the Finnish Ukko): specifically, all ... for a discussion of these similarities in the Finnish context. Dumézil ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- The Finnish-language newspaper of the IWW, Industrialisti, published ... The Finnish I.W.W. community produced several folk singers, poets ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- of Sweden. Many of the settlers were Finnish; since until 1809, Finland ... The Swedish and Finnish settlers continued to enjoy a degree of local ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- money extended east towards Moscow, until the Finnish and Slavic tribes rebelled and drove the Varangians overseas. Similarly, the Sami peoples were ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
- * [http://www.fulbright.fi/ The Finnish Fulbright Commission] * [http://www.fulbright.org.ua/ The Ukrainian Fulbright Program] Fulbright_Program ...11 KB (1,431 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- suutari ("Shoemaker of Jerusalem" in Finnish). Literature detailing his exploits has appeared widely throughout modern history and was appropriated ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- German and Italian navy, as well as parts of the Finnish and Soviet fleets, were found on the lake during the war. At one point during the war, Leningrad ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- of Finland, bogs and peat bogs (turvesuo in Finnish) are widespread. Twenty-six percent of the land area of Finland is bog of some sort. Because ...19 KB (2,935 words) - 17:10, 26 March 2023
- The Estonian language, along with closely related Finnish and Hungarian ... Estonian veterans of both the German and Finnish armies along with Estonian ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- ====Finnish==== In Finland the swastika was often used in traditional ... A design by Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela of 1918, the Cross ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- some languages (such as Spanish and Finnish) come close to it, while ... Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian (Serbian ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The Finnish Defense Forces does not conscript women. However, since ... All services and units in the Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- to our intuitive conception of a word. The Finnish compound word pääkaupunki 'capital' is phonologically two words (pää 'head ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- pdf Fiskars 1649: 350 Years of Finnish Industrial History]. fiskars.fi. Retrieved November 19, 2008. == Description and operation == ...13 KB (1,979 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- Cleanup measures have been mostly, but not completely, successful ... and chlorophyll a concentrations in Finnish rivers and lakes in 1975 ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Celan she was embroiled in a long dispute with Finnish-Jewish composer Moses Pergament's musical adaptation of her stage play Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- The Finnish education system charges no tuition fees for full-time ... The Finnish system resembles the German gymnasium. Usually the students ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- Lucrezia Borgia (1982), a Spanish-Italian film with Finnish actress Sirpa Lane as Lucrezia, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero. * Los Borgia ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- products National Agency for Medicines (Finnish). Camphor is also used in clarifying masks used for the skin. === Culinary uses === ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- Yttrium was discovered by Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist Johan Gadolin in 1794. He isolated an impure form of its oxide, yttria ...12 KB (1,634 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- Hall of the Mountain King is also played by Finnish cello rock band Apocalyptica, on their album, Cult (2000). It also can be heard extensively on ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- The Finnish name for northern lights is revontulet, meaning "fox fires." According to legend, foxes made of fire lived in Lapland, ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- exempted from military service, while the Finnish government exempts Jehovah ... part of Russification in 1903. During the Finnish Civil War in 1918, conscription ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- *[http://mysciencefeel.com/2019/04/24/excalibur/ Finnish translation of this page] by [http://mysciencefeel.com/about-me/ Elsa Jansson] ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- major freshwater inflows, such as head of Finnish Gulf with Neva mouth and ... is about eight millimeters per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- 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
