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- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil caused by World War I (1914–1918) in Europe. The war was fought in Finland ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
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- A kantele (ˈkɑntele, from Finnish) or kannel (ˈkɑnːe) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family. It is related to ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- ascendancy of pro-monarchist groups in the Finnish parliament. With the defeat ... == The Finnish throne == Finland had declared independence from Russia ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- an additional dressing room. A sauna at a Finnish summerhouse by a lake usually ... == Finnish sauna == [[Image:Finnish Sauna in Korpilahti.jpg|thumb|right ...15 KB (2,539 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898 – May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- Russian army, becoming the leader of Finnish government forces in the ... he was promoted to the rank of Count (in Finnish Kreivi, in Swedish Greve ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Compiled from Finnish ...26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- Johan Julius Christian "Jean" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of European classical music ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- , the non-English languages most represented are: French, German, ... * Projekti Lönnrot is a project started by Finnish Project Gutenberg ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- :Opus 88: Finnish Fantasy in C major for orchestra (1909) :Opus 89: Finnish Sketches in E major for orchestra (1912) ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- ==Rewarding loyalty and encouraging Finnish nationalism== development. And finally the elevation of Finnish from a language for simple ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- with Estonian, Hungarian, and Maltese, Finnish is one of the few official ... The Finnish landscape is mostly flat with few hills and its highest ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- position of Finland. The creation of a Finnish identity is unique in the ... The construction of a specific Finnish polity is the result of successful ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- when he heard them play a clarinet quintet by the Finnish composer, Bernhard Henrik Crusell. It had a profound effect upon him. "Music is my soul ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- Hall was born Arvo Gustav Halberg to Finnish parents in Cherry, a rural community on Northern Minnesota's Iron Range. His parents had been ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- [[File:Kummel Korpo 2009.jpg|thumb|250px|Sea mark in [[Finland|Finnish ... in Finnish, and are indicated in navigation charts and maintained ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- German, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish. After his death, the incomplete work of history, Athens: Its Rise and Fall was published. ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil caused by World War I (1914–1918) in Europe. The war was fought in Finland ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- **Finnish Orthodox Church **Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church† *Under the Patriarch of Jerusalem **Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
- * Finnish Forest Reindeer (R. tarandus fennicus), found in the wild ... tarandus and fennicus—mountain and Finnish woodland reindeer. ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- * Envira, Finnish Food Safety Authority. 2006a. [http://www.evira ... * Envira, Finnish Food Safety Authority. 2006b. [http://www.evira ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 22:35, 1 January 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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 (11,862 words) - 20:16, 24 October 2022
