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9 unusual facts about Finland


Angelit

Together with Ulla Pirttijärvi, Ursula and Tuuni went on and established a group that was called "Angelin tytöt" or "girls of Angeli", named after Angeli, the village they grew up in, located in Inari in Northern Finland.

Boris Verho

Boris Verho is a Finnish poet.

Finnish school shooting

A 1989 incident at the Raumanmeri school in Rauma, when a 14-year-old fatally shot two fellow students

Geography of Åland

The archipelago is connected to Turkuland archipelago in the east (Finnish: Turunmaan saaristo, Swedish: Åbolands skärgård) — the archipelago adjacent to the southwest coast of Finland.

Hastings Yelverton

He saw action in the Crimean War as Captain of one of the two ships that captured a Russian barque beneath the batteries at Ekenäs in Finland in May 1854.

Juho Eerola

Juho Seppo Antero Eerola (born 24 February 1975 in Kymi, Finland) is a Finnish politician of the True Finns.

Lajo

:for the neighborhood of Rauma, Finland see Lajo, Rauma

Tammela

Tammela, Finland, a municipality in the province of Southern Finland

Utö

Utö, Finland, an island in the Archipelago Sea, in southwest Finland


1914 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1914 men competitions took place on February 21 to 22, 1914 in Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland.

Anna Vanhatalo

Anna Vanhatalo (born February 29, 1984) is a hockey and ringette player who competes for Finland women's national ice hockey team and for Finland women's national ringette team.

Auxiliary Units

Calvert had recently served in the 5th Battalion, Scots Guards, which had been formed to fight as a ski-troop in Finland.

Björn Landström

Björn Olof August Landström (21 April 1917, in Kuopio, Finland – 7 January 2002, in Helsinki) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist, writer, graphic designer, illustrator and researcher.

Bombus monticola

Bombus monticola is found in most mountainous areas of Europe, as northern Scandinavia (mostly Norway and northern Sweden; the distribution in Finland is rather patchy, and confined to the area along the Norwegian border), the Alps, the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Apennines and in the Balkans.

Cicerbita alpina

In Finland this plant is known as "bear-hay" because the Eurasian brown bear feeds on it, as do elk and reindeer.

Dead Silent

Dead Silent is the second single by the Finnish gothic metal band Silentium from their fourth studio album Seducia.

Don't Tell the Bride

They are: Australia, Denmark (TV 2, 2009–), Finland (Liv), Greece & Cyprus (ANT1, 2011), Germany (RTL II, 2011–), Ireland (RTE, 2010–), Italy (Lei), Norway (TLC Norway), Poland (TLC Poland, 2011), Sweden (TV4), Turkey and United States.

Eurovision Song Contest 1973

Three artists returned to the 1973 contest, Finland's Marion Rung, who last represented the nation in 1962; 1971 entrant Massimo Ranieri from Italy; and Cliff Richard, who last performed Congratulations for the United Kingdom in 1968.

First Swedish Crusade

The First Swedish Crusade was a possibly mythical military expedition around 1150 that has traditionally been seen as the conquest of Finland by Sweden, with pagan Finns converting to Christianity.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970

This was the first championships that timed the results in hundredths of a second, a practice that continued until the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid when Sweden's Thomas Wassberg edged out Finland's Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds in the men's 15 km event.

Greenwell Matongo Community Library

The City of Windhoek in partnership with the Ministry of Education and City of Vantaa, Finland came up with an initiative, to help the community through educational services.

Hanna Kokko

She was a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Helsinki University, Finland, and has recently taken up a position at the Australian National University as a Professor of Evolutionary Ecology.

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm

Many of the actors was given a contract in the new theatre, but the competition with Sweden's leading lady Elise Jakobsson-Hwasser made Hedvig move to Finland, where she accepted a position at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.

Helsingin yhteislyseo

Helsingin yhteislyseo (HYL) is a school in Kontula, Helsinki Finland consisting of a lower secondary school and an upper secondary school with over 50 teachers and 700 students in total.

Helsinki Senate Square

During the Russification of Finland from 1899 onwards, the statue became a symbol of quiet resistance, with people of Helsinki protesting to the decrees of Nicholas II leaving flowers at the foot of the statue of his grandfather, then known in Finland as "the good czar".

Hemmo Silvennoinen

Hemmo Valio Silvennoinen (November 6, 1932, Kesälahti - December 4, 2002, Vantaa) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.

Jippu

In 2008, she took part in the selection process to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Kanna minut", but was unsuccessful in her bid as the choice went for Teräsbetoni and their song "Missä miehet ratsastaa"

Joensuu Church

Joensuu Church is made of bricks and located in the centre of Joensuu, North Karelia, Finland.

Jouko Vesterlund

Jouko Valdemar Vesterlund (born May 1, 1959 in Rovaniemi) is a former speed skater from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Ju-Jitsu International Federation

Ju-Jitsu under JJIF rules has been an event at the World Games since the 1997 World Games in Lahti, Finland.

Jyrki Otila

Otila worked as assistant office chief of YLE from 1965 to 1970, in the United Nations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1970 to 1973, in YLE in 1974, in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as a development aid expert in Tanzania from 1975 to 1977, and as a factory chief for the Orion Corporation in Arusha, Tanzania from 1977 to 1980.

Kero One

Additionally, Kero One has kept busy collaborating with acclaimed artists from all over the globe like Talib Kweli, Aloe Blacc, Tuomo (Finland), Mark Farina, Ben Westbeech (UK), DJ Deckstream (JAPAN), David Choi, Fashawn, Shing02, Dumbfoundead, The Sound Providers, DJ Mitsu (JAPAN), Abstract Rude and many others.

Kolmoskanava

Kolmoskanava (also known as TV3 and informally as Kolmonen) was a Finnish television station owned and operated by Oy Kolmostelevisio Ab, a joint venture between MTV Oy, YLE and Nokia.

Kuvaputki

Locations for the documentary source footage include Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, New York City, Helsinki, Turku, and Tampere, Finland.

Kyle Klubertanz

On May 24, 2012, Klubertanz signed a one-year contract with Finnish club, HIFK of the SM-liiga.

Kylie Halliday

Kylie's home town of Adelaide, South Australia hosted the FISAF World Championships in 2004 where Kylie placed 2nd to Finland's Tiia Piili.

Marc-André Moreau

In 2004, he won a World Cup event in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and he picked up a silver medal at the 2005 moguls world championships in Ruka, Finland.

Maria Silfvan

Maria Silfvan was born in Turku and was to become one of the most known native actors in Finland in the first half of the 19th century, and could be regarded as Finland's first dramatic prima donna.

Mia Permanto

She grew up and studied in Stockholm, but decided to move to Finland, the country of her parents.

Mika Kojonkoski

He returned home to Finland to take over the national team in 1999, before he took over the Norwegian team in 2002 where he helped create stars like Sigurd Pettersen, Lars Bystøl, Bjørn Einar Romøren, Anders Jacobsen and Tom Hilde.

Mikko Heikka

Mikko Esa Juhani Heikka (born September 19, 1944 in Ylitornio) is a Finnish former bishop of the Evangelic Lutheran Church.

Nariné Simonian

She has also given concerts in Russia, Belgium, Switzerland (in Bulle, at Saint-Pierre des des Liens) where she has a recorded a CD, in Finland, at Kiev (Ukraine in 2003 with Dominique de Williencourt and in November 2008 at the Organ Hall), in North America (New York on 1 November 1998, at the Armenian Evangelical Church of New York, in Montreal and in South America in 1997, along with Olivier Latry (Argentina, Uruguay at the Festival Internacional del Uruguay Órgano,.

Nikita Fouganthine

is a Finnish murderer convicted of the triple murder of a family in the northern Swedish community of Åmsele.

Non-coding RNA

Mutations within RNase MRP have been shown to cause cartilage-hair hypoplasia, a disease associated with an array of symptoms such as short stature, sparse hair, skeletal abnormalities and a suppressed immune system that is frequent among Amish and Finnish.

Olaus Swartz

After receiving his education at Uppsala, he traveled in Finland, Lapland, and the West Indies, and explored the coasts of South America in 1783, returning with a collection of rare plants.

Olivia Lewis

At her 11th attempt she finally won the 2007 festival, held in Ta'Qali on 3 February 2007, with the song "Vertigo" and represented Malta at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 May 2007.

Operation Birke

These factors made it possible for the Germans already on 4 October 1944 to gain Hitler's approval for moving from Operation Birke to Operation Nordlicht (Operation Northern Light) and abandon Northern Finland and fortify to Lyngen, Norway.

Paavo Lipponen

Soon after returning to Finland he moved to Helsinki where he eventually attained a master's degree in international relations from the University of Helsinki in 1971.

Paul Sarvela

With more than 130 conference papers to his credit, his work has been presented nationwide in the United States, as well as in parts of Europe, where he has been a visiting professor at the University of Cologne (Germany) and lectured in Finland.

Peg Belson

These contacts included Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Malta, Finland, West Germany, Denmark, Japan, China, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bosnia.

PMT Italia

In 2010, PMT Italia has founded PMT Winding Oy in Tehtaankatu, Valkeakoski, Finland.

Reg Smythe

In 1982 an Andy Capp musical was produced, starring Tom Courtenay with music by Alan Price, first in Manchester, later in London, and then to great success in Finland.

Rock Palace

Artists: Frosted Glass (SPb), Xe-None (Siberia), Cattle Extermination (SPb), Devilish Distance (death metal, Samara), Moray Eel (Moscow), Perimeter (SPb), Stardown (SPb), Vergeltung (Moscow), Master (Moscow), O.X. (Pushkin), Dismember (Sweden), Fall of the Leave (Finland), Grave (Sweden), Trol Gnet Ell (SPb), Swallow the Sun (Finland) .

Rubén Palazuelos

Rubén Palazuelos García (born 11 April 1983) is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Honka in Finland, as a defensive midfielder.

Sisu M-161

The first homologated four-axle lorry in Finland was Sisu M-168 of which second steering axle was the same as used in Sisu T-108 mobile crane.

Swedish Crusades

Part of the Northern Crusades, the Swedish Crusades were campaigns by Sweden in Finland.

Ulla-Lena Lundberg

She has been nominated three times for Finland's top literary award the Finlandia Prize, and in 2012 she won the prize with the Swedish-language novel Is.

Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen

Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen (23 July 1895, Kangaslampi – 23 October 1971, Helsinki) was a famous Finnish geodesist.

Vlastimil Bubník

He was tied with Canada's Harry Watson and Russia's Valeri Kharlamov for the all-time Olympic scoring lead, until he was surpassed by Finland's Teemu Selänne in the 2010 Winter Olympics


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Among the Vultures

The tour continued to be sold out through Scandinavia with dates in Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland ending at the Helsinki Ice Hall (Venue Capacity of 8200) in Helsinki, Finland.

Candida Thompson

As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with musicians such as Isaac Stern, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, David Kuyken and performed at many festivals such as Kuhmo (Finland), Gubbio (Italy), International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht (the Netherlands) and La Musica (the USA).

Carey Wilson

After playing college hockey, he played two more seasons for HIFK in Finland's SM-liiga and then finally played the 1983–84 season for the Canadian National Hockey team which resulted in him playing in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Douglas Kolk

Kolk’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums including the Helsinki City Art Museum in Finland, Kasseler Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, and the Royal Academy in London.

FC Nörtit

They trained for two months and played afterwards against the most successful soccer team of Finland, HJK.

Flag of the Nordic Council

The Swan has enough wing feathers standing for the eight members and territories of the Council: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Gerry Brownlee

Brownlee's comments were debated in Finnish media with Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja stating that Finland would not take any action as the comments were clearly a device for internal politics rather than an attack on Finland.

Johannes Andersen

Johannes S. Anderson (1887–1950), Finland born U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Lordship of Harviala

7) Anna of Lepaa, heiress of Harviala, wed to Mats Larsson, lawspeaker of Northern Finland, of the family of Kruse

Mark Evans

Mark Evans Austad, aka Mark Evans, (1917–1988) Washington D.C. radio and T.V. commentator and U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Mikael Storsjö

The Russian ambassador to Finland, Mr. Vladimir Grinin then asked Finnish members of Parliament why it was allowed in Finland to keep the Kavkaz Center website on Finnish servers and nothing had been done about it.

NMKY

Lappeenrannan NMKY, a basketball club based in the city of Lappeenranta, Finland

Paul Brousseau

Brousseau played in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and Germany before returning to North America for one last season for the Verdun Dragons of the LNAH in 2004-05.

Pro-jekt

They have toured as part of 'The Unholy Trinity' appeared at the Carnival of Souls along with an appearance in front of a sell out crowd at the Lumous Festival in Finland.

Reverend Bizarre/Mr Velcro Fastener

Reverend Bizarre / Mr Velcro Fastener is a split EP by Finnish Doom Metal band Reverend Bizarre and Finnish Electro music duo Mr Velcro Fastener, released in 2008 on the Solina label.

Ron Holland

This led to commissions for the 80-foot Maxi Class yachts Kialoa and Condor and for a series of designs for Finnish yachtbuilder Nautor's series of Swan yachts between 1979 and 1990.

Salla

Soviet troops invaded Finland at Salla during the Winter War but were stopped by the Finnish Army (see Battle of Salla).

Shape of Despair

Shape of Despair is a funeral doom metal band from Finland that was formed in 1995 as Raven until 1998, when the band decided to change their name to the current one.

Silent Witness

The show is also broadcast on Swedish commercial channel Sjuan, in the Netherlands by public broadcaster KRO, Belgium on VRT channel Canvas and in Finland on the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle using the name "Hiljainen todistaja", which is a direct translation of the original title.

Simo Häyhä

Simo Häyhä spent his last years in Ruokolahti, a small municipality located in southeastern Finland, near the Russian border.

Sorbus × intermedia

Sorbus intermedia (Swedish Whitebeam) is a species of whitebeam in southern Sweden, with scattered occurrences in easternmost Denmark (Bornholm), the far southwest of Finland), the Baltic States, and northern Poland.

Student overall

The use of overalls started in the Royal Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, and spread quickly around Sweden and Finland.

Teemu Sippo

Teemu Jyrki Juhani Sippo S.C.I. (born 20 May 1947 in Lahti, Finland) is the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Helsinki.

This is Finland

It introduces young children to the history, culture and geography of Finland.

Tiger Bell

The following year, they toured Finland for the first time and played the Swedish festivals Umeå Open and Putte i Parken.

Torne Valley

Geographically the townships and municipalities that make up the area are Haparanda, Övertorneå, Pajala and Kiruna in Sweden, and Tornio, Ylitornio, Pello, Kolari, Muonio and Enontekiö in Finland.

Tuonela Productions Ltd

is a game development and publishing company from Oulu, Northern Finland.

Uusi

New Student House, Helsinki, student house in Helsinki, Finland, also known as Uusi

Viik

Viik is a surname of both Finnish and Estonian origin.

Women's rowing in Australia

The first Australian female coxless pair to win a medal at a major international event outside the Olympics were Kate Slatter and Megan Still, who won a gold medal in 1995 in Finland at the World Championships.