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2 unusual facts about Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi


Juha Hirvi

He holds the record with other 2008 participant, dressage rider Kyra Kyrklund and three winter Olympians: cross country skiers Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi and Harri Kirvesniemi and ice hockey player Raimo Helminen.

Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi

They are the only married couple to have both competed at six Olympics, and are among the only five Finns to have done so - the others being Raimo Helminen (ice hockey), Kyra Kyrklund (dressage), and Juha Hirvi (shooting).


Aku Hirviniemi

Marja Tyrni featuring Mikko Kuustonen & Nenäpäivä Ensemble – "Leivotaan, leivotaan" (2010)

Mandi Lampi

She released one album, Pieni maailma (1998), featuring songs by Maki, Alex, and Vera from Aikakone, as well as Alex's wife Marja.

Marja

Marja, Afghanistan, an unincorporated agricultural district in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province

None Shall Escape

Alexander Knox plays Wilhelm Grimm, a Nazi officer who is on trial, and the story unfolds through the eyes of several witnesses, including a Catholic priest, Father Warecki (Henry Travers), Grimm's brother Karl (Erik Rolf), and Marja Paeierkowski (Marsha Hunt), a woman that he was once engaged to.

Yousef Saanei

Like Zohreh Sefati, he believes that women can even become a marja in Islam, i.e. that men and women can follow a female Islamic jurists' ijtihad.

Zohreh Sefati

Sefati and some male jurists, such as Yousef Saanei, believe a female mujtahid can become a source of emulation (a marja), i.e. that both men and women can perform taqlid (emulation) of a woman mujtahid.


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