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14 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.

Black Metal Massacre Live

Black Metal Massacre Live is a live album by Finnish black metal band Satanic Warmaster.

Carl Fredrik Meinander

Carl Fredrik (C. F.) Valdemar Meinander (October 6, 1916 Helsinki – August 23, 2004 Helsinki) was a Finnish archaeologist and professor of Finnish and Scandinavian archaeology at University of Helsinki in Finland.

Etvo

Etvo (Etelän vapaaehtoisohjelma meaning "The Volunteer Programme of South") is a Finnish volunteer programme operated by Service Centre for Development Cooperation (KEPA).

Finnish school shooting

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

Juho Eerola

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

Kullervo Manner

His father Gustaf Manner worked in various parishes, including those of Lappi and Vampula.

Masters athletics

The most recent Indoor Championships were held in Jyväskylä, Finland in April 2012.

R-class patrol boat

The R class patrol boats was a class of Finnish patrol boats, originally constructed as coastal minesweepers.

Tammela

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

This is Finland

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

Utö

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

Viik

Viik is a surname of both Finnish and Estonian origin.

VL Paarma

VL Paarma was a Finnish biplane, two-seated trainer aircraft, designed by the State Aircraft Factory (Valtion Lentokonetehdas) for use with the Finnish Air Force.


Aleksey Belyakov

Aleksei Stepanovich Belyakov (born 1917) was a Soviet diplomat and ambassador to Finland 1970–71 and the leader of the European section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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.

Battle at Herdaler

The Saga of Olaf Haraldson tells how Olav Haraldsson (Olaf II of Norway, also Saint Olaf), the King of Norway, plundered in Finland and was almost killed in the battle.

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.

Björn Lodin

In 1992 Lodin relocated from Sweden to the Åland Islands, Finland, where he met Bulgarian guitarist Nikolo Kotzev, who subsequently joined Baltimoore for two albums.

Dip It Low

While the original version of the song, featuring American rapper Fabolous, was only given a release in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, the remix featuring German rapper Samy Deluxe was released in Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Do It

The original track, titled "Acidjazzed Evening", is a chiptune-style 4-channel Amiga module composed by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni.

East Karelian Uprising and Soviet–Finnish conflict 1921–22

This period of disagreement and uncertainty about borders was ended with the Treaty of Tartu, where Finland and the Baltic states first recognised the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic as a sovereign state, and established the border between Finland and RSFSR.

Finland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Finland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

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.

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.

Jaana

Jaana is a common given name for females in Finland.

Joakim Eskildsen

Eskildsen was a pupil of Rigmor Mydtskov in Copenhagen and went to Finland in 1994 to study photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design Helsinki.

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.

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.

Karl-August Fagerholm

In January 1959, after Kekkonen had traveled to Leningrad to personally assure Nikita Khrushchev that Finland would be a "good neighbor" and a Prime Minister from Kekkonen's Agrarian Center Party was appointed, all economic intercourse resumed.

Kollaa

Battle of Kollaa, between Finland and the Soviet Union during the Winter War

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.

Kyle Klubertanz

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

Lordship of Harviala

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

Lovex discography

This is a comprehensive listing of official releases by Lovex, a rock band from Tampere, Finland.

Ma Xiaohui

Notable recent European performances include a recital for the King and Queen of Sweden (2007), along with Chinese President Hu Jintao, followed by a concert for the King of Finland (2008).

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.

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.

NMKY

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

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.

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.

Pia Ravenna

Pia Ravenna spoke 6-7 languages and she used her language talent in translating Tex Willer when it arrived to Finland in 1953.

Puck, Poland

Poland tried to establish a Polish Navy, got to use some harbors in Livonia and Finland, but a standing navy never materialize.

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.

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.

Rubén Palazuelos

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

Sara Nunes

Sara Nunes (born 1980) is a Finnish pop singer who gained some attention in 2005 after releasing her debut single "Simon Can't Sing" which was a parody of Simon Cowell, the famous American Idol & Pop Idol judge.

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.

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.

Treaty of Moscow

Moscow Peace Treaty (1940), a treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland, ending the Winter War.

Tuonela Productions Ltd

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

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