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Tapio Rautavaara

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Kaj Tapio Rautavaara (March 8, 1915 – September 25, 1979) was a Finnish athlete, singer (bass-baritone) and film actor. [1]

55 relations: Actor, Antwerp, Archery, Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw, Aunus Radio, Conscription, Continuation War, Department store, East Karelia, European Athletics Championships, Finland, Finlayson (company), Finnish Army, Finnish Navy, Finnish Workers' Sports Federation, Finns, Front line, Helsinki, HIM (Finnish band), International Workers' Olympiads, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Javelin throw, Johnny Weissmuller, List of best-selling music artists in Finland, Malmi, Helsinki, Nokia, Finland, Oulunkylä, Peter von Bagh, Protagonist, Rautalanka, Reino Helismaa, Rock music, Singing, Sport of athletics, Tampere, Tarzan, The Deck of Cards, The Swan and the Wanderer, Tikkurila, Timo Koivusalo, Toivo Kärki, Topping out, Vantaa, Ville Valo, Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, We Come During Spring, Winter War, World Archery Championships, X-Paroni, 1946 European Athletics Championships, ..., 1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw, 1948 Summer Olympics, 1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw, 1955 World Archery Championships, 1958 World Archery Championships. Expand index (5 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders.

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Archery

Archery is the art, sport, practice or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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Aunus Radio

Aunus Radio was a Finnish radio station operating in an area held by Finland in East Karelia during the continuation war.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Continuation War

The Continuation War was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany, as co-belligerents, against the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1941 to 1944, during World War II.

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Department store

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different product categories known as "departments".

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East Karelia

East Karelia (Itä-Karjala, Karelian: Idä-Karjala), also rendered as Eastern Karelia or Russian Karelia, is a name for the part of Karelia that since the Treaty of Stolbova in 1617 has remained Eastern Orthodox under Russian supremacy.

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European Athletics Championships

The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletics Association.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Finlayson (company)

Finlayson Oy is a Finnish textile manufacturer.

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Finnish Army

The Finnish Army (Finnish: Maavoimat, Swedish: Armén) is the land forces branch of the Finnish Defence Forces.

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Finnish Navy

The Finnish Navy (Merivoimat, Marinen) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces.

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Finnish Workers' Sports Federation

The Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (Suomen Työväen Urheiluliitto, TUL, Arbetarnas Idrottsförbund i Finland, AIF) is a Finnish amateur sports organization founded in 1919.

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Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

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Front line

A front line (alternative forms: front-line or frontline) in military terminology is the position(s) closest to the area of conflict of an armed force's personnel and equipment, generally referring to maritime or land forces.

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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HIM (Finnish band)

HIM (sometimes stylized as H.I.M.) was a Finnish gothic rock band from Helsinki, Finland.

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International Workers' Olympiads

International Workers' Olympiads were an international sporting event arranged between 1925 and 1937 by Socialist Workers' Sport International (SASI).

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown.

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Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller (2 June 190420 January 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor, best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.

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List of best-selling music artists in Finland

These are the lists of the music artists that have the highest certified record sales in Finland (and/or sales explicitly confirmed by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland in their database).

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Malmi, Helsinki

Malmi (Malm) is a regional center and a major district on the north-eastern part of Helsinki, Finland.

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Nokia, Finland

Nokia is a town and a municipality on the banks of the Nokianvirta River (Kokemäenjoki) in the region of Pirkanmaa, some west of Tampere.

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Oulunkylä

Oulunkylä (Åggelby, also known as Ogeli) is a suburb and a neighbourhood of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

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Peter von Bagh

Kari Peter Conrad von Bagh (29 August 1943 – 17 September 2014) was a Finnish film historian and director.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Rautalanka

In common usage the Finnish word rautalanka (literally "iron wire", referring to the strings of the electric guitar) means instrumental rock in general.

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Reino Helismaa

Reino Vihtori "Repe" Helismaa (12 July 1913, Helsinki - 21 January 1965) was a Finnish singer-songwriter, musician and scriptwriter, mainly known for his humorous, yet homely songs.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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Tampere

Tampere (Swedish: Tammerfors) is a city in Pirkanmaa, southern Finland.

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Tarzan

Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.

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The Deck of Cards

"The Deck of Cards" is a recitation song that was popularized in the fields of both the country and popular music, first during the late 1940s.

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The Swan and the Wanderer

The Swan and the Wanderer (Kulkuri ja joutsen) is a Finnish film telling the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters, Tapio Rautavaara (Tapio Liinoja) and Reino Helismaa (Martti Suosalo), who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time.

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Tikkurila

Tikkurila (Dickursby) is a district and major region of the municipality of Vantaa, Finland.

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Timo Koivusalo

Timo Johannes Koivusalo (born 31 October 1963 in Pori, Finland) is a Finnish actor, director, writer, columnist, composer and musician.

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Toivo Kärki

Toivo Pietari Johannes Kärki (3 December 1915 in Pirkkala – 30 April 1992 in Helsinki) was a Finnish composer, musician, music producer and arranger.

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Topping out

In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed atop a structure during its construction.

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Vantaa

Vantaa (Vanda) is a city and municipality in Finland.

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Ville Valo

Ville Hermanni Valo (born 22 November 1976) is a Finnish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist and main songwriter of the Finnish gothic rock band HIM.

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Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive

The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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We Come During Spring

We Come During Spring (Finnish: Me tulemme taas) is a 1953 Finnish musical comedy film directed by Armand Lohikoski and starring Tuija Halonen, Tapio Rautavaara and Siiri Angerkoski.

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Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland.

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World Archery Championships

The World Archery Championships are a series of competitions in Archery organised by the World Archery Federation (WA).They first competition held under that title took place in 1931.

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X-Paroni

X-Paroni (X-Baron) is a 1964 Finnish comedy and the debut of Spede Pasanen as a leading male role and debut as a co-writer and director of a full-length film.

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1946 European Athletics Championships

The 3rd European Athletics Championships were held from 22 August to 25 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway.

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1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 25 August 1946.

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1948 Summer Olympics

The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in London, United Kingdom.

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1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

The men's javelin throw at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Bruxelles, Belgium, at Stade du Heysel on 26 and 27 August 1950.

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1955 World Archery Championships

The 1955 World Archery Championships was the 17th edition of the World Archery Championships.

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1958 World Archery Championships

The 1958 World Archery Championships was the 19th edition of the World Archery Championships.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapio_Rautavaara

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