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1. 414 relations: Aalto Vase, Aamulehti, Aatos Erkko, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, Advent calendar, Agriculture, Aki Kaurismäki, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Alan Wake, Aleksi Mäkelä (director), Aleksis Kivi, Ali Jahangiri, All Saints' Day, Alma Media, Alpine skiing, Alvar Aalto, Amorphis, Analog television, André Wickström, Angry Birds, Antti Herlin, Apocalyptica, Ari Vatanen, Art Nouveau, Assembly (demoparty), Association football, Aulis Sallinen, Auto racing, Åland, Baltic Finnic paganism, Baltic Finnic peoples, Baltic states, Balts, BBC, BBC News, Bear worship, Berry, Blues Section, Bomfunk MC's, Bonnier Group, Broadband, Cafeteria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cello rock, Children of Bodom, Christianization of Scandinavia, Christmas tree, CMX (band), Cohabitation, Comb Ceramic culture, ... Expand index (364 more) » « Shrink index

Aalto Vase

The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase, is a piece of glassware created by Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino that has become an internationally known iconic piece of Finnish design.

See Culture of Finland and Aalto Vase

Aamulehti

Aamulehti (Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland.

See Culture of Finland and Aamulehti

Aatos Erkko

Aatos Juho Michel Erkko (16 September 1932 – 5 May 2012) was a Finnish newspaper editor, newspaper publisher, and the main owner of the Sanoma Corporation and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, of which he was also the editor in chief.

See Culture of Finland and Aatos Erkko

Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (7 August 1791 – 21 June 1858) was a Finnish political journalist, writer and historian.

See Culture of Finland and Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

Advent calendar

An Advent calendar, from the German word Adventskalender, is used to count the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas.

See Culture of Finland and Advent calendar

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

See Culture of Finland and Agriculture

Aki Kaurismäki

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.

See Culture of Finland and Aki Kaurismäki

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic.

See Culture of Finland and Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Alan Wake

Alan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

See Culture of Finland and Alan Wake

Aleksi Mäkelä (director)

Tane Aleksanteri ”Aleksi” Mäkelä (born 20 November 1969) is a Finnish film director and occasional actor.

See Culture of Finland and Aleksi Mäkelä (director)

Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall; 10 October 1834 – 31 December 1872) was a Finnish writer who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers"), published in 1870.

See Culture of Finland and Aleksis Kivi

Ali Jahangiri

Ali Jahangiri (علی جهانگیری; born 6 June 1981 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born Finnish stand up comedian and media presenter.

See Culture of Finland and Ali Jahangiri

All Saints' Day

All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the Church, whether they are known or unknown.

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Alma Media

Alma Media Oyj is a Finnish media and digital service business company.

See Culture of Finland and Alma Media

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing (cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings.

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Alvar Aalto

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.

See Culture of Finland and Alvar Aalto

Amorphis

Amorphis is a Finnish heavy metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990.

See Culture of Finland and Amorphis

Analog television

Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.

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André Wickström

André Wickström (born 11 February 1976 in Sipoo, Eastern Uusimaa, Finland) is a Finland Swedish comedian and actor, performing in both the Swedish and the Finnish language.

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Angry Birds

Angry Birds is a Finnish action, puzzle, and strategy based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment, and owned by Sega.

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Antti Herlin

Antti Herlin (born 14 November 1956) is a Finnish billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Finnish KONE Corporation, as well as the richest person in Finland – as of May 2021 Forbes reported his net worth as $7.0 billion, naming him the 404th richest person in the world.

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Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Helsinki, formed in 1993.

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Ari Vatanen

Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen (born 27 April 1952) is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009.

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.

See Culture of Finland and Art Nouveau

Assembly (demoparty)

The Assembly demoparty is an annual demoscene and gaming event in Finland.

See Culture of Finland and Assembly (demoparty)

Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

See Culture of Finland and Association football

Aulis Sallinen

Aulis Heikki Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer.

See Culture of Finland and Aulis Sallinen

Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

See Culture of Finland and Auto racing

Åland

Åland (Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland.

See Culture of Finland and Åland

Baltic Finnic paganism

Baltic Finnic paganism, or Baltic Finnic polytheism was the indigenous religion of the various of the Baltic Finnic peoples, specifically the Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Vepsians and Izhorians, prior to Christianisation.

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Baltic Finnic peoples

The Baltic Finnic peoples, often simply referred to as the Finnic peoples, are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Finnic languages.

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Baltic states

The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Balts

The Balts or Baltic peoples (baltai, balti) are a group of peoples inhabiting the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea who speak Baltic languages.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bear worship

Bear worship is the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as among the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu, Basques, Germanic peoples, Slavs and Finns.

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Berry

A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit.

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Blues Section

Blues Section are a Finnish rock music group.

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Bomfunk MC's

The Bomfunk MC's is a Finnish hip hop group that was active between 1998 and 2005, before reuniting in 2018.

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Bonnier Group

Bonnier AB, also the Bonnier Group, is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries.

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Broadband

In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access.

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Cafeteria

A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S. and Canada, is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or lunchroom (in American English).

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Cello rock

Cello rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the use of cellos (as well as other bowed string instruments such as the violin and viola) as primary instruments, alongside or in place of more traditional rock instruments such as electric guitars, electric bass guitars, and drum sets.

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Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom was a Finnish melodic death metal band from Espoo.

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Christianization of Scandinavia

The Christianization of Scandinavia, as well as other Nordic countries and the Baltic countries, took place between the 8th and the 12th centuries.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

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CMX (band)

CMX, originally Cloaca Maxima, is a Finnish rock band.

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Cohabitation

Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married, usually couples, live together.

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Comb Ceramic culture

The Comb Ceramic culture or Pit-Comb Ware culture, often abbreviated as CCC or PCW, was a northeast European culture characterised by its Pit–Comb Ware.

See Culture of Finland and Comb Ceramic culture

Communal work

Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising.

See Culture of Finland and Communal work

Control (video game)

Control is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by 505 Games.

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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.

See Culture of Finland and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Cottage

A cottage, during England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or bordar) of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.

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Cranbrook Academy of Art

The Cranbrook Academy of Art is the art school of the Cranbrook Educational Community, founded by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth.

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Culture of Europe

The culture of Europe is diverse, and rooted in its art, architecture, traditions, cuisines, music, folklore, embroidery, film, literature, economics, philosophy and religious customs.

See Culture of Finland and Culture of Europe

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Darude

Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen (born 17 July 1975), better known by his stage name Darude, is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Satakunta.

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Dead Letters

Dead Letters is the fifth album by Finnish band The Rasmus released in 2003.

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Demoscene

The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations.

See Culture of Finland and Demoscene

Digital radio

Digital radio is the use of digital technology to transmit or receive across the radio spectrum.

See Culture of Finland and Digital radio

Digital television

Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals.

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Distribution (marketing)

Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for the consumer or business user who needs it, and a distributor is a business involved in the distribution stage of the value chain.

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Docent

The title of docent is conferred by some European universities to denote a specific academic appointment within a set structure of academic ranks at or below the full professor rank, similar to a British readership, a French ''maître de conférences'' (MCF), and equal to or above the title of assistant professor.

See Culture of Finland and Docent

Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) at John F.

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Egalitarianism

Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.

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Eino Leino

Eino Leino (born Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm; 6 July 1878 – 10 January 1926) was a Finnish poet and journalist who is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry and a national poet of Finland.

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Einojuhani Rautavaara

Einojuhani Rautavaara (9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was a Finnish composer of classical music.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

See Culture of Finland and Electronic music

Elias Lönnrot

Elias Lönnrot (9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry.

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Eliel Saarinen

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) was a Finnish-American architect known for his work with art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Ensiferum

Ensiferum (Latin:, n adj., meaning "sword bearing") is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki.

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Epiphany (holiday)

Epiphany, or Eid al-Ghitas (عيد الغِطاس), also known as "Theophany" in Eastern Christian tradition, is a Christian feast day commemorating the visit of the Magi, the baptism of Jesus, and the wedding at Cana.

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Eppu Normaali

Eppu Normaali is one of the most popular rock bands in Finland and one of the key representatives of genre called suomirock.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish conductor and composer.

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Espoo

Espoo (Esbo) is a city in Finland.

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European cuisine

European cuisine (also known as Continental cuisine) comprises the cuisines originating from the various countries of Europe.

See Culture of Finland and European cuisine

Eurovision Song Contest 2006

The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

See Culture of Finland and Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko; Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland) is a national church of Finland.

See Culture of Finland and Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

Extended family

An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family of parents and their children to include aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins or other relatives, all living nearby or in the same household.

See Culture of Finland and Extended family

Extraversion and introversion

Extraversion and introversion are a central trait dimension in human personality theory.

See Culture of Finland and Extraversion and introversion

Fanu

Fanu is the alias of music DJ, producer, and label founder Janne Hatula (born March 21, 1980).

See Culture of Finland and Fanu

Father Christmas

Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas.

See Culture of Finland and Father Christmas

Feast of the Ascension

The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.

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Fennoman movement

The Fennoman movement or Fennomania was a Finnish nationalist movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the fennophile interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries.

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Fennoscandia

Fennoscandia (Finnish, Swedish and nocat; Fennoskandiya), or the Fennoscandian Peninsula, is a peninsula in Europe which includes the Scandinavian and Kola peninsulas, mainland Finland, and Karelia.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.

See Culture of Finland and Film industry

Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finland men's national ice hockey team

The Finnish men's national ice hockey team, nicknamed Leijonat / Lejonen ("The Lions" in Finnish and Swedish), is governed by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association.

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Finland national football team

The Finland national football team (Suomen jalkapallomaajoukkue, Finlands fotbollslandslag) represents Finland in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Finland, the governing body for football in Finland, which was founded in 1907.

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Finland-Sweden Athletics International

Finnkampen (Swedish, literally The Finn Battle), Suomi-Ruotsi-maaottelu (literally The Finland-Sweden match) or Ruotsi-ottelu (Sverigekampen, literally The Sweden Battle), is a yearly international athletics competition held between Sweden and Finland since 1925.

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Finlandia

Finlandia, Op. 26, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

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Finnish cuisine

Finnish cuisine is notable for generally combining traditional country fare and haute cuisine with contemporary continental-style cooking.

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Finnish Kale

The Finnish Kale (Kàlo; Kalé; Kaale, also Suomen romanit – "Finnish Romani", or Mustalainen – literally "Gypsy", often considered offensive) are a Romani subgroup who live primarily in Finland and Sweden.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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Finnish Maiden

The Maiden of Finland (Suomi-neito, Finlands mö) is the national personification of Finland.

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Finnish mythology

Finnish mythology commonly refers of the folklore of Finnish paganism, of which a modern revival is practiced by a small percentage of the Finnish people.

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Finnish national symbols

Finnish national symbols are natural symbols or Finnish national works and prominent figures that are commonly associated with Finland.

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Finnish profanity

Profanity in Finnish is used in the form of intensifiers, adjectives, adverbs and particles, and is based on varying taboos, with religious vulgarity being very prominent.

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Finnish sauna

The Finnish sauna (bastu) is a substantial part of Finnish and Estonian culture.

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Finnish Tatars

The Finnish Tatars are a Tatar ethnic group and minority in Finland whose community has approximately 600–700 members.

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Finns

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

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Finntroll

Finntroll is a Finnish metal band from Helsinki that combines elements of black metal and folk metal.

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Flag Day

A flag day is a flag-related holiday, a day designated for flying a certain flag (such as a national flag) or a day set aside to celebrate a historical event such as a nation's adoption of its flag.

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Flag flying days in Finland

Flag flying days in Finland are days of the year when the national flag is flown nationwide, either by law or by custom.

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Floorball

Floorball (also known by other names) is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team.

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Flying Finn

"The Flying Finn" (Lentävä suomalainen, Flygande finländaren) is a nickname given to several Finnish athletes who were noted for their speed.

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Folk metal

Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.

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Formula One

Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

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Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää (16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was a Finnish author.

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Fredrik Pacius

Fredrik Pacius (born Friedrich Pacius; 19 March 1809 – 8 January 1891) was a German-Finnish composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland.

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Freedom to roam

The freedom to roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land, lakes, and rivers for recreation and exercise.

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Functionalism (architecture)

In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function.

See Culture of Finland and Functionalism (architecture)

Gateway Arch

The Gateway Arch is a monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Gender role

A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was performed by male musicians who wore flamboyant and feminine clothing, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter, and female musicians who wore masculine clothing.

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Gold medal

A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field.

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Golden Age of Finnish Art

The Golden Age of Finnish Art coincided with the national awakening of Finland, during the era of the Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian Empire.

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Grand Duchy of Finland

The Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in March 1985 when local bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns merged.

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Hannes Kolehmainen

Juho Pietari "Hannes" Kolehmainen (9 December 1889 – 11 January 1966) was a Finnish four-time Olympic gold medalist and a world record holder in middle- and long-distance running.

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Hannu Mikkola

Hannu Olavi Mikkola (24 May 1942 − 25 February 2021) was a Finnish champion world rally driver.

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Hanoi Rocks

Hanoi Rocks were a Finnish rock band formed in 1979.

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Harness racing in Finland

Harness racing in Finland is characterised by the use of the coldblood breed Finnhorse along with modern light trotters such as the Standardbred.

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Haute cuisine

Haute cuisine or grande cuisine is a style of cooking characterised by meticulous preparation, elaborate presentation, and the use of high quality ingredients.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Heikki Kovalainen

Heikki Johannes Kovalainen (born 19 October 1981) is a Finnish racing driver competing in the Japan Rally Championship for Rally Team AICELLO.

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Helsingin Sanomat

, abbreviated HS and colloquially known as Hesari, is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Helsinki Central Station

Helsinki Central Station (Helsingin päärautatieasema, Helsingfors centralstation) (HEC) is the main station for commuter rail and long-distance trains departing from Helsinki, Finland.

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HIM (Finnish band)

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

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

See Culture of Finland and Hip hop music

History of the Jews in Finland

The history of the Jews in Finland goes back to the late 18th century.

See Culture of Finland and History of the Jews in Finland

Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday (Sabbatum Sanctum), also known as Great and Holy Saturday (also Holy and Great Saturday), Low Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Hallelujah Saturday (in Portugal and Brazil), Saturday of the Glory, Sábado de Gloria, and Black Saturday or Easter Eve, and called "Joyous Saturday", "the Saturday of Light", and "Mega Sabbatun" among Coptic Christians, is the final day of Holy Week, between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, when Christians prepare for the latter.

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Housing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), students are housed in eleven undergraduate dorms and nine graduate dorms.

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Hufvudstadsbladet

Hufvudstadsbladet (abbr. HBL) is the highest-circulation Swedish-language newspaper in Finland.

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Hurriganes

Hurriganes was a Finnish rock band that was formed in the early 1970s.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Ilkka Remes

Petri Pykälä (born 13 December 1962), commonly known by his pseudonym Ilkka Remes, is a Finnish author of thrillers for adults and for young adults.

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Ilta-Sanomat

the evening news is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid size evening newspapers and the second largest paper in the country.

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Iltalehti

Iltalehti (literally "Evening newspaper") is a tabloid newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland.

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Impaled Nazarene

Impaled Nazarene is a Finnish extreme metal band that started as black metal but have incorporated elements of grindcore, thrash metal and death metal, and have grown more towards hardcore punk.

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Independence Day (Finland)

Independence Day of Finland (itsenäisyyspäivä; självständighetsdagen) is a national public holiday, and a flag flying day, held on 6 December to celebrate Finland's declaration of full independence from the Russian Empire during the wake of the Russian civil war when the Bolsheviks took power in late 1917.

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Indica (Finnish band)

Indica is a Finnish pop rock band founded in 2001.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Ingria

Ingria (Ингрия, Ингерманландия, Ижорская земля; Inkeri, Inkerinmaa; Ingermanland; Ingeri, Ingerimaa) is a historical region in what is now northwestern European Russia.

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Ismo Leikola

Ismo Mikael Leikola (born 22 January 1979), sometimes known professionally as ISMO, is a Finnish comedian, musician, author, screenwriter, and YouTuber.

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Janne Ahonen

Janne Petteri Ahonen (born 11 May 1977) is a Finnish former ski jumper and drag racer.

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Janne Virtanen

Janne Virtanen (born 16 November 1969) is a Finnish former strongman who won the World's Strongest Man championship in 2000.

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Jari Kurri

Jari Pekka Kurri (born 18 May 1960) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player.

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Jari Litmanen

Jari Olavi Litmanen (born 20 February 1971) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or a second striker.

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Jarno Saarinen

Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen (11 December 1945 – 20 May 1973) was a Finnish professional Motorcycle racer.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius (born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.

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Jimi Tenor

Jimi Tenor (born Lassi O. T. Lehto, 1965) is a Finnish musician.

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JJ Lehto

Jyrki Juhani Järvilehto (born 31 January 1966), better known as "JJ Lehto", is a Finnish racing driver.

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John Martin Crawford (scholar)

John Martin Crawford (October 18, 1845 – 1916) was an American physician and scholar who translated the Finnish epic Kalevala into English based on a previous German translation by Franz Anton Schiefner published in 1852, to be published for the first time in 1888.

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Joik

A joik or yoik (anglicised, where the latter spelling in English conforms with the pronunciation; also named luohti, vuolle, vuelie, or juoiggus in the Sámi languages) is a traditional form of song in Sámi music performed by the Sámi people of Sapmi in Northern Europe.

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Jori Hulkkonen

Jori Hulkkonen (born 28 September 1973), is a Finnish DJ and a producer of house music, originally from Kemi, Finland.

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Jouko Ahola

Jouko Ahola (born 1 December 1970) is a Finnish former strongman, powerlifter and actor.

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Joulupukki

Joulupukki is a Finnish Christmas figure.

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JS16

Jaakko Sakari Salovaara (born 13 January 1975), better known by his stage name JS16, is a Finnish musician, DJ and record producer.

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Jugendstil

Jugendstil ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910.

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Juha Kankkunen

Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen (born 2 April 1959) is a Finnish former rally driver.

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Juha Vuorinen

Juha Tapio Vuorinen (born 31 March 1967) is a Finnish writer, columnist and radio personality.

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Juhani Aho

Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt (11 September 1861 – 8 August 1921), was a Finnish author and journalist.

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Jukka Ammondt

Jukka Ammondt is a Finnish literature professor who has recorded popular music, including songs of Elvis Presley, in Latin and Sumerian.

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Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (born 22 April 1956) is a Finnish conductor and violinist.

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Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Anneli Saariaho (14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.

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Kaisaniemi

Kaisaniemi (Kajsaniemi) is a part of the centre of Helsinki, Finland.

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Kalakukko

is a traditional Finnish dish from the region of Savonia made from fish (e.g., perch, vendace, loach, smelt, or salmon) baked inside a loaf of bread.

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Kalevala

The Kalevala is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.

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Kalle Palander

Kalle Markus Palander (born 2 May 1977 in Tornio) is a Finnish retired alpine skier, the most successful male Finn ever in the sport.

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Kantele

A kantele or kannel is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli.

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Karelia

Karelia (Karelian and Karjala; Kareliya, historically Коре́ла, Korela; Karelen) is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Russia (including the Soviet era), Finland, and Sweden.

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Karelian pasty

Karelian pasties, Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (kalittoja, singular; Olonets Karelian:; karjalanpiirakat, singular; or karelska piroger) are traditional Finnish pasties or pirogs originating from the region of Karelia.

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Karelians

Karelians (karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset; karjalaiset; kareler, karelare; karely) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russia.

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Kari Ketonen

Kari Mikael Ketonen (born 16 August 1971) is a Finnish actor.

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Kari Kriikku

Kari Kriikku (born 1960) is a Finnish classical clarinetist.

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Karita Mattila

Karita Marjatta Mattila (born 5 September 1960) is a Finnish operatic soprano.

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Kauppalehti

Kauppalehti (Trade Newspaper) is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Helsinki, Finland.

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Keke Rosberg

Keijo Erik Rosberg (born 6 December 1948), best known as "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the Formula One World Championship.

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Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland.

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Kimi Räikkönen

Kimi-Matias Räikkönen (born 17 October 1979), nicknamed "The Iceman", is a Finnish racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2001 and 2021 for Sauber, McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus, and Alfa Romeo.

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Kirka

Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin (22 September 1950 – 31 January 2007) was one of the most commercially successful Finnish musicians.

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Kitzbühel

Kitzbühel (also) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (Bezirk).

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Kiukainen culture

The Kiukainen culture was the last Stone Age culture of the southwestern coast of Finland, dating to 2400–1500/1300 BC.

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Klaus Härö

Klaus Härö (born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo, Finland) is a Finnish film director.

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Komsa culture

The Komsa culture (Komsakulturen) was a Mesolithic culture of hunter-gatherers that existed from around 10,000 BC in Northern Norway.

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Koskenkorva Viina

Koskenkorva Viina (also known simply as Koskenkorva or Kossu) is a traditional clear spirit drink (38%) in Finland, produced by Anora Group at the Koskenkorva distillery in Ilmajoki and bottled in Rajamäki, Nurmijärvi.

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Krisse Salminen

Krisse Salminen (born Heidi Kristiina Salminen; 28 May 1976) is a Finnish stand-up comedian and television talkshow hostess.

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Kullervo (Sibelius)

Kullervo (sometimes referred to as the Kullervo Symphony), Op. 7, is a five-movement symphonic work for soprano, baritone, male choir, and orchestra written from 1891–1892 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

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Kunda culture

The Kunda culture, which originated from the Swiderian culture, comprised Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities of the Baltic forest zone extending eastwards through Latvia into northern Russia, dating to the period 8500–5000 BC according to calibrated radiocarbon dating.

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Languages of Finland

The two main official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish.

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Lanttulaatikko

Lanttulaatikko or kålrotslåda (swede casserole) is a swede (rutabaga) casserole that is a traditional Christmas dish in Finland.

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Lapland (Finland)

Lapland (Lappi; Lappi; Lappi; Lappland; Lapponia; Skolt Sami: Ла̄ппӣ мäддкåҍддь, Lappi mäddkå'dd) is the largest and northernmost region of Finland.

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Lasse Virén

Lasse Artturi Virén (born 22 July 1949) is a Finnish former long-distance runner, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Laugh Factory

Laugh Factory is a chain of comedy clubs in the United States.

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Leaving the nest

Leaving the nest is the act of moving out of the housing provided by one's parents or guardians, often considered as part of the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

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Leif Segerstam

Leif Selim Segerstam (born 2 March 1944) is a Finnish conductor, composer, violinist, violist and pianist, especially known for writing 371 symphonies (as of January 2024), along with other works in his extensive oeuvre.

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Leo Kinnunen

Leo Juhani "Leksa" Kinnunen (5 August 1943 – 26 July 2017) was a Finnish racing driver, and the first Formula One driver from Finland.

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Library of Congress Country Studies

The Country Studies are works published by the Federal Research Division of the United States Library of Congress, freely available for use by researchers.

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Linda Brava

Linda Magdalena Cullberg Lampenius (born 26 February 1970), better known by her maiden name Linda Lampenius and international stage name Linda Brava, is a Finnish classical concert violinist.

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List of bands from Finland

This page lists bands and musicians that originate from Finland.

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List of Finns

This is a list of notable people from Finland.

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List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions

Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body.

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List of glassware

Typical drinkware This list of glassware includes drinking vessels (drinkware) and tableware used to set a table for eating a meal, general glass items such as vases, and glasses used in the catering industry.

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List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Riders' Champions

Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into four classes since the: MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3, and MotoE.

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List of World Rally Championship Drivers' champions

The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a rallying series administered by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body.

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Long-distance running

Long-distance running, or endurance running, is a form of continuous running over distances of at least.

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Lordi

Lordi is a Finnish hard rock and heavy metal band.

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Maamme

"Maamme" (Vårt land,; both meaning "Our Land") is the de facto national anthem of Finland.

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Madventures (Finnish TV program)

Madventures is a Finnish travel documentary television program that concentrates on backpacking in the most off-the-beaten-path destinations on the planet.

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Magnus Lindberg

Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist.

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.

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Marcus Grönholm

Marcus Ulf Johan "Bosse" Grönholm (born February 5, 1968) is a Finnish former rally and rallycross driver, being part of a family of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland lineage.

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Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras (also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Matti Nykänen

Matti Ensio Nykänen (17 July 1963 – 4 February 2019) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991.

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Max Payne

Max Payne is a neo-noir third-person shooter video game series developed by Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne and Max Payne 2) and Rockstar Studios (Max Payne 3).

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Maypole

A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.

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Mämmi

Mämmi (memma) is a traditional Finnish dessert, eaten around Easter.

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Mölkky

Mölkky, is a Finnish throwing game invented by Lahden Paikka company (formerly known as Tuoterengas) in 1996.

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McLaren

McLaren Racing Limited is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England.

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Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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Middle-distance running

Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, ranging from 500 metres up to two miles (3218.688 metres).

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Midsummer

Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; the longest day of the year.

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Mika Häkkinen

Mika Pauli Häkkinen (born 28 September 1968), nicknamed "The Flying Finn", is a Finnish former racing driver.

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Mika Salo

Mika Juhani Salo (born 30 November 1966) is a Finnish former professional racing driver.

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Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen).

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Mikael Agricola

Mikael Agricola (c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time.

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Mikko Franck

Mikko Franck (born 1 April 1979) is a Finnish conductor and violinist.

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Modern Finnish paganism

Modern Finnish paganism, also known as Finnish neopaganism or the Finnish native faith (Suomenusko: "Finnish Belief / Belief of Finland"), is the contemporary revival of Finnish paganism, the pre-Christian polytheistic ethnic religion of the Finns.

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MTV3

MTV3 (MTV Kolme, MTV Tre) is a Finnish commercial television channel owned and operated by the media company MTV Oy, originally launched in 13 August 1957 as a programming block, becoming its own channel on 1 January 1993.

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Music of Argentina

The music of Argentina includes a variety of traditional, classical, and popular genres.

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Music of Finland

The music of Finland can be roughly divided into folk music, classical and contemporary art music, and contemporary popular music.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Mustamakkara

() is a type of Finnish blood sausage traditionally eaten with lingonberry jam.

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Name day

In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas, among other parts of Christendom.

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Narcissus (plant)

Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring flowering perennial plants of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae.

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National anthem

A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation.

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National epic

A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks to or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation—not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National personification

A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits.

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Negative (Finnish band)

Negative is a Finnish glam rock band founded in Tampere in 1997.

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Nelonen (TV channel)

is a Finnish commercial television channel.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.

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Nordic Classicism

Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.

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Nordic folk music

Nordic folk music includes a number of traditions of Nordic countries, especially Scandinavian.

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Nordic walking

Nordic walking is a Finnish-origin total-body version of walking that can be done both by non-athletes as a health-promoting physical activity and by athletes as a sport.

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Norther

Norther was a Finnish melodic death metal band from Espoo formed in 1996 and broke up in 2012.

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Novgorod Republic

The Novgorod Republic (Novgorodskaya respublika) was a medieval state that existed from the 12th to 15th centuries in northern Russia, stretching from the Gulf of Finland in the west to the northern Ural Mountains in the east.

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Nuclear family

A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, cereal packet family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.

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Nuntii Latini

Nuntii Latini is the name of several news services that broadcast in Latin.

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Oatmeal

Oatmeal is a preparation of oats that have been de-husked, steamed, and flattened, or a coarse flour of hulled oat grains (groats) that have either been milled (ground), rolled, or steel-cut.

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Olavi Virta

Olavi Virta (originally until 1926 Oskari Olavi Ilmén; 27 February 1915 in Sysmä, Grand Duchy of Finland – 14 July 1972 in Pispala, Tampere, Finland) was a Finnish singer, acclaimed during his time as the "King" of Finnish tango.

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Orkidea

Tapio Hakanen (born 1977), better known by his stage name DJ Orkidea (predominantly shortened to Orkidea), is a Finnish electronic music artist.

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Orthodox Church of Finland

The Orthodox Church of Finland or Finnish Orthodox Church (lit; Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland) is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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Osmo Vänskä

Osmo Antero Vänskä (born 28 February 1953) is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist, and composer.

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Paavo Nurmi

Paavo Johannes Nurmi (13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner.

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Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is the Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.

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Parental leave

Parental leave, or family leave, is an employee benefit available in almost all countries.

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Parliament of Finland

The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906.

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Pekka Kuusisto

Pekka Kuusisto (born 7 October 1976) is a Finnish musician.

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Pentecost

Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day (50th day when inclusive counting is used) after Easter Day.

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Perkele

Perkele is a Finnish word meaning 'evil spirit' and a popular Finnish profanity, used similarly to the English phrase god damn, although it is considered much more profane.

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Pesäpallo

Pesäpallo (literally meaning "nest ball", colloquially known in Finnish as pesis and also referred to as Finnish baseball) is a fast-moving bat-and-ball sport that is often referred to as the national sport of Finland and has some presence in other places including Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, and Canada's northern Ontario (the latter two countries have significant Nordic populations).

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Population Action International

Population Action International (PAI) is an international, civil society organization that uses research and advocacy to improve global access to family planning and reproductive health care.

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Porkkanalaatikko

Porkkanalaatikko (or, in Swedish, morotslåda, both meaning 'carrot casserole') is a traditional Finnish dish mostly eaten during Christmas.

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Principality of Moscow

The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply as Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Proventus

Proventus is a privately held Swedish investment company founded in 1980 by Robert Weil.

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Provinssirock

Provinssirock is one of the biggest rock festivals in Finland.

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Proxemics

Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, communication, and social interaction.

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Psychedelic trance

Psychedelic trance, psytrance, or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Public holidays in Finland

All official holidays in Finland are established by acts of Parliament.

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Puukko

A puukko is a small traditional Finnish general purpose belt knife with a single curved cutting edge, solid hidden tang, and usually, a flat spine.

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Quantum Break

Quantum Break is a 2016 action-adventure third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios for Windows and Xbox One.

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Radio Nova (Finland)

Radio Nova is a radio channel in Finland.

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Rallying

Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed.

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Réka Szilvay

Réka Riikka Szilvay (born 16 April 1972) is a Finnish classical violinist.

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Recipe

A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a dish of prepared food.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Regions of Finland

Finland is divided into 19 regions (maakunta; landskap) which are governed by regional councils that serve as forums of cooperation for the municipalities of each region.

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Reindeer

The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.

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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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Remedy Entertainment

Remedy Entertainment Oyj, trading internationally as Remedy Entertainment Plc, is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo.

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Renny Harlin

Renny Harlin (born Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola; 15 March 1959) is a Finnish film director, producer, and screenwriter who has worked in Hollywood, Europe, and China.

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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.

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Riku Kiri

Riku Kiri (born April 5, 1963 in Kotka, Finland) is a Finnish former strongman and powerlifter, best known for competing in the World's Strongest Man competition, narrowly missing out on capturing the title on more than one occasion.

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Road racing

Road racing is a North American term to describe motorsport racing held on a paved road surface.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Romantic nationalism

Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Root vegetable

Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans as food.

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Rovio Entertainment

Rovio Entertainment Oyj (formerly Relude Oy and Rovio Mobile Oy) is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo.

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RTÉ News

RTÉ News and Current Affairs (Nuacht agus Cúrsaí Reatha RTÉ), also known simply as RTÉ News (Nuacht RTÉ), is the national news service provided by Irish public broadcaster italic (RTÉ).

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Ruisrock

Ruisrock is a rock festival held annually on the island of Ruissalo in Turku, Finland.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian cuisine

Russian cuisine is a collection of the different dishes and cooking traditions of the Russian people as well as a list of culinary products popular in Russia, with most names being known since pre-Soviet times, coming from all kinds of social circles.

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Ryijy

Ryijy is a woven Finnish long-tufted tapestry or knotted-pile carpet hanging.

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Sahti

Sahti is a Finnish type of farmhouse ale made from malted and unmalted grains including barley and rye.

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Sakari Oramo

Sakari Markus Oramo, (born 26 October 1965) is a Finnish conductor.

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Salatut elämät

Salatut elämät ("Secret Lives", literally "Concealed Lives") is a Finnish television soap opera that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999.

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Salty liquorice

Salty liquorice, salmiak liquorice or salmiac liquorice, is a variety of liquorice flavoured with salmiak salt (sal ammoniac; ammonium chloride), and is a common confection found in the Nordic countries, Benelux, and northern Germany.

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Sam Vanni

Sam Vanni (till 1941 Samuel Besprosvanni; 6 July 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Finnish painter.

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Sami Hyypiä

Sami Tuomas Hyypiä (born 7 October 1973) is a Finnish professional football manager and a former player who played as a centre-back.

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Sanoma

Sanoma Corporation (formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher.

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Santa Claus

Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santa, or Klaus) is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve.

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Sauna

A sauna is a room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these facilities.

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Sámi languages

Sámi languages, in English also rendered as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden, and extreme northwestern Russia).

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Sámi peoples

The Sámi (also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking Indigenous peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

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Sähkö Recordings

Sähkö Recordings is a Finnish independent record label, based in Turku, Finland.

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Schlager music

Schlager ("hit(s)") is a style of European popular music and radio format generally defined by catchy instrumental accompaniments to vocal pieces of pop music with simple, easygoing, and often sentimental lyrics.

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Scuderia Ferrari

Scuderia Ferrari is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer Ferrari and the racing team that competes in Formula One racing.

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Sentenced

Sentenced was a Finnish gothic metal band that played melodic death metal in their early years.

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Silver medal

A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc.

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Sisu

Sisu is a Finnish word variously translated as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience, and hardiness.

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Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp.

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Skiing

Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.

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Small talk

Small talk is an informal type of discourse that does not cover any functional topics of conversation or any transactions that need to be addressed.

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Soile Isokoski

Soile Marja Isokoski (born 14 February 1957) is a Finnish lyric soprano, active in opera, concert works and lieder.

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Solstice

A solstice is the time when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere.

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Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, Finland.

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Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band.

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Strongman

A strongman is someone who exhibits strength through strength athletics.

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Student cap

In various European countries, student caps of different types are, or have been, worn either as a marker of a common identity, as is the case in the Nordic countries, or to identify the wearer as a member of a smaller body within the larger group of students, as is the case with the caps worn by members of German Studentenverbindungen, or student groups in Belgium.

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Suomisaundi

Suomisaundi ("Finnish sound"), also known as suomisoundi, suomistyge or spugedelic trance, is a style of psychedelic trance that originated in Finland around the mid-1990s.

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Super8 & Tab

Super8 and Tab are a Finnish trance music duo of producers and DJs from Finland named Miika Eloranta (Super8) and Janne Mansnerus (DJ Tab).

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Susanna Mälkki

Susanna Ulla Marjukka Mälkki (born 13 March 1969) is a Finnish conductor and cellist.

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Suuret suomalaiset

Suuret suomalaiset (Great Finns) was a 2004 television show broadcast in Finland by Yle (the Finnish Broadcasting Company), which determined the 100 greatest Finns of all time according to the opinions of its viewers.

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Swedish language

Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.

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Swedish People's Party of Finland

The Swedish People's Party of Finland (SPP; Svenska folkpartiet i Finland, SFP; Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue, RKP) is a Finnish political party founded in 1906.

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Swedish-speaking population of Finland

The Swedish-speaking population of Finland (whose members are called by many names—see below; finlandssvenskar; suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic minority in Finland.

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Tabloid (newspaper format)

A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet.

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Taloussanomat

Taloussanomat is the largest business online daily newspaper in Helsinki, Finland.

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Tampere

Tampere (Tammerfors) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa.

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Tango music

Tango is a style of music in 4 time that originated among European and African immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses").

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Tanja Poutiainen

Tanja Tuulia Poutiainen (born 6 April 1980) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Finland.

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Tarja Turunen

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish.

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Tasavallan Presidentti

Tasavallan Presidentti (in English President of the Republic) is a Finnish progressive rock band.

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Teemu Selänne

Teemu Ilmari Selänne (born July 3, 1970) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey winger.

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Television licence

A television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts or the possession of a television set.

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Terveet Kädet

Terveet Kädet are a Finnish hardcore punk band.

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The 69 Eyes

The 69 Eyes is a Finnish rock band.

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The Rasmus

The Rasmus is a Finnish rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.

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The World Factbook

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.

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Timo Koivusalo

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

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Timo Salonen

Timo Salonen (born 8 October 1951) is a Finnish former rally driver who won the 1985 World Rally Championship season for Peugeot.

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Toivo Kärki

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

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Tommi Mäkinen

Tommi Antero Mäkinen (born 26 June 1964) is a Finnish racing executive and former rally driver.

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Treaty of Nystad

The Treaty of Nystad (Ништадтский мир; Uudenkaupungin rauha; Freden i Nystad; Uusikaupunki rahu) was the last peace treaty of the Great Northern War of 1700–1721.

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Tsar

Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.

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Tubecon

Tubecon was a community-driven international YouTube event that gathers YouTube creators and their audiences in arena-sized public events.

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Turisas

Turisas is a Finnish metal band from Hämeenlinna who, since 2022, have been on an indefinite hiatus.

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Tuska Open Air Metal Festival

Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, commonly shortened to Tuska (pain, agony), is a Finnish heavy metal festival taking place annually in Helsinki.

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TV4 AB

TV4 AB (formerly Nordisk Television AB; previously traded as) is a Swedish media company owned by Telia Company through TV4 Media (formerly known as Bonnier Broadcasting).

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TWA Flight Center

The TWA Flight Center, also known as the Trans World Flight Center, is an airport terminal and hotel complex at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City.

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Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one person, one vote" principle.

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Uralic languages

The Uralic languages, sometimes called the Uralian languages, form a language family of 42 languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia.

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Vain elämää

Vain elämää is the Finnish version of The Best Singers series broadcast on Finnish Nelonen commercial television channel fashioned on the successful Dutch series De beste zangers van Nederland.

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Valtteri Bottas

Valtteri Viktor Bottas (born 28 August 1989) is a Finnish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber, having previously driven for Mercedes from to and Williams from to.

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Väinö Linna

Väinö Linna (20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author and a former soldier who fought in the Continuation War (1941–44).

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Värttinä

Värttinä (meaning "spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland.

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Vexi Salmi

Veikko Olavi "Vexi" Salmi (21 September 1942 – 8 September 2020) was a Finnish lyricist.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

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Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer.

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Ville Ritola

Vilho "Ville" Eino Ritola (18 January 1896 – 24 April 1982) was a Finnish long-distance runner.

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Vlog

A vlog, also known as a video blog or video log, is a form of blog for which the medium is video.

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Vyborg

Vyborg (Выборг,; Viipuri,; Viborg) is a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

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Vyborg Library

Vyborg Library (Viipurin kaupunginkirjasto) is a library in Vyborg, Russia, built during the time of Finnish sovereignty (1918 to 1940-44), before the Finnish city of Viipuri was annexed by the former USSR and its Finnish name was changed to Vyborg by the Soviet authorities.

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Waldo's People

Waldo's People is a Finnish Eurodance band.

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Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night, an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve), is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May.

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Welfare state

A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.

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Western Christianity

Western Christianity is one of two subdivisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity being the other).

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Wigwam (Finnish band)

Wigwam was a Finnish progressive rock band formed in 1968.

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Williams Grand Prix Engineering

Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, currently racing in Formula One as Williams Racing, is a British Formula One team and constructor.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.

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Winter sports

Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice.

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Winter swimming

Winter swimming is the activity of swimming during the winter season, typically in outdoor locations (open water swimming) or in unheated pools or lidos.

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Wintersun

Wintersun is a Finnish heavy metal band from Helsinki originally formed as the side project of Jari Mäenpää, then-vocalist and guitarist of folk metal band Ensiferum.

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World Press Freedom Index

The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year.

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World Rally Championship

The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is an international rallying series owned and governed by the FIA.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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World's Strongest Man

The World's Strongest Man is an international strongman competition held every year.

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Yle

Yleisradio Oy (Rundradion Ab), abbreviated as Yle (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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1952 Summer Olympics

The 1952 Summer Olympics (Kesäolympialaiset 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (XV olympiadin kisat), and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.

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1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad and officially branded as Munich 1972 (München 1972), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.

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1976 Summer Olympics

The 1976 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad (Jeux de la XXIe Olympiade) and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (Montréal 1976), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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1982 Formula One World Championship

The 1982 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 36th season of FIA Formula One motor racing.

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1983 World Championships in Athletics

The 1st World Championships in Athletics (Yleisurheilun maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 1983; Världsmästerskapen i friidrott 1983) were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983.

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1998 Formula One World Championship

The 1998 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 52nd season of FIA Formula One motor racing.

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1999 Formula One World Championship

The 1999 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 53rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing.

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2005 World Championships in Athletics

The 10th World Championships in Athletics (Yleisurheilun maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 2005, Världsmästerskapen i friidrott 2005), under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland (6 August 2005 – 14 August 2005), the site of the first IAAF World Championships in 1983.

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2007 Formula One World Championship

The 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 61st season of FIA Formula One motor racing.

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