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In 2013, 71% of internal public transport was responsible for the Finnish Transport Institute Tampereen City Transport.


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[65] In addition to bus services, a tramway is under construction in Tampere.


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[70] The Tampere City Council decided on the construction in November 2016 and construction work on the first phase began in 2017.


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[71] Attempts are being made to improve the functionality of the transport system and the level of service, as well as by investing in the ticketing system and services.


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[72] A trolleybus service also operated in the town from 1948 to 1976.


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[73] Land transport Tampere is centrally located in southern Finland and is a short distance to many other cities.


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The town is circumnavigated by a ring road along which, among other things, Highways 3 and 9 run.


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Paasikiventie (Highway 12) undercuts the central Tampere tunnel.


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Other major inlet routes in the centre are Vaasantie (Interstate Road 65), Nokia Motorway (Highway 12), Teiskontie (Highway 12) and Extension of Highway 3 (connecting road 3495).


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[74] The longest motorway in Finland runs from Highway 3 to Helsinki.


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Tampere also has Finland's only four-level interchange in Lakalaiva at the intersection of 3 and 9 roads.


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[75] From Tampere you can reach all main air directions by train.


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Tampere is one of the busiest rail transport hubs in Finland, with direct train services to most of Finland's cities and short travel times due to its central location.


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Approximately 150 trains with 8 million passengers each year arrive and depart Tampere Station every day.


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[76] Air and water transport to Tampere is served by Tampere-Pirkkala International Airport.


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In Finavia's passenger volume statistics, it was the fourth busiest airport in Finland with 357082 passengers in 2015.


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[77] Nine routes are flown from the airport during the summer season, four foreign routes in winter.


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Passenger numbers have dropped significantly during the 2010s.


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[78] In 2017, passenger numbers again increased after Air Baltic opened a new route to Riga.


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During the summer, Tampere has inland waterway transport via Näsijärvi to the Päijänne watershed and via Pyhäjärvi to Hämeenlinna via the so-called Hopealline.


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Energia Tampere Energy Production, which is part of the Tampere Electric Plant Group, produced 1254 GWh of electricity and 2184 GWh of district heating in 2013.


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In total, the two units of the Naistenlahti Power Plant produced about 65% and the Lielahti Power Plant about 30% of the electricity generation.


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In district heating production, Naistenlahti Power Plant units accounted for 57 per cent and 23 per cent of Lielahti Power Plant.


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Tampere's ten thermal centres accounted for 21 per cent.


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[79] Natural gas accounted for approximately 65% in energy production in 2013.


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Wood and peat accounted for about 17 per cent.


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Hydropower and oil were also used.


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[79] In the 2000s, emissions from energy production have decreased due to the growth of renewable production and the modernisation of the Ladies' Bay facility.


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In 2013, approximately 669000 tonnes of CO2 emissions and 297 tonnes of sulphur dioxide emissions were generated.


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[80] Water and Waste Management Of Tampere's household water, 66,5% is surface water and 33,5% is groundwater.


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Fifty-eight per cent of water was diverted to economic use and 13 per cent to industrial use.


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Tampere Vesi also manages water to Pirkkala.


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Almost all surface water comes from Roine.


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In addition to that, Tampereen Vesi has four surface water plants in Näsijärvi and five groundwater plants.


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[81] Tampere Water is responsible for 96% of waste water in Tampere, Kangasala, Pirkkala and Ylöjärvi.


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A total of 31.9 million cubic metres of wastewater were cleaned in Tampere in 2012.


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The Wine Bay treatment plant treats more than 75% of the wastewater.


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[82] Tampere Vesi has five water towers and a top water tank.


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Petsamo has an old and new water tower.


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The other water towers are the Hervanna Water Tower, the Peltolampi Water Tower and the Tesoma Water Tower.


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In addition, Pyynikinharju has a headwater reservoir.


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[83] Pirkanmaa Waste Management manages the waste management of Tampere.


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It has waste treatment facilities in Nokia's Hook Lake and Tarastenjärvi in Tampere.


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[84] Population Distribution The population of Tampere was, according to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, in August 2017 [1].


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The demographics of Tampere show the city's status as a place of study, as the number of young adults is clearly higher than in other municipalities in the sub-region.


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The demographic dependency ratio was 45 at the end of 2012.


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About 17.3% of the population was over 65 years old.


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[85] Females make up just over half of the population, as in the country as a whole.


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The population is fairly educated, with two-thirds of those over the age of 15 pursuing post-primary school degrees.


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[86] Tampere is the largest unilingually Finnish-speaking municipality in Finland.


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There were 1172 Swedish-speakers living in Tampere in 2013, making up about half a percent of Tampere's population.


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This is the second largest quantitative proportion of Swedish speakers in unilingually Finnish-speaking municipalities after Kaarina.


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Kaarina and Tampere are also the only unilingually Finnish-speaking municipalities where a Swedish-speaking parish operates separately (Åbo svenska församling for Kaarina).


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In 1900, Swedish-speakers accounted for just over six per cent of Tampere's population and just under two per cent in 1950.


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[87] The most Swedish-speaking neighbourhoods of Tampere have traditionally been Kaakinmaa and Nalkala, where the proportion of Swedish speakers was around seven per cent during the interwar period.


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[88] [87] Swedish speakers were only the third largest language group in 2013, with 2647 speakers of Russian.


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In addition to these, more than 1,000 people spoke Arabic and Persian in 2013.


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There were 9122 foreign citizens living in Tampere in 2013.


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The largest nationality group were Russians, Estonians, Afghans, Chinese and Iraqis.


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In total, 4.1% of the population of Tampere were foreigners and 6.1% of Tampere's population.


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There were fewer foreign-speakers than in other major Finnish cities, Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Oulu and Turku.


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[89] At the end of 2017, Tampere had 231,853 inhabitants, of whom 225,346 lived in agglomerations, 3,123 in sparsely populated areas and the coordinates of the residence of 3,384 inhabitants were unknown.


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The agglomeration rate is calculated from residents whose coordinates of residence are known; Tampere's agglomeration rate is 98.6%.


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[90] The agglomeration population of Tampere is divided between three different agglomerations: [91] The city centre area is shown in bold.


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The agglomerations marked with an asterisk (*) belong to this city only partially.


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The Vuoresi agglomeration is mainly located in Tampere, but in small parts also in Lempäälä.


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[91] The urban area of Tampere is calculated to comprise, in addition to Tampere, Kangasala, Nokia, Ylöjärvi, Orivesi, Lempäälä, Pirkkala and Vesilahti (of which Tampere's central urban area extends beyond Orivesi and Vesilahti).


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It is the second largest urban area in Finland after the metropolitan area with over 380,000 inhabitants.


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[85] In total, Tampere Central District has 334,112 inhabitants and covers an area of 276.23 square kilometres.


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[92] Population trend The table below describes the evolution of the population of Tampere between 1815 and 1939.


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During this period, the city grew rapidly among the major cities of Finland.


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Year1815 [93] 1840 [93] 1850 [93] 1860 [93] 1870 [93] 1880 [93] 1890 [93] 1900 [93] 1910 [93] 1920 [93] 1923 [93] 1923 [93] 1930 [94] 1938 [94] 1939 [94] Population7931,8193,2075,2326,98613,64520,13236,345,445,445,4424,83050,13855,96776,73078,012 As a result of settling and urbanization of the Evaks, the population continued to grow in the 1940s- century and beyond.


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The following graph shows the population trend of the town every five years since 1980.


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The regionalisation used is in line with the situation on 1 January 2013.


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Housing in Tampere was 125067 dwellings at the end of 2012.


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Among them, there were 72.8 apartment buildings, 14.5 detached houses, 10.5 of townhouses and 2.3 per cent of other residential buildings.


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The housing stock had increased by about 23500 dwellings since the beginning of the 2000s.


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[85] Housing looseness has been increasing for a long time, although growth practically stopped after 2008.


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The average housing space was approximately 36.8 square metres per capita at the end of 2012, up from about 19.2 square metres in 1970 and about 31.8 square metres in 1990.


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On average, the dwelling had a population of about 1.8 inhabitants in 2012.


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[85] In the early 2000s, the Association of Local Government commissioned a comprehensive survey of Finnish cities in which Tampere was found to have little social nausea in relation to its size.


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[95] Tampere ranked first in 2014, [96] as well in 2016 [97].


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In the image survey of the same company in 2014, Tampere ranked fourth.


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[98] Tampere finished second in the 2014 Kuntabarometer.


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[99] Education Elementary schools and high schools There are 38 primary schools operated by the city in Tampere.


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Of them, 22 are primary schools, 7 are middle schools and 9 are uniform schools with grades 1 through 9.


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In addition to these, primary education in Tampere is organised by the state-run Teachers' Training School Normal School, Rudolf Steiner School, Svenska samskolan and Tampere Christian School.


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[100] Upper secondary school education is organised by six of the city's day high schools and one adult secondary school in Tampere.


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In addition to these, there are five high schools operated by other entities.


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The city's high schools have a place for about 3200 day high school students.


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[101] Vocational education The City of Tampere operates the Tampere Region Vocational College Tredu, which has about 8000 youth level students, about 8000 adult students and 3600 apprentices.


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[102] Tredu was born when Tampere Vocational College and Pirkanmaa Education Group merged from the beginning of 2013.


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[103] Another major vocational educational institution in Tampere is the Tampere Adult Education Centre TAKK.


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[104] It provides vocational basic, postgraduate and continuing education.


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[105] In addition, vocational training is offered by Ahlman Vocational College, Kiipula Vocational College, Vocational College of Vocational Education, Tampere Conservatory, Tampere Service Vocational College and Varala Sports College.


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[102] Higher Education Tampere is a university town, with Tampere University and Tampere University of Technology and Tampere Summer University, which offers open education.


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[106] The University of Tampere was founded in 1960 when the School of Social Sciences moved from Helsinki to Tampere.


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[107] Tampere University of Technology originated in 1965 when a minor college of the University of Technology was born there.


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Tampere University of Technology became independent in 1972 and later changed its name to Tampere University of Technology.


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[108] Tampere University of Applied Sciences has around 5500 pupils each year and graduates, among others, engineers, medionomers, visual artists and tradenomiers.


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It began operations in 1996.


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[105] In addition, the city has a police polytechnic, which was placed in Tampere by the state in 1974.


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[109] Tampere University of Technology, Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences will merge from the beginning of 2019 to become the new University of Tampere.


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[110] Other education Workers' college activities in Tampere began in 1899, when the Tampere Workers' College was established.


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The current Tampere Region Labour College was formed in 2013 when the Tampere and Ylöjärvi labour colleges merged.


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The college offers more than 1100 courses each academic year and more than 33,000 course students participate in teaching.


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[111] Religious communities Parishes According to the 2018 regional division, Tampere has the following parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: [112] Harju Parish Tampere South Parish Tampere Messukylä Parish Tampere Cathedral Congregation Tammerfors svenska församling These parishes form the Tampere parish group.


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Former parishes The following list lists the parishes abolished in the historical period in the present area of the city of Tampere.


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[112] Aitolahti Parish (annexed to Tampere Messukylä Parish 2014) Hervanna Parish (annexed to Tampere South Parish 2014) Härmälä Parish (annexed to Tampere South Parish 2014) Kaleva Parish (annexed to Tampere Cathedral Parish 2014) Messukylä Parish (annexed to Tampere Messukylä Parish 2014) Pyyniki Parish (annexed to Tampere Cathedral Parish 2014) Teisko Parish (annexed to Tampere Messukylä Parish 2014) Viinika Parish (annexed to Tampere Southern Parish 2014) Other denominations In addition to the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Group, Tampere has activities in the Catholic Congregation, the Orthodox Congregation, the Free Church of Finland, the Tampere Pentecostal Congregation, the Finnish Methodist Church, the Finnish Advent Church and the Finnish Baptist Colony.


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In addition, Tampere is the community of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Tampere Islam Colony.


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[113] Etymology of the name Tampere The place name Tampere has generally been considered a loan from Scandinavian languages (Ancient Swedish damber 'dam').


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However, in recent language research, this etymology has begun to be considered unsatisfactory because the rapids name is very old and Sami people, rather than Swedes, have lived in the area before.


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Sami origins have been put forward as early as the early 20th century, when A.


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V. Koskimies suggested that the word Tammerkoski could have borrowed from the Sámi (Northern Sámi) word dabbal 'suvanto in rapids'.


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[114] In the 2010s, this etymology has been advocated by Pauli Rahkonen and Mikko Heikkilä.


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According to them, the word Tampere derives from the reconstructed preform tmpl of the Late Saami.


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[115] In the mouth of the people Tampere is popularly known by the nickname Manse.


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The etymology of the name is in the strong industrial tradition of Tampere, an association with the industrial city of Manchester in England.


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The playful name Manchester of Finland was already known at the beginning of the 20th century.


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[116] [117] However, the Tampere dialect does not use the name “Manse” more specifically, but is used mostly by people from outside localities or by Tamperes who have migrated to Tampere from other localities.


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Culture Architecture Tampere has buildings from many architectural styles.


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The medieval building culture is represented only by the stone church of Messukylä.


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Neoclassicism of the early 19th century is represented in turn by the Old Church and its belfry.


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Neo-Gothic buildings in Tampere are Messukylä New Church and Alexander Church and Neo-Renaissance buildings include Hatanpää Manor, Town Hall, Ruuskasentalo and Näsilinna.


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The National Romantic design language can be seen in Tampere House of Commerce, Tirkkonen House, Palander House, Tampere Cathedral, Central Fire Station and National Pankintalo.


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[119] Post-Jugend classicism was largely Nordic, and during that time Tampere built a library house, hotel Tammer, Tuulensuu House and Viinika church.


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Following the rise of functionalism in the 1930s, Tampere built a railway station, Tempo House, bus station and Kauppi Hospital.


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There is no single approved designation for the style direction of the post-war period, but key representatives of the Reconstruction period are the House of the Bank of Finland, the Amurinlinna quarter and the Pyyniki Swimming Hall.


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The rationalist buildings of the Modernist period are represented by the University of Tampere, the Central Hospital, Sampola, the Commerce School, the Ratina Stadium and the Kaleva Church.


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Subsequently, diverse modernism is represented by the main library Metso, the Hervanna Activity Centre, Tampere Hall, the University Extension and the Nokia office building in Hatanpää.


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[119] Messukylä stone church represents the medieval building culture in Tampere.


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The Hatanpää Manor, designed by Sebastian Gripenberg, has Baroque elements, but stylistically represents the Neo-Renaissance.


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[120] The Art Nouveau buildings in downtown include the Tirkkonen House, designed by Lars Sonck.


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[121] Tampere bus station represents functionalism and was designed by Bertel Strömmer and Jaakko Laaksovirta.


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[122] The House of the Bank of Finland is one of the most important representatives of the reconstruction period.


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Tampere has several buildings designed by modernist Reima and Raili Pietilä.


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The most internationally famous of them is the Kaleva Church.


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The Tampere Orthodox Church represents Neo-Byzantine church architecture.


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Events There are several cultural events in Tampere every year.


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During the summer months Tampere hosts Tampere Guitar Festival, Tampere Music Festival, Tammerkoski Bridge, Tammerfest, Tampere Flamenco Week, Flower Week, Tampere Theatre Festival, Blockfest.


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[123] The Tampere Music Festival also hosts Tampere Jazz Happening, which focuses on ensemble and choral singing, the Tampere Jazz Happening of contemporary jazz and the biennial Tampere Biennale, which focuses on new Finnish concert music.


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[124] Tammerfest, held since 1995, is a multi-day city festival with open-air concerts and club gigs.


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[125] Blockfest is the biggest hip hop event in the Nordic countries.


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[126] The Tampere Theatre Festival was founded by Tampere Theatres and the City of Tampere in 1968 and is the oldest theatre professional festival in the Nordic countries.


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[108] The Dance Stream is, in turn, a contemporary dance festival.


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[127] Pispala's Sottiisi is a folk dance festival held since 1970 and takes place in even-numbered years.


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Also related to Sottis are the educational and concert event of contemporary folk dance and music in odd-numbered years Tansmania and the folk music and dance event Folklandia on board Sweden.


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[128] The Tampere Film Festival originated with the Tampere Short Film Days 1969.


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The following year the Tampere Film Festival, the first film festival in the Nordic countries, was established.


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It is joined by both an international and domestic short film competition.


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[129] During the Flower Week, Tampere has a different programme at the Central Market.


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Its original idea when founded in 1984 was to diversify Tampere's summer programme.


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[130] Lightweeks have been organized since 1966.


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They run from October to January, and during them various light patterns are hung over the shopping streets in central Tampere.


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[131] The two-day fish market brings 40000 to 50,000 visitors twice a year to Laukontori.


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They are organized in spring on May Day and autumn on Tampere Day.


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[132] Tampere House serves as a venue for concerts and conferences.


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For example, the Tampere Philharmonia Orchestra concerts in Tampere Hall.


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[133] The largest event in Tampere House is Tracon, an annual role-playing game and anime event.


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[134] Theatres Tampere operates several theatres and Tampere Opera.


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There are ten professional theatres in Tampere in total.


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The largest theatres are Tampereen Teatteri and Tampereen Työen Teatteri.


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[135] Tampere Workeren Theatre started in 1901 and Tampere Theatre in 1904.


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They are the oldest art institutions in Finland.


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Some of the longtime directors of Tampere Theatre have been Eino Salmelainen and Rauli Lehtonen and Kosti Elo, Eino Salmelainen and Lasse Pöysti of Tampere Workers' Theatre.


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[136] In 2015, Tampere Workers' Theatre was the fourth in Finland in terms of visitors and Tampereen Teatteri Finland's sixth most welcoming theatre.


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Tampere Comedy Theatre, on the other hand, is one of the largest small theatres.


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[137] Other professional theatres in Tampere are Teatteri Siberia, Restaurant Theatre Theatre Palace, Teatteri Telakka, known for its artistic experiments, Pyyniki Summer Theatre, Ahaa Teatteri specialising in plays for children and young people, Puppet Theatre Mukamas and Dance Theatre MD.


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[135] Museums Tampere is a major museum city on the scale of Finland, and for example, museologist Janne Vilkuna considers Tamperetta to be the best museum city in Finland.


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The Museokeskus Vapriikki, founded in 1996, considers the flagship of the entire Finnish museum industry.


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Vapriik has several exhibition halls and museums and was the first of its kind as a museum centre.


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[138] In 2017, Vapriikki was awarded the Cultural Gala of the Century as Museum of the Century.


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[139] In addition to Vapriiki's own exhibitions, it also hosts the Tampere Kivimuseo, the Postimuseo, the Finnish Ice Hockey Museum, the Media Museum Rupriikki and the Finnish Game Museum.


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[140] In addition to Vapriiki, museums and galleries operated by the City of Tampere include the Amur Workers' Museum Quarter, Galleria Emil, Museo Milavida focusing on the history of the family of Nottbecks, the Moomin Museum opened in Tampere House in 2017, the Sara Hildén Art Museum and the Tampere Art Museum, which has a Finnish art museum the second largest art collection.


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[141] According to museum statistics in 2013, Museokeskus Vapriikki was the second most popular museum in Finland after the Ateneum Art Museum.


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Vapriik had 188527 visitors at the time.


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[142] In 2015, there were 101284 visits to Vapriiki and was only the eighth most visited museum.


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[143] Tampere Art Museum had 62359 visitors, Workers' Museum Wersta 44684 visitors, Police Museum 26101 visitors and Sara Hildén Art Museum 24470 visitors.


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[144] According to preliminary data from the Association of Museums, Vapriikki was the fourth most popular museum in Finland in 2017; as the only museum outside Helsinki in the top five.


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[145] Cultural authors and Tampere in fiction Tampere literature became famous with the Mäkelä district founded after World War II.


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[146] A group of writers from 1946 to 1954 gathered around librarian Mikko Mäkelä.


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Among its key writers were Väinö Linna, Lauri Viita, Mirkka Rekola, Harri Kaasalainen, Ilpo Kaukovalta and Jaakko Syrjä.


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According to literary scholar Yrjö Varpio, the members of the group were united by a romantic literary conception, which also sought to contribute to the bleakness of the war and the period after.


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[147] In addition, Minna Canth was born in Tampere, and Anni Polva's childhood landscapes have been made a walking path associated with the Tina books.


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Many other young writers have connections to Tampere.


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[148] Tamperetta is described in literature by Eila Pennanen in his Tampere trilogy from 1971 to 1973.


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Other writers who have portrayed Tamperetta include Anneli Toijala, Erkki Lepokorpi, Hannu Aho, Raija Oranen, Olli Jalonen, musician Juice Leskinen and creators Seppo Jokinen and Wexi Korhonen.


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[146] P. A. Manninen has viewed Tamperetta from the perspective of horror fantasy in his Captain Kuolio comics.


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[149] The rock culture of Tampere began to flourish in the 1970s, when many new bands were born.


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Their style is called manserock.


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[150] According to manager Epe Helenius, the name was invented in Helsinki and was originally a “barking masword for Finnish-language hillbilly rock”, but gained extra flair with success.


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[151] In the 1970s, artists such as Juice Leskinen, Mikko Alatalo, Virtanen, Kaseva, Nolo et Rähja, Tabula Rasa, Alwari Tuohitorvi, Popeda, Eppu Normal, Kari Peitsamo and Kontra rose to the surface.


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In addition, punk's success in the second half of the 1970s gave rise to Tampere the Poko Rekords label and new wave bands Censorship, Kollaa lasts and Karantine.


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In the 2000s Tampere has been known for hip hop music but also thanks to glam rock band Negative.


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[150] Media Tampere has a strong media city, as the Tohlop Television Centre located there has been a nationwide television channel called Yle TV2 [152] since the 1970s and, for example, Finnish radio operations originated in Tampere when Arvi Hauvonen founded 1923 of the first broadcasting station.


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[153] The Yle TV2 channel has its roots in Tamvision, which passed to Yleisradio in 1964.


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Kakkonchannel has been a major influence in Tampere, and several well-known television programmes and series have been filmed in the city.


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[154] Aamulehti, published in Tampere, was the third largest newspaper in Finland by circulation after Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat in 2014.


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The circulation of the magazine was 106842.


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[155] In addition, Tampere also appears in Tampere, a free city magazine.


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[152] Food Culture The local special food in Tampere is a blood sausage called black sausage.


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The appellation black sausage dates from the 1950s and 1960s fold, and definitively became established in the 1980s.


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Before that, “hot pig blood sausage” was sold in Tampere.


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[156] Along with black sausage, Tampere's other traditional dish is rice, which is a flatless and flatwater yeast bread with a flavour of barley.


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Tampere came to Tampere in the 1850s.


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Thanks to the several bakeries in the Järvensivu district, the area began to be called Rifäkylä, which soon expanded to refer to the whole of Tampere.


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[157] In the 1980s, Tampere keeper dishes were named, along with black sausage and rag, potato soppa, home beer, sucked lingonberry porridge and suckled potato box.


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[158] The speciality of barbecues in Tampere is the traditional food of the Tatar.


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It is a pie resembling Karelian pie with spiced mince inside.


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In Tampere, it was developed at Linkosuo bakery.


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[159] In turn, the newest traditional food in Tampere has evolved into chicken wings.


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Almost half of the chicken wings sold in Finland are eaten in Pirkanmaa.


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[160] The artist Juice Leskinen also has his own influence on Tamperean cuisine, the most famous of which is the enchantment of Lamminpää.


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Lamminpää's enchantment can be obtained from some of Tampere's eateries.


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Sports Sports and clubs Tamperetta has been called the mecca and cradle of Finnish ice hockey.


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The town started in 1926 Finnish ice hockey activities and in 1956 Finland's first artificial ice track (Koulukatu field) and 1965 the first ice rink (Tampere ice rink) was built there.


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The Tamperean teams have been very successful.


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Ilves has won 16 titles and is second in the championship statistic ahead of only local rival Tappara, which has 17 championships when the championships of its predecessor TBK are included.


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In addition to these, Koovee and Tampereen Palloilijat have won one championship.


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At least two Tamperean teams have been involved in the ice hockey main series each time since 1943.


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[161] [162] In addition to ice hockey, Tampere's most famous sports are football, athletics, volleyball, wrestling and boxing.


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[163] In football, Tampere Finnish champions are Tampere United, Ilves-Kissat, Ilves and Tampereen Pallo-Veikot.


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[164] In volleyball championships have been won by Isku-Volley and Järvensivu Kisa.


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[165] In basketball, Tampereen Pyrinnö has three Finnish championships.


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[166] Sports Events Major sporting events held in Tampere are the Tampere Open for tennis, Delfin Basket in basketball, Tammer tournament for boxing, international rowing regatta and events related to the Pirka round.


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[163] Tampere has hosted the 2009 European Youth Olympic Festival Summer Games, the World Boxing Championships in 1993 and the European Championships in 1981 and 2000, the European Wrestling Championships in 1987, 2008 and the European Judo Championships in 2006.


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The first Finnish Athletics Championships Kaleva Games were held in Tampere 1907.


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Overall, the city has hosted the Kaleva Games 13 times, most recently in 2008.


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[167] Tampere hosted the Finland-Sweden Athletics Finland — Sweden country match in 2016.


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At the same time, it was the first time that a country match was held in Finland other than Helsinki.


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[168] Football matches of the Helsinki Olympic Games were played in Tampere.


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[169] Tampere applied for the 1976 Winter Olympics itself, but fell third in the selection vote.


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[170] Sports facilities Tampere has plenty of areas and trails suitable for outdoor activities, ball and sports fields, bathing beaches, ice skating fields and a rich network of tracks during snowy winters.


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For indoor sports, clubs can book shifts at Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre, ice rinks, Nääshalli, Tampere Stadium Ratina, Tesoma Ball Hall, Hervanna Leisure Centre and many other indoor sports facilities.


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Four swimming pools and the Neasel Hall are also available to individual fitness enthusiasts.


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[171] Brașov (Romania) Chemnitz (Germany) Essen (Germany) Canton (China) Kaunas (Lithuania) Kiev (Ukraine) Klaksvík (Faroe Islands) Kópavogur (Iceland) Linz (Austria) Łódź (Poland) Miskolc (Hungary) Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) Norrköping (Sweden) Odense (Denmark) Olomouc (Czech Republic) Syracuse (United States) Tartu (Estonia) Trondheim (Norway) In addition, Tampere has two development-based “friend cities”, Mwanza in Tanzania and León in Nicaragua.


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[172] See also Tampere City Library Tampere Central Attractions List of Tampere Statistical Areas List of Tampere parks List of Tampere public works of art and monuments List of famous Tampere Sources Häyrynen, Maunu: “Landscape of Tampere”.


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Question: Who owns the Ford company?

Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (abbreviation FoMoCo) is an American automobile manufacturer founded in 1903 by Henry Ford in Detroit.


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Ford Motor Company

Ford has factories of its own independent design work in addition to the United States in Britain (founded 1911), Germany (founded 1925), Australia (founded 1925), Brazil (founded 1925) and Turkey.


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Ford Motor Company brands include Lincoln in addition to Ford.


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Ford owns a minority stake in Mazda.


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In 2008, Ford produced 5.532 million cars and employed approximately 213,000 people in 90 factories worldwide.


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2009 Ford produced 4.817 million cars.


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Ford had an operating profit of $2.7 billion in 2009.


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The group's assets are estimated to be around $200 billion.


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History Ford's European operations headquarters is located in Cologne, Germany.


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In March 2008, Ford sold British-based Jaguar and Land Rover to Indian company Tata Motors for US$2.3 billion.


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In 2010, Ford sold Swedish Volvo to Chinese company Geely.


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In the mid-1990s, Ford made a profit selling big S.U.V."s.


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On the 21st century side, the company mired in financial difficulties.


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It made a loss of $12.7 billion in 2006 and 2.7 billion in 2007.


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Under Alan Mulally, Ford avoided the bankruptcy that faced its rivals General Motors and Chrysler in 2009.


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In 2011, the company had revenues of $136264 million and operating profit of $20213 million.


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[1] The company was ranked ninth on the 2012 Fortune 500 list.


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[2] Ford in Finland The first Ford car came to Finland in 1904.


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The car was sold by G.


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F. Stockmann and was purchased by assistant priest Walter Lampen, for whom the salesman also acquired a chauffeur.


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This was the only car dealership made by Stockmann for years, since the business did not return to car imports until 1912.


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[3] In 1911, the brothers Aleksander, Fritiof and Tor Nyberg, who were emigrants in the United States, received Ford's representation to Finland from Ford's representative in Paris.


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The following year the brothers started their sales operations in Helsinki and their first batch of sales comprised three Ford T cars.


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Until the outbreak of the First World War, Fords were sold in Finland through eight dealers across the country, around one hundred copies.


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[4] The reconstruction of Ford's sales network in Finland began in 1919, when a Ford car assembly plant was established in Copenhagen for Scandinavian countries and Ford Motor Company agents began to look for dealers in Finland.


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In the same year, Oy Argos Ab obtained exclusive rights to sell Fordson tractors in Finland.


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In 1921, Ford Motor Company entered into an import agreement with Korpivaara & Halla Ltd.


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However, the two sides soon found themselves in disagreements over the marketing of the cars and the agreement unraveled in 1924.


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Ford Motor Company then leased factory and branch facilities in Hernesaari, Helsinki, where an assembly plant was also planned.


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Ford Motor Company

In 1926, Ford Motor Company of Finland Oy, a subsidiary under the main company, was founded, which was the first automobile factory subsidiary established in Finland.


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The company's name was changed in 1937 to Oy Ford AB.


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Before the outbreak of World War II, imports of Ford cars began, along with the United States, also from Britain.


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[5] During the 1920s and 1930s, Ford of Finland was also subordinated to Ford car sales and service operations in Estonia.


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Oy Ford Ab was listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 1938.


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[6] In 1939 Ford was the most common passenger car brand in Finland with more than a quarter (26.7%) of registered cars.


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[7] By the same year, more than 5000 Fordson tractors had been imported into Finland.


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[6] After the Winter War ignited, all Ford operations were evacuated to Vaasa, from where they returned to Helsinki in the summer of 1940.


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In order to ease the emergency situation caused by the war, 4400 Ford trucks were ordered from the United States; however, only during the intermediate peace period.


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During the Continuation War, new trucks damaged and made as spoils of war were assembled in Hernesaari, Helsinki, for use by the armed forces.


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[6] Immediately after the Second World War, Fordson Sussex and Thames lorries with right-hand drive were imported from Britain in 1945—1948, with large motor vehicle loans issued by the Ford Motor Company.


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[8] In the postwar years, Ford cars began to be imported from then West Germany as well.


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[9] In 1946—1947 Oy Ford Ab set aside a total of 15 million marks for the promotion, teaching and research of motor transport and agricultural mechanization, and in 1947 the Henry Ford Foundation was established, providing grants to students in the field of technology and agricultural colleges and for agricultural and transport research projects.


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[10] In 1946, President J. K. Paasikivi received the Lincoln V-12, the finest car in its collection, as a gift from Ford Motor Company.


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Ford Motor Company

[11] In the decades following the wars, Ford cars have been imported into Finland from the Group's factories in the United States, Britain, Germany, Belgium, France and Brazil.


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Until the 1960s, Fords produced in each country were cars so different in nature that they could have been classed each as their own brand.


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Ford Motor Company

At the end of 1969, Finland had more than 73000 British and more than 24000 German Fords on the register.


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[12] The most popular passenger car models from the 1960s to the 1980s were the Anglia, Cortina, Taunus, Escort, Capri, Fiesta and Sierra.


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[10] The port of importing Ford cars was moved from congested Helsinki to Hanko in 1963 [13], but due to Hanko's traffically-cumbersome location, imports were moved to a new free port built in Turku in 1969.


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[14] Fords manufactured in the United States were actively marketed in Finland until 1967, after which they have been imported mainly by special order.


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[15] Oy Ford AB's net sales in 1982 amounted to Marks 813.9 million.


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[16] At the end of 1988, 170,791 Ford passenger cars were registered in Finland and was the third most common passenger car brand after Nissan and Toyota.


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Fords then made up just under ten per cent of Finland's total passenger car fleet (1795908 pieces).


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[17] Administration Jorma Ollila was on Ford's board from 2000 to 2008 as was Vodafone board chairman John Bond.


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[18] Models Models, Europe Ford B-Max Ford C-Max Ford Fiesta Ford Focus Ford Galaxy Ford Ka+ Ford Mondeo Ford Ranger Ford S-Max Ford Transit Ford Transit Connect Ford Transit Courier Ford Transit Courier Ford Transit Custom Ford Kuga Ford Mustang Ford Fiesta Van Ford Tourneo Ford Tourneo Custom Ford Tourneo Connect Ford Tourneo Courier Ford EcoSport Trucks, Europe Ford Rhein/Ruhr/FK (Ford Cologne) Ford Thames Trader Ford D Series Ford Cargo Ford Transcontinental Ford StreetKA 2004 Ford Focus 2004 Ford Mondeo Discontinued Models, Europe Ford 12M Ford 15M Ford 17M Ford 20M Ford 26M Ford Anglia Ford Capri Ford Comete Ford Consul Ford Consul Capri Ford Consul Cortina Ford Cortina Ford Cortina Ford Cougar Ford Courier Ford Cwt Van Ford De Luxe Ford Econovan Ford Eifel Ford Eight Ford Escort Ford Granada Ford Model Y Ford Orion Ford Pilot Ford Popular Ford Prefect Ford Probe Ford Puma Ford Rheinland Ford RS200 Ford Taunus Ford Thames Ford Scorpio Ford Sierra Ford StreetKa Ford Ten Ford Vedette Ford Vendôme Ford Zephyr Ford Zodiac 1996 Ford Escort RS Ford Scorpio Limousine Ford Sierra Sapphire Current Models, United States Ford Fiesta Ford Focus Ford Fusion (USA) Ford Taurus Ford Mustang Ford GT Ford EcoSport Ford Escape Ford Explorer Ford Expedition Ford C-Max Ford Transit Ford F-150 Ford Super Duty Ford E-Series Ford F-650 2018 Ford Expedition.


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2017 Ford F-150.


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2009 Ford Taurus.


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Discontinued models, United States Ford 300 Ford Bronco Ford Bronco II Ford Custom Ford Crestline Ford Elite Ford Escort Ford Five Hundred Ford Focus (USA) Ford Freestyle Ford Galaxie Ford GT40 Ford Falcon Ford Fairlane Ford LTD Ford Mainline Ford Ford Model A Ford Model C Ford Model F Ford Model F Ford Model F Ford Model N Ford Model N Ford Model R Ford Model S Ford Model T Ford Ford Ranchero Ford Skyliner Ford Sunliner Ford Taurus X Ford Tempo Ford Thunderbird Ford Torino Ford Parklane Ford Pinto Ford Probe Ford Quadricycle Ford V8 Ford Victoria Ford Windstar Ford ZX 2 1921 Ford Model T roadster 1931 Ford Model A coupe 1932 Ford Deuce Coupe Hot Rod 1955 Ford Fairlane Victoria 1961 Ford Galaxie Sunliner 1965 Ford GT40 1973 Ford Pinto Pangra Ford Gran Torino Models, Australia Fairlane Falcon LTD Territory Models, Brazil P100 EcoSport Fiesta Ka Models, South Africa Figo Models, India Figo Ikon Models, China Ford Escort (2015) Tractors Ford Motor Company has also manufactured tractors.


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Sources Literature Rahunen, E.: Oy Ford Ab 50 years 1926—1976.


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Features of the history of Ford—Finland.


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Huddersfield in 1976.


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Question: When did Sima Qian die?

Sima Qian

Sima Qian (, ca.


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145 BC.


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Sima Qian

— 90 BC)


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Sima Qian

was a historian and astrologer.


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Sima Qian

He is considered the father of Chinese historiography.


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Sima Qian

His best-known work is Shiji (, “Memory Entries from History”), which was the first overview of Chinese history.


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Sima Qian

The biography of Sima Qian's father Sima Tan () served in the court of Emperor Wud of the Han dynasty as a librarian and was already widely read by Sima Qian in his childhood.


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He also received a formal education under the guidance of Confucian scholars.


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Sima Qian

Around the age of 20, Sima Qian began extensive travel e.g.


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to the burial sites of earlier rulers and other sites of historical significance.


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Upon his return to the capital, Sima Qian was appointed to a court post, and at his father's wish he began writing an extensive history work.


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Sima Qian

99 BC.


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Sima Qian

Sima Qian fell into the emperor's disfavor after defending the failed general Li Ling in his war expedition.


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Sima Qian

Sima Qian was sentenced to death, but the sentence was switched to castration and imprisonment.


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Sima Qian

Sima Qian spent three years in prison, but after his release from there continued to write his works with even greater vigour.


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Shiji graduated in 91 BC.


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Sima Qian

Meaning as a historian, Sima Qian's work has served as a model for later Chinese historiography.


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Sima Qian

Earlier history books had been official, almost catalogued, dynastic histories.


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Sima Qian

Sima Qian's work is organized by theme and includes articles in addition to annals.


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on religion and court music, as well as biographies of prominent figures.


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Sima Qian, as far as possible, sought to verify the veracity of his knowledge, and also presented his own theories and conclusions in the work, rather than being content to simply write down the information he had gathered.


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The work is also considered to be fiction significant, particularly in biographies there is vivid, perceptive description.


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Stylistically, Shiji is varied and fluent in language, far removed from the rigid and formal text of earlier history books.


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Question: When was HMS Active completed?

HMS Active (H14)

HMS Active (pennant number H14) was an A class destroyer entered service by the British Royal Navy in 1930 and commissioned as part of the 1927 Naval Programme.


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HMS Active (H14)

It served mainly in the Mediterranean Sea for the beginning of its career.


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HMS Active (H14)

At the beginning of World War II, it was placed on convoy protection duties.


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HMS Active (H14)

The ship was attached to Force H, established at Gibraltar, in June 1940, where it continued its service as convoy cover.


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HMS Active (H14)

Among other things, the ship was involved in the sinking of four submarines.


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HMS Active (H14)

After the end of the war, it was placed in reserve and sold for scrapping in 1947.


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HMS Active (H14)

Manufacture The ship was ordered on 6 March 1928 from the Hawthorn Leslie shipyard in Hebburn as part of the 1927 Naval Programme and had her keel laid still on 10 July that year.


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The ship was laid down to the waters on 9 July 1929 and completed from the shipyard on 9 February 1930, and was commissioned into Navy service on 10.


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on april.


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[1] Entering service, the ship was attached to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet.


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After a period of training, on 18 June 1930, the ship arrived at Malta for nine months, then returned to Portsmouth Dockyard on 18 March 1931 for maintenance and modification work.


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On 30 June, the ship returned to her squadron in the Mediterranean.


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On 4 April 1932, the ship crashed off Saint-Tropez with her sister ship HMS Achates and was forced to return to Malta for repairs.


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After eighteen days of repairs, the ship returned to service.


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[2] In the Mediterranean, the ship's service continued for the next five years except for periods spent in maintenance [3], as at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1 September to 16 December 1932 and 1 May to 29 June 1934.


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The ship patrolled the coast of Palestine in June 1936 due to rioting in the area and during the Spanish Civil War off the coast of Spain from June 1936 to January 1937.


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[2] Under the command of Commander R. St. A. Malleson on Monday, 15 February 1937, the ship departed Grand Harbour, Valetta, accompanied by the 3rd Destroyer Squadron, for three-day maneuvers.


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Maritime activity was fierce after the previous night's Gregale storm.


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At 11 o'clock the next day, the squadron proceeded on Hurd shallows () in line aft of the cruiser HMS Galatea at a speed of about 25 knots with HMS Antelope (Lieutenant Commander H. G. Graham) following the detachment.


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HMS Active, with HMS Worcester (commanded by Lieutenant Commander W. R. Marshall), was attempting to drive ahead of the bow of HMS Antelope when the rudder jammed.


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The ship spun 180 degrees, colliding with the Worcester behind it.


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The collision returned Active to its original direction and it collided with HMS Antelope.


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Luckily, just ignoring the sides as they creep each other.


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HMS Hood towed Worcester to Valetta aft because a large chunk of its bow had come loose.


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The Antilope's fuel tank was leaking and Active's bow was damaged, but the ships were capable of returning on their own to port.


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[4] The repair of bad damage took until 1 June at the Malta shipyard.


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Upon the ship's return to service, it was transferred to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, where it replaced the Hunter, which had mined off the coast of Spain.


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The ship served in the squadron for sixteen months, except for time in the shipyard from 29 November 1937 to 12 January 1938 in Malta.


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[2] On 8 October 1938, the ship was transferred to the reserve in Malta, from where it returned to service due to the threat of war on 22 April 1939 as part of the Gibraltar Naval Base [5].


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World War II The ship was assigned to the 13th Destroyer Flotilla stationed at Gibraltar in September, with which it began maritime surveillance and convoy protection on 3 September.


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On 24 October, the ship was transferred to a shipyard in Gibraltar, from where it returned to its squadron 1.


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on Dec.


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[6] [2] At Gibraltar, the ship joined Convoy HG13F with HMS Wishart which voyaged to Liverpool.


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On 3 January 1940, protection separated from the convoy after transferring the protection mission to HMS Veteran and HMS Wanderer, after which they returned to Gibraltar.


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On 21 January, Active joined HMS Whitehall as cover for convoy HG16 (F) of 42 ships.


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They separated from the convoy on 28 January, returning to Gibraltar and leaving responsibility for the rest of the voyage to ships arriving from the British Isles the day before.


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On 9 February, with the French naval destroyers Valmy and Vikings, the ship joined Convoy HG18, from which it separated on 10 February, returning to Gibraltar.


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[7] [6] On 17 February, the ship joined with HMS Bideford, HMS Leith and HMS Versatile as cover for Convoy OG18F which had voyaged to Gibraltar and was relieved of duty when the convoy reached Gibraltar.


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On 22 February, the ship joined Convoy OG18 in the Atlantic, sheltering its remainder of its journey to Gibraltar, where the mission ended.


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On 4 March, it sheltered Convoy HG21, departing for Liverpool with HMS Velox, HMS Vidette and HMS Vimy, from which it separated on 6 March to join the Gibraltar bound convoy OG22F, sheltered by Tigre and Vikings.


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On 9 March, with the same ships, the ship sheltered Convoy HG22F, which departed for Liverpool, from which it resigned a protective mission to ships arriving from the British Isles after surrendering, returning back to Gibraltar.


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It continued to protect local convoys between April and May.


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[6] Active was attached in June 1940 as part of Force H on the grounds, with Gibraltar as its base.


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Accompanied by Force H, on 3 July, the ship took part in the scuttling of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir (Operation Catapult).


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[6] The ship was transferred to the 12th Cruiser Pennant of the Home Fleet in August to protect convoys on the Western Route.


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On 29 August, it was detached from the pennant to protect the 1st Mine Squadron while replenishing the mine barrage on the northern edge of the North Sea (Operation SN14).


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The ship was with her squadron in September for anti-submarine operations and in October to provide cover for troop transport convoys.


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[6] It sheltered Convoy WS3F (seven passenger ships, 13000 passengers, 18 knots) departing from the Clyde on 7 October to Freetown.


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On 12 October, the ship separated from the convoy and returned to the Clyde.


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The ship was sheltering convoy HX83 in November.


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[6] Active rescued 39 survivors from the British merchant ship Diplomat, which had been torpedoed by German Navy submarine U-104 on 27 November 1940 ().


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[8] The ship was transferred in November to a shipyard in Liverpool, from where it returned in March 1941.


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It was attached to service upon its return to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet for anti-submarine operations, [6] and participated on 23 March as part of the Home Fleet in the search for the German Navy battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic.


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[6] Active was assigned on 16 August 1941 to protect the first Arctic Ocean convoy to travel to the Soviet Union (Operation Dervish), departing on 21 August from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, arriving ten days later in Arkhangelsk.


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[9] On 28 September, the ship joined Convoy QP1 returning from Arkhangelsk.


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On 5 October, it was ordered to tow the damaged trawler to Akureyri, Iceland., where they arrived on 10 October, and Active then commenced sailing to Scapa Flow.


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[10] On 20 October, the ship was transferred to the shipyard, where while she was assigned to Force H.


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It returned to service in December after the completion of test runs and began a voyage to Gibraltar to join the 38th Destroyer Pennant.


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Stationed at Gibraltar, it provided cover for convoys until it was ordered in February to return to the Clyde.


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On 16 February, the ship joined Convoy WS16, from which it separated on 21 February to protect the carrier division's voyage to Gibraltar.


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[6] As cover for Operation Spotter I, the ship was ordered on 27 February.


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However, the operation was cancelled the next day, but was finally carried out on 6 March under the name Spotter II.


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[6] Active was ordered to take part in the invasion of Madagascar (Operation Ironclad) and therefore had to move to Freetown.


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On 1 April 1942, the ship joined Convoy WS17 en route to Freetown, from which troops were transferred for the invasion of Madagascar to Durban.


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The ship separated from the convoy on 6 April upon its arrival at Freetown [6] and on 9 April joined Convoy WS17A, with which it arrived on 18 April at Cape Town and on 22 April at Durban.


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[6] On 7 May, the ship was transferred to anti-submarine operations to protect the landings area.


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On 8 April, it took part in the sinking of the Vichy French submarine Monge, which had sought to sink the aircraft carrier.


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Active continued into August on convoy duty in the Indian Ocean until it was ordered to take part in the recapture of Madagascar (Operation Stream).


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[6] Active was attached to Force M's 3rd Destroyer pennant, which on 9 September sheltered the ships of Force M and the Majunga landings area.


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On 30 September, the ship returned to convoy protection, at which time it was similarly relieved of the operation.


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[6] The ship was transferred to Cape Town in early October due to concerns about the increase in enemy submarine activity in the area.


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On 8 October 1942, it sank U-179 (), near Cape Town with depth charges.


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Prior to scuttling,<i data-parsoid='{"dsr":[11756,11766,2,2]}'>Active had picked 98 survivors from the sea from the submarine's sole casualty from the British merchant ship City of Athens.


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[8] On 11 October, the ship rescued 23 survivors from being torpedoed () by submarine U-159 a couple of days earlier from the American merchant ship Coloradan.


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[8] Active continued during November and December on anti-submarine duty in Cape Town until ordered to return to England for maintenance.


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[6] In January 1943, Active returned for maintenance to the British Isles.


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Upon the ship's return to service in May, it was ordered to join the 13th Destroyer Flotilla at Gibraltar.


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It joined Combined Convoy WS30/KMS15 as protection.


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On 23 May 1943, northeast of the Azores, the ship participated in the sinking of the Italian Navy submarine Leonardo Da Vinci [8].


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On 25 May, Convoy KMS15 separated from the section, heading for Gibraltar, at which point Active joined the convoy.


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[6] Upon reaching Gibraltar, the ship commenced convoy service.


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On 2 November, with depth charges, it participated in the sinking of U-boat U-340 () near Tangier [8].


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[6] Active served in the Mediterranean on convoy duty as well as anti-submarine duty until ordered in September 1944 to move to Hang Waters as cover for coastal convoys.


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The ship went on to transfer to Portsmouth in October as the lead ship of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, and in November was ordered to move to the Eastern Mediterranean and was therefore transferred to the shipyard for maintenance prior to transfer.


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[6] In January 1945, the ship transferred from maintenance upon her return to Alexandria, where it was attached to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla.


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It supported ground operations in the eastern and central Mediterranean.


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Among other things, it captured a landing ship on 28 February in the central Mediterranean.


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Active continued to protect March/April convoys, and additionally supported operations in the Aegean region.


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On the deck of the ship at Sým, a surrender document for German troops in the area was signed.


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The ship transferred to Gibraltar in June, where it continued on convoy escort duty until the end of the war.


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[6] Following the end of the War Action, Active returned in September 1945 to England, where it was placed in reserve at Barrow.


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The chassis was used as a target ship from 1946 before being placed on the removal list.


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The ship was sold for scrapping on 20 May 1947 to BISCO, who transferred the ship to West Scotland Shipbreakers for scrapping.


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It was towed on 7 July for scrapping to the scrapper's shipyard at Troon, Scotland.


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[23] Awards Bond films have been awarded five Oscars by 2017: Best Sound Effects (007 and Goldfinger, 1964), Best Special Effects (Ball Lightning, 1965), Best Sound Effects and Best Song (007 Skyfall, 2012) and Best Song (007 Spectre, 2015).


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[24] [25] Golden Globe awards Bonds have received three: the Best New Female Actress award for Ursula Andress (Secret Agent 007 and Doctor No) and the Best Song award for the films 007 Skyfall and 007 Spectre.


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[26] List of films In the table Bond films, their starring actors and monetary success.


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[27] Casino Royale (1967) and Don't Refuse Twice (1983) do not count in the so-called official Bond film series.


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In 1954, the CBS television broadcaster aired Casino Royale as an hour-long dramatization of Climax!


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In the Mystery Theatre series in the United


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Bond was played by Barry Nelson.


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[18] In 1958, CBS asked Fleming for a Bond television series.


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The series was to become a 32-part, with Fleming writing a detailed synopsis for thirteen episodes.


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However, the series was never carried out.


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Production company Hubbell Robinson acquired the rights to a Bond television film in 1959, but a film planned to star James Mason was never made.


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[31] The James Bond film was first seen on television in September 1972 when the US ABC aired Goldfinger as a Sunday night film.


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A heavily censored version of the film was shown.


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In 1974, ABC aired the film 007 in Istanbul, after which Bond films became recurring television entertainment in the United States.


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In Britain, Bond was first seen on television in October 1975, when ITV aired the film Doctor No.


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Live and Let Others Die, shown in January 1980, received 23.5 million viewers and remains the most-watched film in British television history.


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[32] VHS and Betamax Bonds began to be leased in the early 1980s and sold at the end of the decade.


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Today, Bond films come to free-to-air TV channels after first being sold on video and dvd, pay-TV and streaming services.


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[33] Radio South African radio aired Moonraker as a dramatised listen in 1956.


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Bond was played by Bob Holness.


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[34] [18] The BBC aired a dramatisation of the novel You Only Live Twice in 1990.


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Bond was played by Michael Jayston.


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[20] Cartoons In newspapers, James Bond became familiar to the general public for the first time in 1958 when the English newspaper Daily Express began publishing a James Bond comic book in its comic book pages.


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[35] The comic strip, which appeared six days a week beginning in July 1958, was drawn until January 1966 by John McLusky.


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Writer Ian Fleming had reservations at first about the idea of a comic book adaptation, as he feared the comic would diminish Bond's value as well as the shortening of his stories.


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Once Fleming had been persuaded of the quality of the comic, he still wanted to ensure that Bond in the comic would become right-looking, so he commissioned another artist to make a drawing of Bond as a model for the magazine.


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McLusky, however, found Fleming's vision too 30-something military and made Bond more modern looking.


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McLusky teamed up with sportsman Henry Cotton, actor Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and the Duke of Edinburgh in his Bondi.


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Throughout his career from 1958 to 1983, McLusky drew a total of 18 James Bond adventures and 2250 strips.


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[36] Following McLusky's discontinuation at the Daily Express in 1966, Bond cartoonist continued first by Henry Gammidge and after him by Yaroslav Horak.


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McLusky returned to Bond in 1982 and co-authored four new Bond stories with screenwriter Jim Lawrence.


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[37] The Daily Express published Bond until 1977.


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Thereafter, the comic was published in the Sunday issue of the magazine and weekdays in the Daily Star until 1984, when it was discontinued.


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[38] As a comic book, the first James Bond comic book was published in the United States in January 1963 in the Illustrated Classics series.


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The story was an adaptation aimed at young people from the film Secret Agent 007 and Doctor No (1962).


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The publication was licensed forward to comics company DC, which however never began publishing a regular Bond comic until the option lapsed in 1972.


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[39] In the 1970s and 1980s, Bond comics were published mostly in non-English-speaking countries.


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Comic book publisher Marvel acquired the license for Bond comics in the 1980s and released one-volume special issue adaptations of the films Very Secret and Octopussy.


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Play Value published two James Bond 007 Adventure Storybooks comics for very young readers.


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Subsequently, Eclipse published a comic adaptation of the film Permission to Kill and, in 1989, Permission to Die, written and illustrated by Mike Grell, featuring new material.


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Twelve Bonds were released by Marvel in 1992.


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The rights to the comics passed in 1992 to Dark Horse.


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It held the Bond licence for four years and published fifteen Bond comics.


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Topps released a three-part adaptation of the film 007 and the Golden Eye in 1996.


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Bond comics were hardly published for a long time thereafter.


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In 2014, Bond's comic book license passed to Dynamite Entertainment, which launched its Bond series in November 2015.


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[40] Video Games James Bond video games have been made in total by 2016.


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The first licensed James Bond game was the James Bond 007 developed by Parker Brothers, released in July 1983 for the Atari 2600 as well as for the Atari 5200 and Commodore 64, for example.


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[41] [42] The previous year, though, there was a Bond game called Shaken but Not Stirred released in Britain for ZX Spectrum.


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[43] Made based on 007 and Golden Eye, the first-person shooter GoldenEye 007 released by Nintendo 64 in 1997 was a major review and sales success.


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The game received the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Game of the Year award and by 2001 emerged as the best-selling video game of all time.


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[44] Between 1999 and 2005, Electronic Arts released eight Bond games, and between 2008 and 2012, Activision released four.


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[45] Characters James Bond The main character James Bond, codenamed Agent 007, is a secret agent of the British intelligence agency MI6.