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Other notable buildings completed in the 1960s include Seppo Ruotsalainen Puijo Tower (1963), Viljo Revelli's Kop Triangle (1964), Jaakko Paatela and Reino Koivula's Meilahti Tower Hospital (1965), Jaakko Kontio and Kalle Räiken Helsinki Ice Rink (1966), and Viljo Revelli and Heikki Castrén's Sausage House (1967).


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Housing Housing levels A strong wave of migration from rural to cities and the overall improvement in housing infrastructure were reflected in the improvement in housing equipment levels.


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As recently as 1960, the aqueduct and sewer were in only about half of all dwellings, with water in just over a third.


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Central heating was in just under a third in 1960 and warm water in just under a quarter of all dwellings.


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In 1970 the plumbing and sewer was in over 70%, waterwater at over 60%, and central heating and hot water in just over half of all dwellings.


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Of the new residences completed as early as 1968, almost all had plumbing, hot water, sewer, toilets and central heating.


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There was also an increase in housing space: in 1960, the average area of dwellings per capita was 14.3 square metres and in 1970 was 18.9 square metres.


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On the other hand, the proportion of owner-occupied dwellings decreased slightly and the proportion of rental dwellings


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In the 1960s, about 60 per cent of dwellings were owner-occupied dwellings and just under 40 per cent were rented.


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The popularity of Arava loans rose in the 1960s.


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[3] [44] Decoration and design for Sixties décor is marked by wallpaper decorated with intense colours (such as orange, yellow and green) and patterns, counterbalanced by the often gestured slab construction taking over the surfaces of the home.


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Painting walls with latex paint was also common.


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The walls of the kitchen and bathroom were often coated with melamine finish IKI board, which was obtained, for example, with precious wood and tile patterns.


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Hexagonal clinker tiles were also typical of the decade.


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Listings were often as narrow and modest as possible.


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Fixed furnishings such as window seats and curtain boards were of sheet construction, smooth-faced and pale painted.


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Along with the wall structures, the fixed window seats became melamine-faced window sills.


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The floor was often coated with light plastic carpet, chipboard-based parquet, or the novelty carpeted floor of the decade.


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Ceilings were plated and painted or boarded with wood, and ceiling lights were often brass.


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[45] The rapid prevalence of television changed the interior of the living room, which was now built around the television.


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The use of plastic in furniture and other home accessories became widespread.


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Eero Aarnio designed the “ball chair” in 1963.


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Also popular were tableware by Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva and Kaj Franck, as well as textiles from Marimekko and Marjatta Metsovaara.


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[46] Finnish language 1960s new words or words used in media abundance during the decade: astronaut, cosmonaut cohabitation contraception conditional hippie mass media midsummer developing country brag consumption form, form tape recorder consequently shopping mall precinct pizza policy protest radical racism pollution spared taboo entity measure state communication unify [47] Literature Upgrades in society as well as radicalism were also reflected in the 1960s in literature, and the decade is considered a decade of participatory literature.


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The literature of the time revolted against the governing power of political and economic systems, opposed traditional bourgeois values, and questioned taboos of sexuality.


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Moral and ethical questions of literature were even addressed in courtrooms: for example, Hannu Salama's novel Midsummer Dances (1964) brought him an indictment for blasphemy [48], though he was pardoned by the President of the Republic of Finland Urho Kekkonen.


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[49] Polemics were also caused by Väinö Linna's Here Under the North Star II (1960), as well as Paavo Rintala's Grandma and Mannerheim trilogy (1960—1962) and Lieutenant Sissi (1963).


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The taboos of portraying sexuality were particularly broken by Timo K. Mukka and Christer Kihlman.


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The Sixties lyric rebelled against the modernism of the previous decade.


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New means of expression in the poems were, for example, snippets from conversations, statistics, lists, and poems by other authors.


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The sound print became jagged as well as imagery related to the urban environment.


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Pentti Saarikoski, a poet, prosaist, Finnish writer, listener and pachinist, became the leading figure of the new generation.


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He is especially remembered for the collection What's happening really?


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(1962), which describes the world in a very reality-oriented manner with restless, moving and relaxed colloquial poetry.


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The strongest political voice weights in the lyric of the era were represented by Matti Rossi and Pentti Saaritsa.


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Väinö Kirstinä, on the other hand, was considered a prophet of the most trying trend of the decade, Finnish Dadaism.


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Finnish-Swedish socially oriented poets included Lars Huldén, Claes Andersson and Robert Alftan.


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The 1960s also saw the appearance of Ulla-Lena Lundberg's first-born poetry collection Utgångspunkt (1962) and Henrik Tikkanen's first-born novel Hjältarna är döda (1961).


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Tove Jansson debuted as an adult writer with the autobiographical novel The Sculptor's Daughter (1968).


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Admittedly, one of the most notable works of the decade is also Marianne Alopaeus' Core of Darkness (1965).


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[50] Theatre Theatre's ratings were increasing in the 1960s, due to improved transport links, urban population growth and increasing leisure time.


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A lot of wars were depicted in theatrical productions of the 1960s.


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The left was still clearly divided into communists and social democrats, but Eino Salmelainen declared that the division in the Workers' Theatre had to be forgotten, as the theatre was to be a place of recreation.


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Raising the Civil War as a topic for the first time underscored the common roots of the history of the Left.


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For example, for the 60th anniversary of Tampere's Workers' Theatre in 1961, Salmelainen declared folksy was realised by Eugen Terttula's flamboyant adaptation of the second part of Väinö Linna's Here Under the North Star trilogy, where the description of the 1918 civil war was central.


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The adaptation became a great success, for which there were also successful sequels.


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World War II was covered, for example, in Edvin Laine's play The Unknown Soldier (1961) and Ilmari Turja's play Headquarters (1965).


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Towards the end of the decade, radicalised young theatricans scolded plays describing wars and demanded anti-war performances, resulting in director Edvin Laine trying to convince young people of Väinö Linna's anti-war spirit by adding blood effects and the presentation of suffering.


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The desolation of the countryside was also evident in some plays, exemplified by Jouko Turka's Goodbye Strawberry (1969).


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[51] Kalle Holmberg made his breakthrough in the 1960s: he became director of the Helsinki City Theatre 1965—1970 and principal of the Finnish Theatre School 1968—1971.


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He is remembered for several directorships, including the Lapuan Opera (1966) and Richard III (1968).


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Lapuan opera is probably the best-known domestic play of the 1960s; it is a pacifist and neo-leftist detachment from the long-held right-wing climate of attitude and the burdens of patriotic tradition, perceived as revolutionary.


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There were also a lot of amusement and musical plays performed.


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In the course of the 1960s, the wide spectrum of operettas had, admittedly, been pruned into use by theatres and the National Opera, mainly classics of the genre, such as the foreigners Strauss's Bat, Lehár's Merry Widow and the Gypsy Duchess of Kálmán.


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As recently as the 1960s, a theatre manager always had to ensure that there was someone fit to be an operetta hero in the house, but very few professional theatrics had the skills required to perform operetta heroes.


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[52] The Lapualaisopera Lapualaisopera was a play premiered on 21 March 1966 and written by Arvo Salo.


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The music was composed by Kaj Chydenius.


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The Lapualainen opera was written as a commemorative play for the 40th anniversary of the Helsinki Student Theatre.


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The premiere was directed by Kalle Holmberg.


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In the 1960s, the radicalism of the Lapuan movement was still sorely in memory, and many bourgeois oriented citizens were offended by the play.


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Lapuan opera was also the subject of a lawsuit when Captain ret.


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Artturi Vuorimaa filed a lawsuit for damages against Arvo Salo for plagiarism because Salo had borrowed passages from Vuorimaa's book Three Months in Kosola without Vuorimaa's permission.


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The Court of Appeal sentenced Salo to fines for copyright infringement and ordered him to pay damages of 2000 marks to Vuorimaa.


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The Supreme Court rejected the fine penalty, but upheld the damages.


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[53] Press The largest domestic newspaper, the unbound Helsingin Sanomat, had also grown to one of the largest newspapers in the Nordic countries.


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The second largest domestic newspaper was Rural Future.


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[54] The most widely circulated magazines of the 1960s were still Apu and the Society, both of which had already been established in the 1930s.


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During the decade, the youth magazine Favourite (1961), the women's magazine Anna (1963) and the interior design magazine Avotakka (1967) were founded.


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Investigative journalism reared its head, most famously as the case of the “great margarine war” started by the New Image magazine in 1961.


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The yellow press exponentially increased its popularity.


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In the fall of 1959, “Hymy” magazine was established initially as a youth magazine, which it did not prosper.


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So the magazine's editor, Urpo Lahtinen, quickly twisted Smile into an unabashed sensational magazine whose stories were particularly related to celebrity revelations, alcoholics and crime.


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[55] Television and Radio Television channels and technology in the 1960s Finland had two TV channels TV-programme 1 and TV programme 2 (nowadays Yle TV1 and Yle TV2).


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In addition, there was one commercial television channel Advertisement Television, which broadcast a program from the Yle network.


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Television came to the home of almost every Finn.


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[56] Almost all television broadcasts were still black and white; Finland's first color broadcast was Kekkonen's New Year's Speech on 1 January 1969.


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In the 1960s, a large number of television insurance policies were sold to replace the home damage caused by the TV crashing, igniting or exploding.


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Sales of insurance peaked in 1964, when about 175,000 copies were sold.


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The sale of television insurance was discontinued in 1968.


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Some of the most popular television programmes in the Sixties were Hanski, a comedy series about the life of a merchant, and Heikki and Kaija, a drama series about the life of a Tamperean wage-earning family.


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The period also commemorates the sitcom Hulukkoet, the hidden camera series Nut and Hidden Camera and the drama series The Adventures of Private Svejk and Me Tammelat.


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In 1969, a drama series about suburban life was started on a new major phenomenon at the time.


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Domestic sketch series in the 1960s include Lasse Pöysti show, Piikkis and Kivikasvot Show, which started at the end of the decade.


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Spede Pasanen scripted several sketch series including 50 Small Minutes, Spede Show and Spedevisio.


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The long-running music program Levyraati started in 1961, presented by Jaakko Jahnukainen.


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The Double or Receipt quiz show, presented by Kirsti Rautiainen, was aired throughout the decade.


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Drawer and Puzzle, founded by Niilo Tarvajärvi, were also popular.


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On Sunday evenings, a quarter-long Sunday coffee concert was broadcast, a coffee concert by conductor Toivo Lehtelä and his two daughters.


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The 1960s are also remembered for the current affairs pakina programme Apropos, as well as the talk show Overtime, aired as the last programme on every other Saturday night.


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The issue programme Topical Kakkonen started in the autumn of 1969 and was aired until 2015.


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Niksulan TV aired throughout the decade was Finland's first television children's program.


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Another children's programme was the Circus Parrot, broadcast every second Sunday, from 1961 to 1967.


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Children's favourites were also Aunt Kylli and Aunt Arja.


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At Reporadio Yleisradio, the new Director General Eino S. Repo proclaimed the Declaration of Informational Programme Policy in 1966, based on the provision of a world view based on correct information and facts [57] and encouraged breaking with old traditions and bringing out the taboos of society.


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Let's start talking about Reporadio, the politically-coloured state media.


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[56] At the same time, left-wing student radicalism gained ground in Yleisradio.


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Repo gave ample space to young journalists and their socio-critical programmes, prompting accusations of the politicisation of Yleisradio and bringing it the mock name “Reporadio”.


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Broadcasting was also accused of outright support for the left during the 1966 parliamentary elections.


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One of Revo's reforms was the establishment of a Special Editorial Office directly subordinate to the Director General.


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The special editorial director was Reino Paasilinna, whose initial programme (“Insurance is a matter of heart”) 1966 created a huge stir in the public eye.


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[58] Due to the above considerations, Repo was not elected as Executive Director for a further five-year term.


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He was replaced by Erkki Raatikainen whose period was known as the period of normalization.


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[59] Music in the early Sixties began to shape youth idols more consciously than before.


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In place of the alto leids of the previous decade, many young women with sparkles rose in popularity, such as Laila Kinnunen, Pirkko Mannola, Rauni Pekkala and Marion Rung.


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Finland participated in Eurovision for the first time in 1961 with Laila Kinnunen's song Valoa in the window, and the following year Marion Rung represented Finland with her song Tipi-tii.


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At the beginning of the decade, wireframe music also rose into fashion.


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Well-known bands in wireframe music included The Sounds, whose action-packed twist-rhythmic version of the Emma Waltz, released in early 1963, suddenly rose to the top of the sales charts.


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Other Wire music hits were notably The Strangers' version of the Russian classic Three Guitars, The Scaffolds' Tullalla twist and The Esquires' Run You Humma.


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The tango was also recorded a lot and its main target group was people living in the countryside.


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The tango boom was at its most intense coinciding with the wireframe boom, and tango even became its own culture.


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In the 1960s, the tango was recorded by artists such as Annikki Tähti, Eino Grön, Reijo Taipale, Veikko Tuomi and Olavi Virta, the latter's career was already ending due to illness and alcoholism.


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Some of the biggest tango hits were Black Rose sung by Veikko Tuomen and Satumaa, recorded by Reijo Taipale, who put its author Unto Mononen into the front row of Finnish tango composers.


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Romani youths Taisto Tammi and Markus Allan started the success path of gypsy singers in Finnish iskelmämusic.


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A decade marked by radicalism will also be remembered for its protest singers.


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Irwin Goodman's songs, among others, criticised politicians, taxation and old Finnish attitudes, and described alcohol consumption.


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Some of his songs were even banned from radio play.


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Irwin's well-known songs include Työmies Saturday (1965), No Drip Way (1966) and Ryysyranta (1967).


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A. Numminen, on the other hand, recorded gender-education songs and often made a conscious effort to annoy people, for example by interpreting Franz Schubert's lieds in his own singing voice.


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The lyrics of songs became more free-spirited, among other things, the use of profanity in songs became more common.


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Later bands of The Beatles style conquered Finland as well, little by little supplanting the wireframe craze of 1960—1964.


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Among the best known recording artists for Beatles versions were The Esquires, Cay and the Scaffolds, Jormas, and Eero and Jussi and the Boys.


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Many artists, including Danny, Lea Laven and Kai Hyttinen, also chose Beatles' hits for their recording repertoire.


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Beatles' songs were painstakingly translated into the Finnish language, exemplified by Jormas Rööper (Penny Lane) (1967), to which Juha Vainio's text brought the same kind of nostalgia the Beatles exerted in the original version for their growing environment in the outskirting city of Liverpool.


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In the late 1960s, popularity was gained by the pioneer Blues Section of Finnish blues and psychedelic rock, who were known for the band itself composing and lyrics their own songs, unlike the vast majority of Finnish rock groups who made translation scovers of foreign songs.


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The new blues-psychedelic-influenced rock music was not very popular in the countryside; it mostly stayed in big cities when foreign vinyl records came to Finland almost invariably a couple of months late after release, unlike in Sweden.


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[60] Examples of long-line Finnish artists who debuted in the 1960s include Katri Helena, Danny, Hector, Paula Koivuniemi, Kirka and Tapani Kansa.


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Katri Helena's breakthrough song was Teleponlangat sings (1964), Danny's Kauä (1965), Hector's Mercenary (1966), Paula Koivuniemi's Butterfly (1966), Kirkan Häkki Läö (1967) and Tapani Kansan Delilah (1968).


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The film Sixties was a dramatic period of adolescence in the history of Finnish cinema.


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Between 1963 and 1965 there was an actors' strike in Finland, with which traditional studio cinema came to the end of its way.


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At the same time, the first steps of the new wave were taken, and the Pilot Guard changed radically.


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At the same time as television became more widespread, cinema attendance decreased in the 1960s with the result that almost half of them closed their doors.


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The Finnish Film Foundation was founded in 1969.


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Years of the Crisis Finnish cinema was in crisis in the early 1960s, but studio production was still high.


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Films from the beginning of the decade include iskelmäcavalcades such as Ville Salminen's Toivelauluja (1961) and more daring films with crime and sexual tones, for example Toivo Särinen's Moon is Dangerous (1961) and Åke Lindman's Jengi (1963).


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The rillumarei tradition of the previous decade was also continued, among others, with three films built on comedian Eemel, the first of which was Ville Salmisen Oho, said Eemeli (SF, 1960).


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However, the studio production of the early 1960s left cold both audiences and the young generation of critics who grew up in film clubs and film archive screenings of the previous decade.


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Åke Lindman debuted as a director in 1961 with his film Tell it to Him..., Mikko Niskanen again in 1962 with his film Poiji.


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The decade is also remembered for his “Inspector Palmu” films, four of which appeared in all.


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The State Film Award was established in 1961.


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In the first year, the last blooms of traditional quality production were awarded, Ritva Arvelo's Golden Calf and Jack Witika's Little Peter's Yard.


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In the future, however, the award specifically promoted the emergence of a new generation of authors and producers.


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From early 1963 to the summer of 1965, there was an acting strike in Finland, in which the Finnish Actors Association forbade its members from entering into new film contracts.


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The studio period of Finnish cinema is considered to have ended in 1965 when Oy Suomen Filmiteollisuus filed for bankruptcy.


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Few films emerged during the strike, including the first Spede film X-Baroni (1964) that started the directorial careers of Risto Jarva and Jaakko Pakkasvirta.


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The studio film was replaced by more varied means of expression: auteur-style directors of the “new wave” emerged in the front row of the Directors' Guard, in addition to Jarva and Pakkasvirta, among others Erkko Kivikoski, Maunu Kurkvaara and Eino Ruutsalo.


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Instead of studio filming and literary subjects, dispersal began to be dispersed with small film crews in the middle of issues of the present.


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The career of film director and screenwriter Aarne Tarkas went down in history: between 1960 and 1966 he directed almost 20 more films, including Branches Away... (1961) and the last Johan now is the market (1966).


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Erik Blomberg, Veikko Itkonen, Armand Lohikoski and Toivo Särkkä also made their final directorships.


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Maunu Kurkvaara and Eino Ruutsalo can be considered pioneers of modern film aesthetics and a new production model.


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Kurkvaara is remembered for her intimate contemporaneous dramas such as Dearest... (1961), Private Area (1962) and Merie's Feasts (1963), as well as reportage films that grappled with topical problems such as Autogirls (1960) and Report aka ballad about ship girls (1964).


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In the circumstances of the time, Ruutsalo represented the most drastically experimental and detached aesthetics of story film; his films include Moments in Night (1961) and Jaiuri (1965).


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Accounts of the decade The film crisis is considered to have ended in 1966, when Mikko Niskanen directed the film Käpy under the back, which became a big success.


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Niskanen broke many taboos, among them sex had not previously been portrayed as spectacularly in a Finnish film.


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Another first success of modern cinema was Risto Jarva's Diary of Työmies (1967), which combined fiction and documentary, diving into class society and the pain points of Finnish history.


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Jarva's film can also be seen as a starting shot into the participatory period of domestic cinema, followed by Jaakko Pakkasvirta's own directorial debut, suburban portrayal Green Widow (1968) and Jarva's future society analysis The Time of Roses (1969).


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Bold subject choices were also seen in Erkko Kivikoski's most famous film about politic dividing lines (1969) and films about sexual liberation directed by Jörn Donner, such as Sixtynine 69 (1969).


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Donner was an exceptional international author, starting his directorial career in Sweden with the film September Sunday (En söndag i September, 1963).


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One of the producers of the decade chose Spede Pasanen, a comedian familiar from radio and television, who is remembered for example in the film Pähkähullu Suomi (1967) directed by Jukka Virtanen.


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Spede films were made by a standard group, which included Ere Kokkonen and Jukka Virtanen as directors and screenwriters alongside Pasanen, actors including Vesa-Matti Loiri and Simo Salminen as well as composer Jaakko Salo.


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The most watched film of the decade, however, is Edvin Laine's Here Under the North Star (1968), which deals with life in the Finnish countryside in the fold of the 19th and 20th centuries.


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The film is still the third most-watched Finnish film of all time with just over million viewers.


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[61] Sports Ice Hockey World Championships were held for the first time in Finland in 1965; they were held in Tampere at that time.


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The Finnish ice hockey national team won its first European Championship medal in 1962 (silver).


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During the Winter Olympics of the decade, Finns won several gold medals in cross-country skiing.


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The most successful Finnish skier of the 1960s is probably three Olympic gold medals and two World Championship gold medals winning Eero Mäntyranta, other Olympic champions include Kalevi Hämäläinen and Väinö Huhtala.


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Veikko Kankkonen won one Olympic gold in ski jumping and Kaija Mustonen in speed skating.


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Gold at the Summer Olympics has been won by fixture gymnast Eugen Ekman, javelin thrower Pauli Nevala, shooters Pentti Linnosvuo and Väinö Markkanen and weightlifter Kaarlo Kangasniemi.


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Among the athletes of the decade are also remembered Pentti Nikula, who jumped the world record in the pole jump at Kauhavava in June 1962, and Olli Mäki, who became European champion of professional boxing lightweight in 1964.


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Some of the most successful Finnish motorsports players of the 1960s is at least Timo Mäkinen, who won the Jyväskylä majors in 1965, 1966 and 1967.


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Simo Lampinen and Hannu Mikkola were also successful in the rally.


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The zoo runs were discontinued in May 1963 due to a serious accident there.


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Leisure Due to the rise in living standards and the increasing prevalence of women in employment in particular, the 1960s can be characterised as the breakthrough decade of modern Finnish consumer society.


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TVs were bought in large numbers, and as they became more widespread, watching television became a social pastime.


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The whole family often watched TV together, and neighbours were invited to the TV too.


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Sports and outdoor pursuits, reading, tourism and various cultural services, from music to theatre, increasingly competed for increasing leisure time.


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[62] Tourism also began to increase.


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Travel agencies were established at a fast pace: Solar tours were established in 1963, Vingresor or current TUI 1964, Javelin tours 1965 and Tjäreborg 1966.


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In particular, club tourism and beach holidays increased in popularity.


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In 1962, the first direct flights were flown from Helsinki to Majorca, Rhodes and Rimini.


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Kalevi Jaihänen of Spear Journeys is remembered as a public figure.


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[63] Fashion for women of the 1960s included plush, feminine hairstyles as an integral part.


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The mini skirt was developed in 1966 and quickly spread to Finland as well.


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It has even been considered a symbol of women's liberation.


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Women continued to wear skirts and dresses more often than trousers.


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Kajal makeup pens used to draw beauty spots on the skin.


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The hippie movement was beached in Finland in the second half of the decade, especially with wide-leg trousers, colourful clothing, collars and long hair in both sexes.


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Otherwise, long hair in men was quite unusual.


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Marimekko first made headlines worldwide in 1960 when the first lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy, known for her style, became enamored with the brand's dresses.


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[64] Food and drink The struggle with food shortages caused by Halla and loss had gone down in history.


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Some of the most popular dishes in the 1960s included mince and sausage dishes, liver dishes, soup and box dishes, and white sauce.


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[65] A bun was still often enjoyed at breakfast.


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New foods came to Finland, including yogurt, milkash, chicken and ketchup.


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Consumption of vegetables and fruits began to rise as the supply of fresh and frozen vegetables increased and at the same time they began to be educated as healthy.


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At the same time, meat consumption also rose sharply, but consumption of milk and rye, for example, had declined.


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Bread was often baked at home.


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[66] Refrigerators quickly became widespread.


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In 1964 Finnish households owned 578,000 refrigerators and 4,000 freezers.


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Several farmhouses did not yet have a fridge, but a freezer was instead quickly acquired after it came to market to provide good preservation of large quantities of butchery meat and crop from one's own garden.


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In rural areas, self-sufficiency flourished still strong.


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[67] A novelty of the previous decade, supermarkets, became heavily prevalent in the 1960s.


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With them, there was no need to spend as much time as before on food sourcing.


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Milk was often sold in plastic bags.


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[68] The first pizzerias were established in Finland in the 1960s.


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Going to restaurants was still rare, and strict alcohol laws held back the development of restaurant culture.


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Middle beer was released in 1969, after which the number of anniskels restaurants began to increase in rural areas.


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The release of middle beer brought alcohol consumption to a sharp rise, but the public was still widely unaware of the dangers of alcoholism.


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The liquor was still on the card, for good liquor cards were abandoned at the end of 1970.


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[69] Even in the 1960s, women were often not allowed into restaurants without male company.


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Question: What did Miguel de Cervantes die of?

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547, Alcalá de Henares — 23 April 1616, Madrid) was a Spanish writer.


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His most famous work is Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1605/1615).


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Don Quixote is a parody of romantic knight stories, written in a realistic style, which enjoyed great popularity among the public.


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Cervantes's humor, ironic excerpt and the novel's abundant metafictional content have garnered plenty of admirers and imitators throughout the ages.


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Don Quixote, along with Cervantes' other production, has contributed significantly to the development of the entire Western literary and fiction tradition.


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In addition to Don Quixote, Cervantes' works have also been translated into the popular short story collection Educational Narratives (Novelas ejemplares, 1613) and the writer's prose plays (a selection from Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevas, nunca representados, 1615).


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Early years Miguel de Cervantes was probably born in Alcalá de Henares (now part of Madrid) on Michael's Day, 29 September 1547.


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Miguel's baptismal certificate is dated October 9 in Alcalá.


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His father was originally a Cordóban broker Rodrigo de Cervantes.


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Little records have survived of Cervantes' mother, Leonora de Cortinas, other than his birthplace, the village of Arganda del Rey (in the area of present-day Madrid).


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Debate has flowed over Cervantes' lineage since Américo Castro, a cultural historian and literary scholar, suggested in the 1920s that Cervantes might be of Jewish convert descent.


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The question of Cervantes' possible “neo-Christian” ancestry remains unresolved.


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In addition to Miguel, six children were born into the Cervantes family, Andrés (1542—1543), who died young, Andrea (1544—1609), Luisa (1546, died in the 1620s, Carmelite nun and later abbess of a convent), Rodrigo (1550—1600, surrendered like his brother to a military career), Magdalena (1553—1611), and Juan (n..


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1555, year of death unknown).


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Around the year 1551 Rodrigo and his family moved to Valladolid, where he was subsequently imprisoned for unpaid debts and the family property was confiscated.


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In 1556 Rodrigo travelled to Cordóba to retrieve the inheritance left by his father.


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It is not known if any of the family members followed along.


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There are no very accurate records of Miguel's schooling, but it is believed that during his time he studied at a Jesuit school in Valladolid, Cordóba or possibly Seville.


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Instead, claims about Cervantes' subsequent university studies at Salamanca are no longer considered accurate.


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In 1566, Miguel settled in Madrid, where he studied under the renowned humanist Juan López de Hoyos.


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In 1567 Cervantes published his first known poem Serenissima reina in honor of the birth of Princess Catalina.


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In 1569, Hóyos published a book commemorating the death of Philip II's third wife with four poems written by Miguel.


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Around the same time, Cervantes also became interested in theatre, as he himself recounts in the Preface to the Intermediate Shows.


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Journey to Italy, Battle of Lepanto In 1569 Cervantes unexpectedly interrupted his studies and travelled to Italy, where he placed himself in the service of the clergyman Giulio Aqcuaviva as his chamberlain.


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An arrest warrant for Miguel de Cervantes has survived from the same year, accusing a suspect of wounding an Antonio de Sigura in a duel.


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Duels were forbidden at the time, though little enforcement of the law.


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This would explain Miguel's sudden unpredictable departure, although it is impossible to prove that the arrest warrant means precisely him.


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Tourism to Italy by young Spaniards was very common at that time.


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Cervantes's infatuation with the legacy of the ancient Roman and Italian Renaissance, expressed in many of his works (for example in the short story Licentiate Lasine or Persiles y Sigismunda), probably dates back to this period at the latest.


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In the service of Aqcuaviva, Cervantes toured Italy for a year, but resigned from the service of his master, who was appointed cardinal, as early as 1570, and enlisted in Naples as a marine in the Spanish Navy, where he served for the next five years.


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For active duty, Cervantes entered the following year, and on 7 October she participated in the naval Battle of Lepanto on the galley Marquesa.


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At the start of the battle, Miguel was at a high fever, but he defied orders and, despite his weak condition, joined the battle on the ship's deck.


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He suffered three gunshot wounds which resulted in his left arm being permanently paralyzed.


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For the rest of his life, Cervantes was proud of his participation in a battle which he saw as a watershed throughout European history.


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After the Battle of Lepanto, Cervantes was hospitalised in Naples for six months and subsequently returned to the ranks of the fleet.


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In the following years he took part in numerous naval combat expeditions and lived during intermediate periods in Naples.


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Back in September 1575, Miguel embarked on a return voyage to Spain together with his brother Rodrigo on the galley Sol sailing to Barcelona.


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Captive in Algeria, however, Miguel and Rodrigo's return journey ended briefly when North African Muslim pirates attacked the ship and took crew members hostage.


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Cervantes had letters of recommendation with him from high quarters.


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They allowed the pirates to conclude that he was an important person, and so a very high 500 gold escudos were set to ransom Cervantes.


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The Cervantes were unable to pay the ransom demanded for Miguel and Rodrigo.


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Cervantes spent the next five years as a slave in Algiers.


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He orchestrated four attempted mass escapes in all, but each of them failed; Cervantes took the blame on his own to save his fellow prisoners from harsh punishments.


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Despite prison sentences and torture, Cervantes continued his attempts at release throughout his imprisonment.


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In 1577, Leonora de Cortinas tried to buy her sons free with the money he had received, but the robbers did not agree to release both brothers for just under sum.


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Miguel decided the matter in favour of his younger brother, and Rodrigo was able to return to Spain after two years of imprisonment.


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In May 1580, Trinitarian monk Juan Gil finally managed to redeem Cervantes free with 300 escudos collected by his brotherhood, to which, thanks to a quick collection carried out among Christian merchants in Algiers, the missing two hundred were added.


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The rescue took place at the last minute, as Cervantes, convicted of his latest escape attempt, was about to be transferred to Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, into slavery.


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La Galatea and early plays In October 1580 Cervantes finally returned to Spain.


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The following year, as chargé d'affaires appointed by the king, he took part in a secret mission from newly annexed Portugal to Oran from Portugal annexed to Spain.


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Upon completion of the mission, he begged 1582 posts from the colonies of the “New India”.


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The plea was rejected and Cervantes transferred back to Madrid.


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While in Madrid, Cervantes had an affair with married actress Ana Franca de Rojas.


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From the relationship, Cervantes's only daughter Isabel de Saavedra was born in 1584.


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Cervantes recognised the daughter as her own and after Ana Franca died in 1599, Isabel moved in with her father to live.


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In December 1584, Cervantes unexpectedly married Catalina de Salazar y Palacios, a resident of Esquivias.


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The bride was only 19 years old, and her dowry was not mentionable.


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No children were born from the marriage, and it is not believed to have been very happy.


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The couple moved apart after only a couple of years of marriage, and Cervantes never refers to his wife in his autobiographical texts.


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In the common household, Cervantes settled with his wife again only in the early years of the 17th century.


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Cervantes' first major work La Galatea appeared in Madrid in 1585.


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Named after its inaccessible female protagonist, Galatea was a fashionable shepherd novel in style.


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The aesthetically prissy, idealised “shepherd characters” in a paradise-like setting and contemplating the problems of love, the pastoral idyll was not, in retrospect, Cervantes's own domain, although he does try to bring some realism and humour to the genre.


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Galatea's story remains unfinished at the end of the sixth book of the first part.


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In his final years, Cervantes promised a sequel time and time again to his mesenate of Galatea to his mesenate, Count of Lemos, in the prefaces of his works, but probably he himself did not take the idea very seriously anymore.


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In the early years of the 1580s, Cervantes wrote numerous plays and briefly enjoyed popularity as a playwright.


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However, there was no sufficient source of income from plays and, like many other early playwrights, Cervantes was soon overshadowed by Lope de Vega's new kind of theatrical aesthetics.


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From the plays of the period to our days, only two copies have been preserved as manuscripts.


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Successful in its own time and appreciated by posterity, the four-act historical tragedy La Numancia tells the story of the inhabitants of the Celtic city of Numantia, which was besieged by Roman soldiers.


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The play contains plenty of mythical ingredients.


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Los tratos de Argel (a custom description of Algiers) is a tableau based on Cervantes' own experiences of the lives and fates of Christian prisoners in Algiers.


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Andalusia, the birth stages of Don Quixote after Cervantes and Catalina de Salazar moved apart, Miguel travelled to Andalusia, where for the most part he spent the next 20 years of incessant movement in small state circles, first as fundraiser for the Invincible Armada and since then as a tax collector.


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In the intervening times, Cervantes stayed mainly in Seville, which was then Spain's largest and busiest city thanks to the colonial affairs administration and the terminal port for liner ships located there.


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Cervantes was bankrupted, sentenced to a church curse, and reportedly imprisoned on at least two occasions (1597 and 1602) for obscure accounts and burglary.


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While serving his sentence in the Argamasilla de Alba prison in La Mancha, Cervantes had the idea of writing Don Quixote.


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The original idea for the work comes from a small folk booklet called Entremes de los Romances, in which reading romances confuses a countryman's head.


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However, the national and international success of Don Quixote was made by Cervantes's artistic solutions, such as multidimensional humour, the conflict between true and fantasy, the depiction of everyday events and people, and the introduction of everyday language and various slangs into fiction.


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The last years of Don Quixote's first volume appeared in 1605, and the following year Cervantes returned to Madrid, where he spent the rest of his life living in the same household with his wife, daughter and two unmarried sisters.


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Cervantes' financial standing did not say improve in his final years, despite the wide popularity of his later works.


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Cervantes had been forced to sell the cost rights of his works for lump sums to book printers.


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In 1609, Cervantes joined, according to the custom of the time, as a lay brother to the Brotherhood of Slaves of the Holy Sacrament of Olivar (la Congregación de los Esclavos del Santísimo Sacramento del Olivar).


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Don Quixote also achieved great popularity outside Spain as the work began, shortly after its appearance, to spread throughout Europe in numerous translations.


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The earliest known translation is Pekka Ikonen's abbreviation Don Quixote de la Mancha, meaning knight of the infamous form of knighthood from 1877.


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Aleksis Kivi, who greatly admired Cervantes, became acquainted with the work as a Swedish translation in due course.


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A classic complete translation by J. A. Hollo appeared in 1927—1928.


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A new Finnish translation by Jyrki Lappi-Seppälä appeared in 2013.


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Instructive narratives In 1613 Cervantes published a collection of twelve short stories, drawing on almost all genres of his time, Novelas ejemplares (Finnish. instructive narratives), which has had a great influence on later novel literature as well as short story art.


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The work is widely regarded as Cervantes' most significant since Don Quixote, and it has been said that Cervantes alone would have given its name to literary history.


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Instructive narratives, alongside short farces in the collection of Don Quixote and Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses, have maintained their popularity all the way to this day.


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Translations of instructive narratives into foreign languages began to be published soon after the work appeared.


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New translations are still steadily popping up across the globe.


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Walter Streng-Renkonen's collection of four short stories Short Stories appeared in 1936.


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Arto Rintala's complete translation, at the same time the first translation of the entire work by an individual, appeared in 2007.


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Viaje del Parnaso In 1614, Cervantes's most ambitious attempt in the area of lyric appeared, an allegorical poetry by Viaje del Parnaso (A Journey to Parnasso) benevolently critiquing the literature of his own time, containing a wealth of autobiographical material.


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Along with a few more well-known sonnets, such as the satirical Al Túmulo del Rey Felipe en Sevilla (“To the Tomb of King Philip in Seville”) or Celos (“Jealousy”), revered by the writer himself, Viaje del Parnaso is the most significant of Cervantes' poetry texts, though not in Cervantes' poetry is not universally considered to rise to the same level with his prose.


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Don Quixote II, the sequel to Don Quixote, hidden behind the pseudonym Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevas Alonso Fernández de Avellenada pseudonym caused Cervantes to hurry to write his own work, and the long-awaited second volume finally appeared in 1615 .


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In the same year, Cervantes' collection of new plays, Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevas, appeared, containing eight long, poetic plays (comedias) and eight short farces written in prose form, from intermediate acts (entremeses) to be performed with breaks from long plays.


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None of the plays had been performed before the book was published, but medium shows based especially on perceptive observation and verbal fireworks later became very popular and continue to be performed.


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Translated by Arto Rintala, the Finnish selection of Intermediate Shows (2011) includes all eight of the instruments in the collection and the foreword of Cervantes examining the early Spanish theatrical history.


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Cervantes' longer plays have been left with relatively little attention since later.


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Worth mentioning, however, is, for example, the long comedy Pedro de Urdemalas (Pahanilky Pedro), whose protagonist, a rogue-like gypsy boy, tricks unsuspecting people in many different roles, and decides at the end of the song to become an actor.


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Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda Cervantes himself considered his main work on the tradition of the philosophical adventure and love novel of late antiquity, and from Olaus Magnus and Saxo Grammaticus' descriptions of northern Europe to draw his final novel Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda — history setentrional (delusions of Persiles and Sigismunda.


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A story from the lands of the north.).


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In the 17th and 18th centuries Cervantes' last novel was very popular and is considered one of the most important paragons of the “Heroic novel” which was in vogue at the time.


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Combining fantasy and realism, Persiles y Sigismunda tells the story of the journey of the heirs to the throne of the two northern kingdoms through Europe to Rome, where they are due to enter marriage as papal consecrations.


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The main plot combines a large number of short side stories about the people and cases the lovers encounter along the way.


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In later centuries, the work has been subjected to less attention and has not been studied in great depth.


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Cervantes wrote the famous preface to Persiles y Sigismunda on his deathbed, and Catalina de Salazar published the work posthumously in 1617.


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Cervantes made a monk promise in his final days and was buried in a Franciscan Brother robe in a Trinitarian monastery in Madrid, which was thoroughly renovated later in the 17th century, where the bodies of the deceased have been mixed and unrecognisable due to early relocation in the renovations.


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A project to find Cervantes's bones is a project set up in 2011, behind which are the Royal Spanish Academy of Languages, the Royal Academy of History and the Archbishop of Madrid.


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A sum of €100000 has been earmarked for the project and is scheduled to be completed in 2016, marking 400 years since Cervantes' death.


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[1] Cervantes' body was identified in spring 2015 and buried with official expenditure in June in the same church where the body had previously been buried.


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[2] Cervantes and Shakespeare's death times coincided with the same date.


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At that time, the Gregorian calendar was already in use in Spain, but in England the Julian calendar was still followed.


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According to the Gregorian calendar, Shakespeare died on 3 May.


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In honor of the coincidence, UNESCO declared 23 April to be International Book and Copyright Day (World Book and Copyright Day; see also Book and Rose Day).


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Named after Cervantes, the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes [3] is the world's most extensive database of Spanish-language literature and historical works.


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Works La Galatea (1585, shepherd novel) Don Quixote I (1605, novel) Educational narratives (1613, short story collection) El viaje del Parnaso (1614, poem) Don Quixote II (1615, novel) Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses - partial English. Intermediate shows (1615, collection of plays) Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (1617, novel, appeared after Cervantes's death) Sources Literature Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de| title = Don Quixote| location = Helsinki| publisher = WSOY| year = 2013| version = (El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1605/1615.)


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Translated by Jyrki Lappi-Seppälä.


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Translated by J. A. Hollo (1st edition 1927—1928).


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Poems composed by Yrjö Jylhä.


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Illustrated by Gustave Doré.


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Translation and explanations: Arto Rintala.


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Foreword: Liisa Saariluoma.


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According to a 2015 estimate, Djibouti had about 5290,000 inhabitants.


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[1] Geography Djibouti is located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Tadjoura opening to the Gulf of Aden.


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[2] [3] In terms of architecture, Djibouti is a mixture of old and newer.


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The Palace of the Parliament of Djibouti is located in the city's Menilek Square [2].


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[3] History There was reportedly no permanent settlement at the site of the present city of Djibouti until the colonial era.


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In the 19th century, the French became interested in the area as an intermediate stop to the colonies of Indochina and because of the geographical importance of the Red Sea.


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They first acquired an area of Obock on the north side of the Djibouti town of Tadjoura Bay in 1862.


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Beginning in the mid-1880s, however, they began looking for a location for a larger port and ended up building it at the site of the present town in 1888.


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A road network was built behind the harbour.


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The place was renamed Djibouti.


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In 1896, Djibouti became the capital of French Somaliland.


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Conditions in 19th-century Djibouti were chaotic, and it became known as a place for smuggling khat and weapons.


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Demand for guns was so great that 300 camels were needed to buy a single gun.


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In 1897, a railway was built from Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to Djibouti, which became an important centre of Ethiopian trade.


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[4] When Nazi Germany occupied France in 1940, Djibouti passed under Vichy French control.


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In response to this, Great Britain closed the port, but could not prevent the local French from providing information on ship convoys passing by.


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In 1942, around 4000 British troops occupied the city, and control of it was handed over to Free France still in the same year.


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After the war, the wavering of colonial rule also had an effect in Djibouti, as the Issas wanted to create Greater Somalia and the Afars supported French rule.


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The French prefer Afars in their administration.


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[4] Djibouti lost its importance as a port as the French withdrew from Indochina.


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In 1967, a referendum on the continuation of French rule was held in Djibouti.


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The vote was marked by attempts by various parties to tamper with it, with a barbed-wire fence erected around the city of Djibouti to prevent “outsiders” from getting to vote.


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Already at that time more than half of the inhabitants of the region lived in the city of Djibouti


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Shortly before the vote, 10,000 Somalis were deported and opposition leaders arrested.


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In the vote, the vast majority supported remaining in French rule, but the result of the vote provoked resistance, especially among Somalis who began armed resistance against the French.


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The Six-Day War and the closure of the Suez Canal caused major problems for the city's economy dependent on services to ships entering the port.


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After the canal opened in 1975, recovery was slow, largely due to the obsolescence of the harbour.


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In 1977, a new vote on independence was held.


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In the city of Djibouti, 92% voted in favour, and the country became independent on 27 June 1977.


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Many of the city's elite fled to France.


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Even after independence, the country was highly dependent on the profits from the city's port.


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[5] Civil wars between 1991 and 1994 and 1997—2000 caused great devastation, in addition to the influx of large numbers of refugees and those who lost their homes from the countryside.


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The city's problems also include poverty and unemployment.


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An estimated half of the city's residents are unemployed.


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In order to reduce unemployment, efforts have been made to improve education and in 2002 a new university was established in the city.


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[6] Economy The only major industry branch of Dijbout is the production of salt and its regional sales.


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The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, United States.


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It is the city's most prominent landmark and a symbol of Seattle.


Question: In which city does the Everything Picture project revolve around?

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The Space Needle was built in Seattle Center Park for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.


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The Space Needle is 184ft high, 42feet wide and weighs 9550 tons.


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When construction was completed, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.


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It is built to withstand 320km/h wind and a magnitude-9.5 earthquake [1] — which would protect the tower from quakes as big as the 1700 Cascadia quake.


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There are 25 lightning rods on the roof of the tower, which would prevent major damage when lightning struck the tower.


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The Space Needle features an observation deck at 160ft, a gift shop at 152m and a rotating SkyCity restaurant.


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Both levels have a transparent glass floor.


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From the top of the Needle you can see not only Seattle's midtown, but also the Olympic Mountains, the Cascades, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Elliott Bay and the surrounding islands.


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The Space Needle is often seen in images taken from Seattle, as it stands out clearly among other skyscrapers.


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That's because the tower is about the height of a 60-storey house and is located about 1.3km from the skyscrapers of downtown.


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Visitors can go to the top of the Space Needle on elevators that travel at 16mph.


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The journey takes 43seconds and some tourists wait many hours to even briefly reach the top of the Needle.


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On windy days, lifts are slowed down to travel at just five miles an hour.


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The Space Needle was declared a Historic Landmark on April 9, 1999.


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Architecture The architecture of the Space Needle is the result of a compromise among designers.


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Two leading ideas for the Seattle World's Fair were Edward Carlson's sketch of a giant balloon that was on the ground (note the slightly sloping bottom) and architect John Graham's concept of a flying saucer (note the 'halo' where the restaurant and observation deck are).


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The Space Needle was built to withstand substantial earthquakes by doubling the mass of the building from that planned.


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The Space Needle shouldn't suffer major damage if the magnitude of the earthquake is below 9.


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It should also withstand scale 5 hurricanes, with the Space Needle swaying just 16 millimeters per 10 km/h with strong winds.


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Five levels (mm.


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restaurants and observation deck) the overarching top dome is perfectly balanced, allowing the restaurant section to be able to rotate around using only a small electric motor.


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It spins a full lap in exactly 47 minutes.


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The tone of the paint on the body is Orbital Olive, the tripod shade Astronaut White, the tone of the “UFO section” Re-entry Red and the ceiling tone Galaxy Gold.


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On December 31, 1999 (New Year's Eve), the huge lights in the Needle Tower were first unveiled.


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The lights are called Legacy Light and Skybeam, and contains so many lamps that their combined power is 85 million candelas.


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The lights will be put on in Seattle during festivities and special occasions.


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The concept for the lights was derived from a poster for the Seattle World's Fair from 1962.


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Although the lights were designed to be used 75 evenings a year, they are generally not used even twelve times during the year.


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The lights were on for twelve days to one go from September 11, 2001 to September 22, 2001, in tribute to those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.


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The same poster for the Seattle World's Fair showed spiral staircases that would serve as an entrance to elevators, but even those were not included in the latest building plans.


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The stairs were replaced by a two-story Pavilion level, which was closed with glass.


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Some think this level resembles Nautilus.


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Overall, the Needle stairs (including restaurants and observation deck) have a total of 832 steps.


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At its time of completion in 1962, the 184-foot-high Space Needle was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.


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Since then, it has been supplanted by e.g.


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Columbia Center, which is about 302 feet high.


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History Edward E. Carlson, chairman of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, originally had the idea of erecting a tower containing a restaurant for the World's Fair.


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Carlson was then president of the hotel industry and was not known for his work in arts or design, but he was inspired by a recent visit to Germany's Stuttgart Tower.


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John Graham, the architect who won the award after designing the Northgate Model in Seattle, soon became involved in designing the Seattle Needle.


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Graham's first task was to create a restaurant in the tower's plans, in the same way he had previously planned for the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu.


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No suitable construction site had been found for the future Seattle Needle.


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Because the city did not fund the land purchase, land had to be acquired near the exhibition area.


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Searches for a suitable construction site did not pay off until, in 1961, a farm patch of 1369 m² became vacant and it was sold to the executors of the project for $75,000.


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In this case, the time for the World's Fair was only one year.


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The tower was built and financed by the Pentagram Corporation, consisting of Bagley Wright, contractor Howard S. Wright, architect John Graham, Ned Skinner, and Norton Clapp.


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In 1977, Bagley, Skinner and Clapp sold their respective interests to Howrad Wright, who changed the name to Space Needle Corporation.


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The Space Needle's earthquake resistance was ensured by digging a pit 10 feet deep and 40 feet wide on the foundation, which took a day's worth of time from 467 concrete trucks to fill.