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In the late 1970s, the British-born punk movement arrived in South Africa and became popular, particularly in the poor white-populated suburbs of Johannesburg.


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The bands that emerged within the movement criticized the commercialism of the music industry and the white repressive regime in the country.


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South Africa's alternative rock emerged by the middle of the 1980s.


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In its context, the “alternative Afrikaaner” movement took shape, which opposed social oppression by the government.


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[101] During the 1980s and 90s, new musical genres bubblegum and kwaito emerged in black townships, taking influences from American disco and dance music.


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Kwaito is today the most commercially significant music style in the country, with a strong emphasis on rhythm and featuring features from hip-hop and rap music.


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[101] A group called Die Antwoord, which combines hip-hop and rave music, has also been formed in 2007.


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Literature The first South African works of fiction were written by white colonists who came to the country, whose attitudes towards the country's native population were often attitudinal.


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The most famous writer of this era is H. Rider Haggard, whose adventure works such as King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermain were sales successes of their time.


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Olive Schreiner's work, The Story of an African Farm, which dealt with many aspects of society of its era and where ideas already opposed to colonial ideology are noted as the foundational work of South African literature.


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[104] Black South African literature emerged in the early part of the 20th century.


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The first black writers were trained by mission schools and sought to restore the conscience of the country's black population by returning to heroic African history.


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In the 1940s, black South African literature burst into flower.


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Peter Abrahams's Mine Boy (1946), depicted the poor conditions of blacks who moved from land to cities.


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In 1948 Alan Paton published his work Itke, Beloved Country (), which elevated the status of blacks in the country to the consciousness of the whole world.


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The book became an international sales success.


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The work deals with themes of corruption and forgiveness, and is conveyed by Paton's deep Christian convictions.


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[104] In 1991 Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, published her first short stories in the early 1950s.


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In Gordimer's works of fiction, the novelist's evolution from a liberal white towards more radical thinking and an effort to give the freedom struggle of the country's blacks a voice is discernible.


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During the 1960s, numerous new writers also emerged from the Afrikaaner literature circle, whose works often dealt with political topics.


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The 1973 book Kennis van die Aand by André Brink, who wrote in both English and Afrikaans, became the first book to be banned in South Africa written in Afrikaans due to its political and sexual content.


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[105] In the 1970s, the country's black literature rose to a new heyday in the wake of the Black Consciousness movement.


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Black consciousness emphasized the importance of black culture and racial olidarity.


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Literature became an important channel in promoting new political ideas.


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J. M. Coetzee, one of South Africa's most award-winning writers, published his first works in the 1970s.


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He is the first author to have received the Booker Prize two times: for his works The Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Disgrace (1999).


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Disgrace's depiction of a post-apartheid South African reality in which the wounds of the past have not healed caused a big stir in the country.


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Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.


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[104] Messages South Africa has 22 daily and 25 weekly newspapers (2013), the vast majority of which are in English.


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Newspapers in large cities have a circulation of around 14.5 million and that of smaller local papers 5.5.


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There are also several news websites in the country.


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In 2013, Reporters Without Borders rated the country's press as the 52nd freest in the world (out of 179 countries).. [106] Television broadcasts did not begin in South Africa until 1975, making it one of the last African countries without regular television offerings.


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The reason for this was opposition from the country's government: the government feared television would weaken its grip on the country's messaging.


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Since its inception, South African television broadcasts have been broadcast in colour and using the PAL standard.


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South Africa's public service broadcaster, SABC, had a monopoly on television broadcasting until 1986, when the on-demand channel MNET was established.


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Since 1994, SABC and private operators have established numerous new channels in the country.


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Both SABC and MNet broadcast the programme Africa-wide.


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[107] Sports The most popular sports in South Africa are rugby, cricket and football.


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[108] During apartheid, all sporting life in the country was completely racially segregated and because of this, among others, the world-class cricketer Basil D'Oliviera was forced to move to England in the 1960s, with whose national team he forged a career.


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In 1968, when the England national team entered a country match in South Africa, D'Oliviera was blocked from entering the country by the country's government.


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[109] South African world champions can be found in swimming, athletics, surfboarding and boxing, among others.


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[109] South Africa has hosted Formula One races a total of 20 times between 1967 and 1993.


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The race has run under the name South African Grand Prix.


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The final formula-1 race in South Africa was won by Alain Prost.


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[110] The South African rugby union national team, or the Springboks, won the first Rugby World Cup in 1995 and in 2007 it renewed its gold at the World Cup held in France.


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The Springboks, which have been played by New Zealand, Australia and South Africa since 1996, have won the Tri Nations Cup in 1998 and 2004.


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[111] Among the most successful and well-known teams in the South African national football championship series are the Kaizer Chiefs, formed in 1970, from Soweto, and the Orlando Pirates, founded in 1937.


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The National Football Championship Series is the seventh largest championship series in the world as measured by sponsor money.


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[112] A distinctive feature of local football culture is the vuvuzela: plastic, about one meter long and colourful wind instrument.


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[113] South Africa national football team, or Bafana Bafana ([114], is apartheid again active since the early 1990s.


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In 1996, it won the African Championships played on its own country and participated in the World Championships in 1998 as well as 2002.


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Both times it missed 1.


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for the round.


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[115] In 2010, South Africa served as the host team for the World Championships.


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[116] Five new stadiums were built for the tournament, three of which are match stadiums and two are practice fields.


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[117] Five other stadiums already ready underwent renovations [117].


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Food South African cuisine embodies the country's multicultural background.


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Malay slaves brought to the country as labour by Dutch colonists on farms also brought their own food tradition to the country, as did the Huguenots who fled religious persecution from France, who established the first wineries in the country as early as 1600 lvuu.


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Later in the 19th century, Indians brought especially to the sugar plantations of Natal enriched the country's food culture with their own heritage, as did the British and Germans who immigrated after gold.


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[118] National holidays under South African law in cases where a national holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a public holiday.


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[119] DateHolidays Notes1.


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JanuaryNew Year's Day21.


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MarchHuman Rights Daysharpeville Massacre Anniversary, Anniversary of the establishment of the South African Human Rights Commission Moving, Friday Good Friday Movement, Monday Family Day, 2nd Easter Day27.


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April—Freedom Dayetelä-Africa's first free elections1.


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MayWorkers Day16.


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JuneYouth DayEarlier “Soweto day”, the day of remembrance of the Soweto riots9.


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AugustNational Women's DayThe Day of Remembrance of major demonstrations that opposed the 1956 passport laws24.


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SeptemberHeritage DayNational Traditions Day16.


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DecemberDay of Reconciliationanniversary of the Battle of Blood River.


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The Time of Apartheid “Day of the Oath”, today the Day of National Commonness and Reconciliation.25.


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DecemberChristmas Day26.


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DecemberDay of Goodwill, 2nd Christmas Day See also List of cities in South Africa Sources On topic elsewhere Government official government site Foreign Office site Parliament site Statistics Agency site Commerce and Commerce Department of Industry Site South African Police Force Department of Home Affairs Site Media Tourism Other Coordinates: * Category:Key articles of screening Category:43 Africa Category:BRICS


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Uranium is an elemental and toxic heavy metal, all naturally occurring and artificial isotopes of which are radioactive, most often alpha emitters.


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In the periodic system, its chemical marker is U (lat.


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uranium), atomic number 92 and CAS number 7440-61-1.


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The most significant isotopes are 235U and 238U, which, along with 234U, are the only isotopes found in nature.


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Natural uranium has a melting point of 1135°C and a density of 19050kg/m³.


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The 235U isotope can be used as nuclear fuel for energy production and to make nuclear weapons.


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Properties Physical Properties Uranium is a silver-gray metal that is easily forged and pliable.


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It has a melting point of 1135°C and a boiling point of 4130°C.


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It has a density of 19.05g/cm³, which is relatively large.


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Uranium is paramagnetic and a poor electrical conductor.


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[1] [2] [3] Chemical properties Uranium belongs to actinoids.


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It is a moderately reactive metal.


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It reacts well with nonmetals such as oxygen, sulfur, phosphorus and halogens.


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In air, metallic uranium darkens to form an oxide layer.


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Uranium dioxide UO2 is stable in air and is normally the form in which uranium is utilized.


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Fine-grained uranium can flare up.


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It also reacts with water.


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It is soluble in acids, but not alkalis.


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[1] [4] [2] Uranium has three allotropic forms.


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The alpha form is rhombic and is stable up to 667.7°C.


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At a temperature range of 667.7 to 774.8°C, uranium is in beta form and is tetragonic.


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Over 774.8°C uranium is in gamma form, giving its crystal structure a spatial centric cube.


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Uranium is best machined in gamma form.


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[3] The alpha form becomes superconducting at 0.68K.


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[5] The usual oxidation figures for uranium are +III, +IV, +V, and +VI, but does not occur in aqueous solutions free with oxidation numbers +V and +VI, but are rapidly hydrolyzed even under acidic conditions.


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Similarly, U3+ is rapidly oxidized, releasing hydrogen in aqueous solutions.


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[6] The electron configuration of uranium is [Rn] 5f36d17s2.


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Its initial ionization energy is 597.6kJ/mol.


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[7] Compounds Uranium compounds are typically green or yellow.


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Uranium forms compounds with oxygen with a very diverse stoichiometer.


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Black UO2 is the most used form of uranium.


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It is used, among other things, in fuels.


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In addition, uranium forms yellow-orange uranium trioxide (UO3, also uranyl oxide) and green triuranium octaoxide (U3O8).


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In addition, uranium forms peroxides such as crystal preceding UO4 (UO3·H2O2·H2O).


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The amount of crystal water varies from zero to four.


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These peroxides are also the only peroxides that have been found in minerals.


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Uranium forms a hydride when reacting at about 250°C with hydrogen.


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At higher temperatures, uranium hydride (UH3) decays reversibly.


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Due to this property, it is used, among other things, as a starting material for carbides and nitrides.


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UH3 is pyrophoric.


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Uranium carbides and -nitrides are known by stoichiometries UX2, UX3 and U2, X3, where X is C or N. Carbides can also be formed by allowing carbon or carbon monoxide to react with molten metallic uranium.


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Nitrides are formed by allowing nitrogen to react at high temperature with uranium.


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[1] [3] [8] Uranium forms versatile compounds with halides.


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With chlorine, it forms tri-, tetra-, penta-, as well as hexachloride.


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[9] With fluorine, uranium forms both tetra- and hexafluoride.


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Of these, hexafluoride is especially used in uranium fortification.


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It is strongly corrosive and reacts fiercely with water and oil.


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[3] Uranyl nitrate UO2 (NO3) 2 is very toxic.


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Uranium forms the sulfate UO2SO4.


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[3] Uranium can form complex compounds with oxidation numbers +III, +IV, +V and +VI, and of these the most typical oxidation rates are +III and +VI.


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It is a potent Lewis acid, so it can form complexes with various ligands.


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Often the ligand is a fluoride ion, and fluorocomplexes of uranium are known for example [UF10] 4−, [UF8] 3−, and [UF7] 2−.


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Often uranium appears in its complex compounds as uranyl cation UO2+ and UO22+.


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Another common type of complex is oxygen or nitrogen-containing ligands.


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Several organometallic compounds are also known from uranium, the most persistent being cyclopentadienyl derivatives.


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In addition to cyclopentadienyl ligand, these compounds may also contain halogen ligands.


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In Uranocene, the organic structural component is cycloooctatetraene.


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[10] [11] [12] Uranium also forms alloys.


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The uranium-rhodium-germanium alloy was the first known alloy to transform into a superconductor in a strong magnetic field.


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[3] Harmfulness Uranium is harmful both chemically and radiologically.


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It is known to be a teratogenetic and carcinogenic substance, meaning it can damage DNA, including germ cell DNA, when entering the body, and thus cause malformations in the developing embryo, risk of miscarriage and embryo death.


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DNA damage or gene mutation can also be latent and inherited over several generations.


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[3] Chemical health risk, i.e. the risk of poisoning, is formed if uranium accumulates in the kidneys, liver and skeletal system.


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In high doses, uranium is particularly toxic to the kidneys and skeletal system.


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Uranium damages the proximal gland of the kidney, as a result of which the secretion of small proteins and glucose in the urine increases.


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Drilling operators in Finland may be exposed to significant amounts of uranium, 1—2mg/L (WHO guideline estimate of 2μg/L), but no serious health hazards have been noted.


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[13] [14] [15] In the Gulf War in particular, many soldiers were exposed to depleted uranium, but studies have shown that it has mainly caused mild kidney problems as well as genetic toxicity.


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Also, uranium decay products such as radon, strontium and iodine can be chemically and radiologically harmful to health.


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According to REACH, uranium is harmful.


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[2] [16] [7] Isotopes and radioactivity Uranium is not strongly radioactive.


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The two main isotopes are 235U and 238U.


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A small amount of 234U is also found in nature, which is generated as a result of the decomposition of 238U.


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All three isotopes decay via alpha radiation.


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The most industrially significant isotope is 235U, which is used as nuclear fuel.


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238U is the longest-lived isotope of uranium, with a half-life of 4.468 billion years.


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[3] 1 share of all uranium found in nature.


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Source: [17] [7] History The discoverer of uranium is considered to be the German pharmacist and chemist Martin Klaproth.


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In the late 1780s, Klaproth studied uraninite, or pitch intermediate (, pech bad luck and blende mineral).


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Around this time, it was thought that the pitch interval contained only iron and zinc.


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Klaproth discovered that some of the mineral did not behave like iron or zinc and thus concluded that he had discovered a new element.


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He proposed a name for the element he discovered, which was a tribute to the planet Uranus discovered a few years earlier.


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Since then, it took shape into the form uranium.


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The pitch colony eventually began to be called uraninite.


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In September 1789, Klaproth presented his discovery to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.


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In reality, Klaproth discovered uranium dioxide.


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[3] [1] [18] In 1841, French chemist Eugène-Melchior Péligot isolated pure uranium from tetrachloruranium using potassium.


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In 1896, Henri Becquerel observed the radioactivity of uranium.


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In World War II, in August 1945, the United States dropped the uranium-based nuclear bomb Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima.


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Electricity was first generated using uranium in 1951.


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Nuclear power was utilized in 1954 aboard the USS Nautilus.


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The first nuclear power station opened in October 1956 at Sellafield.


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[3] [1] [18] Occurrence and isolation The concentration of uranium in the earth's crust is estimated at 1—4 ppm, meaning it is as common as tin and bromine.


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Uranium is also found in water bodies at about 3 ppb.


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Today, known uranium resources are sufficient, according to current knowledge, for tens of years.


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Industrially significant minerals in uranium include uraninite (pitch interval), carnotite, uranophane, and coffinite.


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Several hundred of uranium minerals are known.


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The concentration of uranium needs to be 0.1% for the ore to be commercially significant.


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Its radioactive decay is one of the most significant contributors to geothermal.


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[3] [1] [19] [4] [20] The largest producers of uranium are Canada, Australia and Niger.


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The United States, Russia, Congo, South Africa, Gabon and China also have significant uranium reserves.


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40% of the world's known uranium reserves are located in Australia, with the single largest source being the Olymic Dam Mine in South Australia.


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Canadian Cameco is the world's largest uranium producing company and Canada is the largest producer of uranium.


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Total known uranium reserves are three million tonnes, and it is estimated that there are five billion more tons of uranium in the oceans.


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Uranium mines are typically open-pit mines.


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Uranium is only sold to countries that have ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty, that is, use uranium only for peaceful purposes.


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[3] [21] There is currently no uranium mine in Finland.


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Uranium has been mined in Finland in the 1950s and 1960s in Paukkajanvaara, Eno (now part of Joensuu).


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A total of 30 tonnes of uranium was mined from Paukkajanvaara.


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The company, which previously ran the Talvivaara mine, has been licensed to produce uranium as a byproduct, but the mine's main extraction sites are copper, cobalt, zinc and nickel.


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In November 2012, as a result of a spill in the Winterfell gypsum basin, uranium entered nearby waterways in significant quantities.


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In Finland, uranium mining is supervised by Radiation and Nuclear Nuclear Safety Authority, which must be notified of any resource exploitation if the uranium content exceeds 0.01%.


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[22] [23] Uranium mining may either be open pit or located underground.


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Uranium is normally isolated from its ore by chemical extraction.


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After extraction, mainly uranium oxide U3O8 is produced, which is treated with nitric acid.


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In this case, crystal-preceding uranyl nitrate UO2 (NO3) 2 · 6 H2O is generated.


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When it is heated, uranium trioxide UO3 is produced, which can be reduced by hydrogen to uranium dioxide UO2.


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UO2 is stable in air.


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Metallic uranium can be made by electrolysis from a mixture of uranium tetrafluoride and sodium or calcium chloride.


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Uranium tetrafluoride is prepared by allowing uranium dioxide to react with gaseous hydrogen fluoride.


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Another option is to reduce it from metal halide alkali or alkali earth metal.


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Very pure metallic uranium can be made by breaking down uranium halides with a hot filament.


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[4] [3] [21] Concentration of uranium The majority of naturally occurring uranium is of the isotope 238U, which is not reactive through fission.


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Uranium can be fortified, meaning the relative amount of the 235U isotope is increased by means of a centrifuge or gaseous diffusion.


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In gaseous diffusion, the uranium hexafluoride gas is routed through a semi-permeable membrane, causing the heavier 238U to diffuse more slowly than the lighter 235U.


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Semi-permeable membrane is typically silver and zinc.


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Uranium hexafluoride is used for centrifugation.


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Centrifugation is the most common means of fortification, gaseous diffusion was especially used during World War II.


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Other means include tuning specifically the bond between 235U and fluorine, leaving only 238U bound to fluorine and the desired 235U precipitating as metallic.


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Normally, the concentration of 235U after enrichment is between 2% and 3%, which is sufficient for nuclear fuel.


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For nuclear weapons, uranium is fortified with a concentration of 235U around 90%.


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[1] [2] [3] Use Uranium has been used 2000 years ago for staining glass and ceramics.


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Uranium oxides dye the glass yellowish green.


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Uranium has also been used in the textile industry to facilitate dye adhesion.


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It has also been used in incandescent lamps to attach a filament to a lamp.


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The velocity of electricity in uranium is lower than in wire, so it slows the speed of electricity before it hits the lamp.


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This will prevent the wire from breaking and overheating.


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[1] [19] Today the main use of uranium is as nuclear fuel in nuclear power plants.


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About 14 percent of all the world's electricity is produced using uranium.


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[21] When a neutron hits a 235U nuclide, fission may occur with a certain probability, in which energy is released.


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The kinetic energy of daughter nuclides and neutrons released, as well as the decay energies of others, including daughter nuclides, are transferred to the water in the primary circuit, which is directed to the heat exchanger.


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The water in the secondary circuit is vaporised and rotates the steam turbine, and this forms electric current in the generator.


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One kilogram of uranium fuel enriched to four per cent produces energy the same as 1500 tonnes of coal, or about 20 trillion joules.


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Fortified uranium with a 235U concentration of about three percent is usually used as fuel.


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Natural uranium containing significantly less than three percent of the uranium isotope 235U can be used in the CANDU reactor.


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[1] [2] [3] Uranium (90+% 235U) can also be utilized in a nuclear weapon.


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Depleted uranium can be used in armour-permeable projectiles and armor, as uranium has a very high density.


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Uranium (238U) is also used as a protection against radioactive radiation.


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Depleted uranium is toxic.


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If a projectile containing uranium explodes, gaseous uranium compounds can also form.


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If the projectile fragments or grinds into dust, uranium and uranium compounds can enter soils and water bodies and pose health risks.


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The dust formed is also pyrophoric.


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[1] [19] [2] The isotope 238U can be converted to plutonium in a utility reactor.


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Plutonium can be utilized as nuclear fuel.


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[2] [3] 238U (n, γ) → 239U (β−) → 239Np (β−) → 239Pu Uranium can also be utilized to estimate the age of the most long-lived rocks.


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It can be used as an X-ray source.


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Uranium can be used in alloys to bring strength, toughness, and tensile strength.


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Events January 1 January — Harjavalta Municipality was transformed into Merchant Sales and Kuusjärvi Municipality into Outokumpu Merchant Sales.


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The municipality of Kaksonce was incorporated into the city of Turku.


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2 January — A team of doctors led by surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed another successful heart transplant in Cape Town.


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The patient was 58-year-old dentist Philip Blaiberg.


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5 January — Alexander Dubček was elected to the leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the Prague Spring began.


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15 January — First day of elections for electors in Finland.


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17 January — Composer Joonas Kokkonen is awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize.


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21 January — A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base in Greenland with a load of four hydrogen bombs.


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January 23 - North Korea hijacks the US warship USS Pueblo.


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25 January — The Israeli submarine Dakar sank in the Mediterranean Sea, 69 people are killed.


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27 January — French submarine sunk in Mediterranean Sea, 52 drowned.


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January 30 — Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive began with a surprise attack by the Viet Cong.


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31 January — Nauru President Hammer DeRoburt declared the country independent from Australia.


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February 3 — Princess Benedikte of Denmark and German Prince Richard of Wittgenstein-Berleburg married.


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4 February — Pispala Church in Tampere was destroyed by fire.


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6 February — The 10th Winter Olympics began in Grenoble.


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7 February — Austria abolished the death penalty from its legislation.


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8 February — Boeing 747's maiden flight.


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11 February — Israel-Jordan border conflict.


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21 February — Teuvo Aura, President of the Postal Bank, is appointed Mayor of Helsinki.


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25 February — Archbishop Makarios III elected President of Cyprus.


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March 1, March 1 — The Jewish World Congress accused German Federal President Heinrich Lübke of participating in the construction of Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s and 1940s.


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Lübke rebuffed the accusations.


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1 March — President Urho Kekkonen issued a solemn affirmation in Parliament at the start of his third term in office.


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March 7 — Vietnam War: First Battle of Saigon began.


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March 8 — The United States summoned its ambassador to Stockholm home in protest at Sweden's adopted attitude towards the Vietnam War.


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12 March — Mauritius becomes independent.


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March 16 — Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre.


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19 March — The Supreme Court upheld the convictions of writer Hannu Salama and Otava at the Court of Appeal for blasphemy, but reduced the amount of compensation ordered to be paid.


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March 19 — Crown Prince Harald of Norway and Miss Sonja Haraldsen become engaged.


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22 March — Dr. Mauno Koivisto formed his first government.


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22 March — V. J. Sukselainen of the Centre Party elected President of Parliament and Leo Suonpää of the SKDL were elected as Second Deputy Speaker after their predecessors Johannes Virolainen and Paavo Aitio took over as ministers.


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First Deputy Speaker, Veikko Kokkola of the SDP continued in his post.


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March 27 — Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin perishes in a plane crash near Moscow.


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March 31 — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek a second term.


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31 March — Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer and Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu arrive for an official visit to Finland.


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April 2 — The premiere of Stanley Kubrick's science fiction film 2001: A Space Adventure was in the United States.


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April 4 — Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.


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5 April — Captain Alan Pollock of the British Royal Air Force flew a Hawker Hunter fighter jet three times around the Palace of Westminster and once under Tower Bridge in an unauthorised airshow and was arrested upon landing.


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Pollock was disappointed that no official air shows had been held for the 50th anniversary of the Air Force.


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6 April — The Eurovision Song Contest took place in London, UK.


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Spanish representative Massiel won with the song “La, la, la”.


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7 April — Racing driver Jim Clark dies during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim, Germany.


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9 April — Heikki Tuominen, Head of Budget of the Ministry of Finance, appointed President of Postisästöstöpankki.


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April 11 — In Germany, left-wing students blockade the Springer Press headquarters in Berlin.


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Many students were arrested, among them Ulrike Meinhof.


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Student leader Rudi Dutschke was seriously wounded in a shootout during the riot.


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18 April — The London Bridge, completed in 1831, was sold to Robert P. McCulloch, an American oil entrepreneur, by whom the stones of the bridge were moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where they built a bridge looking like the former London Bridge, completed in 1971.


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19 April — Filling of the renewed Saimaa Canal with water began.


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Trial operation of the canal also began during April.


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20 April — Enoch Powell, Member of the English Parliament representing the Conservative Party, gives his Rivers of Blood speech criticising immigration.


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April 20 — Pierre Trudeau became Canada's new Chief Miniter.


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23 April — Andrei Kovaljov, the Soviet ambassador to Finland, did not consider it pleasant for the friendship between Finland and the Soviet Union to have the Karelian coat of arms on the label of Karelia beer.


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The line sparked a lively debate in Finland, and sales of Karjala beer grew exponentially.


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30 April — The Soviet Union violently attacked Romanian Prime Minister Maurer and Foreign Minister Manescu, saying they had paid tribute to “Nazi allies”.


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This was because, during their visit to Finland, Maurer and Manescu had laid a floral salute at Marshal Mannerheim's grave in Hietaniemi, Helsinki.


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May 4 — Paris began the fiercest riots of the Student Movement of the 1960s as students demand reform of university governance.


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Workers began supporting the students with strikes.


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5 May — Professor Pekka Tarjanne elected President of the Liberal People's Party.


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10 May — A report by the Attorney-General Jaakko Eräjärvi revealed that the Deputy Judge Björn Feiring, who has been the housekeeper of Parliament since 1940, had partially and since then completely failed to pay the remuneration of MPs to the State withholding and certain other payments.


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The cash shortfall was found to be over 16 million marks and most of this money was found in cash in the cash vault of Parliament.


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Despite this, the accounts had been approved annually by parliamentary auditors.


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As a result of the case, SMP president Veikko Vennamo called for the prosecution of Feiring, the parliamentary auditors and the general secretary of parliament, Olavi Salervo.


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14 May — SKDL MP Pekka Silander dies.


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He was replaced in parliament by Ensio Laine, a fitter.


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21 May — Parliament approves the Framework Law for Primary Schools.


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The law took effect from the beginning of August 1970.


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May 22 — The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sank with 99 crew members 650km from the Azores.


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25 May — Åbo Akademi celebrated its 50th anniversary.


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26 May — Iceland switched to right-hand traffic.


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28 May — Parliament passes the Middle Beer Act, which came into force in early 1969, by a vote of 137 to 33.


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29 May — President Antonín Novotný and six other supporters of the old line were expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.


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30 May — French President Charles de Gaulle dissolves the student movement in the National Assembly due to unrest and widespread strikes and ordered new elections to be held on 23 June.


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June 1 — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opened to signatures at the UN.


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It was first signed by Ireland and today only four countries have not signed it.


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4 June — Finnish Defence Forces celebrated its 50th anniversary.


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June 5 — Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles.


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He died the next day.


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15 June — French President Charles de Gaulle pardons leaders of the far-right OAS, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1962.


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25 June — The National Assembly of Czechoslovakia passes a law restoring the honour of those convicted for political reasons after 1948.


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27 June — The Board of Directors of Broadcasting condemned the airing of violent programmes on television.


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29 June — Pope Paul VI condemned birth control.


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The pope's statement was heavily criticized around the world.


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30 June — Historical scholar, Doctor of Philosophy Kristján Eldjárn elected President of Iceland.


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July 2 — A committee investigating conditions in Biafra concluded in its report that 400,000 children are dying of starvation in Biafra in the 60 closest days.


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[1] Material aid had already been sent to Biafra, but supplies had not been safely received.


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4 July — Biafra announced it would refuse aid offered by Britain as long as Britain supplies weapons to the Nigerian government.


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4 July — Jari boy adopted to Denmark, about whom much was written about in the Nordic press, is extradited to Finland.


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17 July — Saddam Hussein becomes deputy speaker of the Iraqi Revolutionary Council following a coup d'état.


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12 July — President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia arrives on a state visit to Finland as the first head of a sub-equatorial state.


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July 25 — Pope Paul VI issued the “Humanae Evitae” circular, which takes a negative stance on artificial birth control rationing.


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31 July — France announced its support for Biafra's struggle for independence.


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August 2 — Finland's oldest wooden church, Hailuoto Church built in the 17th century, was destroyed in a fire started by lightning.


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5 August — Saimaa Canal re-inaugurated.


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9 August — President Urho Kekkonen pardoned writer Hannu Salama from a suspended prison sentence and compensation for blasphemy.


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The president made his decision contrary to the Supreme Court's position.


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9 August — 32 black people were sentenced to death by the Rhodesian Supreme Court for unauthorised importation of weapons and endangering order and security.


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19 August — The President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III arrives for a visit to Finland.


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21 August — 200000 Warsaw Pact soldiers and 5000 tanks occupied Czechoslovakia, ending the “Prague Spring”.


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22 August − The Communist Party of Finland decided to cancel its 50th anniversary celebration due to events in Czechoslovakia.


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Chairman Aarne Saarinen announced SKP's condemnation of the occupation.


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23 August — The UN Security Council condemns the occupation of Czechoslovakia by a vote of 10 to 2.


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24 August — France conducts a hydrogen bomb test (Canopus) as the fifth state in the world.


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25 August — Yugoslavia and Romania conclude a mutual military assistance agreement in case of possible occupation.


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29 August — Crown Prince Harald of Norway married Sonja Haraldsen.


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August 29 — The Democratic Party of the United States selected Senator Hubert Humphrey as its presidential candidate and Senator Edmund Muskie as its vice presidential nominee.


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September 6 — Swaziland gained independence.


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9 September — French President Charles de Gaulle condemned the occupation of Czechoslovakia.


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12 September — Albania condemned the occupation of Czechoslovakia and seceded from the Warsaw Pact.


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12 September — The Treaty establishing the Saab-Valmet passenger car plant in New Town is signed in Helsinki.


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15 September — In the Swedish Riksdag elections, the Social Democrats won a majority (50.12%) of the vote.


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22 September — A total solar eclipse occurred in Siberia and China.


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In Finland, the eclipse was visible partial.


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27 September — France again blocked British entry into the European Economic Community.


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29 September — A referendum in Greece gave the military junta more power.


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October 2 — Student demonstration ended in massacre at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in México.


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3 October — A military coup led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru removed President Fernando Belaúnde Terry from power.


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6 October — Municipal elections began in Finland.


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The most distinguishing feature was the marked reduction in the average age of those eligible to vote and electioneers as large baby boomers gained the right to vote and to stand for election.


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7 October — Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrived for a three-day visit to Finland.


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President Urho Kekkonen and Kosygin moved to the Hittinen archipelago to fish and negotiate.


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Kosygin's visit attracted attention in the Western European press; some magazines wrote about the occupation of Czechoslovakia, even referring to the possible transfer of Soviet troops to Finland.


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11 October — Military coup in Panama under Colonel Omar Torrijos Herrera.


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October 11 — NASA's Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo flight, is launched into the voyage.


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12 October — Equatorial Guinea, which belongs to Spain, becomes independent.


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October 12 — Summer Olympics began in México.


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15 October — China announced that the President of the People's Republic of China, Liu Shaoq, had been stripped of all his official duties within the Communist Party, marking Mao Zedong's victory in Liu and Mao's power struggle.


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Subsequently, Liu disappeared from the public eye.


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19 October — At their meeting in Oslo, the Nordic Prime Ministers agree on the timetable for the Nordek project to create the Common Nordic Economic Area.


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20 October — Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy married on the island of Skorpiós.


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28 October — Czechoslovakia celebrated its 50-year independence.


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Strong anti-Soviet demonstrations broke out during the festivities.


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November 1, November — President Liu Shaoqi was expelled from the Communist Party of China.


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1 November — Finland, Spain, Colombia, Nepal and Zambia elected as members of the UN Security Council for the period 1969—1970.


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November 5 — In the United States presidential election, Richard Nixon of the Republican Party narrowly defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey and independent candidate George Wallace.


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19 November — Army seizes power in Mali, Africa.


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19 November — The UN General Assembly rejects the People's Republic of China's membership in the UN by a vote of 58 to 44.


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Twenty-three Member States abstained.


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25 November — “Takeover of the Old” in Helsinki.


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26 November — The Student Union of the University of Helsinki celebrated its centenary.


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28 November — Passenger ships Ilmatar and Botnia collide off the port of Långnäs in Åland, leaving six persons dead.


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There was a sake fog at the time of the accident.


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December 10 — Treaty establishing the Public Word Council signed in Helsinki.


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16 December — Parliament approves party law and Finland's accession to the OECD.


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The poll numbers were 122—53 and 126—38.


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December 21 — Apollo 8 was launched into space, and was the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon.


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26 December — An Israeli passenger plane comes under attack by Arab terrorists in Athens, Greece.


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In retaliation, the Israeli Air Force destroyed 13 Lebanese passenger planes in Beirut two days later.


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Israel characterized the retaliatory strike as a warning to Arab countries.


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The UN Security Council condemned the attack carried out by Israel on 31 December.


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July 30 — Paavo Lötjönen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica) July 30 — Sofie Gråbøl, Danish actor, July 30 — Robert Korzeniowski, Polish walker (Olympic champion), July 30 — Perttu Pesä, Finnish actor and theatre director, August 2 — Stefan Effenberg, German footballer and coach 4 August — Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop (“Marcus Schenkenberg”), Swedish actor and male model, 5 August — Marine Le Pen, French politician 5 August — Colin McRae, Scottish rally car driver (k August 9 — Gillian Anderson, American actress, August 9 — Joseph McGinty Nichol (“McG”), American film and television producer, screenwriter and director, August 11 — Sophie Okonedo, British actress, August 15 — Debra Messing, American actor, August 23 — Janne Hyytiäinen, August 23 — Tommi Korpela, English actor, August 24 — Marita Taavitsainen, English singer, August 28 — William “Billy” Boyd, Scottish actor, September 1 — Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (leader of the September 11 terrorist attacks) (d. 2001) September 4 — John DiMaggio, American voice actor, September 8 — Roberto di Donna, Italian pistol shooter (Olympic champion), September 9 — Julia Sawalha, British actress 10 September — Guy Ritchie, British director 11 September — Jari Isometsä, Finnish cross-country skier, 13 September — Laura Cutina, Romanian Olympic champion in fixture gymnastics, 17 September — Katja Kallio, Finnish writer 17 September — Anastacia Lyn Newkirk, American pop singer and songwriter, September 17 — Cheryl Strayed, American writer and columnist, September 18 — Tommi Eronen, Finnish actor, September 25 — Willard Christopher “Will” Smith, American actor, September 26 — James Caviezel, American actor 26 September — James Michael, American music producer, songwriter and singer, September 27 — Mari Kiviniemi, Prime Minister of Finland 2010—2011, September 28 — Mika Häkkinen, Finnish Formula One driver (two-time world champion) 28 September. 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Itkonen, Finnish language and ethnologist, scholar of Sami language and Sami culture (born 1891), 9 December — Irja Browallius, Swedish writer and teacher (born 1901) 12 December — Tallulah Bankhead, American actor, 20 December — Max Brod, Czech-Israeli writer and composer (born 1884), 20 December — John Steinbeck, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature The Fruits of Wrath (born 1902), 21 December — Ulla Procopé, a Finnish designer (born 1921), 26 December — Åke Kihlman, a Finnish industrialist and mounineuvos (born 1901), 27 December — Niilo Mäki, Finnish professor of psychology (born 1902) 29. December 30 — Olavi Lahtela, Finnish MP and Minister (born 1915), December 30 — Trygve Lie, Norwegian lawyer, politician and diplomat (first Secretary General of the United Nations) (born 1896), 30 December — Kirill Meretskov, Soviet Field Marshal (b. 1897) Nobel Prizes Nobel Prize in Physics: Luis Alvarez Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Lars Onsager Nobel Prize for Medicine: Robert W. 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Volvo Group (; officially Aktiebolaget Volvo, abbreviation AB Volvo) is a Swedish manufacturer of trucks and buses, earthworks machinery and marine engines.


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Volvo

It was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1927.


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Volvo means 'I rotate' in Latin (from the verb volvere, 'to spin').


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Volvo was already producing quite roomy passenger cars in the late 1930s, equipped with a 6-cylinder 3.7-litre engine.


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In model designation, these cars were e.g.


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PV-36, PV-52 and PV-56.


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Volvo

In 1924, SKF sales manager Assar Gabrielsson and engineer Gustav Larson decided to start building a Swedish car.


Question: When is Volvo set up?

Volvo

Their vision was to build cars that could tolerate both cold and harsh road conditions.


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Volvo

[1] Volvo has always strived to be a pioneer in safety thinking.


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Volvo

Volvo was the first automaker to use three-point seat belts in its seats.


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Today Volvos largely use components from the parent company.


Question: When is Volvo set up?

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History 1927 Volvo was founded by Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larsson, who decided to manufacture safe and high-quality vehicles.


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Volvo

The first passenger car was produced in Gothenburg and the following year the first truck, which immediately became a success.


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Volvo

In the following decades, Volvo grew into a group and several areas of activity were established: automotive, marine and industrial engine manufacturing, buses, earth-moving machinery, and components for the aircraft industry.


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Volvo

In 1933 Volvo introduced the so-called Hesselman engine in its major truck and bus models.


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Volvo

With its first diesel engine of its own (type VDA), Volvo finished production in 1946.


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Volvo

The petrol engine remained optional in Volvo light trucks and buses until the 1960s.


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[2] Volvo models introduced before World War II remained in production over the wartime period.


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Volvo

Between 1950 and 1951, Volvo introduced a new heavy-duty truck line that included the Titan and its “little brother” Viking.


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The Titan was powerful already initially, but from 1954 onwards a turbocharged engine was available for it.


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The Turbo was aiming for greater power and especially torque without increasing the weight of the engine.


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However, in Central Europe, turbo technology was long prejudiced.


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Alongside heavy trucks, Volvo manufactured Snabbe, Trygge and Starke models for distribution drive and other lighter driving.


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In 1965, Volvo overhauled its entire line of trucks, replacing the Titan and Viking with 86 and 88 models respectively.


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Volvo

The noseless F88 model, called the “eight-pair” by Finnish motorists, became a success product for Volvo, which was produced at that time.


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[2] In the early 1950s, Volvo and British company Leyland each brought to market their own bus chassis, with the engine positioned lying in the middle of the car, under the cabin floor.


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Technical problems slowed the prevalence of this bus type, but Volvo's B58 chassis introduced in 1966 was a mature product.


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This chassis and the B10M model, which became its successor in the fold of the 1980s, became one of the most-used bus models of all time globally, and its popularity lasted until the folding of the 2000s, when it was forced to give way to rear-engined buses.


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Alongside the mid-engined bus platforms, Volvo produced front-engined chassis for the Nordic market until the mid-1980s, for developing countries for a few years longer.


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Rear-engined buses Volvo began to be made in the early 1970s.


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[3] The Volvo PV passenger car line introduced in the 1940s was long-lived; its last version, the PV 544, and the Duett van model based on it, were made until 1965.


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In 1956, the 121/122 range (Amazon) entered the market, which was in production over the 1970s fold.


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In 1966 Volvo introduced the 140 series, which was succeeded by the 240 series in 1975.


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The 240 series remained in production until 1993.


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Alongside these, the more luxurious 160/260 series was produced, which was replaced by the 740/760 series in 1982.


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In 1973 Volvo bought one-third of Dutch DAF's passenger car production, and from 1976 the DAF passenger cars were sold as Volvo names.


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Alongside and later succeeded these became the 340/360 series, which was produced until 1991.


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Volvo passenger car production was sold to the US company Ford Motor Company in 1999.


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[4] On 6 September 1993, Volvo decided to merge with Renault.


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However, the merger did not materialize, after which Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, chairman of the Volvo board, resigned on 2 December 1993.


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[5] Gyllenhammar had been negotiating with Renault manager Louis Schweitzer for three years about unification.


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However, some shareholders opposed the plan.


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Moreover, many of Volvo's executives were not happy with the already existing strategic partnership with Renault.


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When Volvo chief executive Soren Gyll heard of management opposition, he informed Gyllenhammer, who withdrew his merger proposal and resigned.


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[6] Ford Motor Company acquired Volvo's passenger car manufacturing business in 1999 and sold it in 2010 to the Chinese company Zhejiang Geely [7].


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2001 Volvo Group acquires Renault Trucks and Mack Trucks.


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2007 Volvo Group acquires Nissan Diesel (current name UD Trucks).


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2007 Volvo Group buys Lingong, a Chinese manufacturer of earthmoving machinery.


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2008 Establishment of joint businesses with Indian company Eicher Motors.


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2012 Volvo Aero, a company that makes components for the aircraft industry, is sold to the English company GKN.


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In January 2015, it was reported that Dongfeng, China's largest truck manufacturer, had acquired 45% of Volvo's common stock.


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[8] In summer 2017, as the first major car brand, Volvo announced that it would abandon the manufacture of cars with an internal combustion engine alone, all new models being presented 2019 onwards will be either hybrids or fully electric powered.


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[9] The trademark Volvo Trademark Holding AB is the most equitable owned by Aktiebolaget Volvo and Volvo Car Corporation.


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[10] AB Volvo's principal activity is to own, maintain, protect and protect Volvo's trademarks (including Volvo, Volvo Aero and Volvo Penta on behalf of their respective owners and to empower those rights to the owners.


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The main business also includes opposing trademark abuse worldwide.


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Volvo Finland imports of Volvo cars to Finland began as early as 1928.


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The company established a subsidiary company in Helsinki, Oy Volvo-Auto AB, for imports.


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For decades, this company had its headquarters in the Vallila district, in a car house completed along Sturenkatu in 1939.


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Volvo car disposal services were carried out since 1964 in Hernesaari, Helsinki, from where these operations moved in 1974 to Kaivoksela, Vantaa, where a heavy equipment maintenance workshop had already been operating since 1971.


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Volvo-Auto's new headquarters was inaugurated in Käoksela in 1981.


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[11] Since 2016 the head office has been in Viinikkala, Vantaa.


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Volvo-Auto began publishing its own customer magazine in 1932, the name of which was taken the Volvo message.


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[12] During the 1930s, Volvo quickly worked its way into the most common brand of buses in Finland, and at the same time it gained a good reputation as a universal truck suitable for Finnish conditions.


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In 1939, Volvo was the most registered bus brand, and together with Chevrolet and Reo it made up two thirds of Finland's entire bus fleet.


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[13] In the same year, Volvo was the third most common truck brand in Finland after Ford and Chevrolet.


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[14] After the end of the wars, imports of Volvo trucks resumed in 1946 and the import of bus platforms the following year.


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However, due to import regulation, they did not receive demand accordingly.


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However, 356 new Volvo buses were already registered between 1947 and 1949, which was more than the number of new SISU buses registered between 1945 and 1949, 319 pieces.


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Of those responding to a 1953 survey conducted by the Bus Union for its member companies, 44 per cent reported Volvo as their preferred brand.


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[15] The import rationing of lorries and bus platforms was dismantled in 1957, after which the road was open to Volvo and its worst competitor, the other Swedish company Scania-Vabis, especially in the bus market.


Question: When is Volvo set up?

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[16] Volvo was for a long time considerably more common in Finland as a truck and bus than as a passenger car, because the supply of passenger cars from Sweden was very difficult in the years after World War II due to currency shortages.


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However, Volvo's large-sized passenger cars were in some use as taxis.


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[17] For example, at the beginning of 1955 there were 2570 Volvo trucks on the register, but only 440 Volvo passenger cars.


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[18] At the beginning of 1960, Volvo passenger cars numbered just under 1500, but due to the dismantling of import regulations, their numbers increased to such an extent that at the end of 1969 Volvo was already the seventh most common passenger car brand with almost 24000 cars.


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[19] Also at the end of 1988 Volvo was in seventh place in passenger car statistics, with 115936 Volvo passenger cars in the register.


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[20] In 1981, the Volvo 240 series ranked 10th in the statistics of the most registered passenger car models in Finland, and the Volvo 340 series was 14th.


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In the same year there were 1295 Volvo trucks registered and 287 buses.


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In the statistics of registered passenger car brands, Volvo was in eighth place and in the statistics of truck and bus brands in first place.


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[21] Business areas Volvo Group business lines and at the same time AB Volvo subsidiaries are: Volvo Buses (buses) Volvo Trucks (trucks) Volvo Construction Equipment (earthworks, formerly called Volvo BM AB) Volvo Aero (aeroplane and aeroplanes) rocket engines and engine parts, aerospace industry services, owned by Volvo until 2012) Volvo Penta (marine and industrial engines) Mack Trucks (US truck manufacturer, owned by Volvo since 2001) Renault Trucks (French trucks manufacturer, owned by Volvo since 2001, before that part of Renault Group) Nissan Diesel, current name UD Trucks (Japanese truck manufacturer acquired by Volvo in 2007) Volvo Financial Services (financial services) Current range Trucks Volvo FL Volvo FE Volvo FM Volvo FMX Volvo FH Buses Volvo 7500 Volvo 7900 Volvo 8900 Volvo 9500 Volvo 9700 Volvo 9900 Discontinued models Buses Volvo City L Volvo 7000 Volvo 8500 Volvo 8700 Volvo B12-600 Volvo B10-400 Volvo 7700 Trucks Volvo FM7, FM9, FM10 and FM12 Volvo FL4, FL6, FL10 and FL12 Volvo NL10 and NL12 Volvo F4, F6, F7, F10, F12 and F16.


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Volvo N7, N10 and N12 Volvo F88 and F89 Volvo FH12 Sources Literature Arttu Käyhkö, Volvo earthworks, Publisher Laaksonen 2015.


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ISBN 978-952-5805-66-6 (The work contains approximately 280 colour photographs and specifications) Arttu Käyhkö, Earthbuilding machinery in Finland, Alfamer/Tarusto Oy, 2015.


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Question: What is Jeti?

Yeti

The yeti, or Jeti, is a creature purported to represent an unknown species, reportedly moving in the Himalayan mountains.


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Yeti

The yeti is most often said to walk on two legs and be reddish- or orange-haired and resembling human apes, for example a gorilla.


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[1] In Asia, the legend of the yeti has been known for a long time and belongs to the mythology of the indigenous people of the Himalayan region [2].


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It is mentioned in a 3,000-year-old Chinese encyclopedia, and the existence of the creature is considered certain by the local population.


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[1] Westerners have made observations of it since the late 19th century.


Question: What is Jeti?

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[2] Cryptozoologists who have studied the alleged sightings and footprints have concluded that three different species of yeti live in the Himalayas.


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[2] In 2017, a group of scientists conducted DNA tests on various specimens claimed to have belonged to Jet from around the world and determined that they were from different animals.


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Yeti

The research was announced in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.


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[3] The Snowman is often referred to as Jet, but the Western name Jeti also refers to the so-called Chinese wild man, Alma, as well as the Pendek man, which are the same type of legends about human relatives living in remote corners of Asia.


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There is no proper evidence for alleged sightings and trace discoveries of the existence of the Yeti, although from time to time there are reports of new sightings.


Question: What is Jeti?

Yeti

Some strange footprints have been described and studied and have been inferred to belong either to an unknown and large-sized primate or to an unknown species of bear.


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They might also be some scammer's shoe soles crafted for this purpose.


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In many of the images, the snow surrounding the tracks is partially melted, so it is possible that they are just plain bear prints shaped larger by the descriptors.


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Yeti

[1] Faeces have also been found in the Himalayas that have not been able to analyse.


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Yeti

No pictures have been obtained of the yeti himself so far.


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[1] As the first Westerner, sightings of the yeti were reported by British naturalist B. H. Hodgson, who studied the fauna of Nepal, in his writing On the Mammalia of Nepal of 1832.


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Nepalese hunters involved in one of the expeditions had told him they encountered a dark, long-haired, bipedal tailless “wild person.”


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Yeti

The hunters had gone on the run instead of shooting the creature.


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[4] In 1889, British Laurence Waddell described in his book Among the Himalayas as the first European yeti's footprints.


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Yeti

[2] Guides living in the Himalayan region of Waddell had told him that the person who left the marks is a large, hairy and running on two legs.


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Yeti

[2] In the 20th century, more mountaineers began to move in the Himalayas than before, and at the same time sightings of the unknown bipedal increased.


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[2] A team led by Charles Howard-Bury of Ireland and exploring Mount Everest discovered traces in 1921 which local guides said belonged to a “hankie wild man”.


Question: What is Jeti?

Yeti

[2] The Statesman magazine, which reported on the issue, used the creature for the first time to be referred to as “yeti” ().


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[2] The most famous and most debated [2] post-discovery was made on 8 November 1951, when British mountaineers Eric Shipton and Michael Ward and Sen Tensing, who was their guide, discovered a peculiar afterstring on the Menlung Glacier in the Himalayas.