Pori is a city in Finland. The city had a population of 83,364 as of 31 August 2012. It covers without sea-areas.
Yyteri, a sand beach, is located at Pori.
Särkänniemi
Särkänniemi is a theme park in Tampere, Finland. It covers . It opened in 1969.
Matti Nykänen
Matti Ensio Nykänen (17 July 1963 in Jyväskylä – 4 February 2019 in Lappeenranta) was a Finnish ski jumper and singer. He won five Olympic medals (four gold), nine World Championships medals (five gold) and 22 Finnish Championships medals (13 gold). He won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, which made him one of the two most successful athletes at those games.
Nykänen died in the early hours of 4 February 2019 from complications of diabetes, at the age of 55.
Heinola
Heinola is a town in Finland. About 19,997 people lived there as of 31 May 2013. Nearby municipalities include Asikkala, Hartola, Iitti, Kouvola, Mäntyharju, Nastola, Pertunmaa and Sysmä.
The newspaper "Itä-Häme" is published in Heinola and neighbouring towns.
Heinola is founded 1776.
Tuusjärvi, Hirvisalo, Hujansalo, Härkälä, Imjärvi, Komeankylä, Korkee, Lauhjoki, Lusi, Läpiä, Kausa, Marjoniemi, Myllykylä, Onali, Paaso, Paistjärvi, Pääsinniemi, Rihu, Taipale, Vaippilainen (Vaippila), Vierumäki and Jyränkö.
Olavi Lanu
Olavi Lanu (10 July 1925 – 11 May 2015) is a Finnish sculptor and professor. One of Lanu's sculptures is in Lanu-puisto, Lahti, Finland. His most famous sculptures are quite big. The surfaces of his sculptures imitate nature.
The Well-Tempered Clavier
The Well-Tempered Clavier (also known as WTC, BWV 846–893) is the title of two collections of musical works for solo keyboard instruments by the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The first collection was written in 1722 and the second was written in 1742, but they were not published until 1801, fifty years after Bach died. Although the music was written for the harpsichord, which was popular at the time, today it is usually played and heard on a piano.
Both collections have 24 short preludes and 24 fugues to go along with it. All of them contrast with each other: some of them are easy to learn, while others are hard to follow (because there are many different melodies going on at the same time, which is called counterpoint). What is special about them is that each prelude and fugue is written in a different major or minor key. They appear in the book so that they go up by semitones. That is, the first prelude and fugue is in C major, the second is in C minor, the third in C-sharp major (or D-flat major), the fourth in C-sharp minor, and so on, until the last two preludes and fugues are in B major and B minor, in that order.
Other composers would later write music that is also in all 24 major and minor keys. The best known of these are the Preludes by Frédéric Chopin, but this would also later be done by Charles-Valentin Alkan, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Dmitri Shostakovich, to name a few.
Some of the music that appears in "The Well-Tempered Clavier" has become famous. For example, the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod wrote a setting of Ave Maria that is based on the melody of the first Prelude in C Major in the "WTC".
Pottiputki
A pottiputki is a planting tool for putting plants to ground It makes planting faster. The worker strikes the tool into the ground, and then stamps on the mechanism and the pottiputki makes a hole in the ground. A plant is then dropped in the tube of the tool, and falls into the hole.
Ranked list of Spanish autonomous communities by population
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Pentti Vuorio
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Imperiet
Imperiet was a rock band from Stockholm in Sweden. It was active from 1983 to 1988.
BWO
BWO was a synthpop group from Sweden. It was established in 2003, and broke up in 2010. Up to 2009, the group was known under the full name Bodies Without Organs.
BWO participated at Melodifestivalen in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.
Stiftelsen
Stiftelsen is a rock band from Sweden. The band was established in the year of 2010, and broke through in 2012 with the song "Mitt hjärta slår".
Soviet submarine S-363
Soviet submarine "S-363" (unofficial Swedish name: U137) was a Soviet submarine that ran aground outside the town of Karlskrona in Sweden on 27 October 1981. On 5 November the same year, it was led out of Swedish territorial waters.
Folkhemmet
Folkhemmet (literally, People's Home) is a political term in Swedish. It was first used by Rudolf Kjellén in the early 20th century. It was adopted by the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the 1920s. On 18 January 1928, Swedish social democrat Per Albin Hansson delivered a speech including the word. His meaning referred to equality and cooperation. The speech made the term popular.
Nowadays the term may not only refer to Per Albin Hansson's visions but also works as a poetic name for the Swedish welfare state.
Bell 214
The Bell 214 is an American helicopter. It is a more powerful variant of the Bell 205. It was developed for both civilian and military use. Bell 214ST is a bigger variant. Iran was the main military operator of the Bell 214.
Lockheed MC-130
The Lockheed MC-130 is a US military cargo aircraft. It is a very specialized variant of the famous C-130 Hercules, used exclusively by U.S. special forces. It can fly on low altitude. MC-130 are only used by US Air Force.
The MC-130J, which became operational in 2011, is the new-production variant that is replacing the other special operations MC-130s. As of May 2016, the Air Force has taken delivery of 33 of the planned 37 -J models.
Catalina affair
The Catalina affair () was a military confrontation and diplomatic crisis in June 1952 between the USSR and Sweden. It was during the Cold War. Soviet fighter aeroplanes shot down two Swedish Air Force aeroplanes over the Baltic Sea. Both aircrafts were found in 2003.
The Redwall Cookbook
The Redwall Cookbook is a cookbook written by Brian Jacques with recipes for food from the Redwall book series, from Deeper'n'Ever Pie and Summer Strawberry Fizz, to Abbot's Special Abbey Trifle and Shrimp'n'Hotroot Soup.
Massa's in de Cold Ground
"Massa's in de Cold Ground" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster. It was one of only four songs Foster published in 1852. It sold hundreds of copies. Foster received only a 2 cent royalty on each copy sold, but the song earned him US$900 within five years of its publication.
The song is written in D major to 4/4 time. An initial phrase is repeated five times, beginning every line except one. The phrase ends with a octave leap upwards in the melody. "Massa" is a slow, sad song in dialect written for the minstrel stage.
The song tells of slaves weeping at the grave of their deceased European-American master. After the American Civil War, another 'Cold' was entered in the title, the title then becoming, "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground".
When the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was first performed as a dramatic adaptation in November 1852 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Foster's home town), "Massa's in de Cold Ground" and two other Forster melodies were inserted into the production.
Järvenpää
Järvenpää is a town in southern Finland. On 31 May 2013, about 39,734 people lived there. It covers an area of .
Kokkola
Kokkola (, previously "Gamlakarleby") is a town in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland. As of January 2014, over 47,000 people lived there. It covers an area of , not including the sea area. Nearby municipalities are Halsua, Kalajoki, Kannus, Kaustinen, Kruunupyy, Lestijärvi, Luoto and Toholampi.
The former municipalities of Lohtaja, Kälviä and Ullava were merged with Kokkola in 2009.
Kokkola was established in 1620. The people speak two languages: Finnish and Swedish.
Kouvola