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	Flying Finns - Famous Finnish Rally Drivers
		The title "Flying Finns" has been applied to many Finnish sports figures over the years, often in ski jumping and track events.
		But it is in the sport of rallying that the Finns truly excel, as rally drivers from Finland have dominated the International rally scene for over four decades.
		Stuart Turner, when he was Competitions Manager at BMC, was the first to employ Finnish drivers for International rally competition when he hired Rauno Aaltonen and Timo Mäkinen to drive for BMC in the early 1960s.
	www.flyingfinns.com (571 words)

	The Finns in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		Finns, as subjects of the Swedish Crown, were included in Sweden's seventeenth century effort to gain a New World foothold in the Delaware Valley.
		The year 1664 saw both the arrival of a final contingent of 140 Finns, and the change of ownership of the area from the Dutch to the English.
		Finns were identified for the first time in the 1900 U.S. census, which counted about 63,000 persons born in Finland.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/FinnsAmer/finchro.html (2511 words)

	In Finland's Footsteps
		Finns have one of the world's most generous systems of state-funded educational, medical and welfare services, from pregnancy to the end of life.
		Finns pay considerably higher taxes -- nearly half their national income is taken in taxes, while Americans pay about 30 percent on average to federal, state and local governments.
		Finns speak of the Finnish National Project, an effort involving much of the country, and nearly all of its elites, to make the country more educated, more agile and adaptive, more green, more fair and more competitive in a fast-changing global economy.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080502015_pf.html (2022 words)

	Finns going for gold after blanking Russia - The Boston Globe
		The Finns were interesting, and hard working, but their roster was aging and their netminding, with Miikka Kiprusoff opting to remain in Calgary, lacked the necessary showstopper.
		The Finns were fast, dogged in their checking, and on the rare occasion they allowed the Russians a half-decent chance on net, netminder Antero Niittymaki (21 stops) turned it back with relative ease.
		The Finns have never won gold, but played in the championship game at Calgary in '88, losing to the Soviets, the last time the Russians wore their trademark CCCP sweaters in the Games.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2006/02/25/finns_going_for_gold_after_blanking_russia?mode=PF (786 words)

	History of Finland and the Finnish People from ice age to WWII.
		But the early Finns had Viking style ships and were seafaring people already from earlier times, probably long before the Viking raids began to the eastern shores of the Baltic, as we can clearly see from ancient rock art found in Karelia.
		Later the Finns formed the backbone of the Swedish army and were used to increase the wealth of Sweden and for the power of the Swedish Baltic Empire.
		But I believe that the Finns have had to fight the Russians from the moment the latter entered the north, and this is the cultural memory that is responsible for all the mistrust, if not hatred by some Finns today.
	uralica.com /earlyfin.htm (9702 words)

	History of the Finger Lakes Finns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1910 Finns began moving to farms near Ithaca, New York, mostly in the areas of Spencer, Van Etten, Newfield and Trumansburg.
		In 1968 the Finger Lakes Finns was established as a social organization for the preservation, promotion and enjoyment of the Finnish culture.
		Finns and non-Finns join together to organize events with a Finnish flavor for the entire community.
	www.fingerlakesfinns.org /history.htm (112 words)

	The Finns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Connecticut Finns are concentrated in Windham County, particularly in the towns of Brooklyn and Canterbury, where almost half of their total number in the State can be found.
		The salient characteristics of the foreign-born Connecticut Finns are (a) a tenacious clinging to farming, almost to the exclusion of all other pursuits, (b) a lack of organized group-life, as found among other ethnic groups, (c) a tendency to form business cooperatives, and (d) a strong leaning towards radicalism.
		Although one of the most progressive of the ethnic groups in Connecticut, the Finns, because of their agricultural tendencies in a poor farming country, have been forced to live on a much lower economic level than is warranted by their capacities, hard toil, and progressiveness.
	www.genealogia.fi /emi/art/article212e.htm (487 words)

	The Delaware Finns
		This method of cultivation was considered destructive to the forest and had been prohibited by law, but the Finns in the mountain lands and marshes hardly suitable for cultivation, used this method as their privilege for pioneering and which had been so understood and even granted to them.
		It is logical that the Finns could not open their farm plots in the forests where they were assigned to pioneer and to let the forest grow over the plot too.
		The Finns therefore fell in disfavor with the government and the Swedish peasants took advantage of it by setting up to drive away the Finns, burning their homes and massacring the peoples.
	www.genealogia.fi /emi/art/article298be.htm (1578 words)

	Why Can't We Be Like the Finns?
		Finns have one of the world's most generous systems of state-funded educational, medical and welfare services.
		One of the richest Finns is Risto Siilasmaa, 39, founder and chief executive of F-Secure, an Internet-security firm that competes successfully with American giants Symantec and McAfee.
		Finns speak of the Finnish National Project, an effort involving much of the country, and nearly all of its elites, to make the country more educated, more agile and adaptive, greener, fairer and more competitive in a fast-changing global economy.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0829-24.htm (1679 words)

	Cemeteries - Finns Point National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials
		Finns Point National Cemetery is a satellite cemetery in the Beverly National Cemetery complex.
		Finn’s Point National Cemetery is located about six miles northwest of Salem, N.J., at the north end of what was Fort Mott Military Reservation.
		Finn’s Point National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
	www.cem.va.gov /CEM/cems/nchp/finnspoint.asp (838 words)

	Nordic Culture > Finns and Sami in Michigan - Scandinavica.com
		Along with the Indigenous Sami population, the newly-arrived Finns were treated with all of the typical manifestations of prejudice.
		Perhaps it is no coincidence that the Finns and the Sami, whose ethnic distinctions are sometimes blurred in history, found themselves once more bound in their common, poor human conditions.
		Among the Finns were several Sami surnames including Brita Kallunki and her two daughters, Effia and Anna (Kuolajärvi parish, Finland) and Aina Isola and her daughter Tilma (also Kuolajärvi), as well as other northern Finland, perhaps Sami, e.g.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/world/copper.htm (2065 words)

	Finns Folk High School
		Finns is among the three oldest folk high schools in Finland, situated in an old cultural setting in the little village of Kauklahti in the southwestern part of Espoo.
		Finns embraces the teachings of Grundtvig, the Danish founder of the folk high school movement.
		The main aim of the folk high school is to cater for the educational needs of the Swedish-speaking population within the framework of adult education.
	www.svefol.net /finns/english/presentation.html (316 words)

	Composers
		Swedish Finns are Finns who have Swedish as their first language.
		At the beginning of the Christian calendar, parts of the country were populated by these Finns from the reaches of the Gulf of Finland with an increasing immigration from the west and from the south of the Baltic Sea.
		Meanwhile in Finland today the Swedish Finns continue to be a vibrant minority that actively works for the preservation of its culture and language.
	www.nordicway.com /finland_swedish_finns.htm (1100 words)

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		Finns also find reading papers or arrangements to watch television or listen to radio completely out of place in the sauna.
		Finns almost always follow a sauna with a refreshing and enjoyable dive into cold water.
		Many Finns have saunas at their summer homes by the literally tens of thousands of lakes in Finland, and a sauna is not complete without a refreshing swim.
	www.lycos.com /info/sauna--finns.html (478 words)

	INGRIAN FINNS
		The Ingrian Finns have not been separated from the rest of the Finns since the census of 1939.
		The destiny of the Ingrian Finns has been seriously affected by the location of the Russian-Swedish border on the Isthmus of Karelia after the Great Northern War, which separated them from the rest of the Finns.
		Not everything is lost, however, because the Russian government has rehabilitated the Ingrian Finns as a nation (1993); since 1989, 15 church congregations have been restored (in 1918 there were approximately 100) and national cultural societies have been established in Estonia, Leningrad Province, Karelia, Sweden and elsewhere.
	www.hunmagyar.org /turan/finnu/ingrian.html (560 words)

	Finns
		After a visit to the United States in 1898 a Finnish journalist wondered why there were only four or five hundred Finns in Chicago, a figure that paled in comparison to the city's other ethnic groups.
		After 1900, however, immigrating Finns came largely from the industrial cities of southern Finland and were more likely to be attracted to factory work.
		Approximately 30 percent of Finnish immigrants were Swede-Finns, who for reasons of language maintained their own temperance societies and fraternal organizations, and usually worshiped in Swedish churches.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/456.html (564 words)

	WHERE DO FINNS COME FROM
		As early as the 1960s and '70s, Finnish researchers made the significant discovery that one quarter of the Finns' genetic stock is Siberian, and three quarters is European in origin.
		This, in a nutshell, explains the origin of the Finns, according to the DNA scientists.
		To a great extent, the ethnic identity of the Finns and the Samis can be defined on the basis of the language they speak.
	sydaby.eget.net /swe/jp_finns.htm (2781 words)

	Nordic Culture > Finns Abroad: The Finnish Expatriate Parliament - Scandinavica.com
		And that figure is likely to increase as more and more Finns leave their home country in order to study or work abroad, or to spend their retirement in another country.
		Expatriate Finns are a resource for Finland because they spread awareness about Finland throughout the world, and many also bring back to Finland the knowledge that they have acquired abroad.
		The purpose of the Finnish Expatriate Parliament is to channel the voice of expatriate Finns to the State of Finland.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/world/parliament.htm (1108 words)

	Physical Anthropology of Finns
		Further, he claimed the Finns produced metals such as gold, silver and copper, which were plentiful there, chiefly in the present provinces of Sayan and Kolyvan.
		He stated that repeated references to this metal-working culture in the Altai Mountains are found in the Finnish "Kalevala." He goes on to say that the Mongolians later took the gold by violence, in disregard of painted effigies of Griffins.
		Here, Kephart claims, the Finns came into contact with Indo-European speaking Aryan people who lived close by "through the woods." Kephart believed that this is where the Finns got many of their western modes of word-building.
	www.geocities.com /ojoronen/bloodtypes.htm (716 words)

	The Ancient Religion of the Finns — Virtual Finland
		The Finns also likened the North Star to a hinge and spoke of the "heavenly hinge", likewise the "north pin", the "celestial keeper", the "pole star" and the "heavenly pole".
		The Finns conceived of the family as a unit, regardless of whether its members resided on earth or in the underworld.
		The vital point of burial customs was to afford the dead the rites of separation, transition and incorporation into the fellowship of the family dead, and furthermore reorganisation of the remaining community.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/muinueng.html (3353 words)

	Fatigued Finns miss by an inch - Boston.com
		A sprawled Swedish goalie Henrik Lundqvist robbed Finn Olli Jokinen of a game-tying goal in the last frenzied minute of the Olympic final, and the team that had won seven games in a row saw its gold medal chances tick away.
		The Finns conceded that Sweden put them on the defensive.
		Finn forward Jarkko Ruutu, who plays for the Vancouver Canucks, said: "It's tough to play against at team that controls the puck a lot.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2006/02/26/fatigued_finns_miss_by_an_inch (521 words)

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