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	Finnish sauna
		The sauna is a substantial part of the Finnish culture.
		For Finnish people the sauna is a place for easing with friends and family, a place for physical and mental relaxation.
		Many Finns have a summer cottage with a sauna at one of the thousands of lakes in Finland, and a sauna bath is not normally complete without a refreshing swim, when one leaves the sauna for a break.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/Finnish_sauna.html (367 words)

	Finnish Sauna Secrets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		City saunas in America are often paneled in redwood or cedar and Finnish saunas are generally paneled in spruce, or knotless pine.
		Finnish soldiers went to the sauna very often, particularly during the static phase of the war.
		Finnish forces were on the retreat at the time, but the enemy was not thought to be very close.
	peacecountry0.tripod.com /sauna.htm (4362 words)

	Sauna — A Finnish national institution — Virtual Finland
		Finland is the land of the sauna and the Finns are a nation of sauna-enthusiasts.
		The sauna with chimney introduced at the end of the 18th century marked an important stage in the history of the stove and the sauna.
		In the sauna, folk healers could concentrate on their work in peace and quiet and patients were receptive to treatment because there were many deeply held beliefs and a certain respect connected with the sauna.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/sauna.html (3039 words)

	Bare facts of the sauna — Virtual Finland
		Saunas have existed in other cultures, but it is in Finland that they have become entwined in the national culture.
		All saunas have a basket of rocks heated by the stove on which to throw water to increase the humidity.
		Use of the vihta, or sauna whisk, is not essential (and you may not be able to obtain one) but it does enhance the cleansing effect of the sauna by opening up the pores.
	virtual.finland.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26077 (1130 words)

	Nordic Culture > The Sauna - Scandinavica.com
		Sauna is one of the national icons of Finland, as Pizza is for Italy or the Cangaroo is for Australia.
		Sauna was originally connected with spiritual and religious ceremonies, healing and superstition.
		Some Like It Hot: Finns are mad for sauna, and Nikki Rajala tells both insights as to the Finnish sauna tradition and humorous stories and anecdotes such us when during WW II, Finnish soldiers taking a sauna stayed in so long they found themselves behind enemy lines when they came out.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/tradition/sauna.htm (1501 words)

	Saunafin Saunas and Steambaths;sauna:sauna kit, home sauna, build a sauna, sauna heater, finnish sauna, sauna plan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If the sauna is part of a larger renovation; such as a finished basement, or addition, it is easy to incorporate the sauna kit into whatever space is available.
		The sauna can be installed to suit particular settings; for example, exterior can be drywall and painted to match the outside decor of a bathroom.
		This is important in a sauna where the wood is exposed to extremely high, dry temperatures, interspersed with blasts of humidity when water is splashed on the heater or the walls.
	www.saunafin.com /liner.html (653 words)

	Finnish Sauna
		Originally the sauna was a place to bathe, but as it was the only available clean place with abundant water, it has also been a place for giving birth and healing the sick.
		Atop this is a pile of hot stones onto which the person taking the sauna throws a small amount of water from time to time, adding moisture to the air and giving the illusion of a sharp rise in temperature.
		After sweating it out, the usual practice in a private sauna is to wash and shower or plunge into sea or lake, then repeat the process as often as desired, usually rounding off with quiet relaxation and a cold drink on the balcony overlooking the water.
	www.allscandinavia.com /finnishsauna.htm (1163 words)

	Saunafin — Your Sauna Source —Home Saunas, Commercial Saunas
		Whether you are building your own home sauna or steambath, or are looking for a pre-fab or infrared sauna, Saunafin will take care of your entire sauna and steambath needs.
		In this case, a traditional sauna is likely more suitable as they are readily available in a great selection of sizes.
		Saunas induce an "artificial fever" by heating up the body but without the pains of an illness.
	www.saunafin.com (1165 words)

	FolkStreams » Finnish American Lives » The Finnish Sauna
		Saunas are advertised as special features of motels and hotels along with HBO and pools; they have become standard components of resorts, gymnasiums, health clubs, and reducing salons.
		Geographers Cotton Mather and Matti Kaups used saunas as an index to Finnish-American settlement zones, the greatest density and largest number of Finnish-Americans being in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan where the Keweenau Peninsula and surrounding area is often referred to as the "sauna belt." Minnesota is a close second.
		The addition of a dressing room to the one-room sauna was in partial response to outside pressure, just as chimneys were constructed on smoke saunas to conform to local safety regulations.
	www.folkstreams.net /context,90 (1522 words)

	Finland Diary
		A sauna oven which works with wood is very common, especially on summer cottages etc. But also in normal use, we have two saunas at home, the eletric one, which is located in the main building is used on the winter time, and the wood fire sauna on summer time and on Christmas eve.
		Those saunas were also a joke and had stupid rules like no water on the rocks and no drinking beer etc. That made my wife and I disobey the rules and smuggle beers and throw water in there and generally mock the American saunas.
		June 5, 2005 04:33 PM To 'zeppos', that sauna you are reffering to was in 'lepakkoluola' in ruoholahti district of Helsinki.
	blog.washingtonpost.com /finlanddiary/2005/06/the_finnish_sau.html (11803 words)

	Secrets of the Finnish Sauna
		Since this was identified as the variable that was unique to saunas, it is the source of the observed beneficial effects of relaxation and well-being.
		In a sauna, it is merely increased humidity, which is not normally visible in a hot sauna.
		From childhood, the writer's earliest memories from Finland are those sauna moments of vihta, löyly, washing, soap in the eyes, swim in the lake in summer, and the trip to the house all wrapped up in towels in the middle of winter.
	peacecountry0.tripod.com /sauna2.htm (1888 words)

	The Finnish Sauna Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Finnish Sauna Society is a private cultural association founded in 1937 to foster the heritage of the national bath.
		The function of the Finnish Sauna Society is to preserve the traditional native sauna culture, spread information about it, correct wrong impressions about the sauna, emphasize the meaning of sauna bathing for a healthy life and also to develop the sauna of the present day.
		The International Sauna Society was founded in 1977 on the initiative of the Finnish Sauna Society as a common organization for sauna associations in different countries.
	www.sauna.fi /pages/saunasoc.htm (374 words)

	Finnish Sauna
		In the UK, a sauna is either seen as an up-market item like a swimming pool, Aga cooker range or Jacuzzi, or as part of the seedy red light sex scene.
		Well, in 1991 after "Secret Signals" was published, a Finnish guard patrolling the border with the USSR wrote to me and said that one of the spy stations I had written about was interfering with his reception on 4030 kHz shortwave.
		The main part of the sauna experience is when the water is sprinkled on the stones causing what the Finns call Löyly or steam.
	www.simonmason.karoo.net /page477.htm (695 words)

	Finnish Sauna Page: Finnish Sauna Culture. Everything you ever wanted to know about Finnish Sauna.
		The sauna is a specially built insulated room or cabin which is heated to 80 - 100 degrees Celsius (176 - 212 Fahrenheit) by means of rocks heated by preferably wood, but also by electricity and gas.
		Infra-red (heat) in the traditional Finnish sauna is softer, more difuse, eminating from all sources including the walls, ceiling and stove.
		The sauna walls are almost a foot thick and little "improvements" were added here and there to make the room "better" too.
	www.geocities.com /ojoronen/sauna.htm (4610 words)

	Sauna's clean Finnish \| NEWS.com.au travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Public saunas are open daily and you may be lucky to be invited to enjoy some Finnish hospitality at a local's home.
		A traditional sauna is a wooden building where bathers sit on benches splashing water on hot stones and gently beating themselves with leafy birch whisks.
		The term sauna refers to the whole bathing process and includes several repeated periods of perspiring in the heat and the steam, known as "loyly", produced by the water thrown on the stones.
	www.news.com.au /travel/story/0,23483,20375328-27977,00.html (850 words)

	THE FINNISH SAUNA
		The saunas of Finnish farmers and immigrants to Wisconsin and Minnesota were made of squared logs.
		Saunas have been important to Finnish people for hundreds of years.
		Today, a sauna is a good sign that a Finnish family lives on the farm.
	sydaby.eget.net /swe/saunas.htm (558 words)

	The Sauna in America
		The largest wave of Finnish immigrants came to the United States and Canada between 1850 and 1920 when four hundred thousand Finns left their hard homeland to try their luck in the "new world." Most of them settled in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin where the "new world" weather was comparable to Finland's.
		An American homesteader demanded that the Finns' public sauna be removed "from the middle of the road." The farmer went to court in an attempt to rid the countryside of "that pagan temple." On the day of the trial, the courtroom was packed with curious citizens, most of whom never heard of a sauna.
		Although the electric sauna stove had been invented several years before the sauna became popular in America, its appearance told entrepeneurs that the sauna could be adapted to the American market.
	www.cyberbohemia.com /Pages/saunaamerica.htm (1387 words)

	History of the Finnish Sauna and the Nordic Bath
		The sauna was no luxury to the Finns and it would take more than a few such pamphlets to discourage their use.
		Often a sauna left by an evacuated villager was repaired and heated by the freezing troops.
		Known as Friends of the Finnish Sauna (Suomalaisen Saunan Ystavat), and later as the Sauna Society of Finland (Sauna Seura r.y.), their task was to research the climatic conditions inside the sauna, to determine the best ways of construction, and to perform tests to the sauna's physiological effects.
	www.cyberbohemia.com /Pages/historyofnordic.htm (4237 words)

	HolidayCity Flash Travel Article - Enjoying A Finnish Sauna
		The sauna generally used today is a wooden building or room, heated by red-hot rocks to about 120 C. Traditionally, the rocks were heated by wood, but today, most saunas use an electrical stove to do the job.
		A Finnish proverb says that people should behave in the sauna as they do in church (which is more than just a metaphor, as quite a number of congressional parishes also have saunas).
		The sauna wasn’t a Finnish invention; versions of the sauna have been used by cultures from the Baltics to the furthest reaches of Siberia for thousands of years.
	www.holidaycityflash.com /finland/finland_sauna.html (1426 words)

	Sauna Warehouse - Home saunas, portable saunas, and steam room supplies
		Sauna Warehouse provides everything needed for the ultimate home sauna, infrared sauna or steam room experience.
		With just a click, find top of the line residential and commercial sauna rooms, pre-built infrared saunas, steam generator units, or a pre-built sauna kit (build a sauna yourself), sauna plans, sauna heaters and sauna equipment and accessories manufactured from industry leaders at below retail prices.
		Only at Sauna Warehouse, Inc. will you find so many innovative products that are true to the early traditions of a Finnish sauna, infrared saunas and steam bathing.
	www.saunas.com (154 words)

	Sauna controllers, sauna thermometer, sauna clocks, sauna heater, sauna kits
		Our many years of installing saunas allows us to understand your needs when putting together contractor kits/material packages which include everything you need to build your own sauna.
		We have everything from sauna controllers and sauna thermometer styles to sauna clocks and the right sauna heater for your commercial or home sauna.
		Whether you're comparing equipment for commercial sauna rooms or you're shopping for a quality home sauna, we have the sauna equipment and steam shower equipment you'll need for the perfect sauna bath experience.
	www.nordicsauna.com (342 words)

	sauna
		While the word "sauna" (in the Finnish pronounciation, the "au" sound is like "ou" in "loud") means different things in different countries, for a Finn it means an elementary part of everyday life.
		In the early days of Finnish history, it was a small wooden hut near a lake, and people used it not only for cleaning themselves, but for childbirths, some medical operations and other duties that required a clean, bacteria-free environment.
		The stove is traditionally fuelled by wood, but electrically heated saunas are common due to their safe, easy and clean use.
	www.chenowith.k12.or.us /whs/students/finland/sauna.html (828 words)

	4.6 The Finnish Sauna
		In the early days of Finnish history, it was a small wooden hut near a lake, and people used it not only for cleaning themselves, but for childbirths, some medical operations and other duties that required a clean, bacteria-free environment.
		Smoke saunas are somewhat rare compared to the normal ones these days, but sauna enthusiasts praise them so that there still exist plenty of them.
		Going to sauna naked with all your family is not at all perverted, as the reader might think.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND/section-5.html (999 words)

	Finnish Sauna: page 2
		A German visitor once asked if the sauna can detoxify heavy metals from the body, as he was considering building a sauna in Germany.
		Sauna: Hottest Way to Good Health (Natural Health Guide) by Giselle Roeder - I give her top marks for the research job she has done on the physiological effects of sauna.
		Hot Tubs, Saunas & Steam Baths : A Guide to Planning and Designing your Home Health Spa (Paperback) by Alan Sanderfoot - A book that gives information on other types of baths, but a sauna is included.
	uralica.com /sauna2.htm (1902 words)

	Finnish Sauna: Dictionary
		The Finns have an extensive sauna related vocabulary that is difficult or even impossible to translate.
		The correct pronounciation for sauna is sow-na (as in "cow"), not saw-na.
		To make the humidity rise in the sauna, one throws water on the stones of the stove.
	cankar.org /sauna/dictionary/lexicon.html (378 words)

	Sauna Pekka - Finnish Sauna kit, heaters & accessories - kit de Saunas Finlandais, poêles & accessoires
		Sauna Pekka - Finnish Sauna kit, heaters and accessories - kit de Saunas Finlandais, poêles and accessoires
		For modern man, the Sauna is the best cure for stress; on the sauna benches the anxiety and aggression melt away and the mind is open to more positive and philosophical aspect of life.
		For more information about the genuine Finnish Sauna Kits, click on the "Welcome!" button to see more pages with more info.
	www.sauna.ca (138 words)

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		When we do a hard day of skiing, the sauna is a wonderful way to cap it off.
		Finnish Sauna Society, The - attempting to promote and preserve sauna culture.
		Sauna as a National Symbol, The - describes the importance of the sauna in Finnish society.
	www.finns.org /freeman/sauna.htm (358 words)

	Sauna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sauna's have been enjoyed for thousands of years, from the Romans to modern times, and provide a number of health benefits.
		By definition, the Sauna (Finnish word), is a room lined with softwood heated by rocks and steam.
		Both temperature, 160°F and higher and humidity, 15% to 50%, are controlled by the sauna participants.
	www.steamandsauna.com /sauna.htm (228 words)

	Welcome Finnish Friends, Sauna Products & Accessories
		At Finnish Friends, our hope is to connect sauna enthusiasts worldwide with all things Finnish and the world of the traditional Finnish sauna.
		Whether you're shopping for a new sauna kit or looking for the perfect sauna accessories for your heirloom sauna, we hope you like what you see.
		The gently hissing steam created by tossing water on hot sauna rocks, is perhaps the purest essence of the sauna tradition, as well as the favorite aspect of sauna bathing for most sauna lovers.
	www.finnishfriends.com (169 words)

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