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 Finland - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
The Finnish landscape is mostly flat with few hills and its highest point, the Haltitunturi at 1,328 m, is found in the extreme north of Lapland.
War reparations, unemployment and uncertainty regarding Finland's chances to remain sovereign and independent of the Soviet Union contributed to considerable emigration, abating first in the 1970s.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Finland   (3367 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Finland Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Swedish: Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
Swedish became the dominant language of administration and education; Finnish chiefly a language for the peasantry, held useful mainly for printing religious literature.
To counteract Russian replacing Swedish, and also to sever the cultural and emotional ties with Sweden, Finnish was ardently promoted by both the empirial court and the Finnish government and a strong nationalist movement, known as the fennomania.
www.ipedia.com /finland_1.html   (2287 words)

  
 Finland -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is situated in northern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
During this time, Finnish started gaining recognition by both the imperial court and the governing bodies, first probably to sever the cultural and emotional ties with Sweden and thereafter, from the 1860s onwards, as a result of a strong nationalist movement, known as the Fennoman movement.
After the Winter War (1939) (and confirmed by the outcome of the Continuation War) 12% of Finland's population had to be re-settled.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Finland   (4293 words)

  
 Finland - Gurupedia
Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, and has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
parliament, the Eduskunta (Finnish) or Riksdag (Swedish), is the supreme legislative authority in Finland.
Finnish standard of living is high, partly because it has rough and cold weather.
www.gurupedia.com /f/fi/finland.htm   (1740 words)

  
 Finland on GlobalGuide.Org
The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
Swedish became the dominant language of administration and education; Finnish chiefly a language for the peasantry and clergy, considered useful mainly for printing religious literature.
The Civil War was fought between "the whites", supported by Imperial Germany, and "the reds", supported by Bolshevist Russia.
www.globalguide.org /?id=410   (3475 words)

  
 Finland at Caribbean Topfunwebsites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
To sever the cultural and emotional ties with Sweden, the Finnish language was ardently promoted by both the imperial court and the Finnish government and a strong ethnic nationalism movement, known as fennomania, since about 1860s.
There are two official languages in Finland: Finnish, spoken by 92% of the population, and, mother tongue for 5.5% of the population.
War reparations, unemployment and uncertainty regarding Finland's chances to remain sovereignty and independent of the Soviet Union contributed to considerable emigration, abating first in the 1970s.
www.topfunwebsites.com /guyana/finland.html   (3239 words)

  
 List of wars - Simple English Wikipedia
1478 - War between the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod.
1596 - 1597 The Cudgel War in Finland
1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_wars   (1565 words)

  
 List of wars - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Series of civil wars in Poland and wars with Sweden, Prussia, Russia and Transylvania, which ended its status as European power and which begun march of Russia to power status.
* 1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution * 1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
War between US-led coalition including government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
www.questionz.net /Military_history/List_of_wars.html   (602 words)

  
 FINLAND AND RELATED PEOPLE: History, Culture and Language
One remarkable aspect is that language and character of the original Finnish people have been preserved to a great extent, and it is a well-known fact that Finnish language is like an ice-box in the sense that many archaic structures have been preserved.
Wars are created by evil men and ideologies, not the linguistic differences between humans.
But no sooner had I seen a Finnish newspaper, than I was beginning to sound out the phonetic Finnish language (Vapaa Sana) at six years old.
uralica.com   (1775 words)

  
 Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 164
He stressed that the United Nations system was so stringent that it would not have allowed anyone to play with oil contracts and that the publication of the list was intended "to slander those who were defending the Iraqi people." [26] Ironically, he served as the chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Jordanian parliament.
He said the list "has no basis in truth and we do not know its reasons." He added that the accusation "is an attempt to slander those who stand against the American occupation of Iraq and stand with the Iraqi resistance and the Iraqi brethren and cooperate and support them." [29]
Because releasing the list shows Saddam Hussein's bribery of hundreds of politicians and journalists from 50 Arab and foreign countries, the Arab media have neither pursued the issue nor investigated the matter.
www.memri.org /bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA16404   (3908 words)

  
 ANARCHIST RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET - A FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If your mailing list is not here please write a 20 word summary about the list and send it to revolt@newmail.net for addition in the next version of this FAQ I. Anarchist mailing lists II.
Anarchy-list is the oldest of the lists here and by far the busiest, when you subscribe to an email list all the mail from it goes into YOUR mailbox so unless you read you mail _VERY_ frequently I recommend you only subscribe to one or two of these lists at a time.
This list is open to all regardless of their ethnicity, but please respect that this is a Chican@/Mexican@ list and if you are not of this background please do not post.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/inter/faq.html   (2924 words)

  
 Learning Finnish (the s.c.nordic FAQ)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Atkinson: Finnish Grammar (Helsinki, 1956) A course in Finnish grammar for the learner.
Conversational Finnish in video (Helsinki/Tallinn 1992) This is the first attempt to produce an audiovisual course in Finnish.
Particularly useful for teachers of Finnish because it quickly produces neatly formatted full paradigms which can be saved as text files for further editing.
www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq48.html   (2483 words)

  
 Top20Finland.com - Your Top20 Guide to Finland!
There is little written information of Finnish history before the 13th century AD, discounting the obscure and possibly fictitous stories of Finnish kings in Scandinavian sagas.
The Civil War was chiefly fought between "the whites", supported by Imperial Germany, and "the reds", supported by Bolshevist Russia.
Listed links may put this banner on their website.
www.top20finland.com   (3575 words)

  
 Famous Masons A-L
Listings of those who are (or were during their lifetime) Masons serves to remind us of the many notables who have - of their own free will - chosen to associate with this noble institution.
A national military hero for his actions in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, His term addressed many of the significant issues in the formation of the country but was marked by political partisanship so common in that time.
An attempt to unseat Secretary of War Edwin Stanton led to his impeachment on purely political grounds; he was acquitted by one vote.
www.masonicinfo.com /famous1.htm   (7624 words)

  
 Share and Discover Finland Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During the 18th century, virtually the whole of Finland was twice occupied by Russian forces (1714andndash;1721 and 1742andndash;1743), known by the Finns as the Greater Wrath and the Lesser Wrath.
During World War II, Finland fought the Soviet Union twice: in the Winter War of 1939andndash;1940 and in the Continuation War of 1941andndash;1944, in time closely following Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
This was followed by the Lapland War of 1944andndash;1945, when Finland forced the Germans out of northern Finland.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/finland   (4244 words)

  
 Worm War II | The Register
Separate groups of hackers are releasing a barrage of worms in a battle to seize control of Windows PCs that remain vulnerable to the now infamous Windows Plug-and-Play vulnerability.
A family of IRC bots that exploit the same Microsoft (MS05-039) Plug and Play vulnerability likewise try to remove competing PnP bots, as explained in a diagram by Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure here.
War of the worms turns into war of words
www.theregister.co.uk /2005/08/18/pnp_worm_wars   (720 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Guild Wars: Computer & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The net effect of all of these is to slightly dilute the 'world' aspect, and for those looking for total immersion this may not be a perfect match.
Guild Wars really forces you to coordinate (especially with healing others and focusing to take down hard enemies) and punishes you if you fail to do so.
Guild Wars helps me out here in that I don't have to worry about my character in that I am paying big bucks to have him still be around, so I can take my time playing and enjoying the game instead of rushing through it to get my money's worth.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002BJQDY?v=glance   (3915 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of wars Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Table of contents 1 Wars in History 1.1 Era of Ancient Greece 1.2 Era of Ancient Rome 1.3 Middle Ages 1.4 Pike and Shot era 1.5 Age of Rifles 1.6 World War era 1.7 Cold War era 1.8 Post-Cold War era 2...
1532 - 1546 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
War of the Ring - (The Lord of the Rings)
www.ipedia.com /list_of_wars.html   (1654 words)

  
 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Consider an early scene with Jabba the Hutt where he is having a party.
Some of them are singing, some of them are dancing, some of them are playing an instrument.
List the order of Star wars movies from best to worst
finnish.imdb.com /title/tt0086190   (903 words)

  
 Evil, evil Finland//
No, I'm just a drunken teenager, who found the joys of spending every f*****g day in a Finnish discussion forum less than a year ago, but who was discovered to be a freak/phenomenon that the Finnish internet life had never witnessed before in less than two weeks.
His stereotypical view of the Russian soldier was not flattering: Ivan was stupid, lazy, dirty, and incapable of initiative, and mentally opressed by the same forest environment that was second nature to the Finns.
Finnish people want to keep distance to people they are talking with.
apolyton.net /forums/printthread.php?threadid=42100   (10264 words)

  
 List of Swedish wars : Swedish Wars
This is a list of wars fought by Sweden between 1521 and 1814:
The Swedish War of Liberation[?] or ”Befrielsekriget” (1521-1523)
The War against England[?] or ”Kriget mot England” (1810-1812)
www.fastload.org /sw/Swedish_Wars.html   (218 words)

  
 Star Wars Galaxies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Established in 1996 during the web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 500-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.
Enigma_writer continues his alternate ending to Episode 3 with: Star Wars Dawn of a New Age Chapter 5.
Event: Star Wars Olympics Server: Kettemoor Date: Late April, Early May (exact date and time to be determined) Time: Not determined yet.
starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com /players   (1487 words)

  
 AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I wouldn’t say the focus should be on the fact that there are a higher amount of attacks, rather the focus should be on people writing web applications with security low on their priority list.
We have a list that specifically states what’s licensed and what’s not.
The new XP partition was all the way at the bottom of the list of partitions.
alterslash.org /#Mozilla_Lightning_to_Challenge_Outlook   (12513 words)

  
 The Boba Fett Fan Club
LEGO Star Wars II Unleashes Bounty Hunters and Free Play Mode
Building upon the success of the first LEGO Star Wars installment, which included Jango and Boba Fett and travelled the prequel storyline, the sequel game expected in September has a few new pieces to play with that are giving it quite the buzz.
E2 Boba Fett, Star Wars and all related characters, names and terminology © Lucasfilm Ltd.
www.bobafettfanclub.com /index.shtml   (146 words)

  
 WHKMLA : List of the Wars of Finland
WHKMLA : List of the Wars of Finland
History of the Defence Forces, from Finnish Defence Forces
The Battles of the Winter War, by Sami Korhonen
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/scandinavia/milxfinland.html   (117 words)

  
 Main Page - Wikiquote
There is a page for each month where previous "Quotes of the Day" for each date are listed, and where registered users can make suggestions or rank suggestions for upcoming dates.
The Quote of the Day archives contain more extensive listings of quotes that have already been used.
Dune - Fahrenheit 451 - Leaves of Grass - The Little Prince - The Lord of the Rings - 1984 - Principia Discordia - The Prophet - Pride and Prejudice - A Tale of Two Cities
en.wikiquote.org   (588 words)

  
 Wars
The following is a small list of the major conflicts between 1918 and 1948.
1918 - the War to end all Wars ends with an armistice
UP - The World at War - Homepage - Forum
worldatwar.net /wars   (74 words)

  
 Oxford Scholarship Online: Banking, Currency, and Finance in Europe Between the Wars
Banking, Currency, and Finance in Europe Between the Wars
6 Exchange-Rate Policy and Macroeconomic Performance: A Comparison of French and Italian Experience Between the Wars
15 Commercial Banking in Britain Between the Wars
www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/economicsfinance/0198288034/toc.html   (550 words)

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