Finland

21-22	May 2005 Readings/Article Getting to da By Yuni Kim (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Bribery; Finland; Guidebooks; Russia (Federation) PDF TEXT IMAGES
85-94	December 1965 Article The case for building 350 new towns By Wolf von Eckardt SEE ALSO: Career in planned communities; City planning; Columbia; Howard, Ebenezer; Finland; Garden cities; Hertzen, Heikki S. von; Planned communities PDF IMAGES
69-73	July 1958 Article Such nice Finns By Chad Walsh SEE ALSO: Finland PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 88-96	June 1944 Article Finnish tragedy By Erwin Christian Lessner SEE ALSO: Fascism; Finland; 1917-1945 PDF IMAGES
495-504	September 1929 Article The other Prohibition country: The facts about Finland's noble experiment By Rheta Louise Childe Dorr SEE ALSO: Finland PDF IMAGES
255-260	July 1892 Article The Czar's western frontier By Poultney Bigelow SEE ALSO: Alexander III, 1881-1894; Anecdotes; Baltic States; Alexander III, Emperor of Russia; Finland; Orthodox Eastern Church; Persecution PDF IMAGES
330-339	February 1891 Article General view of the country and people By Henry Lansdell SEE ALSO: Finland; Lakes PDF IMAGES
339-353	February 1891 Article Sketches in Finland By Albert Edelfelt SEE ALSO: Finland; Peasantry PDF IMAGES
395-397	August 1869 Article A peep at Finland By Frances Elizabeth Willard SEE ALSO: Finland PDF IMAGES

Nov 2003	Number of people per sauna in Finland: 2.5	Harper's Index Source: Embassy of Finland (Washington)
Apr 2000	Minutes of pregame snowball making allowed in the International Snow Battle Contest held this month in Finland: 30	Harper's Index Source: Yukigassen International Snow Battle Contest (Kemijärvi, Finland)

June 27, 2006	Bruno the bear was shot and killed by German authorities, ending his seven-week rampage through Germany and Austria; Bruno, officially tagged Rampant Brown Bear JJ 1, had killed sheep and rabbits, stolen honey, eluded Finnish bear trackers and elkhounds, and squashed a guinea pig. “Sexual frustration,” said a German official, “may be a reason for the random killings.”	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Times Online (U.K)
May 21, 2006	Finnish horror rock group Lordi (whose most recent album is "The Arockalypse") won the Eurovision Song Contest.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
November 4, 2005	In Finland a dog named Sonar sniffed out her 95th drowned corpse.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
October 13, 2004	The Helsinki Zoo decided not to kill its 14 baboons, which it had planned to do to make room for snow monkeys, after a public outcry.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Agence France-Presse
February 27, 2004	Finland lowered its alcohol tax.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Reuters
February 11, 2004	In Finland, a sausage heir was fined $216,000 for speeding.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Reuters
October 8, 2003	Transparency International released its annual corruption survey; Bangladesh was rated most corrupt, just beating out Nigeria and Haiti. Finland, Iceland, and Denmark were the least corrupt.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Associated Press

26	December 1996 Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Esko Männikkö (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Finland PDF IMAGES
27	May 1993 Readings/Photo Opus By Roy F. Staab (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Environment (Art); Finland; Lakes; Sculpture, Modern PDF IMAGES

31	October 1988 Readings/Illustration President makers SEE ALSO: Finland; Political posters; Pregnant women PDF IMAGES

December 2009

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MERMAID FEVER
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