St Valentine`s Day in Finland,A Great Piece of Marketing

February 14, 2011

[smoothslider] Origins of St Valentine`s Day in Finland [wpp limit_page="1"] St. Valentine’s Day in Finland is celebrated as an annual feast on February 14,it is deeply rooted in British and North American culture. One of the most common customs is sending your sweetheart a valentine, i.e. a postcard or a present often decorated with hearts. [...]

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Travel Finland With Lonely Planet

February 11, 2011

Lonely Planet Travel Finland A Must Have A Lonely Planet book near at hand is a must have for those people looking to travel Finland or greater Scandinavia.Visiting a new country or city can be daunting for first time travellers and the young.Even for more mature people the prospect of venturing in to a new land [...]

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The Baltic Sea and Its Life

February 8, 2011

Helsinki on The Baltic Sea   Helsinki is just one of many large cities built close to the Baltic Sea primarily for trading goods.The actual Baltic sea sometimes called  the  East Sea and West Sea depending upon the observers location.However the majority of people throughout the world simply call it The Baltic Sea It was [...]

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Finnish Challenge Cross Country Skiing

February 6, 2011

Cross Country Skiing is a popular pastime and heaslth sport with many Finnish people.You can learn Finnish, act all shy and unwilling to engage in small talk, even memorise the names of the entire 1995 World Championship-winning ice hockey team, but without first trying a bit of cross-country skiing, some older Finns will scoff at [...]

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Success of Finnish Education System

January 31, 2011

Finnish Education System Shines   The Finnish Education system has been under close eyes from abroad for some years now.The Finnish Education system is held in so high esteem  that over 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki ,with the hope of studying and learning the secret to Finnish schools success It turns out that Finland`s [...]

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Finnish Motorcycle Club Good or Bad?

January 21, 2011

Outlaw Finnish Motorcycle Club Finland 1997-2005 By Peter [wpp keyword="motorcycle" limit_page="3"] On September 25, 1997, Hells Angels mc Finland and Bandidos mc Finland declared an end to what became known as “The Great Northern Biker War”. In Finland the end of hostilities were confirmed on October 14, when members of both motorcycle clubs had pictures [...]

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Finnish architecture and Alvar Alto

January 19, 2011

  The Building of Finnish Architecture Finnish architecture can not be missed when on a visit to any town or city in Finland Finland’s architectural heritage before the 20th century incorporates Swedish, Russian, and Viking motifs into buildings that often seem to arise from the human subconscious as interpreted by Scandinavian mythology. More than in [...]

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Finnish Second-Hand Clothes Fashion

January 16, 2011

Second-Hand Clothes Fashion Strolling around Helsinki Finland you will see that fashion in second-hand clothes for Finnish Men & Women takes on an aesthetic look and often times can only be described as Gothic or slightly weird.As the prices of new designer fashion increases beyond the reach of most mere mortals,so Finnish men and women are scouting out [...]

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Finland Travel a Guide

January 15, 2011

  Finland Travel Finland Travel with in Finland(Suomi)is the big surprise of the Nordic countries, a natural wonderland with more trees than people and more islands than any other nation in the world. With endless miles of wilderness and 188,000 lakes on their doorstep, the Finns are uniquely in tune with their surroundings. Even committed [...]

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Turku Cultural City of Europe

January 13, 2011

Turku,Cultural City of Europe and More   The former Finnish capital of Turku makes for a beautiful, if cold, winter break. As Turku has been selected the Cuiltural City of Europe 2011 it should be a gtreat stop when traveling Finland Winter is now in full swing in Turku,Finland‘s former capital and doesn’t seem to suffer from [...]

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A Century of Finnish Women in Parliament

January 8, 2011

Finnish Women in Parliament   Nineteen Finnish women were elected as Members of Parliament in the first Finnish parliamentary elections in 1907. Nine of these women were from the Social Democratic Party, while ten were from centrist and right-wing parties. The Finnish women worked within their own parties to improve women’s status and promote social welfare [...]

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