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Finnish rock art pictographs created during the Stone Age have been found at 127 sites around Finland. They consist mainly of brownish-red figures and markings painted onto steep granite walls, often overlooking waterways. There are scenes featuring people, boats, elk, fish and mysterious part human figures. The survival of the art in adverse ...
The Moomins ( Swedish: mumintrollen) are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, picture books, and a comic strip by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts [2] in Finland.
- Tove Jansson, Sami Malila
- Children's fantasy
- 2011
- Mumintrollen
Nov 4, 2020 · The Moomin stories were written by Tove Jansson, the daughter of Finnish artists who had been struggling with her own creative career after dropping out of Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts and was dispirited by the devastation of WWII. With her brother off fighting in the war, Jansson wrote The Moomins and the Great Flood as a way to ease her mind.
Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series is an American animated children's television series based on the original live-action version of the same name created by Jim Henson. NBC aired this spin-off program on Saturday mornings at 10:00 AM (later moved to 11:00 AM) for one season during 1987.
No.TitleStory ByWritten By1"No Fraggle is an Island"N/AJohn Semper, Cynthia Friedlob, and Barry ...2"Big Trouble for a Little Fraggle / ...Pam Dovale and John Semper N/ABetty Birney Allan Swayze3"The Great Radish Round Up / Lucky ...Alan SwayzeBetty Birney, John Semper, and Cynthia ...4"A Fraggle for All Seasons / A Growing ...Pam Dovale N/ALarry Parr Misty Stewart-Taggart- 13
- September 12 –, December 5, 1987
- 1
- NBC
The Moomin figure appeared for the first time in public as Tove Jansson’s emblem in an anti-Hitler cartoon which she published in the late 1930s, but it had been born earlier at the Janssons’ summer cottage – as a drawing on the outhouse wall, in fact. Tove Jansson in a summer incarnation, as photographed by her brother Per Olov.
Finnish mythology survived within an oral tradition of mythical poem-singing and folklore well into the 19th century. Of the animals, the most sacred was the bear , whose real name was never uttered out loud, which was thought to be unfavorable to the hunt.
Finnish rock (Finnish: suomirock or suomirokki—also known as Finnsrock, Finnrock or Finrock) refers to rock music made in Finland. The initial rock and roll boom of the 1950s was preceded by a long tradition of popular culture.
