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3 days ago · Elias Lönnrot (9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a physician, botanist, linguist, and poet. During the time he was compiling the Kalevala he was the district health officer based in Kajaani responsible for the whole Kainuu region in the eastern part of what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland. He was the son of Fredrik Johan Lönnrot, a ...
- Elias Lönnrot
- Old Kalevala: vol 1, 208pp; vol 2, 334pp, New Kalevala: ~500pp
- 1835
- J. C. Frenckell ja Poika, among others
Apr 30, 2024 · Finland, country in northern Europe. Finland is one of the world’s most northern and geographically remote countries and is subject to a severe climate. Nearly two-thirds of Finland is blanketed by thick woodlands. Finland forms a symbolic northern border between western and eastern Europe.
1 day ago · Treaties of the European Union. The European Parliament ( EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission.
- 10 September 1952; 71 years ago
5 days ago · In the 1980s and early 1990s, Finnish returnees (mainly from Sweden) began to outnumber Finnish emigrants. Also arriving in Finland between April 1990 and 2010, were Ingrian Finns – descendants of ethnic Finns who settled near St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 17 th century – who immigrated to Finland under the Right of Return Law. In addition ...
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3 days ago · The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeastern Europe, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states, Northern Asia, and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
3 days ago · Ichthyosauria ( / ˌɪkθiəˈsɔːriə /; Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – Ancient Greek: ἰχθύς, romanized : ichthys, lit. 'fish' and Ancient Greek: σαῦρος, romanized : sauros, lit. 'lizard') is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides.
2 days ago · The word Coelacanth is an adaptation of the Modern Latin Cœlacanthus ('hollow spine'), from the Greek κοῖλ-ος ( koilos, 'hollow') and ἄκανθ-α ( akantha, 'spine'), [12] referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839, belonging to the genus Coelacanthus. [8]
