* 1978 – Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer ( Nightwish and Sethian )

The Finnish metal band Nightwish mentions Carter in the song " Tutankhamun " on its début album Angels Fall First: " For Carter has come / To free my beloved ".

* 1978 – Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist and songwriter ( Nightwish, Brother Firetribe, Altaria, and Barilari )

** Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish metal keyboardist ( Nightwish )

* April 21 – Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer ( Nightwish )

** Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish rock musician ( Nightwish )

Currently he is on a world tour as a guest of the Finnish band Nightwish He has been replaced in Iona by piper and woodwind player Martin Nolan.

* Finnish rock band Nightwish released the song " Nemo " on their 2004 release Once.

The Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish released on 11 August 2007 their latest music video, " Amaranth ", which is based on this particular painting.

In 2004, Finnish melodic metal band Nightwish released Once on Nuclear Blast, which rocketed to the top of the charts in multiple countries, including Finland, Germany, Norway, Greece, Sweden, Austria, and more.

For the first time since its creation, the band played at a UK show at The Mean Fiddler in London, supported by DragonForce, and later joined Finnish band Nightwish for the Japanese dates in March.

In Finland Hanoi Rocks is known as the Finnish rock band who, at their time, had come closest to real international fame, only much later giving way to such groups as HIM, Nightwish, Stratovarius, and Children of Bodom.

Ewo Pohjola is currently the manager of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

Over the Hills and Far Away is the first EP by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released in 2001 by both Spinefarm Records and Drakkar Records.

In 1990s Finnish rock and metal music started to gain international fame with such bands as The 69 Eyes, Amorphis, Children of Bodom, Ensiferum, Norther, Wintersun, HIM, Impaled Nazarene, Lordi, Negative, Nightwish, The Rasmus, Sentenced, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, and Tarja Turunen, a solo artist, who is popular for mixing classical music with Metal / Rock.

" Wishmaster ", a song by Finnish metal band Nightwish also pays tribute to Raistlin.

A popular example of this type of approach would be the works of the successful Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

" Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan " is the third single released from the album Once by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

Current Nightwish singer Anette Olzon has performed the song at Stockholms Kulturfestival with the backing of an orchestra, and without the band, despite not speaking Finnish fluently.

" Nemo " is the tenth single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish and the first single from the album Once.

He also performed on " Etarlis ," a 2007 release by Mermaid Kiss and on Dark Passion Play, a 2007 release by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

Sami Vänskä ( born 26 September 1976 ) is the former bassist of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish.

" Wish I Had An Angel " is the eleventh single for Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, the second from their fifth album Once.

The Carpenter is the first single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, the only from their debut album, Angels Fall First.

Bulwer-Lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including Serbian ( by Laza Kostic ), German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish.

After 1944 Communists were a factor to consider for a few decades, and the Finnish People's Democratic League, formed by Communists and others to the left of Social Democrats, even was the largest party after 1958 elections.

Finnish women were as well educated as their male counterparts, and, in some cases, the number of women studying at the university level, for example, were slightly ahead of the number of men.

Once these laws were passed, Finnish authorities signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, in 1986.

Until the 1930s, the Finnish economy was predominantly agrarian, and, as late as in the 1950s, more than half the population and 40 percent of output were still in the primary sector.

Finnish data for the early 1980s showed that 30 to 40 percent of those in occupations not requiring much education were the children of farmers, as were about 25 percent in upper-level occupations, a rate two to three times that of France and noticeably higher than that even of neighbouring Sweden.

Following the Finnish Civil War and October revolution, Russians were virtually equated with Communists and due to official hostility to Communism, Finno-Soviet relations in the period between the world wars remained tense.

By 1917 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.

The main factors behind the Finnish Civil War were World War I, the collapse of the Russian Empire, and the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

All Finnish adults were given the right to vote, increasing the number of voters from 126, 000 to 1, 273, 000.

The events of July 1917 did not bring about the Red Revolution in January 1918 on their own, but together with political development based on the labour movement's interpretation of the ideas of fennomania and socialism since the 1880's, these events were decisive for the nature, content, and goals of a Finnish revolution.

Finnish conservatives were concerned over Germany and Russia's intent to conduct armistice and peace negotiations, fearing this would restrict Germany's ability to provide assistance to the White Finns.

The majority of Finnish socialists, however, were moderate and preferred parliamentary methods, prompting Lenin to label them " reluctant revolutionaries.

The economic collapse of Russia and the political power struggle of the Finnish state during 1917 were among the key factors that brought sovereignty to the fore in Finland.

In addition, the White Guard leadership were uncertain whether common troopers drafted from the small-sized and poor farms of central and northern Finland had strong enough motivation to fight the Finnish Reds.

Finnish nationalists leaning on Germanism had been seeking German aid in freeing Finland from Russian hegemony since Autumn 1917, but the Germans did not want to prejudice their armistice and peace negotiations with Russia because of the pressure they were facing at the Western front.

After peace talks between the Germans and the Finnish Reds were broken off on 11 April, the true battle for the capital of Finland began.

Around 8, 000-9, 000 Finnish Reds defended Helsinki ; their best troops, however, were located in the more northern main front of the 1918 war.

Both Himanen and Torvalds were inspired by the Sampo in Finnish mythology.

After World War II, Finland lost the Karelia region to the USSR, and all Finnish citizens were evacuated from the ceded territory.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

After the Baltic states were forced to accept treaties, Stalin turned his sights on Finland, confident that Finnish capitulation could be attained without great effort.

Everyone was killed except Corto, who was seriously wounded by Finnish defense forces as they were landing the helicopter.