Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

Salmenhaara's published writings include a textbook on music theory, a history of 20th century music, monographs on Ligeti, Jean Sibelius's Tapiola and the Brahms symphonies, biographies of Jean Sibelius and Leevi Madetoja, and a history of the Society of Finnish Composers.

He has measured the skinfolds ( the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades ) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the `` mealie-meal '' eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen.

Finnish Defence Forces reported on 3 September 2012 that the United States has not delivered any of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles they had ordered due to a mysterious engine malfunction in cold weather that the manufacturer, Raytheon, has not been able to determine the fault of.

The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia.

In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, besides the ordinal naming of centuries another system is often used based on the hundreds part of the year, and consequently centuries start at even multiples of 100.

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

From Haparanda on the Finnish border, it stretches south along the Gulf of Bothnia to Gävle, then on a more inland route southwards.

* The Finnish capital, Helsinki, is the northernmost capital city on the mainland of the European continent, and ranks as third globally.

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

After independence from Russia in 1917, the Finnish Civil War, including interventions by Imperial Germany and Soviet Russia, and failure of the Communist revolution, resulted in the official ban on Communism, and strengthening relations with Western countries.

In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning " month of the pearl "; when snow melts on tree branches, it forms droplets, and as these freeze again, they are like pearls of ice.

The bill also furthered Finnish independence by restricting Russia's influence on domestic Finnish affairs: the Provisional Government of Russia would determine only the foreign and military policies of Finland.

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.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

The first Finnish Jägers had arrived in Finland on 31 October on a ship called Equity, carrying a large shipment of weapons from the German army.

Following the October Revolution, Finnish socialists planned to ask the Bolsheviks for acceptance of Finland's sovereignty in a manifesto on 10 November, but the uncertain situation in Petrograd stalled it.

The presence of the two opposing armed forces in Finland, the Red and the White Guards, imposed a state of " dual power " and " multiple sovereignty " on Finnish society, typically the prelude to civil war.

Both political groups, therefore, agreed on the need for Finnish sovereignty, despite strong disagreement on the selection of its leadership.

On 15 January, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, like Aaltonen a former officer in the Russian army, was appointed supreme commander of the White Guards, and on 25 January the Senate renamed the White Guards the Finnish White Army.

In order to gain weaponry, some of the Red Guards located along the Viipuri-Tampere railway had been alerted beforehand, on 23 – 26 January, to safeguard Russian trains carrying a heavy shipment of weapons to the Finnish Reds, as agreed between Ali Aaltonen and V. I.

His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements.

There is the Children of Húrin, the tragic tale of Túrin Turambar and his sister Níniel – of which Túrin is the hero: a figure that might be said ( by people who like that sort of thing, though it is not very useful ) to be derived from elements in Sigurd the Volsung, Oedipus, and the Finnish Kullervo.

One of the features of standard Croatian language and in common with several languages such as Czech, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Tamil, Turkish is word coinage using roots or elements perceived as being characteristic or unique to the speech of the community.

The ideology of Karelianism inspired Finnish artists and researchers, who believed that the Orthodox Karelians had retained elements of an archaic, original Finnish culture which had disappeared from Finland.

Traditional Finnish cuisine is a combination of European, Fennoscandian and Western Russian elements ; table manners are European.

Five German divisions and various attached elements ( Including two ' special purpose ' Panzer units ) were moved into position in Northern Finland, joining the Finnish forces, currently being mobilised under the guise of border exercises.

Impaled Nazarene is a Finnish black metal band that incorporates elements of grindcore in their sound and punk rock in their aesthetics.

Hedningarna ( The Pagans ) is a Swedish and, for some years partly Finnish, folk music band that mixes electronics and rock with elements from old Scandinavian folk music.

Gandalf was a Finnish melodic death metal band who incorporated elements of traditional hard rock into their sound.

One should also note that some constructed elements are loans from Finnish mythology and may date back to the common Baltic-Finnic heritage.

Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band that combined elements of punk, glam rock, rock and roll, and blues.

Featuring the well known Finnish horn section baabelin torvet, a remix for Hidria Spacefolk, combining new elements and live instruments to their sound.

The swift and energetic traditional music of Karelia is regarded as the purest expression of Finnish music, less influenced by Germanic and other outside elements.

The Italian and Finnish languages have the purest, or shallowest orthographies, and English orthography is the deepest or most complex.

Lars Valerian Ahlfors ( 18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996 ) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis.

The complex of commercial buildings in the town center of Hervanta was designed by the Finnish architect Reima Pietilä.

Landmarks of Katajanokka include the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, also known as Uspenski Cathedral ( architect Alexey Gornostaev, 1868 ), the Merikasarmi complex of the Foreign Ministry ( architect Carl Ludvig Engel, 1825 ) and the Finnish headquarters of Stora Enso ( architect Alvar Aalto, 1962 ; the most controversial of Aalto's works ).

They run meetings for people who want to live and work in the country, to get around the complex world of the Finnish bureaucracy, assistance with learning the Finnish language & the local customs and with meeting other ex-pats.

Other languages, like German, Finnish, Hebrew, and Russian, have more complex etymologies for the word " orange " that can be traced back to the same idea.

Kompleksi (" complex " in Finnish ) is an electro act from Tampere, Finland.