Also of note was the Finnish IWW educational institute, the Work People's College in Duluth, and the Finnish Labour Temple in Port Arthur, Ontario which served as the IWW Canadian administration for several years.

Hall's parents were Finnish immigrants from the Lapua region, and were politically radical: they were involved in the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) and were early members of the Communist Party USA ( CPUSA ) in 1919.

The Finnish Labour Temple itself was the Canadian administration for the IWW for a number of years.

According to McDonald all the waitresses were members of the IWW, and one of the cooks was a woman who had served a year in a Finnish prison for her activities on behalf of the Reds during the Finnish Revolution of 1918.

Also popular among the international performing arts community in Europe, a group of Finnish producers organized an international karaoke competition called KWC ( Karaoke World Championships ).

* Saint Urho's Day ( Finnish community in U. S. and Canada )

Lutefisk is very popular in Nordic-North American areas of Canada, especially the prairie regions and the large Finnish community at Sointula on Malcolm Island in the province of British Columbia, and the United States, particularly in the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest.

The area's 41 organizations and 12 civic clubs include Filipino community organizations, a Finnish organization, and American Lebanese Women's Club, several Hispanic and Latin American organizations, and a Japanese organization among the many sports, cultural, conservation, charitable, and civic associations.

Italian, Croatian, Polish, German, Ukrainian, Scottish, English, French, Irish, Austrian, Finnish, Chinese, Filipino, and Native Cultures as well as others to join together and celebrate the diversity of the community.

* Eurosinkut, abbreviated as * es, a Finnish singles community

There, on the shores of Lake Tuusula where Pekka Halonen resided, an artists ’ community developed and flourished, helping to develop a sense of Finnish national identity.

Viktors Bertholds, one of the last Livonian speakers of the generation who learnt Livonian as first language in a Livonian-speaking family and community, died on February 28, 2009, ironically, the day of Kalevala ( day of Finnish culture ).

In February 2007, a 100-page Pro graduation master's thesis with the topic " Virtual gift-Trading gifts in BatMUD virtual community " in cultural anthropology for the University of Jyväskylä was published, written by a non-player in Finnish.

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 All-Seeing Eye, known to its community of users as ASE, was a game server browser designed by Finnish company UDP Soft.

Kolho played a big role in the rise of the Finnish paper industry together with the neighbouring Mänttä community.

New Sweden changed hands to Dutch control in 1655, but many Finns had already entered and the Finnish community, while small, was growing.

The largest Finnish community in the United States, and the largest outside of Fennoscandia, is in Lake Worth, Florida, south of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Agricola Finnish Lutheran Church was built in 1967, serving Toronto and area's Finnish Lutheran community.

The magazine is more akin to European and American videogames magazines than Finnish ones with its focus on exclusive coverage on the latest games and extensive interviews with members of the development community.

# Adolf Ehrnrooth ( infantry general, a figurehead for the Finnish veteran community )

Also part of Finlandia University, and serving both the campus and the community, is the Finnish American Heritage Center which hosts numerous university and community events and houses a museum, art gallery, theater, the Finnish American Historical Archives, the Finnish American Reporter, a monthly English language journal featuring news and information of interest to Finnish Americans, North Wind Books.

The original design of the Molotov cocktail produced by the Finnish alcohol monopoly Alko during the Winter War of 1939 – 40.

In 1999, the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki produced Juha, which captures the style of a silent film, using intertitles in place of spoken dialogue.

An entire Finnish parody series Star Wreck was produced starting in 1992, culminating with Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning in 2005, all available as legal downloads on the web.

Valtion tykkitehdas produced artillery pieces for the Finnish Army along with Tampella AB industries.

He translated the New Testament into Finnish and also produced the prayer book and hymns used in Finland's new, Lutheran Church.

The Finnish M28 is widely considered to be one of the finest and most accurate military rifles ever produced ; Simo Häyhä, one of the most successful military snipers of all time, recorded over 500 kills with a standard-issue Finnish M28 Mosin-Nagant rifle over the course of about 100 days.

Finnish Mosin – Nagants were produced by SAKO, Tikkakoski, and VKT, with some using barrels imported from Switzerland and Germany.

Finnish rifles are characterized by Russian, French or American-made receivers stamped with a boxed SA, as well as many other parts produced in those countries and barrels produced in Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and Germany.

In 1998, Billy Gould produced the album Vainajala ( 1998 ) by the Finnish rock band CMX, " Living Targets " by German band The Beatsteaks, " FUCC the INS ", " Kultura Diktatura ", " We Came to Take Your Jobs Away " by Kultur Shock.

While working at the University of Oulu in August 1988, he wrote the first IRC server and client programs, which he produced to replace the MUT ( MultiUser Talk ) program on the Finnish BBS OuluBox.

KV-1 produced in 1942, displayed in Finnish Tank Museum in Parola.

In the Finnish Star Trek parody Star Wreck-In the Pirkinning, most of the visual effects were done in LightWave by Finnish filmmaker Samuli Torsonnen, who produced the VFX work for the feature film Iron Sky.

The Patria AMV ( Armored Modular Vehicle ) is an 8 × 8 multi-role military vehicle produced by the Finnish defence industry company Patria.

* Grana, a Finnish brand of fixtures and other plumbing products produced by Muovi-Baari Oy Reiman

The Finnish punk scene produced some internationally respected names including Terveet Kädet in 1980s.

Later the same year the band composed the theme song ( Frozen Angel ) for a major Finnish feature film, " V2 – Dead Angel " produced by Solarfilms Inc.

In spoken Finnish and in spoken Italian, long consonants are produced between words by sandhi effects.

Alko also sells brands of drinks produced by the Finnish state-owned company Altia, which are traditional products and not sold abroad.

Ironically, many other vodka brands brandishing symbols of Finnish culture, such as Leijona with the Lion of Finland or Suomi-Viina, are partially produced from Estonian or other foreign raw materials.

A specialty beer called Tyrnilambic Baie d ' Argousier has been produced at the Cantillon Brewery in Brussels exclusively for the Finnish Market.

* In 2003, the Finnish theater company Circus Maximus produced a stage version of Roadside Picnic, called Stalker.