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Shūkōkai has evolved into several independent style branches throughout the world over the past few decades: Kimura Shukokai grew out of the Shūkōkai school taught since 1978 in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States and later in Tenafly, New Jersey by Shigeru Kimura, a long time student of Tani.
Lake Saimaa, located in south-eastern Finland, the largest lake in Finland at 4,400 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi), is the only habitat of the Saimaa ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis). This seal subspecies has become landlocked and has adapted to the freshwated environment following the end of the last glaciation .
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Åbo Bloodbath: November 10, 1599 Turku: 14 Klaukkala axe murders: May 10, 1899 Nurmijärvi: 7 Officers' Swimming School []: September 1917
Central Finland: 1 [a] 3 4: A man armed with a shotgun shot and wounded his wife and parents-in-law before killing himself. [42] 30 July 1973: Helsinki: Uusimaa: 1 4 [a] 5: A man armed with a handgun shot and killed one person and wounded three others before being shot and wounded by police. [43] 5 April 1975: Kanunki: Southwest Finland: 4 0 4
Today, Finland is home to around 1,800 Jews, of which 1,400 live in the Greater Helsinki area and 200 in Turku. [1] Finnish and Swedish are the most common mother tongues of Jews in Finland, and many also speak Yiddish, German, Russian or Hebrew. [2] Since data collection began in 2008, incidents of antisemitism have been on the rise in Finland ...
Pine bark served as famine food in Finland – most recently, during and after the civil war of 1918. The Famine of 1866–1868 was the last famine in Finland, and (along with the subsequent Swedish famine of 1867-1869) the last major famine in Northern Europe. [1] In Finland, the famine is known as "the great hunger years", or suuret ...
Jaegers during training. The Finnish Coastal Jaegers (Swedish: Kustjägarna, and Finnish: Rannikkojääkärit) or Finnish Marine Commandos are the marines special operations capable forces unit of the Finnish Navy. [1]
Kinnula is a municipality of Finland.. It is located in the Central Finland region.The municipality has a population of 1,505 (31 October 2024) [2] and covers an area of 495.71 square kilometres (191.39 sq mi) of which 35.48 km 2 (13.70 sq mi) is water. [1]