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13 of the total of 19 female MPs, who were the first female MPs in the world, elected in Finland's parliamentary elections in 1907. The area that in 1809 became Finland was a group of integral provinces of the Kingdom of Sweden for over 600 years, signifying that also women in Finland were allowed to vote during the Swedish Age of Liberty (1718 ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Finnish American culture is also celebrated at Finlandia University in Hancock, Michigan, formerly Suomi College, which has been the only Finnish American institution of higher learning in the United States since the closing of Work People's College in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941.
Gun Lanciai (1920–2013), sculptor; Kaisa Leka (born 1978), cartoonist, politician; Rakel Liekki (born 1979), filmmaker, journalist and writer; Heljä Liukko-Sundström (1938–2024), ceramic artist and writer
Finnish-American culture. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
Sauna culture is an important part of Finnish daily life and the country's heritage. There are ancient versions dating back to the Stone Age. There are ancient versions dating back to the Stone Age.
Viola Irene Turpeinen (15 November 1909 – 26 December 1958) was an American-Finnish polka accordion player. [1] She was one of the most well-known Finnish-American musicians of her time, [2] and is possibly the first woman in the world to record accordion solos.
Fashion has always broken boundaries and captured the zeitgeist. But it has also evolved from a marker of social status into a tool of self-expression. This list of some of the 20th century’s ...