Finland

Hyvää joulua!

(Merry Christmas!)

It varies. When children start school at the age of seven, they normally have three to five hours a day. From there, it gradually increases, but never more that eight hours, generally the maximum being seven. This is during the first nine years of school.

Finland has three famous inventions: sauna, ice skates, and virtual air-guitar. Its known by its citicens as the homeland of Santa Claus. They say he lives in Korvatunturi, and Korvatunturi has gotten mail from all over the world, even from Japan. Finland it the third most enviromental country in the world, and would be the most enviromental without the worlds most polluted ocean, Itämeri. Finland has also the person with highest speeding ticket, Jussi Salonoja. The ticket was 170000 euros, because he drove twice the speed allowed with a motorbike in Helsinki, february 2004. As Jussi is the heir of the HK:s sausage factory, hes incomes were in 2002 about 7 million euros. Therefore, speeding ticket is 1/60 of months net worth with the information of the persons taxes. Finland is the least corrupted coutry in the world. It has one very famous giant, Väinö Myllyrinne, who was 251 sentimeters tall. Finland is known of its wierd sports, like cellphone, beer barrel, coin, boot or human throwing, holding a car, ice-fishing, and swinging all the way around. Patti Valasti and Aki Kontala played record breaking, six bounces of ping pong game, with an egg as a ball. Finland scored a new highscore in Eurovision competion in 2006, with scores of 292. Theres aso a record of lifting a boat. Finns are not so known of their skills of breaking records, but their ability to invent new records. Finland is the home of "Fullmoon's Miss American Pie", the cat with the longest wiskers in the world. There are three other alphabets in finnish language than in english: å,ä and ö. And finally, i have to say, that Helsinki has an unique restaurant called "Kynsilaukka", that serves only garlic.

Ole hyvä ja palauta minun kynsileikkurini. Less formally, Ole hyvä ja palauta mun kynsileikkuri or something similar would work.

People in Finland make a living by working and being involved in various income generating activities. Most of the people prefer professional jobs like nursing, accounting, advocacy and so much more.

Lapland is a region in northern Fennoscandia within the Arctic circle, it encompases Norway, Sweden, FInland and Russia. It is surrounded by sea on three corners - north by Barents sea, west by Norwegian sea and east by the white sea.

328, only one more than in England. I also counted.

You don't say anything in Finland, but you can say stuff in Finnish. Anyways, "hi" in Finnish is "hei".

This last name means "thrush"{the bird}. There is currently 800 people with the last name Rastas in Finland

"Piparkakku"

The first syllable is pronounced "pip", not like pipe.

The second syllable, "ar" is pronounced like a pirate would say "arrr", except you don't stress the r. :P

The third syllable, "ka" is pronounced like the "ka" in the word kart, except the a is very short. After "ka" the k in "kku" is stressed and the u after that is also very short. The u is pronounced like the u in uno.

"[I] love you"

"Partiolaiset" (the word includes also the boy and the girl scouts) or "partiotytöt" (includes only the girls).

The national organization which is a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is called "Suomen Partiolaiset - Finlands Scouter ry" (The Guides and Scouts of Finland) which is a combined organization of the Union of Finnish Girl Guides and the Scout Union of Finland.

Age groups:

Vaeltaja (Finnish) Rover (Swedish): Ranger ages 15-20

Partiolainen (Finnish)Flickscout (Swedish) Guide ages 10-14

Sudenpentu (Finnish) Vargunge (Swedish) Brownie ages 7-10

Fruits, grains, and vegetables are the most grown foods in Finland. Wild berries dominate as fruits while barley, flax, oats, rye, and wheat emerge as dominant grains and potatoes and turnips as priority vegetables.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

This is a rifle built on the Soviet Mosin Nagant receiver. Some of these are quite rare and unique, and have high valves. Expect between $250.00 to $800.00 depending on factors.

Ystävänpäivä, "a friend's day".

The duration of A Finnish Summer with Turisas is 2.67 hours.

According to archaelogical evidence, the area now comprising Finland was settled at the latest around 8500 BCE during the Stone Age as the ice shield of the last ice age receded. The artifacts the first settlers left behind present characteristics that are shared with those found in Estonia, Russia and Norway. Swedish-speaking settlers arrived in the coastal regions during the medieval time. Swedish kings established their rule in 1249.

Finnish gunboat Karjala was created in 1918.

Antti Olavi Tashinen, born in 1976, is a Finnish serial killer who poisoned 3 three men. What is unusual about Taskinen is his means of murder. Poisoning is more commonly seen in women serial killers. Unfortuneatly for his victims, it was very effective for Tashinen.

Names are often not translated in Finnish, but placenames sometimes are, but often not. Literally translated it would be "marjakylä"

They educate on a lot of religions, they don't teach one single religion as it is not a religious country.