Famous People-Philosopher,Anthropologist,and
J. V. Snellman
As a consequence Snellman exiled himself to Sweden and Germany, more or less voluntarily, from 1839 to 1842. By the time he returned to Helsinki, his popularity had increased further, but the political juncture did not allow the University to employ him. Instead he took up the position as headmaster for a school in distant Kuopio, and published starkly polemical periodicals, including the paper Saima in Swedish that advocated the duty of the educated classes to take up the language of the then circa 85% majority of Finns, and develop Finnish into a language of the civilized world[attribution needed] useful for academic works, fine arts, state craft, and nation building.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Vilhelm_Snellman
Hilma Granqvist
In the 1920s Granqvist arrived at the village of Artas, just outside Bethlehem in the then British Mandate of Palestine as part of her research on the women of the Old Testament. She had gone to Palestine "in order to find the Jewish ancestors of Scripture. What she found instead was a Palestinian people with a distinct culture and way of life. She therefore changed the focus of her research to a full investigation of the customs, habits and ways of thinking of the people of that village. Granqvist ended up staying until 1931 documenting all aspects of village life. In so doing she took hundreds of photographs.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_Granqvist
Simo Aalto
Simo Aalto (born March 19, 1960 in Oulu)[1] is a stage magician from Karis, Finland. His awards include the FISM World Championship of Magic in close-up magic in Lisbon, 2000, and the Solmu Mäkelä Silver Medal to the most distinguished conjurer of all times in Finland by the Finnish Magic Circle, also in 2000. He was elected Magician of the Year in 1997 by the FMC and Entertainer of the Year by the Finnish Performing Artists Association in 2001. He has also lectured and performed in various countries.
Aalto specializes in children's magic and is best known for his appearances in television, which culminated in "Simo's Magic Tent", a series of inserts (later shown on their own) from 1994 to early 2000s. As of September 2006, he tours Finland with his assistant and wife, Kirsi Aalto.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Aalto
As a consequence Snellman exiled himself to Sweden and Germany, more or less voluntarily, from 1839 to 1842. By the time he returned to Helsinki, his popularity had increased further, but the political juncture did not allow the University to employ him. Instead he took up the position as headmaster for a school in distant Kuopio, and published starkly polemical periodicals, including the paper Saima in Swedish that advocated the duty of the educated classes to take up the language of the then circa 85% majority of Finns, and develop Finnish into a language of the civilized world[attribution needed] useful for academic works, fine arts, state craft, and nation building.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Vilhelm_Snellman
Hilma Granqvist
In the 1920s Granqvist arrived at the village of Artas, just outside Bethlehem in the then British Mandate of Palestine as part of her research on the women of the Old Testament. She had gone to Palestine "in order to find the Jewish ancestors of Scripture. What she found instead was a Palestinian people with a distinct culture and way of life. She therefore changed the focus of her research to a full investigation of the customs, habits and ways of thinking of the people of that village. Granqvist ended up staying until 1931 documenting all aspects of village life. In so doing she took hundreds of photographs.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_Granqvist
Simo Aalto
Simo Aalto (born March 19, 1960 in Oulu)[1] is a stage magician from Karis, Finland. His awards include the FISM World Championship of Magic in close-up magic in Lisbon, 2000, and the Solmu Mäkelä Silver Medal to the most distinguished conjurer of all times in Finland by the Finnish Magic Circle, also in 2000. He was elected Magician of the Year in 1997 by the FMC and Entertainer of the Year by the Finnish Performing Artists Association in 2001. He has also lectured and performed in various countries.
Aalto specializes in children's magic and is best known for his appearances in television, which culminated in "Simo's Magic Tent", a series of inserts (later shown on their own) from 1994 to early 2000s. As of September 2006, he tours Finland with his assistant and wife, Kirsi Aalto.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Aalto
Famous Buildings
The building of Olavinlinna, castle of St. Olaf, began in 1475. The Danish-born founder of the castle, knight Erik Axelsson Tott, decided that a powerful fortification should be build to protect the strategically important Savo region. The castle was supposed to repel Russian attacks from the east and to guarantee the control of the Savo region for the Swedish Crown. The history of Olavinlinna is a mixture of medieval arms clashing, cannons roaring and every-day chores inside the security of the castle's thick walls.http://www.discoveringfinland.com/product/olavinlinna-castle/1325/