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Need information on national flower. Bird? Animal? 712 Finland´s national nature symbols are http://www.finland.org/natsyeng.html
Which government office in Finland determines design standards for bicycle paths (width, traffic separation, signage, snow clearing, etc.)? 633 Please visit the site of Network of Finnish Cycling Municipalities: http://www.sll.fi/verkosto/engl.htm . There are some useful addresses at the end of the page. Email address of the co-ordinator Tapio Linna is tapio.linna@sll.fi . In Helsinki the municipal organ is Traffic Planning Division in City Planning Department. The pages are unfortunately only in Finnish and Swedish: http://www.hel.fi/ksv . One of the contact people is Antero Naskila antero.naskila@hel.fi
Where can I find the following book? Hansen and Nielsen "The Economic Analysis of the EU" McGrow-Hill, 1997 190 There is a book "An Economic Analysis of the EU" by Drud Hansen, Jörgen available in the library of Turun kauppakorkeakoulu. I suggest that you visit the library in Pasila and ask them to borrow the book for you from Turku. You can also ask the book from the library of Yleisradio, open mon-fri 9 am-6 pm, tel (09) 148 015 619, but they might not want to help you.
I am looking for material (books, cassetes, videos, CDs etc) for studying Danish (the language) on my own. Could you kindly tell me where would it be… 705 There are some Danish courses in English in the public libraries: Jones, W. Glyn : Colloquial Danish--a complete language course. 1998 Danish phrase book / compiled by Lexus Ltd with Gert Ronberg. 1998 Garde, Anna: Danish dictionary--English-Danish--Danish-English. 1995 | Scandinavian phrase book & dictionary. 1995 Elsworth, Bente: Danish--a complete course for beginners . 1994 The availability of these courses you can check in this Internet adress: http://www.libplussa.fi/#en
Where can I get information on the Kuusisto Castle and the restored Kuusisto Manor? Are there any photographs of the Manor? I would appreciate receiving any… 602 The Kuusisto Castle and the Manor are situated on the Island of Kuusisto near the town of Kaarina, and they are not connected to the Kuusisto family (Kuusisto is a common surname in Western and Central Finland). In the following Finnish pages there are photographs of the Kuusisto Manor (Kuusiston kartano): http://www.nba.fi/MUSEUMS/KUUSKART/index.htm and http://www.nba.fi/MUSEUMS/KUUSKART/hist.htm Here is a photograph of the ruins of the Kuusisto Castle (Kuusiston linna): http://www.nba.fi/MUUTKOHT/KUUSISTO/ http://www.nba.fi/MUUTKOHT/KUUSISTO/historia.htm And these pages contain some information in English about the Castle and the Manor: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/castles7.html http://www.genealogia.fi/emi/art/lstar96e…
Where can I get an information about main holidays in Finland if I need it very soon? Please help me. 164 I recommend you the Virtual Finland webpages maintained by the Press and Cultural Department of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the internet address http://virtual.finland.fi they are an excellent starting point to the Finnish society, politics, news and cultural events. On the mainpage choose FinFoDirectory. In the directory pick "The Finnish Way of Life". There you'll find articles about "The traditional Finnish festivities ", "Finnish Easter traditions", "Midsummer in Finland" etc. If you need the exact dates I recommend you to look in a good calendar, which usually list the main public holidays all over Europe. A good source is also "The Europe World Year Book" . The "Year 2000 volume" contains the dates of 2001 holidays…
Where and how I could find a ref book of deceased people,to find the date of my father departed THANKS 167 Unfortunately there is neither a referencebook nor a database available, which would contain information on the deceased all over the country. What I recommend you to do is to find out the city or county where your father lived and contact the parish register office. However, if he was killed in the Second Worldwar (1939-1945) you most propably will find this information in the address http://tietokannat.mil.fi which contains the file of fallen soldiers in the war 1939-45. This database is available also in English. If you are interested in genealogic research I recommend you to check http://www.genealogia.fi , which has excellent links, too. Another useful address http://www.familysearch.org , which is run by the Church of Jesus Christ…
Teen opinnäytetyötä Intranetista ja etsin englanninkielisiä lähdeteoksia aiheesta. Mm.Mikä on Intranet? Miten sellaisen voi kehittää ja miten ylläpitää? Siis… 560 Suurkaupunkialueen kirjastojärjestelmästä löytyy ainakin seuraavanlaisia kirjoja: Nielsen, Jakob: Designing Web usability, 2000; Pedley, Paul: Intranets and push technology - creating an information-sharing environment, 1999; Keen, Peter K. W.: The business Internet and Intranets - a manager's guide to key terms and concepts, 1998; Matthews, Martin S.: FrontPage 98 - the complete reference, 1998; Intranet resource kit (ed. by Prakash Ambegaonkar), 1997; Bremner, Lynn M.: Intranet bible, 1997; Thomas, Stephen A.: Building your Intranet with Windows NT 4.0. 1997; Bannan, Joan:Intranet document management - a guide for Webmasters and content providers, 1997; Official Microsoft Intranet solutions - using Microsoft Office 97 and…
Our company needs the text (in English or in Russian) of Finland Securities Market Act (1989 year, No 495). Where can we find it? Our company is situated in… 662 Please contact the Library of Parliament. The Securities Market Act (arvopaperimarkkinalaki 495/1989) is available in English. The library has interlending services, tel. +35894323450, email: kirjasto_kaukopalvelu@eduskunta.fi The text is in Internet in Finnish: http://finlex.om.fi/stp.html , you can choose the year 1989, the laws are in numerical order.
Where can I find info on Name day? I have been told that each Finnish person has a Birthday and a Name day 557 The best way to find out about Finnish name days is to buy yourself a calendar or an almanac that has a list of Finnish male and female names. The Finnish almanac has 361 Finnish female names and 354 Finnish male names; the Swedish almanac version has 263 female names and 264 male names. Most names the Finnish use can be found on the almanac, but some new ones cannot be found on almanacs, these names do not have an official name day at all. You will find calendars and almanacs e.g. in bookshops. If you want to learn more about Finnish names, you might take a look at http://www.eponym.org/hq.html There are many Finnish name links and also a pronunciation guide. A fairly good web page is also http://www.genealogia.fi/nimet/nimi36qs.htm…
Are Finland's telephone white pages soon to be available on the internet?Tnaks 1247 Here are a few Internet-links you can look. Some of them are in Finnish and you must register. Some of the information is free of charge and some isn't. http://www.numeronetti.fi/kayttoohjeet/index.html , http://www.0100100.com/ . You can look in English http://cc.inet.fi/cgi-bin/gwis/Site?26OAA3C47.k9lpQ_Xil7OeG2ypBryC8dCQ… .
I am looking for information about a language called "skolta", which is spoken in the north of Finland 202 Skolt is a very small language spoken by the Skolts, a group of Lappish people, living in the most north-northeastern part of Finnish Lapland and in the north-western part of Russia. There are only about one thousand Skolt-speakers left, half of them in Finland. Even these very few people speak various dialects, which can differ drastically even from village to village. So if your main wish is to be able to comumunicate with the parents of a friend I recommend sticking to English, and asking your friend to teach you a couple of phrases. But if you are interested in the language beside that, you could start with reading an article "Saamic" (pp.43-95) in "The Uralic Languages" / ed.by Daniel Abondolo. Routledge, London and New York, 1998…
Dear friends, would you, please, help me to find out any Master of Divinity level program in any of the Finnish seminaries or universities that would be needed… 1530 The Faculty of Theology at University of Helsinki provides higher education in theology. Besides the University of Helsinki, there are only two institutions of higher education in Finland where theology can be studied: the Swedish-speaking Faculty of Theology at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, and at the University of Joensuu in Eastern Finland. In order to study theology you should contact University of Helsinki and from there you can get information if it is possible to study from abroad. The Faculty has good contacts with theological faculties in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Western Europe and North America. Contact Information is Faculty of Theology P.O.Box 33 (Aleksanterinkatu 7) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland. The…
I am looking for an index of Sami (Lapp) names - if possibile on the internet, but if not in print. 175 Sorry, it is not possible to find Sami names in the internet. They are in the book Yliopiston nimipäiväalmanakka 1999 (email: almanakka@helsinki.fi), the Almanac Office at University of Helsinki. It is a little book (20 FMK).
I am looking for information about gender preference with parents in unborn/born child. 560 I found some full-text articles of son preference in the EBSCO article database. I'll email them to you each separately. In the union catalog of the Finnish university libraries LINDA there were following references: Thomson, Elizabeth: Gender and the value of children. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988 Stattin, Håkan: The short- and the long-term implications for parent-child relations of parents' prenatal preferences for their... Stockholm : University of Stockholm, 1989 Stattin, Håkan: Delinquency as related to parents' preferences for their child's gender : a research. Stockholm : University of Stockholm, 1989 And some article references from the medical database Medscape: Marleau JD, Berthiaume M, Saucier JF,…
I am trying to find out what the national anthem of Finland is and what it sounds like. 648 The Finnish national anthem is "Maamme" ("Our Land" in English) by Fredrik Pacius. You will find more information on the anthem on the Internet: virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/maamme.html. On this site you can listen to the anthem sung by the Polytech Choir. From the page there is a link leading to virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/hymnieng, where you will find the words of the anthem in Finnish, Swedish and English, plus sheet music.
Can you help me to begin learning finish languge and finish grammar? I am bulgarian and I can use russian and english. 195 Dear Ms. ..., I recommend you to check via http://www.kirjastot fi the database of your nearest library. Using the subject heading "suomen kieli kielikurssit" or "kielikurssit suomen kieli" you should see the availability of both books, cassette-courses and even cd-roms. The cassette-courses come in packages, which contain both the recordings and the books.
Can you help me to begin learning finnish languge and finnish grammar? I am bulgarian and I can use russian and english like help languges. 213 Jyväskylä library has the following books that might be of use to you: 1) First Finnish (by Leena Horton), includes a text book and an exercise book) 2) Finski jazyk dlja natsinajustsih: kurs intensivnogo samoobutsenija (by Pavel Razinov) 3) Survival course in Finnish for foreigners (by Eeva Piirainen) 4) Finnish for foreigners (by Maija-Mielikki Aaltio) In addition to books, in Jyväskylä there are excellent language courses. You can get more information by telephoning to the following number: 626 597 (Jyväskylä folk institute) If you live somewhere else in Finland, try contacting the local folk institute (that's kansalaisopisto in Finnish).
I was lookin for some Info. on Emily Jane Bronte she died on Dec.19,1848 and I want the report of how she died? and was asking you if you can look back and… 640 Emily caught a cold at his brothers funeral and never left home again. She died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848, also at the age of thirty, and never knew the great success of her only novel Wuthering Heights, which was published almost exactly a year before her death on December 19, 1848. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/1380/emily.htm for further information please use Google http://www.google.com/ and type "Emily Jane Bronte" +died.
I want to know the average cost of living including house rent, food etc. per month in Finland particularly in Helisinki. 179 Statistics Finland compiles the official statistics concerning whole Finland. Their main page: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/index_en.html Income and Consumption (includes household expenditures): http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskue_tulot.html Housing (includes average rents of rented dwellings): http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskue_asuminen.html Prices and costs (includes selected food prices): http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/taskue_hinnat.html Finland in figures, all kinds of statistics about everyday life in Finland: http://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tk/tp/tasku/suomilukuina_en.html The pages above give information on the whole Finland. Statistics concerning Helsinki are compiled by Tietokeskus (http://www.hel.…