Europe Wrestles With Russian Nuclear Diplomacy
Finland's government last week came near to breaking up after a conditional permit was granted to a Russian-backed consortium to build a new nuclear power plant that could cost up to €6 billion ($7.68 billion) in the country's north-west. That led the ...
Arctic Circle trek for cancer charity
Victor Contini, the owner of Ristorante Contini on George Street and The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant at The Mound, has pledged to raise at least £10,000 as part of a three-day trek to Northern Finland in March. The 51-year-old will join a team of 20 others ...
Finland first focus country for Reeperbahn Festival 2015
Finland will be the first focus country of next year's Reeperbahn Festival as part of a two-year initiative to bring Finnish music to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Titled Aus Finnland, the music export project aims to increase opportunities for artists ...
Workers react to more cuts at Uponor Infra in Finland
Employees at two of Uponor Infra’s pipe extrusion plants in Finland staged a walkout on 19 September. Immediately after it became known that Uponor Infra's aim in its current round of talks with workers was to cut 100 jobs in Finland, most of the ...
4 Reasons Union Membership Is at an All-Time Low
Source: Thinkstock Last year, the percentage of working Americans who were unionized reached a ninety-seven-year low, and public opinion of labor unions has been in the gutter throughout much of the past decade. Yet, labor unions have played an important role in U.S. history, and some experts have s ...
1963 Coat of Arms Heraldic animals 0.05 mk Finland
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Arkeologi & Historia September 2014
VISNING AV HÄLLRISTNINGAR I VÄSTMANLAND Årets sista guidning av hällristningarna i Björksta socken, öster om Västerås nära E18, gör Sven-Gunnar Broström söndagen den 28 september kl. 14-16. Som vanligt samlas man vid parkeringsplatsen vid kyrkan. Mer information finns på http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/ ...
Nyheter om Samer September 2014
VEM VAR VIKINGATIDA KVINNAN I NORDNORGES RIKASTE GRAV FRÅN 900-TALET? År 1856 grävdes Nordnorges rikaste vikingatida kvinnograv ut i Vesterågen i Vardø i Finnmark. Vem var hon? Det diskuterar arkeologen Frans-Arne Hedlund Stylegar på sin blogg Arkeologi i nord. Hedlund Stylegar, Frans-Arne 2014-08-1 ...
Monday Moods
Looking forward to seeing all of you this Wed for our Wednesday Around the World linky! BETTYL - NEW ZEALAND SINGWA - HONG KONG Cousins are ready-made friends for life. CAROLINE -ENGLAND At Wroxham, on the Bure Valley Railway narrow gauge passenger line, the vintage and the modern run side-by-side. ...
Helsinki, Finland – on the Scandinavia Cruise
Cruising Scandinavia and the Baltic Helsinki, Finland After St. Petersburg, we went to Helsinki, Finland. What a difference! We had an opportunity to take a drive around the city of Helsinki and stopped at a beautiful Lutheran church that almost looked Russian. And another church, built in 1969, was ...
On This Day in History September 22
September 22 – Events: 66 – Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica. 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Šiauliai. 1499 – Switzerland became an independent state. 1586 – The battle of Zutphen occurs. 1598 – Ben Jonson is indicted for mansl ...
