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Year Location Temperature °C (°F) Date 1961 Kemi-Tornio Airport: 30.8 °C (87.4 °F) July 14 1962 Kronoby: 26.0 °C (78.8 °F) June 20 1963 Utti
The annual average temperature is relatively high in the southwestern part of the country (5.0 to 7.5 °C or 41.0 to 45.5 °F), with quite mild winters and warm summers, and low in the northeastern part of Lapland (Finland) (0 to −4 °C or 32 to 25 °F).
The Kalevala (IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, [1] telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists ...
Post WWII Finland underwent an urbanisation which changed poets' relationships with culture and nature, specifically the forest. [14] Like much of Europe and the western world, 1960's Finland saw an artistic period of challenging old taboo's where its poetry become heavily politicised. [7]
Ukko ("old man") was a god of the sky, weather, and the crops. The Finnish word for thunder, "ukkonen" (little Ukko) or "ukonilma" (Ukko's weather), is derived from his name. In the Kalevala he is also called "ylijumala" (overgod, Supreme God). He makes all his appearances in myths solely by natural effects.
The championships began with preliminary rounds and ended in the finals, where the best six men and women would see who could sit in the sauna the longest. The starting temperature in the men's competition was 110 °C (230 °F). Half a litre of water was poured on the stove every 30 seconds.
The series follows the Tempe, Arizona-based 2,100 year-old Irish Druid, Atticus O'Sullivan. This book's main plot is the ingress of several characters - the Slavic thunder god Perun , O'Sullivan, a werewolf , a vampire , Finnish folk legend Väinämöinen, and Taoist fangshi Zhang Guolao - into Asgard to kill Norse thunder god Thor , all for ...
After the success of the full-length symphonic poem (most of which consists of rousing and turbulent passages, evoking the national struggle of the Finnish people), Sibelius published a stand-alone version of the hymn as the last of twelve numbers in his Masonic Ritual Music, Op. 113, with a text by opera singer Wäinö Sola.