You may think of Embarrass as the town that often posts the cold-weather records in the winter, but it has a unique slice of Minnesota history available for visitors to the area: the Finnish Homestead ...

With a childlike twinkle returning to his eyes, 77-year-old Arthur Saarinen remembers climbing the chinaberry trees as a toddler on the way to his grandfather's Alachua County home. He recalls having ...

Helsinki’s early history is a dismal cycle of building, settling, fires, rebuilding and resettling. And then there was the ...

In the 1920s, the Finnish Shooting Sport Federation sought to replace the military’s venerable Mosin-Nagant. Its attempts to ...

Since its debut at the Finnish Artists’ annual exhibition in 1903, The Wounded Angel by Finnish artist Hugo Simberg has remained a perennial favorite both among Finns (it was voted the country’s ...

TOIMI, Minn. — Walking into Toimi School is like taking a walk back in time. The two-room schoolhouse, built by and for Finnish immigrants in the unincorporated community of Toimi in 1913, is filled ...

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We admit it, rock climbing in Finland isn't our expertise. But Tommy Vänskä certainly knows a thing or two. Along with Ville Kurru, Vänskä, has directed Kylmää kiveä (Cold Stone), the film which ...

Finland has unveiled the first of its new F-35A stealth fighters in a landmark defense upgrade that places fifth-generation ...

When you think of hockey, you think of Canada. It's the national sport of our northern neighbors, and any mention of hockey in the United States conjures thoughts of kids skating on outdoor ponds in ...

Why is the Finnish mobile games industry leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, and how can everyone else emulate that success? As is always the case, the answer isn't a simple one. It's engrained ...