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A Finnish woman fell over 3200 feet Sunday when her parachute failed to open—and survived! Wow…

Somalis and Kurds have been involved in a violent melee at Linnanmäki. Linnanmäki is a Finnish amusement park in Helsinki. It’s a very nice park that I had the pleasure of experiencing last year. YLE reports that dozens of people fought Sunday after Somalis denounced Kurdish women for not wearing head scarves. Battleground Finland. That [...]

Finnish accident investigators say the guidance system on an F-18D Hornet malfunctioned prior to a crash in Finland last Thursday. Apparently, the F-18D’s guidance system switched to a mechanical backup during a maneuver that requires computer assistance. Boeing says the F-18D carries two crewmen, a pilot and a weapons/sensor officer (WSO). The aircraft is powered [...]

Finnish Police are searching for Ibrahim Shkupolli. Police believe he is the shooter that killed four people in a shooting rampage in Finland. YLE says, “Four people were killed in a shooting at the Sello shopping mall in central Espoo on Thursday morning. A fifth victim, a woman, related to the case was found dead [...]

We arrived back in North Carolina from Finland Saturday night. Our Finnish hosts (family) were so good to us. While there we visited Stockholm, Sweden and Tallinn, Estonia and locations near those destinations. Both were excellent trips. While in Tallinn, we visited an amusement and waterpark named Vembu-Tembumaa. It’s a nice park with rides the [...]

I was in Turku this morning and was fortunate enough to snap a few pictures of vessels participating in Tall Ships Races Baltic 2009, including one of the flag raising ceremony. Thursday morning was a wonderful opportunity to stroll along the waterfront and view the tall ships that had arrived. A few of them had [...]

This photograph is of a Lutheran cathedral in Turku:

This photograph was taken at a Finnish limestone quarry which shall remain nameless unless someone recognizes the image.

Just arrived in Finland today. The Memphis to Amsterdam leg was awful. Lots of turbulence; seat wouldn’t recline and other issues. NWA will get an email from me soon. Finland is cool though, looking forward to seeing much of it.

13-year-old Waltteri Seretin knew right away something wasn’t right with a Reuters photograph of Russian submersibles under the North Pole: HELSINGIN SANOMAT—Images presented by the Reuters news agency last Thursday, purporting to show the Finnish-built MIR-1 and MIR-2 submersibles during a recent Russian scientific expedition to the sea bed 4.3 kilometres below the Geographic North [...]