Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ayer's Almanac for 1889. Besides the various editions in English adapted to North and South America, it contains editions in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian-Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, and Welsh; also specimen pages of the pamphlets issued by the firm in eleven other languages, including Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Armenian, Bulgarian, Polish, Hawaiian, Gujarati (India), Burmese, and Chinese...
...Finnish student, Mr. Kaarlo Krohn, has been travelling in Esthonia, collecting the folk-songs, the number of which surpassed all expectation. Mr. Krohn has during this summer obtained over 1000 and the Finnish Literary Society in Helsingfors has now over 13,000 such songs in its possession...