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Suomi means Finland in Finnish. It may also refer to:
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Finlandia University is a private Lutheran university in Hancock, Michigan. It is the only private university in the Upper Peninsula. Founded in 1896 as The Suomi College and Theological Seminary, it is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Työmies was a politically radical Finnish-language newspaper published primarily out of Hancock, Michigan, and Superior, Wisconsin. Launched as a weekly in July 1903, the paper later went to daily frequency and was issued under its own name until its merger with the communist newspaper Eteenpäin (Forward) in 1950 to form Työmies-Eteenpäin.
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- ↑ "FinnFest USA 2014" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.
- ↑ "FinnFest 2016" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.
- ↑ "FinnFest USA 2017" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.
- ↑ "FinnFest USA 2018" . Retrieved April 7, 2019.
- ↑ "FinnFest USA 2019" . Retrieved April 7, 2019.
