Crowded House are a New Zealand-Australian rock band,formed in Melbourne,Victoria,Australia,in 1985. Its founding members were New Zealander Neil Finn and Australians Paul Hester (drums) and Nick Seymour (bass). Later band members included Finn's brother Tim,who was in their former band Split Enz;sons Liam and Elroy;as well as Americans Mark Hart and Matt Sherrod. Neil Finn and Seymour are the sole constant members.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
Robert Ervin Howard was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939,three months after the outbreak of World War II,and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength,especially in tanks and aircraft,the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and initially made little headway. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from its organization.
Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz,of which he shared lead duties with his brother Tim,and the lead singer,guitarist,and a founding member of Crowded House. He was also a member of Fleetwood Mac from 2018 until 2022. Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has hailed Finn as popular music's "most prolific writer of great songs".
The Finns Party,formerly known as the True Finns,is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
Brian Timothy Finn is a New Zealand singer,songwriter,musician,and composer. He is best known as a founding member of Split Enz. Finn founded the band in 1972 with Phil Judd and served as lead singer and principal songwriter. Following Judd's departure in 1977,he was joined by brother Neil. Finn wrote or co-wrote some of the band's best-known songs,including "I See Red" and "Six Months in a Leaky Boat". While still a member of Split Enz,he began a solo career,scoring the two hits "Fraction Too Much Friction" and "Made My Day" in 1983;he left the band in early 1984,briefly returning for their farewell tour later that year.
The Finn dinghy is a single-handed,cat-rigged sailboat,and a former Olympic class for men's sailing. Since its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki,the Finn featured in every summer Olympics until 2020,making it the longest serving dinghy in the Olympic Regatta and one of the most prolific Olympic sailboats,. The Finn is a physically demanding boat to race at the highest levels,especially since the class rules now allow unlimited boat rocking and sail pumping when the wind is above 10 knots. The event did not feature on the Olympic programme from 2024.
The Fenian Cycle,Fianna Cycle or Finn Cycle is a body of early Irish literature focusing on the exploits of the mythical hero Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warrior band the Fianna. Sometimes called the Ossianic Cycle after its narrator Oisín,it is one of the four groupings of Irish mythology along with the Mythological Cycle,the Ulster Cycle,and the Kings' Cycles. Timewise,the Fenian cycle is the third,between the Ulster and Kings' cycles. The cycle also contains stories about other famous Fianna members,including Diarmuid,Caílte,Oisín's son Oscar,and Fionn's rival Goll mac Morna.
Finns or Finnish people are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland. Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland,both those who are native to these countries as well as those who have resettled. Some of these may be classified as separate ethnic groups,rather than subgroups of Finns. These include the Kvens and Forest Finns in Norway,the Tornedalians in Sweden,and the Ingrian Finns in Russia.
The Ingrians,sometimes called Ingrian Finns,are the Finnish population of Ingria,descending from Lutheran Finnish immigrants introduced into the area in the 17th century,when Finland and Ingria were both parts of the Swedish Empire. In the forced deportations before and after World War II,and during the genocide of Ingrian Finns,most of them were relocated to other parts of the Soviet Union,or killed. Today the Ingrian Finns constitute the largest part of the Finnish population of the Russian Federation. According to some records,some 25,000 Ingrian Finns have returned or still reside in the region of Saint Petersburg.
Finnish Americans comprise Americans with ancestral roots in Finland,or Finnish people who immigrated to and reside in the United States. The Finnish-American population is around 650,000. Many Finnish people historically immigrated to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Iron Range of northern Minnesota to work in the mining industry;much of the population in these regions is of Finnish descent.
Finn Harps Football Club is an Irish football club that play in the First Division of the League of Ireland,as of 2023. The club was founded in 1954 and elected to the league in 1969. They hail from Ballybofey,County Donegal and play their home matches at Finn Park in Ballybofey. The club's colours are blue and white,and they go by the nickname Harps. The main successes of the club include winning an FAI Cup in 1973–74 and the First Division title in 2004. They also contested the 1999 FAI Cup Final,a second replay of which ended in a narrow defeat,the first replay having been lost to a draw with 30 seconds left to play.
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). He is 12 to 13 years old during the former and a year older at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer,Detective,two shorter sequels to the first two books.
Finn Christopher Hudson is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character was portrayed by Cory Monteith and first appeared on television when Glee premiered its pilot episode on Fox on May 19,2009. Finn was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy,Brad Falchuk,and Ian Brennan. Glee follows the trials of the New Directions glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in the town of Lima,Ohio. Finn is initially quarterback of his high school football team. A self centered,argumentative popular jock at the top of the school's social hierarchy,when he finds himself forced to join the school's glee club,he discovers that he loves it,although he risks alienation from his friends by remaining a member. His storylines see him struggle with his decision to stay in the club,which is at the bottom of the social ladder,while he maintains his popular reputation and the respect of the other jocks. The character has dealt with his attraction to both self-centered head cheerleader Quinn Fabray and ambitious yet kindhearted glee club star singer Rachel Berry,the series' female lead. Following Monteith's death on July 13,2013,it was announced that Finn's own death would occur in the third episode of the fifth season,titled "The Quarterback".
Finn Mertens,better known as Finn the Human,is a character and one of the two protagonists in the American animated television series Adventure Time and resulting franchise created by Pendleton Ward. He also appeared in the spin-off series Adventure Time:Distant Lands and Adventure Time:Fionna and Cake. He was voiced by Jeremy Shada in most appearances. The character made his debut in the original pilot,where he is named Pen and voiced by Zack Shada,Jeremy's older brother. Jonathan Frakes voices Finn as an adult in some appearances.
Home Alone:The Holiday Heist is a 2012 American made-for-television Christmas comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt. It is the fifth installment in the Home Alone franchise. It stars Christian Martyn,Jodelle Ferland,Malcolm McDowell,Debi Mazar,and Eddie Steeples. The film premiered on ABC Family on November 25,2012,during the network's annual Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas programming block. It is the second film,after Home Alone 3,not to focus on the McCallister family,although there are numerous homages to the previous films. Home Alone:The Holiday Heist received mainly negative reviews,although it fared better than the fourth film.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel by Mark Twain published on 9 June 1876 about a boy,Tom Sawyer,growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg,which is based on Hannibal,Missouri,where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel,Sawyer has several adventures,often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure,the book ended up being the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime. Though overshadowed by its 1885 sequel,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,the book is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature. It is alleged by Mark Twain to be one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.
Finn is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He first appeared in the 2015 film The Force Awakens as a First Order stormtrooper. Disturbed by the Order's cruelty during his first combat mission,he flees and joins forces with the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron and the scavenger Rey. Finn is portrayed by John Boyega in The Force Awakens,The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Boyega won the BAFTA Rising Star Award for his performance in The Force Awakens. He was also nominated for a Saturn Award for the same performance.
Finn Wolfhard is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for playing Mike Wheeler on the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016–present). He also played Richie Tozier in the horror film It (2017) and its sequel It Chapter Two (2019),and starred in the supernatural comedy Ghostbusters:Afterlife (2021) and its sequel Ghostbusters:Frozen Empire (2024).
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