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Finland Women's National Basketball Team
The Finland women's national basketball team represents Finland in international women's basketball competitions. They are governed by Basketball Finland. Finland has appeared in five editions of the EuroBasket between 1952 and 1987, with 6 wins in 34 matches. It hasn't qualified for a major tournament since. 2021 Roster Roster for the EuroBasket Women 2021 qualification. 2011 Roster * Guards ** .83Krista Gross ** .70Anette Juvonen ** .73Vilma Kesänen ** .75Linda Lehtoranta ** .72 Reetta Piipari * Forwards ** .82Evita Iiskola ** .83Henna Koponen ** .85Heta Korpivaara ** .74Dionne Pounds ** .77 Henna Salomaa ** .87 Minna Sten ** .89Tiina Sten ** .90 Taru Tuukkanen ** .80 Hanna Vapamaa See also * Finland women's national under-19 basketball team * Finland women's national under-17 basketball team * Finland women's national 3x3 team Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pekka Salminen (basketball)
Pekka Salminen (born 11 August 1937 in Tampere) is a Finnish Professor of Architecture and founder and a senior partner of PES-Architects, formed in 1968, in Helsinki, Finland. He is also the founder of Unije Workshop International UWI, and the Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning, formed in Unije, Croatia, in 1987. He received a BSc in architecture from Tampere Institute of Technology in 1960, and an MSc in architecture from Helsinki University of Technology, 1966. At that time he was employed by notable Finnish architect Timo Penttilä and worked on the design of Penttilä's most notable work Helsinki City Theatre, completed in 1967. On Penttilä's death in 2011, Salminen wrote the chief obituary in the Finnish architectural press. Salminen is a member of the Finnish Association of Architects SAFA and the Association of Croatian Architects. Memberships and honors * Professor, honorary title granted by the President of Finland, 1998 * President of Finnish Association o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirka Dettmann
Mirka ( ar, مِركة) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located Southwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,555 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. History Just southeast of the village (at grid 172/199) is a site where sherds mainly from the Persian era have been found. Pottery sherds from the early and late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and Medieval eras have been found at the village site. Ottoman era Mirka, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, it was part of the ''nahiya'' ("subdistrict") of Jabal ''Sami'', part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus. It had a population of 9 households, all Muslims. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionne Pounds
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Dionne may refer to: *Dionne (name) * Centre Marcel Dionne, a multi-purpose arena in Quebec, Canada * Dionne Lake in Nunavut, Canada * Dionne quintuplets, the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy * USS Dionne (DE-261), a destroyer escort ship of the United States Navy during World War II *"Dionne", song by Prince Crystal Ball (box set) See also *Dion (other) *Dione (other) Dione may refer to: Astronomy * 106 Dione, a large main belt asteroid *Dione (moon), a moon of Saturn *Helene (moon), a moon of Saturn sometimes referred to as "Dione B" Mythology *Dione (Titaness), a Titaness in Greek mythology *Dione (mythology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heta Korpivaara
Heta is a conventional name for the historical Greek alphabet letter Eta (Η) and several of its variants, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant . Overview The letter Η had been adopted by Greek from the Phoenician letter Heth () originally with this consonantal sound value, and ''Hēta'' was its original name. The Italic alphabets, and ultimately Latin, adopted the letter H from this Greek usage. However, Greek dialects progressively lost the sound from their phonological systems. In the Ionic dialects, where this loss of happened early, the name of the letter naturally changed to ''Ēta'', and the letter was subsequently turned from a consonant to a new use as a vowel, denoting the long half-open sound. In this function it later entered the classical orthography adopted across the whole of Greece. According to traditional accounts, the new vowel, ''Ēta'', was originally the innovation of the poet Simonides of Ceos (556-468 BC). In dialects that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henna Koponen
Henna is a dye prepared from the plant ''Lawsonia inermis'', also known as the henna tree, the mignonette tree, and the Egyptian privet, the sole species of the genus ''Lawsonia''. ''Henna'' can also refer to the temporary body art resulting from the staining of the skin from the dyes. After henna stains reach their peak color, they hold for a few days, then gradually wear off by way of exfoliation, typically within one to three weeks. Henna has been used since antiquity in ancient Egypt and Indian subcontinent to dye skin, hair and fingernails, as well as fabrics including silk, wool, and leather. Historically, henna was used in West Asia including the Arabian Peninsula and in Carthage, other parts of North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The name "henna" is used in other skin and hair dyes, such as ''black henna'' and ''neutral henna'', neither of which is derived from the henna plant. Etymology The English name "henna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
