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Taipale (surname)
Taipale is a common Finnish surname. As of December 2012, almost 4,000 people in Finland have this name, which makes it approximately one in 1,400. The meaning is portage, ''journey'' or ''stretch of road''. Notable people Notable people having this surname include: * Armas Taipale, Finnish athlete * Hannu Taipale, Finnish cross country skier * Ilkka Taipale, Finnish politician and psychiatrist * Ilmari Taipale, Finnish long-distance runner * K. A. Taipale, Finnish lawyer, scholar, and social theorist * Kuisma Taipale, Finnish cross-country skier * Tero Taipale, Finnish football player * Vappu Taipale Vappu Taipale ( Puustinen; born 1 May 1940) is a Finnish retired politician and physician. Medical career In 1966, Taipale graduated with a licentiate's degree in medicine and qualified to practise medicine. In 1980, she obtained her doctorate ..., Finnish politician and psychiatrist References {{surname Finnish-language surnames Surnames of Finnish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portage
Portage or portaging (Canada: ; ) is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river, or between two bodies of water. A path where items are regularly carried between bodies of water is also called a ''portage.'' The term comes from French, where means "to carry," as in "portable". In Canada, the term "carrying-place" was sometimes used. Early French explorers in New France and French Louisiana encountered many rapids and cascades. The Native Americans carried their canoes over land to avoid river obstacles. Over time, important portages were sometimes provided with canals with locks, and even portage railways. Primitive portaging generally involves carrying the vessel and its contents across the portage in multiple trips. Small canoes can be portaged by carrying them inverted over one's shoulders and the center strut may be designed in the style of a yoke to facilitate this. Historically, voyageurs often employed tump lines on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armas Taipale
Armas Rudolf Taipale (27 July 1890 – 9 November 1976) was a Finnish athlete. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and won gold medals in two discus throw events, conventional and two-handed, where the total was counted as a sum of best throws with a left hand and with a right hand. After World War I he won a silver medal in the conventional discus throw at the 1920 Olympics and finished tenth in the shot put. At the 1924 Olympics he competed only in the discus throw and finished in 12th place. Taipale set two unofficial world records in the discus. Domestically Taipale started competing in 1908 and won three Finnish titles in the discus throw and two in the shot put. In 1914 he was British champion both in the shot put and discus throw. Besides athletics he competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Nordic Games The Nordic Games were the first international multi-sport event that focused primarily on winter sports, and were held at varying intervals between 1901 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannu Taipale
Hannu Taipale (born 22 June 1940 in Veteli) is a Finnish former cross-country skier who competed during the 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- .... Taipale also won the silver medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. He finished fifth in the 50 km event at those same games. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games *1 medal – (1 bronze) World Championships * 1 medal – (1 silver) References External links * * 1940 births Living people Finnish male cross-country skiers Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing FIS Nordic World Ski Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilkka Taipale
Väinö Ilkka Ilari Taipale (born 29 November 1942 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician, physician and activist. A social democrat, he was a member of the Parliament of Finland for Helsinki from 1971 to 1975 and 2000 to 2007. A doctor and surgeon by education, Taipale worked as a physician at several hospitals. He is also a docent of social medicine at University of Tampere The University of Tampere (UTA) ( fi, Tampereen yliopisto (Tay), ) was a public university in Tampere, Finland that was merged with Tampere University of Technology to create the new Tampere University on 1 January 2019. The university offered u .... Taipale has been active in many pacifist organisations and other governmental and non-governmental organisations. In 1966 he launched a political magazine, '' Ydin''. He is married, with four children, to fellow physician and politician, Vappu Taipale. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Taipale, Ilkka 20th-century Finnish physicians 20th-century Finnish politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilmari Taipale
Ilmari Richard Taipale (18 May 1928 in Tampere – 22 March 2008 in Porvoo) was a Finnish long-distance runner who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi .... References 1928 births 2008 deaths Finnish male long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Finland Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tampere 21st-century Finnish people 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuisma Taipale
Kuisma Taipale (born 15 February 1970 in Veteli) is a Finnish cross-country skier. He represented Finland at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he competed in the 15 km, the 50 km, and the relay A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switch .... He is the son of Hannu Taipale. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games World Championships World Cup Season standings Team podiums * 3 podiums References External links * * 1970 births Living people People from Veteli Finnish male cross-country skiers Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic cross-country skiers for Finland Sportspeople from Central Ostrobothnia 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-crossc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tero Taipale
Tero Taipale (born 14 December 1972) is a Finnish football player. ReferencesGuardian Football External links * * 1972 births Living people Rovaniemen Palloseura players Kuopion Palloseura players Myllykosken Pallo −47 players[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vappu Taipale
Vappu Taipale ( Puustinen; born 1 May 1940) is a Finnish retired politician and physician. Medical career In 1966, Taipale graduated with a licentiate's degree in medicine and qualified to practise medicine. In 1980, she obtained her doctorate in the field of psychiatry from the University of Helsinki. She worked as a psychiatrist in various roles at the Helsinki University Central Hospital throughout the 1970s. She has also held the positions of Docent (Associate Professor) at the universities of Kuopio (now the University of Eastern Finland) and Tampere, specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry. In 1991, Taipale was awarded the title of Professor, and in 1998 she received an honorary doctorate in public administration (''Hallintotieteiden kunniatohtori'') from the University of Vaasa. Political career Taipale joined the Social Democratic Party in 1972. She never stood for election to the Parliament, but did run for the party's leadership in 1987. Despite not being a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish-language Surnames
Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. Finnish ortho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
