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Tarja is a Finnish female given name. Given name * Tarja (given name) * Tarja Turunen (born 1977), Finnish singer * Tarja Halonen (born 1943), 11th president of Finland Other * ''Tarja'' (album), a 2004 album by German neofolk group Sonne Hagal * Tarja (folk poetry contest), a Bengal folk poetry contest * Tarja (island), an Estonian island {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders 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 to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarja (given Name)
Tarja is a Finnish feminine given name. It is a variant of the name Daria ''Daria'' is an American adult animation, adult animated sitcom television series created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis, Susie Lewis Lynn. The series ran from March 3, 1997, to January 21, 2002, on MTV. It centers on the titular character, D ..., which means "who holds firm the good". It may refer to: * Tarja Cronberg (born 1943), Finnish politician * Tarja Filatov (born 1963), Finnish politician * Tarja Halonen (born 1943), Finnish politician and President of Finland (2000–2012) * Tarja Knuuttila, Finnish philosopher of science * Tarja Laitiainen, Finnish diplomat * Tarja Liljeström (born 1946), Finnish diver * Tarja Owens, Irish mountain biker and road racer * Tarja Salmio-Toiviainen (1917–2001), Finnish architect * Tarja Turunen (born 1977), Finnish singer * Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala (1937–2007), Finnish film actress References {{given name Finnish feminine given names Feminine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish Heavy metal music, heavy metal singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish. Turunen studied lyrical singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer with a three-octave vocal range, and founded symphonic metal band Nightwish with Tuomas Holopainen and Emppu Vuorinen in 1996. Their combination of hard and fast guitar riffs with Turunen's dramatic, "operatic" lead vocals quickly achieved critical and commercial popularity. Their symphonic metal style, soon dubbed "opera metal", inspired many other metal bands and performers. Turunen was fired from the band on 21 October 2005 (just after the performance of the band's ''End of an Era (Nightwish album), End of an Era'' concert) for personal reasons accompanied by an open letter from the band. She started her solo career in 2006 with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (, born 24 December 1943) is a Finns, Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), and as the Prime Minister of Finland, Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary (1974–1975) and a member of the City Council of Helsinki (1977–1996). Halonen was a Social Democratic Party of Finland, Social Democratic Party Eduskunta, member of parliament from 1979 Finnish parliamentary election, 1979 until her election to the presidency in 2000 Finnish presidential election, 2000. She also served as a minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health from 1987 to 1990, as Minister of Justice (Finland), Minister of Justice from 1990 to 1991, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Finland), Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2000. Halonen was an extremely popular presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarja (album)
Tarja is a Finnish female given name. Given name *Tarja (given name) *Tarja Turunen (born 1977), Finnish singer *Tarja Halonen Tarja Kaarina Halonen (, born 24 December 1943) is a Finns, Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer wit ... (born 1943), 11th president of Finland Other * ''Tarja'' (album), a 2004 album by German neofolk group Sonne Hagal * Tarja (folk poetry contest), a Bengal folk poetry contest * Tarja (island), an Estonian island {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonne Hagal
Sonne Hagal is a German experimental and neofolk group. History The band originates from Rathenow in Brandenburg where the core line-up was formed in 1992. The members were part of the local punk rock and experimental pop music scene. The early records from the 1990s were electronic music. A breakthrough came with the 10" album ''Sinnreger'' from 2000, where the band had adopted conventions from the dark wave and neofolk genres. The album includes the German folk song "Herbstlied", a poem by the expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler, and a track based on an agitation song by Rosa Luxemburg. The following releases deepened the band's interest in runes, Eddic poetry and nature lyricism, and saw collaborations with Andreas Ritter of Forseti and Kim Larsen of Of the Wand & the Moon. On the album ''Sonne Hagal vs. Polarzirkel'' the band collaborated with the electronic sound artists Polarzirkel and Nerthus to create atonal music with ritualistic elements. On the 2005 single "Dygel" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarja (folk Poetry Contest)
Tarja (তর্জা) is a form of folk poetry contest from Bengal with a long tradition. Historically it used to be performed in the village gathering around a chandimandap or altar for village god, mela and other social events, in streets, and marketplace religious festivals. The themes of the contest are usually taken from Ramayana, Mahabharata or Puranas the poets sings his/her part in the form of doggerels and the other participant has to guess the meaning of it. During the rising bhadralok population of the Bengal renaissance many of these clubs as well as jhumur clubs had been destroyed ''Recasting Women:Essays in Colonial History'', Kumkum Sangari et al. , page 157 on the basis of its obscene content. An example of a tarja couplet will be like: Maagi minsheke chit kore fele diye buke diyechhe paa Aar chokhta kare jhulur jhulur, mukhe neiko raa This literally translates as "the hussy has thrown the bloke flat on his back, with her foot on his chest/ wordless she sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
