Three nautical miles from the tip of the park cliffs to the east is Sandskär Island. On the quiet summer days of the mid-1920s, the voice of the famous singer Helge Lindberg was far from there. During the summer, he rehearsed 8 concert programs on his own island and gave another hundred concerts across Europe each year. The family's actual hometown was Vienna.
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The first music pavilion in Hanko Spa Park was built in 1890. It was like a large speaker with dance and operetta melodies.
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Four days before Germany conquered Tallinn on August 28, 1941, an Estonian lawyer and father of two small children, 36-year-old Leonid Tretjakevich (later Trett), boarded the Örne ship in Tallinn among 600 other Estonian men. There were no alternatives, for refusing to call the Red Army knew the death penalty. Leonid was stationed as an assistant to the artillery station on the West Bank of Hanko, in Varisniemi at Kappelisatama.
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Sibelius went both sailing and to the spa in Hanko, but in the summer of 1902 he spent more than a month here in Tvärminne. The only wife was pregnant and depressed. Jean wanted to get to a quieter place. He lived in Södergård, where Sakari Topelius, Hjalmar Munsterhjelm and Juhani Aho had previously spent summers.
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Life depends on the hair. How does a person act when a safety net fails? Where does he seek protection? What about explanations for surprising things? The story of the great thunderstorm in 1793. The story is from Sara Wacklin's book? Hundrade minnen från Österbotten? from 1844.
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The ghost at the tomb of the story has been considered partly autobiographical: like Sara Wacklin, a poor girl who has lost her father collects crumbs of information from here and there, “like a blind chicken,” and manages to feed her mother and teacher with earnings. The story is from Sara Wacklin's book? Hundrade minnen från Österbotten? from 1844.
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Frans Mikael Franzén (February 9, 1772 Oulu? August 14, 1847 near Härnösand, Sweden) was a Finnish poet, clergyman, bishop of Härnösand, professor and academician.
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Arthur Hjalmar Borgström was born in Helsinki in 1859, his mother was English and his father Finnish. The boy grew up a successful businessman and a lover of the arts. He moved to Hanko in 1888 and founded one of the city's first Finnish butter export shops.
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Are there more opposing professions than military and medical? What if a soldier starts advising a pharmacist on the treatment of his wounds? Self-help in Finnish. The story is from Sara Wacklin's book? Hundrade minnen från Österbotten? from 1844.
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