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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Lahti , city (1998 pop. 96,227), Southern Finland prov., S central Finland. Connected with the southern end of the Päijänne lake system, it is an important lake port as well as a transportation center. It has many large factories and is a center of the Finnish wood-products industry. Other industries include glassworks, breweries, and clothing factories. The city, founded in 1878, was incorporated in 1905. Many Karelians came to Lahti after the Finnish-Soviet armistice of 1944. The city hall (1912) was designed by Eliel Saarinen . Author not available, LAHTI. , The... Read more

Lahti
Lahti, Finland Founded in 1878 on the southern end of Lake Vesijärvi, the name simply means ‘bay’. Read more

Bothnia, Gulf of
Bothnia, Gulf of (Swedish: Bottniska Viken; Finnish: Phjan Lahti), Baltic Sea Derived from the Swedish botten ‘bottom’. On the west side of the Gulf is the Swedish county of Västerbotten and on the east the Finnish Österbotten. Read more

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	'Frothy' Lahti: Actress has fun in marital farce ; 'Frothy' Lahti: Actress has fun in marital farce By BRIDGET...July 28, 2002 Pasadena, Calif -- Christine Lahti felt her career needed some laughs. "I wanted...the Showtime movie is "frothy and fun," Lahti said, it does explore real issues that can... Read more
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	Christine Lahti In Detail; The Actress & the Role of Her Regimen ; ...will never see exactly what Christine Lahti, starring as the enigmatic Sylvie, is carrying...half-hoped for a close-up of the stuff. Lahti had carefully collected the detritus that...rocks I'd polished, little treasures," Lahti remembers. "A sugar packet. Salt and pepper... Read more
	Lahti fleshes out a light side ; 00-00-0000 Lahti fleshes out a light side By BRIDGET BYRNE...Star B. Two Star P. One Star B Christine Lahti felt her career needed some laughs. I wanted...although Women vs. Men is frothy and fun, Lahti says it does explore real issues that can... Read more
	The little symphony that could; Lahti orchestra outshines Helsinki's.(VARIETY ; ...Vanska's early years as chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Finland, he instituted...the world. Everyone laughed, because the Lahti Symphony Orchestra never had made a CD...orchestral works. A new concert hall in Lahti, the aptly named Sibelius Hall, opened... Read more
	Lahti's career takes comedic turn with 'Women vs. Men' ; PASADENA, Calif.--Christine Lahti felt her career needed some laughs...Women vs. Men" is "frothy and fun," Lahti says it does explore real issues that...Men," which premieres at 7 p.m. Sunday, Lahti plays Dana, whose husband, Michael (played... Read more
	Lahti takes a new turn with `Mister' ; Lahti takes a new turn with `Mister' By DUANE DUDEK Journal Sentinel...are male and a lot of them are adolescent," said Christine Lahti, the actress turned director of "My First Mister," which opened Friday. From a distance, Lahti's movie, which teams 54-year-old comic actor Albert Brooks... Read more
	Christine Lahti serves a fun dish of 'Revenge' ; Christine Lahti shows her usual knack for portraying strong...The CBS movie premieres at 9 tonight. Lahti plays Rose, who immediately wins viewer...Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman" different is Lahti. She allows the character to grow in a believable... Read more
	Directing feature a 'First' for Lahti ; As Christine Lahti approached casting the leads for her feature...star Leelee Sobieski and Albert Brooks. Lahti, best known for her Emmy Award-winning...I knew that she was my gal." Yet, when Lahti talks about "transforming," she stresses... Read more
	A concert hall to do Sibelius proud postcard from lahti, finland ; LAHTI IS an inconspicuous, even drab, industrial town of some 60,000 souls an hour-and...north-east. Until a decade ago, the only reason you were likely to have heard of Lahti was its furniture manufacturing and its ski jumps. And then, all of a sudden, Lahti's orchestra shifted up a gear, to the point ... Read more

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