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the Builder Tim Finnegan, who fell drunk from his ladder an dies. On his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he came back to life.
Fionn mac Cumhail (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly "Finn mac Cool") was a legendary hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man. The stories of Fionn and his followers, the fianna, form the Fenian cycle, much of it supposedly narrated by Fionn's son, the poet Oisín. The Fenian Brotherhood took their name from these legends.
Huckleberry Finn, charachter in a book by Mark Twain, friend of Tom Sawyer
Finn may be a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U.S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
part of the name of the country Finland
Finn is the name of the giant who, according to folk mythology, built the cathedral in Lund.
Finn is a Frisian lord who appears in Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg.

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-* the Builder Tim Finnegan, who fell drunk from his ladder an dies. On his wake, a bottle of whiskey vroke on his coffin and he came back to life.
+* the Builder Tim Finnegan, who fell drunk from his ladder an dies. On his wake, a bottle of whiskey broke on his coffin and he came back to life.
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhail Fionn mac Cumhail] (earlier Finn or Find mac Cumail or mac Umaill, pronounced roughly "Finn mac Cool") was a legendary hunter-warrior of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology Irish mythology], also known in Scotland and the Isle of Man. The stories of Fionn and his followers, the fianna, form the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_cycle Fenian cycle], much of it supposedly narrated by Fionn's son, the poet Oisín. The Fenian Brotherhood took their name from these legends.
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn Huckleberry Finn], charachter in a book by [[Mark]] Twain, friend of Tom [[Sawyer]]