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71Marie-an episode in immigration and family history-part 6-meets a friend
I have soeculated that Marie will take the train to Chicago from Quebec. The following scene is further speculation that she meets a friend and is from my own imagination. Whether such a scene might have...
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73Look 15 Years Younger Without Plastic Surgery!
Would you like to look up to 15 years younger without plastic surgery? Well, sit back and read on, because I am going to finally reveal my long held beauty secrets, because everyone should be able to feel...
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81Seven Kinds of Cookies: A Scandinavian Christmas Tradition
Being a Scandinavian-American, I grew up with a Norwegian Christmas celebration. Dancing around the tree, going to the Sons of Norway Christmas party, visits from Julenisse. Our traditional Christmas feast...
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81Collecting Troika Pottery
Troika pottery was designed and produced in the Sixties in St Ives, Cornwall, by Leslie Illsley and Benny Sirota. Its designs represented architectural forms and shapes: pottery simply as an art form. ...
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66Scandinavian Competitive Dances: Stick Dances and the Halling
Among the many Scandinavian dances performed by groups around the world, the competitive dances are crowd-pleasers as much for the talent of the individual dancers as for the artistry of the dance. Two forms...
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60Fur Trade
FUR BEING COUNTED Fur and fur trade is very much frowned upon, today. Since prehistoric time animals were killed for their fur and meat. They were only killed as needed. Therefore, there were no reduction...
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78Favorite Scandinavian Films
Not your usual Ingmar Bergman films: The Man without a Past (Finnish); Noi the Albino (Icelandic); Monsterthursday (Norwegian); Den Osynlige (The Invisible, Swedish); Slim Susie (Swedish). One of the most wonderful things about having a subscription to films by mail is that it permits me to explore other cultures from my living room. Join me in visiting Scandinavia.
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66two scandinavian mystery writers
If you are like me, when you think of mystery writers, you think British or American. But there are two outstanding Scandinavian mystery writers-- Karin Fossum and Henning Mankell. Karin Fossum Karin...
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73MARIE-an episode in immigration and family history-part 5-her 2nd letter
S/S Juno picture from www.norwayheritagege.com Although Marie does not mention the names of the ships it would appear that she probably took the S/S Juno of the Wilson line from Trondheim, Norway to Hull,...
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72MARIE-an episode in immigration and family history- part 4
Painting of Ship on Nordsjon 1889 by Jocob Hagg.public domain The following letter was written by Marie in Swedish, and then translated by a Swedish resident whose first language was Swedish. Therefore it...
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