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Northern exposure in the Arctic - Daily Telegraph
The Golden Compass was filmed in Svalbard, home to 3,000 polar bears Most of the action in The Golden Compass, the forthcoming film of Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights, takes place in the bleak, magical landscape of the high Arctic, and many of ...
Read more...Norway, Sweden part V: Stockholm - Juneau Empire
From Bergen, my husband, Don, and I took the train back to Oslo, Norway. We planned to spend the night in Oslo. Nevertheless, when we talked to the Scan-Rail information clerk, we learned that many trains were cancelled because of Easter week. We ...
Read more...History for Halloween - Star Courier
With Halloween this Friday, it seemed like a good time for a story about people fleeing what must have seemed like certain death — cholera. Galva historian and publisher George Swank wrote about the crisis that almost wiped out the fledgling colony ...
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