Recently added articles from Scandinavian Review:
The Aurora Borealis
Oct 01, 2008; ... What were those strange quivering lights in the northern sky that both fascinated and frightened people on earth for millennia? A Norwegian scientist led the way toward finally answering that question. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN PART of the world have marveled at the ...
Swinging Up North
Oct 01, 2008; ... For almost a century Copenhagen has been showing why Danish jazz isn't a cultural oxymoron. SUMMER FESTIVALS, CONCERTS, AND CDS NOTWITHSTANDing, some people will never completely accept Danish jazz as anything but a cultural oxymoron, along the lines of Chinese yodeling or Portuguese ...
SCANSCOPE
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEWS * ANECDOTES * TRIVIA A STATUE OF GEORGE C. MARSHALL, the U.S. general and secretary of state in the 1940s, has been unveiled in Oslo very close to one erected decades earlier honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Marshall was chief of staff of the U.S. armed forces during the ...
The Heat Beneath
Oct 01, 2008; ... Iceland is in the forefront of global research and development on geothermal energy. Now the country has launched an ambitious program to tap deeper geothermal fields, up to five kilometers below the surface. THE HELLISHEIDI REGION JUST EAST OF ICELAND'S CAPITAL city, Reykjavik, looks ...
Peerless Paavo
Oct 01, 2008; ... Paavo Nurmi, winner of 12 Olympic medals, was the dominant middle-distance runner of the first half of the 20th century. FINNISH NATIONAL PRIDE RAN HIGH IN THE SUMMER OF 1952. Helsinki was playing host to the Summer Olympic Games and the barely 35-year-old country was a center of ...