Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Btw, did you know that the Skåne people have been acknowledged by the UN as an ethnic minority group, and now they are also working on it in the EC. At least so I heard the other day, from a reliable source. Says Per, who recently emigrated from Sweden to Skåne. > Daniel, > > Maybe we should explain to the unwashed masses here that Skåne is the > southern part of Sweden and was part of Denmark until the Danes lost > it in a war in the 17th century. Despite the fact that it is such a > long time, Skåne to this day has its own identity and a dialect which > is closer to Danish than, say, the Stockholm variety. Now of course > the Danes are taking it back slowly thanks to the new bridge between > Copenhagen and Malmö which makes it much easier to get back and forth > and will slowly make Malmö into a suburb of Copenhagen ;-) > > Incidentally, there is actually also a Skåne flag, which is a cross > between the Swedish flag (yellow cross on blue background) and the > Danish one (white cross on red background). > > Nathan > > Daniel Ridings wrote: >>> Four? There are three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and >>> Sweden. Throw in Finland and Iceland and you have the Nordic >>> countries. >>> So which is the fourth non-Scandinavian flag? Finnish? >> Skåne :) >> Sorry folks, only someone with a Danish bakground will understand. >> Daniel >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > > Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm > General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V i s i M e d i a -- G r a f i s k D e s i g n & W e b b p r o d u k t i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.visimedia.com Tel. 0416-300 07, 070 99 22 55 9 Fax 0416 300 03 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html