Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's probably because the news about May Day was so closely connected to Red Square and the socialist countries of the cold war. May Day is nothing other than "Labour Day". The US, as the only country in the world, has labour day ... in August, isn't it? Internationally, labour day is May 1. Nothing more than that. Labour day. Daniel > Nice bunch of shots, Daniel. I'm one of those Americans who can't quite > understand what May Day is about. > > Allan > > > Daniel Ridings wrote: > > The first of May was the event of the week, probably most places in > > Europe, and Oslo as well. I'm told that there was an older tradition in > > Norway that the first of May was the first day the workers and their > > families ate ice-cream. That was back then. Norwegian ice-cream is so > > good > > you would never wait that long anymore. > > > > The main: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/18.html > > > > The issues: > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/18alt1.html > > > > and the aftermath (taken with a Rollei): > > http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/18alt2.html > > ==^================================================================ > This email was sent to: daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no > > EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2iZD7.a4280o.ZGFuaWVs > Or send an email to: PAW-unsubscribe@topica.com > > TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! > http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html > ==^================================================================ > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html