Re: I have been waiting my divorcce papers from America since March, 2000 and I have not received these yet ... I am not an American ..

From: Sigvaldi Eggertsson (sigvald_at_binet.is)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: 11 Mar 2004 01:19:33 -0800

Michael Amling <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<pxF3c.32374$PY.1083@newssvr26.news.prodigy.com>...
> Lassi Hippeläinen wrote:
> > "Jussi P." wrote:
> >
> >>"Volker Hetzer" wrote
> >>
> >>>Just out of curiosity, will some skandinavian government come into this
> >>>thread later on?
> >>
> >>Nope. In this thread we concentrate in hating Those Bad Yankees and picking
> >>on them. Scandinavian governments (Sweden and Norway) can take it easy for
> >>now. Finland is not even situated in the scandinavian peninsula.
> >
> > But we are on the Scandinavian map. The historical term includes also
> > Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.
>
> Denmark and Iceland, yes. But not Finland (when I went to school).
> Maybe you went to school more recently.
>
> --Mike Amling

Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Nordic countries are
Scandinavia + Iceland and Finland (and the Faroes, Åland and
Greenland)

It is as simple as that.

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