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...northern drive had already been halted last week-but not by the Russians. In the dark Arctic region south of Petsamo the Finns had a real birthday present for Joe Stalin, and they delivered it wrapped in a blizzard. While the Finns were digging in near Ivalo, on their Lapland "Mannerheim Line," preparing to meet the Russian mechanized forces that were rolling southward, a thick, swirling snowstorm enveloped the Russian Army. Tanks and lorries had to be dug out of snowdrifts. Gasoline supply trucks were stalled on the road from the north. The Russians had no shelter because the Finns...
Most of Sweden's best hospitals are in big cities on the coast; many of Sweden's population fall sick far inland, beyond high mountains. To get these unfortunates out, Sweden had three ambulance airplanes-until one of them crashed on the Lapland mountains in October...
Another early Krans beloved of the colony's descendants showed a fiercelooking Jansonite settler in his Lapland boots, buffalo robe coat, wide leather belt scaring the daylights out of a Plains Indian. Most decorative was a scene of seven scythe-swinging reapers, moving rhythmically over a gigantic wheat field while the women followed behind, gathering and binding the sheaves...
...unmentioned by him, Aristotle's omniscience was first challenged. The first microscopists - Malpighi, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek-added their heretical testimony. With Buffon and Reaumur, 18th Century France temporarily captured the blue ribbon of Science. Then Sweden's Linnaeus revolutionized the study of nature by his field-trip to Lapland, gave the world the Linnaean system, the first great attempt to classify plants. The unconsidered Lamarck, with his theory of ''the inheritance of acquired characteristics," was the forerunner of the evolutionists...
...that she was the youngest woman ever to become a mother. Woman's capacity to bear children begins at puberty. That comes earliest in hot climates, latest in cold, with ages rang ing from 9 or 10 in some parts of South America to 17 or 18 in Lapland. A survey some years ago indicated that the average age of puberty in the U. S. was 13. Authorities believe that it is now going down, especially among the well-nurtured upper classes. Few years ago Katherine Mayo (Mother India} set out to expose India's child marriages...