Word: laplanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...