Word: scandinavia
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This was the key problem of Johnson's last years. He and Krake fled Scandinavia before the Nazi advance. They arrived in New York in 1938. Johnson applied for a grant to revisit the scenes of his childhood to "paint Negro people," as he put it, "in their natural environment," meaning by "natural" the rural South. The money didn't appear, but he painted the pictures anyway without leaving Manhattan. For the next seven years of his life, Johnson worked in a style that oscillated between folk art and caricature. On the whole, his images of life and manners...
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' CONFERENCE ON TERRITORY, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, Kari-Oca Indian Village, Rio, May 25-30 Some 400 Indian leaders from Brazil's 180 indigenous nations, as well as 200 representatives from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Latin America, Scandinavia, Asia and Russia, are gathering at a specially constructed village near the Pedra Branca Forest. Besides environmental issues, the agenda includes such topics as land rights and self- government. On May 30 the tribal leaders will celebrate the "Day of the White Man" with dance and rituals...
...condition. This week's cover story on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 -- the fruit of a five-month investigation by Roy -- is the most far-reaching account to date of the mystery behind the 1988 tragedy over Lockerbie, Scotland. The trail of the story led him through Scandinavia, Germany, England, California and Washington, where he conducted more than 200 interviews and examined thousands of documents, including confidential memos from former U.S. and foreign intelligence agents. "This story just kept building and building," says Rowan. "Some of the real breakthroughs came in the past couple of weeks...
When it does, the area of greatest ozone depletion and greatest danger will most likely be north of 50 degrees north latitude, a line that nearly coincides with the U.S.-Canada border and also takes in all the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and much of Belgium, Germany and Russia. Regions farther to the south could be affected too, albeit not so severely. Life in the far north could come to resemble that in Australia, with ozone alerts and stern warnings to wear sunglasses and sunscreen...
...UNESCO convention on cultural property established an international framework to curb pillage and the illicit trade in artifacts. Among the rich countries that are the biggest markets for stolen works, however, only the U.S. and Canada signed the treaty. Britain, France, & Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, Scandinavia and Japan remain holdouts today...