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July 31 every year ALMOST 500 years ago in the Basque country in the north of Spain, a young man sat in bed recovering from a long and brutal operation. Inigo, an officer in the Spanish army, had been struck during a French siege by a small cannonball which had shattered one leg and [...] “The first phase of the story of the American democracy begins with the meeting of the first General Assembly in 1619 at the Jamestown church…” — Jamestown, the Buried Truth, William Kelso Yes, it all begin in a little church on a summer’s day in 1619. They didn’t meet with the intent to [...] July 29 every year Almost a thousand years after he sailed the fjords of Norway, King Olaf is remembered with Olavsfestdagen (Olaf’s Feast Day) — a week of music, entertainment, and partying.
Legends abound of King Olaf’s heroic deeds. According to “Scandanavian Folk-lore – Illustrations of the Tradition Beliefs of the Northern Peoples” When [...] |
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