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SKAL!--NORWEGIAN
DRINKING LAWS
by Bob Brooke
Foreigners are always immensely amused by Norwegian drinking laws. There’s
a certain humor in laws that permit people to buy a whole crate of beer
at the local store, but not one bottle on its own. Or when a local
inhabitant is refused a drink on the terrace of the local hotel, while
his good friend from the neighboring town can order as much as he likes.
This is the tail-end of a tradition of fighting the evils of alcoholism
that Asbjorn Kloster, a pioneer in prohibition, inaugurated a century
ago. A campaign that meets with little enthusiasm today.
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THE MAN BEHIND THE SCREAM
by Bob Brooke
 Edvard Munch, notably Scandinavia's greatest artist,
pioneered in the expressionist movement., He painted is his best-known
painting, The Scream, in 1893. Growing up in Oslo, then called
Christiania, he was often ill. Early memories of illness, death, and
grief in his family had a tremendous impact on his later works. His
father's death may have contributed to the loneliness and melancholy of
one of his most famous works, Night , painted in1890.
Related
News: Version of Munch's The Scream Stolen
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A
refreshing survey of Scandinavian architecture and interior design that
takes readers from rugged Icelandic coasts to rural locales to snowy
Norwegian forests to Danish farmland and on to cities like Copenhagen
and Oslo. The author blends traditional and contemporary styles with
emphasis on the rural culture from which they evolved.
Because of its rarity,
salt was long an expensive commodity in Scandinavia, a commodity to the
rich, but a source of envy to the poor. When the price of salt dropped,
those who could suddenly afford the condiment scrambled to buy it and
tended to use it with such zeal in preserving their foods that they gave
themselves violent thirsts.
