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Originally Posted by Daithi
It looks like I got Iceland & Greenland confused. I think of Greenland as being the smaller more idyllic island with green mountains and a place I'd like to visit. I think of Iceland as a massive island of ice and glaciers, and a place I'd like my mother-in-law to visit. Apparently it is just the opposite. I think it is a marketing ploy by their evil tourism industries.
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This was on the radio just the other day. Greenland was indeed so named to attract people to emigrate there, by the Norwegian Erik the Red who was exiled there.
3. Which disease was known as the White Plague?
Iron deficiency anaemia?
8. Who was the only artist to have his work displayed in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre while still living?
Matisse?
9. Which city was the site of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly?
Paris?