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Example sentences for: scandinavia

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While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.
For example, the pollen of olive trees is not relevant in northern countries, dust mite allergens are not significant in the northern part of Scandinavia or the mountain states of the United States, and cockroach allergens are not significant in suburban areas of the United States, the United Kingdom, or New Zealand.
In the face of forced conversions, the Protestant Huguenots — many of them the most talented bankers, merchants, and artisans of their generation — fled to Switzerland, Germany, Holland, England, and Scandinavia.
It is true also in Scandinavia where the money name is crown: krona (Sweden, Iceland), krone (Norway, Denmark).
It could be bloody totalitarian murderous government, as in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, or it just could be the intrusive, well-meaning socialist governments all over Scandinavia, Europe, even the United States.