And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Greenland was (green), and Iceland pretty much always has been. When it was settled, Greenland was forested. It was cleared for lumber and firewood, and to make pasture for livestock. There was a whole Nordic civilization there with complicated trade and Christianity, but as the climate cooled, and the wood ran out, and the ice advanced, the people eventually mostly left. Jared Diamond's Collapse spends a lot of time discussing it.
Love the colors to brighten up the long winters.
ReplyDeleteThe first, best example of marketing: "Greenland" isn't, and "Iceland" is....
ReplyDeleteAgree. The Vikings were "bass-ackwards" with names of their newfound lands.
DeleteWow, the folks along the Tour de France should look at this. France has some great countryside, but house colors are , well, boring.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, summertime in Greenland. To the beach! To the beach!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Greenland was green during the Medieval Warm Period, that ended about the same time the Little Ice Age started (1200-1300).
ReplyDeleteGreenland was (green), and Iceland pretty much always has been. When it was settled, Greenland was forested. It was cleared for lumber and firewood, and to make pasture for livestock. There was a whole Nordic civilization there with complicated trade and Christianity, but as the climate cooled, and the wood ran out, and the ice advanced, the people eventually mostly left. Jared Diamond's Collapse spends a lot of time discussing it.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a christmas card.
ReplyDeleteQaqortoq, one of the southern villages. Had a Musk Ox burger & fries there a few years ago.
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