On 13 May 1848, at a student spring party, the Finnish national anthem (Maamme/Vårt land) was performed for the first time. Johan Ludvig Runeberg (him in the picture) had written the lyrics a few years earlier, and they had been set to music several times. These efforts were not particularly successful until the Hannover-born FredrikContinue reading “When God Save the Queen was national anthem in Finland”
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Rails: Border architecture
If you happen to look at the map of Barcelona commuter trains, you can see that line R3 continues outside the suburban area to somewhere called La Tor de Querol – Enveig. If you were to take the unassuming train to its final destination, you would have left Barcelona and Spain altogether and ended upContinue reading “Rails: Border architecture”
Wine: Where terroir speaks
Can you taste the soil in wines? This is the claim of many a wine producer, but in practice it has been proven that wine roots do not get mineral elements from the underlying rocks. But of course, strictly speaking this is not what we most often refer to when speaking about “mineral” wines. WeContinue reading “Wine: Where terroir speaks”
