[Magdalen] Allons Enfants de la Patrie.

[Roger Stokes]

On 14/07/2018 19:21, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> It's Bastille Day.
>   
> The French Military will have already marched down the Champs-Elysee.
>   
> Trump is not meeting Putin in Paris, however.
>   
> He's doing that in Helsinki, Finland.
>   
> And, according to my high school classmate who speaks Finnish,
> it's HELskinki and NOT helSINKi
>   
> On geography maps when I was in grammar school, it was
> always HALsingfors, whch is the Swedish equivalent.  Swedish
> was in danger of overwhelming the Finnish language in Finland in earlier
> centuries.

The history of the three countries - Norway, Sweden and Finland - is 
also somewhat intertwined. Finland was part of the Swedish Empire until 
being annexed by Russia in 1809 and declared independence in 1917. 
Thereasfter it developed strong links with Sweden.

Roger