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47-53	October 2008 Article News from nowhere: Iceland's polite dystopia By Rebecca Solnit SEE ALSO: Career as president of Iceland; Democracy; Environmental degradation; Iceland; Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
36	October 1985 Readings/Article Hotel Esja, Reykjavik By Anthony Kerrigan (Trans.) and Jorge Luis Borges SEE ALSO: Hotels; Iceland; Borges, Jorge Luis; Psychology PDF IMAGES
80-82	November 1957 After hours/Article Letter about Iceland By Agnes Rogers SEE ALSO: Iceland PDF IMAGES
27	March 1957 Personal and otherwise/Article Recap By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Billboards; Foreign economic relations; Iceland; Influence; Savings bonds PDF IMAGES
39-44	October 1956 Article How to throw away an air base By Porter McKeever SEE ALSO: Cold War; Fishery law and legislation; Foreign economic relations; Iceland; International trade; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
553	May 1944 Article Cultural utopia SEE ALSO: Iceland PDF IMAGES
186-198	January 1924 Article An autumn sojourn in Iceland By James Norman Hall SEE ALSO: Iceland; Hall, James Norman; Journeys—Iceland PDF IMAGES
85-96	December 1923 Article Narrative of a journey By James Norman Hall SEE ALSO: Iceland; Hall, James Norman; Journeys—Iceland; Travelers' writings PDF IMAGES
409-410	February 1923 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By James Norman Hall and Thomas B. (Thomas Bucklin) Wells SEE ALSO: Iceland; Hall, James Norman; Journeys—Iceland PDF IMAGES
841-842	November 1922 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By James Norman Hall SEE ALSO: Iceland; Hall, James Norman; Journeys—Iceland PDF IMAGES
651	March 1890 Editor's drawer/Article A cannibal bishop By David Ker SEE ALSO: Bishops; Iceland; Pronunciation by foreign speakers; Speech errors PDF IMAGES
321	July 1885 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Effect of climate on; Human beings; Iceland PDF IMAGES
883-884	November 1874 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Taylor, Bayard; Iceland; Knowledge—Iceland; Fiske, Willard; Written works PDF IMAGES
448-467	March 1863 Article A Californian in Iceland (third paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Iceland PDF IMAGES
289-311	February 1863 Article A Californian in Iceland (second paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Iceland; Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Iceland PDF IMAGES
145-162	January 1863 Article A Californian in Iceland (first paper) By J. Ross (John Ross) Browne SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Copenhagen (Denmark); Andersen, H.C. (Hans Christian); Iceland; Browne, J. Ross (John Ross); Journeys—Iceland PDF IMAGES
754-764	November 1857 Article In high latitudes SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Iceland; Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of; Northeast Passage; Volcanoes; Voyages—Arctic regions PDF IMAGES

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Literary notes/Review

By Laurence Hutton

SEE ALSO: English fiction; Eric Brighteyes (Book); Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider); Iceland

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Jun 2005	Percentage of Iceland residents who took out an ad this winter apologizing for Icelandic support of the Iraq war: 1.5	Harper's Index Source: The Movement for Active Democracy in Iceland (Reykjavik)/Statistics Iceland (Reykjavik)
Jun 2005	Number of books published last year in Iceland and the United States, respectively, per 100,000 residents: 212, 63	Harper's Index Source: Icelandic Publishers Association (Reykjavik)/R. R. Bowker LLC (New Providence, N.J.)
Oct 2003	Chances that a person executed as a witch in Iceland between 1625 and 1685 was a man : 9 in 10	Harper's Index Source: Male Witches in Early Modern Europe, by Laura Apps and Andrew Gow (Manchester University Press, 2002)
Aug 2001	Year in which Iceland plans to have ceased all use of fossil fuels: 2030	Harper's Index Source: Energy Authority of Iceland (Reykjav'k)
Jul 2000	Percentage of Icelanders who have declined including their DNA in a private company's national genetic database: 7	Harper's Index Source: Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.)
Apr 1999	Percentage of Iceland's gene pool to which Decode Genetics plans to acquire exclusive commercial rights this year: 100	Harper's Index Source: Mannvernd, Icelanders for Ethics in Science and Medicine (Reykjavík, Iceland)

December 23, 2008	Bjork started a venture-capital fund in Iceland.	Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha Source: New York Times
October 15, 2008	The stock market in Iceland reopened after a three-day suspension and immediately plunged 77 percent.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source 1: NYT Source 2: Bloomberg Source 3: Reuters Source 4: The Economist via Seattle PI Source 5: FT Source 6: Guardian Source 7: Bloomberg
June 18, 2008	A polar bear named Ofeig (“He Who Should Not Die”), recently arrived in Iceland after traveling via ice floe from Greenland, was shot and killed by the police after he panicked and threatened to attack some journalists.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source 1: AFP via Google Source 2: Der Spiegel
December 8, 2007	Vífill Atlason, a 16-year-old Icelandic high school student, was taken into custody by the police and questioned after he dialed President Bush's private number and, claiming to be the President of Iceland, asked to “chat” with Bush. “I don't see,” Atlason said, “how calling the White House is a crime.”	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: ABC News
October 29, 2007	A still-living 405-year-old quahog clam was found near Iceland.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: Science Daily
October 8, 2003	Transparency International released its annual corruption survey; Bangladesh was rated most corrupt, just beating out Nigeria and Haiti. Finland, Iceland, and Denmark were the least corrupt.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Associated Press
October 9, 2001	Mayor Reinhard Reynisson of Husavik, Iceland, was planning to introduce alligators in some local ponds.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

26	April 2009 Readings/Photo Pyramides in Iceland, 2004 By Henrik Saxgren (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Iceland; Tents PDF IMAGES
28	February 2009 Readings/Photo Krisuvik geothermal field, Iceland By Joan Myers (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Iceland PDF IMAGES
15	August 2007 Readings/Photo Gletscherzunge, Island, 1999 By Olaf Otto Becker (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Glaciers; Iceland PDF IMAGES

December 2009

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MERMAID FEVER
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