Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: Frenchmen in Lapland

[luzula]

All the Sami I have met looked like northern Europeans, at least! Here are some photos from an image search (though most Sami don't wear traditional costumes in everyday life, nor do most of them work with reindeer today).

Re: Frenchmen in Lapland

[mildred_of_midgard]

Lol, I think your search hits may be localized to your region (and language?), because after deciding that Sami looked remarkably Middle Eastern, I looked more closely at the captions and saw that I was almost exclusively getting men with the Arabic name "Samer"!

I will take your word for it. :)

Re: Frenchmen in Lapland

[luzula]

Ha ha, okay! Yes, the search was localized to Sweden, and I thought it would be preserved in the link...anyway, here is a random photograph from the search.

Re: Frenchmen in Lapland

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ah, yes, thank you! That looks much more like I how think of Swedes looking and much less like I think of Syrians. ;)

I will pass this information on at the next opportunity.