The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 37, September 14, 2003, Article 6

SWEDES REJECT THE EURO!

  Dick Johnson writes: "Citizens of Sweden voted Sunday to
  reject joining with the rest of Europe to convert to the Euro
  currency. Sweden continues a policy of indifference,
  isolationism, stubbornness (pick one) that goes back for
  more than 400 years.

  When the rest of Europe adopted the Gregorian calendar
  (over the Julian) Sweden refused to do it their way.  This
  took place for most European countries 1582-1587 (the
  German Protestant States and Denmark held out until 1700).
  There was a difference of eleven days between the two
  calendars. The rest of Europe did it all a once.  Sweden
  chose not to, and made the change by dropping leap year
  days for the years 1700 to 1740.

  Swedes are going to do it THEIR way no matter what
  (three-quarters of my great grandfathers came from Sweden).
  The news story at:  http://www.iht.com/articles/109957.htm."

  [My grandfather was Olof Gustav Homren, so I'm part
  Swedish, too.   I guess I like to be different, too. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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