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- Hallo!
-
- In May 1993 I promised Wolfgang to write a short text on every country
- and dependency mentioned in AmigaWorld. I had in mind to write ten
- lines about each of the 250 countries and thought I'd be able to
- finish the whole thing in a couple of months. Now I know better!
- In a few cases I have not found facts enough for ten lines, but in
- most cases I have so many facts that it has been impossible to
- comprise it to ten lines. Many texts are longer than 100 lines.
-
- All text are © by me, Bo Arnholm. You are free to use them in school
- compositions and essays. If you would like to use them in any other,
- not private way, i.e. commercially, then you have to contact me first
- and ask me for permission. If I find my text published anywhere else
- without my permission I will chase you around the world and sue you
- for huge damages!
-
- As AmigaWorld is a European program I have tried to use the English
- language for the textfiles. But Swedish is my native language and my
- spellchecker is American, so I guess you can imagine how hard it is
- for me to get it all right. I beg of you to help me get it all right
- by telling me what is wrong.
-
- I have used several sources to find facts about all the countries and
- dependencies; The Swedish Bra Böckers Lexikon and the Swedish National
- Encyclopedia, The Universal Almanac (US), The Stateman's Yearbook (UK),
- The World Almanac (UK edition), The 1993 Almanac (US), The Encyclopedia
- Britannica (UK), Webster's New World Encyclopedia (US), Fischer Welt-
- Almanach (Germany), several Atlases (Swedish and American), and I have
- read a lot of newspapers to find the latest available facts.
-
- It has been amazing to find out how the "facts" about a country can
- differ from one "fact-book" to another. In those cases I have either
- decided that one source is more reliable than the others, or I have
- made a qualified estimate weighing the different facts against each
- others.
- In this case it is evident that there is not one single truth, but
- a lot of different ways to describe the world and none of them is
- absolutely true and none of them is absolutely false.
-
- This also applies to the fact that I'm an European. My sources are
- European and American. I haven't been able to find one single fact-book
- produced in South America, Africa or Asia in a language that I can
- understand (Swedish, English or German). I know for a fact that if two
- persons view the same thing from two different points they will give two
- very different descriptions of what they have seen. I of course cannot
- describe anything I know nothing about and that is why I ask of you to
- supply me with more facts, or give me a hint on where to find the facts.
-
-
- Any comments on the country-texts are welcome to:
-
- Bo Arnholm, Södermalmsgatan 13, S-431 69 Mölndal, SWEDEN.
- or to my email-address: arnis@tripnet.se
-