Lapps
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Lapps see Lapland .
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What's a Lapp?(facts about inhabitants of Lapland)
Jack & Jill; 1/1/1995; 119 words;
... people who live in Lapland are called Lapps. They are among the smallest people in Europe. Until recently, many Lapps seldom lived in one place for long. They ... their herds of reindeer. Beautiful Clothes Lapps wear clothes made of wool and reindeer ...
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On TAP for college; After some tinkering by state officials, Pa. s Tuition Account Program or TAP - which provides a means for saving for a child s college education - is gaining favor among parents and grandparents. The Lapps of Manheim Township are among them.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 1/28/2002; Patricia Poist-Reilly; Sandra Gottlieb; 1899 words;
... leafy campus on his way to class. But the Lapps of Beverly Estates in Manheim Township ... is never too early to start saving, the Lapps are already examining ways to pay Joseph ... to be unveiled this spring will give the Lapps more options, according to state officials ...
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&type=1 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Winter: Is this the Lapp of luxury? A Winter's Tale; Modern Samis herd their deer using skidoos, and double-glaze their homes, but Rhiannon Batten has sampled more traditional aspects of this northern life.(Features)
The Independent (London, England); 2/24/2001; Batten, Rhiannon; 675 words;
... not so very long ago, when the Samis, or Lapps, lived their lives entirely as nomadic ... all the differences in daily life, many Lapps remain in the far northern corners of Norway ... traditional Sami tent. Though most of the local Lapps now live in sturdy Swedish houses, Abisko ...
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Winter: Is this the Lapp of luxury? A Winter's Tale; Modern Samis herd their deer using skidoos, and double-glaze their homes, but Rhiannon Batten has sampled more traditional aspects of this northern life
The Independent - London; 2/24/2001; Rhiannon Batten; 675 words;
... not so very long ago, when the Samis, or Lapps, lived their lives entirely as nomadic ... all the differences in daily life, many Lapps remain in the far northern corners of Norway ... traditional Sami tent. Though most of the local Lapps now live in sturdy Swedish houses, Abisko ...
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The legacy of Chernobyl: disaster for the Lapps: nuclear fallout destroys an economy centered on reindeer.
U.S. News & World Report; 3/23/1987; Knight, Robin; 731 words;
The legacy of Chernobyl: Disaster for the Lapps To Paul and Mai Klemetsson, therewas nothing very significant in a radio news bulletin about a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. It went ... consumption. This situation couldprove catastrophic for the Sami, as Lapps prefer to be called. Cheerful, stocky ...
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The lost tribe of the Russian empire Justin Cartwright goes in search of the last of the Lapps, a people destroyed by the Communists
The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/23/2003; JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT; 693 words;
... and of these the Kurds are likely to be making the news very soon. Up in the Arctic Circle, living across ... Sweden, Finland and north western Russia, are the Lapps or Saami. Their history has been one of subjugation ... mid-1940s, even the Swedes had laws which forbade the Lapps from building permanent ...
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Why stop at Lapp Electric?
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Editor, New Era: When Bush visited Lapp's with his invited friends I asked myself why Lapps? I got my answer when he made the statement that Lapp's hired 50 new people. As you might know, he went right by High Steel. Why ...
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Bush will visit East Lampeter electrical firm; Lapp Electrical Services will host president Friday afternoon. Second-generation business founded in family's home in 1969.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 7/7/2004; Patricia A. Poist; 628 words;
... Manny and Flossie Lapp in 1969 in their home as an electrical services and contracting company. The company, now headed by the Lapps' sons, Greg and Tim, has since expanded its expertise to include computer technology communications and industrial automation ...
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&type=1 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Indigenous people of Lapland aren't Lapps; they are Sami.(TRAVEL)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 12/21/1997; Watson, Catherine; 733 words;
The words you run into most often in this city are variants of Lap - as in Lapland, Lappish, Lapp, Lapps. The reason behind one of those words is easy: Rovaniemi is the capital of Finland's Province of Lapland. The reason for the others ...
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Chernobyl perils Lapps' reindeer, culture
Chicago Sun-Times; 2/22/1987; Gregory Jensen; 494 words;
... disaster wrought by Chernobyl on "The People of the Reindeer," the Lapps. A British television documentary is the latest to chart the ... the permitted maximum contamination for human consumption. For Lapps, who call themselves Sami, the disaster could hardly be more ...
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Lapp Cable Works has achieved ISO 9002: 2000 certification.(Quick Takes)
Robotics World; 10/1/2003; 25 words;
Lapp Cable Works has achieved ISO 9002:2000 certification. Lapp USA, the sister company of Lapp Cable Works, received its ISO 9001:2000 certification in January.
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"When a Lapp is out on the high fells": literary voice and cultural identity for the Sami.
Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/2003; Dana, Kathleen Osgood; 10766 words;
... easily in his mother tongue. Then too, both Finns and Lapps mocked at him for working at anything so useless ... For instance, Vuokko Hirvonen made the national news in February of 1999 when she defended her dissertation ... that folk didn't have to keep asking ... What are Lapps circumstances? ... and so ...
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Jacob M. and Sarah L. Lapp
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 12/1/2005; 407 words;
PAID OBITUARIES Jacob M. Lapp, 76, and Sarah Lapp Stoltzfus Lapp, 75, of 706 Strasburg Pike, Lancaster, died Wednesday, November 30, 2005, from injuries received in an accident at Rt. 272 and Byerland Church Rd., Providence Twp. He was the son of the late Joshua and Sarah Stoltzfus Lapp. She was
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CV's Lapp bound for Bloomsburg; L-L's top receiver expects to redshirt
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C.J. Lapp probably never met former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver, but the Conestoga Valley senior wide receiver subscribes to the same philosophy. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. Lapp admits to being somewhat cocky as a sophomore. He knew how to catch the ball and
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Emanuel F. Lapp
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Emanuel F. Lapp, 65, of 135 Iva Road, Ronks, PA, died Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at his residence. Born in Paradise Twp., he was the son of the late Gideon B. Lapp and the late Elizabeth Fisher Lapp. He was a member of the Old Order Amish Church. He worked as a woodworker for Country Valley
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