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<DIV><FONT size=2>The expression "Midnight Sun" is much older in Scandinavia -
e.g. the title of a book: "Midnats Solens rätta och synlige Rum uti
Norrlanden" by J. BILBERG, 1695.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I suspect that one can find a Latin origin for the term, as
the fact that the sun stayed up all night in northern Scandinavia seems to
have been known already in antiquity.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Jan Ivarsson, Simrishamn, Sweden</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>