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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Holidays<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>I assume that quite a few of you will travel this weekend. This is why I am sending these holiday greetings out early enough to catch most of you.<br><br>On behalf of everyone I wish all fathers, grandfather, great-grandfathers and father figures on Lowlands-L happy Fathers' Day. Hopefully all of you will have visitors and get phone calls, cards and email messages.<br>
<br>Also, happy Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice respectively to all of you to whom these matter! Happy </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sankt Hans aften</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> in Denmark, </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jaanipäev </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in Estonia, </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">juhannus</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> in Finland, </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sankthansaften</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> in Norway, </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Midsommarafton</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> in Sweden, </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Noc Świętojańska</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> especially in Northern Poland, and many variants of Midsummer festivals in Britain, Ireland and Man, to name but a few. It is also the beginning of the month-long </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Белые ночи</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> (White Nights) for our friends in Russia.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Best regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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