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Icelandic Legends and Aurora
Legends collide in this dramatic vista of land, sea, and sky. The land is Iceland, specifically Vík í Mýrdal, a southern village known for its beautiful black sand beaches.
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The Icelandic Tradition of Giving Books on Christmas Eve
Book lovers will want to adopt this lovely holiday tradition, which melds literary and holiday pleasures into a single event.
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Did The Vikings Use Crystal ‘Sunstones’ To Discover America
Ancient records tell us that the intrepid Viking seafarers who discovered Iceland, Greenland and eventually North America navigated using landmarks, birds and whales, and little else.
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GPS mix-up brings wrong turn and celebrity to American lost in Iceland
When Noel Santillan typed the word Laugarvegur instead of Laugavegur into his rental car's GPS, the New Jersey resident couldn't have imagined that the extra "r" would make him something of a celebrity in Iceland.
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Ice caves
At Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland
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The Cracks Ripping Earth Apart
In a remote and desolate landscape, the rocks are tearing themselves in two beneath your feet and new land is being born
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This Is Where Bad Bankers Go to Prison
Kviabryggja Prison in western Iceland doesn’t need walls, razor wire, or guard towers to keep the convicts inside. Alone on a wind-swept cape, the old farmhouse is bound by the frigid North Atlantic on one side and fields of snow-covered lava rock on another. To the east looms Snaefellsjokull, a dormant volcano blanketed by a glacier. There’s only one road back to civilization. This is where the world’s only bank chiefs imprisoned in connection with the 2008...
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Icelandic PM faces no confidence vote over Panama Papers disclosures
Protests outside parliament after documents show Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson’s wife owned offshore firm with large claim on collapsed banks
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Panama Papers Scandal Brings Down Iceland’s Prime Minister
The resignation of the prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, was the first prominent political fallout from the document leaks, which have shed unflattering light on the private financial activities of many rich and powerful people around the world.
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Iceland president's wife linked to offshore tax havens in leaked files
The president of Iceland is expected to come under pressure this week after leaked documents appeared to show that part of his wife’s considerable fortune was held in offshore tax havens. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who has been in office for 20 years, last month surprised many by declaring he would stand for re-election again after serving five terms.
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Euro 2016: How tiny Iceland slays the giants
Although Iceland's national stadium seats just 15,000, it was less than half full for the start of the country's European Championship qualifying campaign against Turkey on September 9, 2014. But the 7,000 spectators that did turn up at the Laugardalsvöllur -- a one-tiered relic built in 1958 with nothing but cold Icelandic air swirling behind the goals -- were treated to the result of their lives, literally. As striker Kolbeinn Sigthorsson scored a breakaway goal in the 78th minute to give the Nordics a 3-0 lead, belief became infectious, and the impossible suddenly became reality.
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In a first, Iceland power plant turns carbon emissions to stone
Scientists and engineers working at a major power plant in Iceland have shown for the first time that carbon dioxide emissions can be pumped into the earth and changed chemically to a solid within months—radically faster than anyone had predicted. The finding may help address a fear that so far has plagued the idea of capturing and storing CO2 underground: that emissions could seep back into the air or even explode out. A study describing the method appears this week in the leading journal Science.
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A glimpse of Iceland.
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Massive underdog Iceland beats England 2-1, moves on to final 8 in Euro 2016.
Iceland beats England 2-1 in Nice tonight! The fairy tale continues!
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Iceland’s Historic Candidate
How a scholar of the nation’s Presidency swiftly became its Presidential front-runner. By Adam Gopnik.
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The Icelandic Pirate Party and the Search for a New Democracy
Inside a modernist warehouse alongside the ocean in Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital city, four men sit around a table discussing the country’s drug policies. A skull-and-crossbones flag adorns the wall and a cheap blow-up sword hangs over one door frame. Though they aren’t wearing eyepatches or hunting for treasure, these Icelanders call themselves Pirates, and they are drafting policy for a new, insurgent political party, the Pirate Party. By Adam Eichen and Gabriel Dunsmith.
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Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010
Sean Stiegemeier
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Polls suggest Iceland's Pirate party may form next government
One of Europe’s most radical political parties is expected to gain its first taste of power after Iceland’s ruling coalition and opposition agreed to hold early elections caused by the Panama Papers scandal in October. The Pirate party, whose platform includes direct democracy, greater government transparency, a new national constitution and asylum for US whistleblower Edward Snowden, will field candidates in every constituency and has been at or near the top of every opinion poll for over a year.
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Largest Quakes to Hit Katla Volcano in Decades
Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.6 and 4.5 hit Katla volcano in Mýrdalsjökull glacier last night, followed by a series of aftershocks. These are the largest quakes to hit Katla since 1977, when a 5.1 earthquake was measured there.
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Seljalandsfoss, Iceland
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