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Swedish Delicacy Banned on Airlines
The BBC reports that the Swedish delicacy Surströmming (Sour herring) has been banned from several major airlines as a potential explosive. Wikipedia indicates that this is old news.
View ArticleWithout Frogs, Sweden Stops
So artist Aron Falk is educating frogs to prepare them for survival. 3:20 video Interview
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Nordic Lion Neutered by Political Correctness
London Times: The proud motto of northern Europe’s crack rapid-reaction force is ad omnia paratus. Prepared for everything, everywhere. But the heraldic lion above the Latin tag now sends a less...
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Swedish Version of Loch Ness Monster Filmed
The Frösö Runestone British newspapers are quoting Swedish reports that Sweden’s version of the Loch Ness monster was recently filmed in Storsjön, Sweden’s fifth largest lake. Telegraph: SWEDEN’S own...
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Photoshopping a Nyckelharpa
My wife plays (among many instruments) the Swedish nyckelharpa (literally “key harp,” a folk instrument bowed like a violin, with a set of resonant strings whose pitch is alterable by keys). Fark took...
View Article16 Year Old Iraqi Immigrant Scores Math Success in Sweden
A 16-Year-Old Iraqi immigrant to Sweden working over four months apparently independently produced a formula for simplifying the generation of the Bernoulli Numbers, a sequence of rational numbers...
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Muslims Shut Down Free Speech Lecture at Uppsala
Irate Muslims attacked Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks who was delivering a lecture on free speech at Uppsala University last Tuesday, interrupting the presentation of a basically puerile and vulgar...
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US Government In Standoff With Wikileaks
Julian Assange The Pentagon is demanding that Wikileaks cease publishing and return immediately stolen US documents in its possession, hinting darkly at legal prosecution if the Internet news site...
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Julian Assange Charged With Rape in Sweden
Wikileaks proprietor Julian Assange is wanted on charges of rape and sexual molestation by Swedish authorities. He has not yet been found and apprehended. The victims are reported to both be women...
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Assange Rape Charge Developments
Swedish prosecutors have withdrawn the arrest warrant for Julian Assange for rape, apparently having decided that the charge was not well based, but he remains under accusation of “molestation.”...
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Probably Russian Shipwreck Found in Stockholm
photo:Jens Lindstrom/Swedish Maritime Museum The Daily Mail reports on an intriguing maritime mystery. The remains of a ship dating from the 1600s [or earlier — DZ] have been discovered in the centre...
View ArticleUnknown Large Object Found in Baltic
The peculiar object lies 80 meters (262 1/2 feet) underwater, somewhere between Sweden and Finland. CNN Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.
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Free Love Backfires: The Story of Stieg Larsson’s Estate
Der Spiegel describes how the Boho-Bolshie lifestyle and philosophy backfired on the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson and his surviving partner Eva Gabrielsson. It turns out that communists not only...
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Polish Drought Lowers Vistula to Reveal Architectural Elements Looted By...
The small number of readers familiar with Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel of the 17th Century Swedish Invasion of Poland-Lithuania The Deluge will have some sense of its devastating impact on the country....
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Swedish Humor
(Translation by Karen L. Myers:) He’s about 180 cm tall, wearing a green jacket and orange vest, smelling of beer, (and) just tried to shoot me.
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Funeral Regalia of 16th Century Swedish King Stolen From Cathedral
The tomb of 16th century Swedish Eric XIV was recently broken into and a set of funeral regalia stolen. DN.SE (translated): A scepter, a crown and an orb in the form of an apple were stolen from Erik...
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Apple Season Means Drunken Elk in Sweden
Our Moose is called an Elk in Europe. The Local: A gang of angry drunken elk barred a man from entering his home in suburban Stockholm on Tuesday, leaving the frightened homeowner no choice but to...
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Not Perhaps the Ideal Pet
Despite the “moose” reference, this seems to be from Sweden where they’d call that an elk. Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.
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