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155-Year-Old Eel Dies in Sweden
The eel in 1959. Sweden is in mourning, and not for Robin Williams. The Local.se reports: The world’s oldest European eel just died in its home, a well in a southern Swedish fishing town, aged 155. …...
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Sandby Borg, “the Swedish Pompeii”
Some warrior dropped this Roman solidus into a posthole on the floor. Archaeological investigation of Sandby Borg, a Migration Era fort on the island of Öland has been underway since 2010. Habitation...
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Gustav Vasa’s Helmet
Burgundian helmet belonging to Gustav I Vasa, King of Sweden. 1540. Hat tip to Collections & Recollections.
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Sweden Changing Racist Names of Birds
The Washington Post reports the latest case of European PC insanity. Bird watching has long been a popular and seemingly harmless weekend activity in Sweden. Its innocence, however, came to an abrupt...
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Swedish Museum Contains 1185 Skeletal Remains From 1361 Battle
Armored skull from Visby Skeletal Collection in the Fornsalen Museum Strange Remains: The Visby skeletal collection at the Fornsalen Museum contains the remains of 1185 people who died at the Battle...
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Charles XII’s Uniform
Uniform worn by Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Fridrikshald, 1718, at which he was killed.
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Laissez-Faire, Not Socialism, Made Sweden Prosperous
Johan Norberg notes that the Left loves to point out Sweden as a model of Socialism with Economic Prosperity. The problem is that all the prosperity is a legacy from an economic system which Socialism...
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Waltz from Orsa, Sweden
http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/02-Vals-från-Orsa.mp3 played by Bjorn Stabi and Ole Hjorth. My wife is an enthusiast of this kind of music. She has an on-line reference site. This...
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“Old Tjikko” 9550-Year-Old Norwegian Spruce
Really, it’s a 9,550-Year-Old root system. Vintage News: The oldest living cloned Norwegian Spruce can be found in Sweden on Fulufjallet Mountain. It is at least 9,550 years old, sixteen feet tall,...
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Fake News
Memeorandum’s lead item at 1:15 PM EST on February 19, 2017. (You can look at a later point in time by filling in the correct time and date.) So at Donald Trump’s rally yesterday in Florida, Trump...
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Swedish Suburb Burning Childrens’ Classic
Bruce Bawer, at PJ Media, has the story. What is Swedish culture? A lot of people who still believe in such things would put Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) at or near the top of that list. During her...
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In Sweden, Officials Are Simply Recycling Bronze and Iron Age Artifacts
One of the amulet rings from the Iron Age that archaeologists are recycling. Previously, this type of object was saved, says archaeologist Johan Runer. Rough translation from Swedish language article...
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Sweden Appoints Pakistani-Born Muslim Head of Swedish Heritage Board
Qaisar Mahmood Front Page: Qaisar Mahmood, a Muslim born in Pakistan, is the new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board. This is an extremely anomalous appointment, since he readily admits that...
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The Sun reports on the latest “always something PC out of Sweden”: A controversial burial method that uses liquid nitrogen to freeze and disintegrate a dead body is being heralded as the future of...
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Britain Has Knife Attacks; Sweden Has Grenades
Wikipedia: Bombings increased significantly in 2015, with Swedish police investigating around 100-150 explosions. There were over 30 explosions reported in the Swedish city of Malmö alone by August...
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“All Hail Saga, New Queen of Sweden!”
The Local (Sweden): An eight-year-old Swedish-American girl came across an exciting find swimming at her local lake, when she pulled an ancient sword from its depths. “It’s not every day that one...
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