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unusual facts about Åby, Norrköping


Aby

The villages of Åby in Sweden and Aaby in Denmark have names of identical origin and meaning.


Aaby, Aarhus

Its name derives from the Old Norse for "village on a river" (Old Norse á, river, and býr, village) and is identical in meaning with Aby in Lincolnshire in England.

ABY

Ashburys railway station in the United Kingdom, from its National Rail code

Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Albany, Georgia, United States, from its IATA airport code

Åby Stora Pris

Åby Stora Pris (literally "Åby Grand Prize") is an annual Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Åby Racetrack in Mölndal, 10 km south of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Aby Warburg

Horst Bredekamp, Michael Diers, Charlotte Schoell-Glass (eds.): Aby Warburg. Akten des internat. Symposiums Hamburg 1990. Weinheim 1991.

Georges Didi-Huberman, L'image survivante: histoire de l'art et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg.

Åby, Norrköping

The locality's name means "village on a river" (Old Norse á, river, and býr, village) and is identical in meaning with Aby in Lincolnshire, England.

Albany Airport

Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Albany, Georgia, United States (FAA/IATA: ABY)

Carl E. Wallin

parish on Vikbolandet east of Norrköping city in the province of Östergötland in Sweden in a large household with many siblings, a sister and four brothers and also some other children in the household within the family.

Copiad

In April 1995, Copiad won Olympiatravet at Åby and Forus Open in Norway, before repeating the previous year's victories in Oslo Grand Prix and Elitloppet.

Dessa

Dessa is a founding member of The Boy Sopranos, an almost all-female a cappella group, with frequent collaborators Jessy Greene, Aby Wolf and others.

Ernest Thiel

Ernest Jacques Thiel (Norrköping 18 August 1859 – Stockholm 6 January 1947) was a Swedish financier and art collector whose former villa in the Stockholm park area Djurgården today houses the Thielska galleriet (the Thiel Gallery).

Frederica of Baden

In 1800, she was crowned in Norrköping, and in 1801, she received a visit from her parents.

Gus Lawson

Gus Lawson was born on April 3, 1882 in Norrköping, Sweden to Lars Gustaf Larsson (1847–c1940) and Emma Sofia Sundberg (1845–1888).

Laurel Black Cats

Though the Jackson Metro Baseball League (JMBL) had began to form in the state, Jones kept the Black Cats as an independent team playing local community teams such as Bay Springs, MS, Heidelberg,MS, Paulding,MS, and Meridian, MS. After remaining rivals with the Hattiesburg Black Sox for half of a century, the rivalry would come to an end in under Jones due to a personal disagreement between Hattiesburg’s owner Trey Aby.

Martin Axenrot

In an interview, Martin said, "Rudiments and technique in general were encouraged by my drum teacher Stig Bendric, who played in the army and with the Norrköping Symphonic Orchestra. He was a huge Buddy Rich fan, and could play really impressive stuff. It made me appreciate the sense of swing when playing".

Mia Mäkilä

Mia Mäkilä a.k.a. Mia Makila (b. March 21, 1979 in Norrköping, Sweden) is a Swedish artist particularly known for her Boschian (Hieronymus Bosch) style in her mixed media works.

Mjölnir

Runestones depicting Thor's hammer include runestones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 111 in Stenkvista, Sö 140 in Jursta, Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, Öl 1 in Karlevi, DR 26 in Laeborg, DR 48 in Hanning, DR 120 in Spentrup, and DR 331 in Gårdstånga.

MS Mariella

In 1989, ahead of the delivery of the new MS Cinderella, SF Line considered moving Mariella on to a proposed express Helsinki–Norrköping service aimed at passengers travelling with their cars.

MS Viking Cinderella

SF Line originally planned the Cinderella to take over the Mariella's place in Helsinki–Stockholm traffic (the Mariella would have been placed on a new route from Helsinki to Norrköping).

Nettbuss

Headquartered in Stenungsund, the company operates primarily in Southwestern Sweden in addition to Katrineholm and Norrköping.

Nils Gustaf Ekholm

From 1890 he worked as an assistant at the Swedish Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (one of the predecessor institutions of the current Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, now located in Norrköping).

Ödeshög Municipality

Noteworthy are: Rök Church from 1845 (outside which the Rök Runestone is standing), Stora Åby Church, from the 1750s, with several older artifacts (baptismal font, triptych); and Ödeshögs Church with a medieval foundation.

Sophia of Denmark

In 1283, the ex-queen gave her income in the fishing of Norrköping to the Saint Martin Abbey in Skänninge.

Swedish Trotting Criterium

The first five editions was raced at Jägersro, before the hostesship was altered between Solvalla and Jägersro until 1954, when Åby was added to the mix.

Vaggsång till Jesus

An early recording, entitled Vagggsång, was done by a choir consisting of 10-13 year olds on the av album Hela jorden sjunger by Immanuelskyrkan in Norrköping in 1976.


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