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A Dear John Letter

The song was released as "Käre John" in Sweden/Scandinavia by Swedish jazz vocalist Alice Babs and Charlie Norman och deras Reeperbahn Stompers in the 1950s.

And Your Bird Can Sing

Swedish rock group Gyllene Tider recorded a Swedish version titled Och jorden den är rund (And Earth is round) on an EP which was included with their LP album Moderna tider from 1981.

August Strindberg bibliography

Svenska folket i helg och söcken, i krig och i fred, hemma och ute; eller, Ett tusen år av svenska bildningens och sedernas historia (The Swedish People on Holy Day and Everyday, in War and Peace, at Home and Abroad; or, A Thousand Years of the History of Swedish Culture and Manners), illustrations by Carl Larsson and C. E. Fritze, Volume I ,1881 and volume II, 1882

Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue

Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue (original Swedish title Kalle Blomkvist och Rasmus) is the 3rd and last novel about the Swedish "master detective" Kalle Blomkvist, written by Astrid Lindgren.

Cesare Emiliani

He was further honored by receiving the Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) (Swedish: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi) in 1983, and the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1989 for his isotopic studies on Pleistocene and Holocene planktic foraminifera.

Christer Sandelin

He has also produced for a number of artists Lars Vegas trio and the duos Ronny och Ragge, Rob'n'Raz, Antique and The Graaf Sisters (Magdalena Graaf and Hannah Graaf) and singer Vicki Benckert.

Dalarnas Tidningar

Dalarnas Tidningar is a Swedish media company founded in 1987 by the merger of two companies, Falu-Kuriren AB with the newspaper Falu Kuriren and Dalarnes Tidnings- och Boktryckeri AB (DTBAB) with newspapers Borlänge Tidning, Nya Ludvika Tidning, Mora Tidning and Södra Dalarnes Tidning.

Drakar och Demoner

Drakar och Demoner (Swedish for Dragons and Demons, in Sweden commonly referred to by the abbreviation "DoD") is a Swedish fantasy role-playing game first published in 1982 by the game publishing company Äventyrsspel ("Adventure Games", later renamed Target Games).

Emil Norlander

For some of his songs he borrowed well-known melodies from abroad: Fredssång (Silver Threads Among the Gold), Lycklige John (Lucky Jim) and Kärlek På Italienska Och Svenska (Santa Lucia).

Galenskaparna och After Shave

Galenskaparna och After Shave is the collaborative name of two Swedish comedy groups, Galenskaparna and After Shave, from Gothenburg.

Gerd Hegnell

During many years she was engaged at Folkteatern in Gothenburg where she performed many nice role presentations, among them Magnus Nilsson's Knäckebröd och hovmästarsås in 1988 and Carin Mannheimer's Rika barn leka bäst in 1995 (and in 1997, then in the film with the same name).

Gothenburg Theatre Academy

Gothenburg Theatre Academy refers to the drama school in Gothenburg, Sweden, that started in 1941 as Maria Schildknechts elevskola and today, after several changes of name and organizational structure, forms part of the Academy of Music and Drama (Swedish: Högskolan för scen och musik) at the University of Gothenburg.

Gott Och Blandat

Gott Och Blandat is the debut album by the Swedish Bubblegum dance/Eurodance group Caramell.

Gustaf Adolf Montgomery

In 1848 he published a book, Historia öfver kriget emellan Sverige och Ryssland 1808 och 1809, critical of the Swedish leadership and praising the Russians.

Ingeborg Tott

The Princess in the group of sculptures "Sankt Göran och Draken" (Saint George and the Dragon) in the Storkyrkan in Stockholm, which were made in 1471-1475, are considered to bear the features of Ingeborg.

Jörn Donner

His novel Far och son (Father and Son) won the Finlandia Prize in 1985.

Katedralskolan, Linköping

Sällskapet för vitterhet och hävd – Eranos (known as VH-E), dedicated to history, literature and philosophy, has been residents to the school since 1795 and counts many famous names amongst its members, such as Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Tage Danielsson.

King of the Goths

Sveriges, Götes och Vendes Konung was used again from 1905 up to the accession of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in 1973, who was the first monarch officially proclaimed Sveriges Konung ("King of Sweden") and nothing else.

Knut Frænkel

Frænkel was born in Karlstad, son of a major in the Army engineering corps (väg- och vattenbyggnadskåren), and grew up in mountainous Jämtland in eastern middle part of Sweden, where he acquired an interest in outdoor activities and sports.

Mats Bergman

He's successfully shown his range in several different theatre productions, a.o in Almqvist's Drottningens juvelsmycke, Bulgakov's Mästaren och Margarita (The Master and Margaret), Brecht's Tolvskillingsoperan (The Threepenny Opera), Botho Strauss' Rummet och tiden, Molière's Misantropen (Le Misanthrope) and Brecht's Den goda människan i Sezuan.

Mvelaphanda Group

In January 2012, Mvelaphanda Holdings, OZ Management (a subsidiary of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group) and Palladino Holdings announced the creation of a joint venture called Africa Management Limited, which will also see the creation of African Global Capital, a platform through which to invest in public and private markets across Africa.

Never Is Forever

On the CD-version there are three hidden tracks in the end of the final track: Bingo singing Staten och kapitalet, a 70's radical left-wing progressive rock tune by Blå Tåget made into a national hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band Ebba Grön, Evel Knievel performing a poem named Why? and John Culliton Mahoney performing his song The Ballad of Evel Knievel.

:*12:04-16:58 – Bengt “Bingo” Calmeyer sings Staten och Kapitalet, a cover of Blå Tåget (made famous by Ebba Grön).

Noppriga tights och moonboots

Noppriga tights och moonboots is the first full length CD released by the Swedish trallpunk band Räserbajs in 1995.

Nordic Watercolour Museum

The architects behind the museum, painted in the typical Swedish Falu red colour, are the Danes Niels Bruun och Henrik Corfitsen.

Oswego, Kansas

Oswego is served by Oswego Community Hospital (OCH), a twelve bed Critical Access hospital administered by HMC/CAH, Inc. and supported by Via Christi Hospital (Pittsburg) of Pittsburg, Kansas and Labette Health of Parsons.

Pelle Strindlund

Jordens Herrar: Slaveri, djurförtryck och våldets försvarare (Karneval förlag, 2011)

Rana Niejta

Bo Lundmark: Bæi'vi mánno nástit (Ume Sami) = Sol- och månkult samt astrala och celesta föreställningar bland samerna (Swedish) The Sun and the Moon cult and Celestial and Astral concepts among the Saamis), Acta Bothniensia Occidentalis, Skrifter i västerbottnisk kulturhistoria, Umeå, Västerbottens museum, 1982

Röhss family

250,000 kronor were given to the establishment of the craft and design museum known at the time as Röhsska konstslöjdmuseet (now Röhsska museet för konsthantverk och design, and in English as the Röhsska Museum).

Sofia och Anna

Sofia och Anna (Sofia and Anna) were a Swedish duo composed of Sofia Jannok and Anna Kärrstedt, both from Gällivare, Sweden, who sang in Northern Sámi.

Sven Salén

Two of his songs, "Sången till havet" (Song to the Ocean) and "Visa kring slånbom och månskära" (Song of Blackthorn and Crescent Moon) were recorded by Jussi Björling.

Swedish Humanist Association

The yearly award commemorates the Swedish philosopher Ingemar Hedenius, whose views - expressed in his book Tro och vetande ("Belief and knowledge") - were instrumental in starting the cultural debate that eventually led to the separating of the Swedish church and state.

Telegrafgränd

It was the location for the National Archives (Riksarkivet) and the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (Kungliga Vitterhets-, Historie- och Antikvitetsakademien (KVHAA) or Vitterhetsakademien for short) during the period 1848-1863.

The Judas Boy

Appeared in The Rich Pay Late och Friends in Low Places.

The Kristet Utseende

In 2005 the band reunited and performed on the Hultsfred Festival as well as on Augustibuller (literally: August sound pollution), Piteå dansar och ler (literally: Piteå dances and smiles), Sundsvalls gatufest (literally: Sundsvalls street party), Arvikafestivalen (literally: Arvika festival) and in Lund.

The Three Bells

With lyrics in Swedish by Britt Lindeborg, Kikki Danielsson covered the song in 1979 on her debut album, Rock'n Yodel, as "Och vi hörde klockor ringa", translated "And we heard bells ringing".

The Wall Street Shuffle

ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad recorded a Swedish-language version called "Guld och gröna ängar" (with Swedish lyrics by Owe Junsjö) on her solo album "Frida ensam".

The World of Tosh

The World of Tosh (Swedish: Sune och hans värld) is an animated TV series based on the Sune books by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson, and produced by the animation studios Happy Life.

Thomas Funck

In 1956 there was a musical film made, Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends (Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner), with actors in costumes miming while Funck provided the voices.

Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends (Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner) (1956)

Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball Flying High (Kalle Stropp och Grodan Boll på svindlande äventyr) (1991)

Ulf Långbacka

On 27 August 2011 his opera Henrik och Häxhammaren (Henrik and the Hammer of Witches) had its premiere at Turku Castle as part of Turku's year as joint European Capital of Culture.

Ungersven och havsfrun

Ungersven och havsfrun (as it is known in Swedish) or Herr Bøsmer i elvehjem (as it is known in Danish) (The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad A 49) is a supernatural ballad type.

Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA

"Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" (English "We're sitting in Ventrilo, playing DotA" and in some countries shortened to "DotA") is a song by Swedish dance DJ Basshunter which samples in a remixed version the French song "Daddy DJ" by Daddy DJ.

Visst katten har djuren själ!

Visst katten har djuren själ - En samling historier av och för djurvänner in Swedish and Jovisst har dyrene sjel in Norwegian (in English Sure an Animal Has a Soul - An Anthology of Tales about and for our Animal Friends; this book has not has been translated into English) is a non-fictional theme book about animals written by Norwegian-Swedish author Margit Sandemo.

Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum

A Swedish version called Ung och bortskämd (Young and Spoiled) began airing on SVT on 8 November 2010 and were finished on 21 December.


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