Jan Nils Johan Nygren (born 10 April 1934) is a Swedish actor, well known for his role as Karlsson (Karlsson's voice) in Karlsson-on-the-Roof.
A live-action version, Världens bästa Karlsson, was released in Sweden 1974, followed by a more recent animated film released in 2002.
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Karlsson is a very short, very portly and overconfident man who lives in a small house hiding behind a smokestack on the roof of a very ordinary apartment building, on a very ordinary street in Stockholm.
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Karlsson-on-the-Roof (Swedish: Karlsson på taket) is a fictional character in a series of children's books created by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.
Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.
The stone arch or vault, with or without ribs, dominated the roof structures of major architectural works for about 2,000 years, only giving way to iron beams with the Industrial Revolution and the designing of such buildings as Paxton's Crystal Palace, completed 1851.
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The roof of the old Monson High School, which is now the town's police building, was also completely destroyed.
It used local materials to allow it to have a regional air: stones of various colours and a slate roof.
Medially, however, the peritoneum reflects on the roof of the bladder and runs sharply dorsally, away from the deep layer of transversalis fascia.
The north windows hold some 15th-century mediaeval glass, the chancel features 19th-century glass by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, whilst the roof is of 17th-century origin.
It will house the largest photovoltaic cells (solar panel) installation on the roof in Singapore and also the first bio-diesel generation plant in a commercial development in the CBD.
The two shafts (North and South) were 768 and 802 yards deep respectively (more than twice the height from ground to the roof of the Empire State Building), both with a diameter of 21 ft.
Mortimer railway station on the Basingstoke branch is a good example of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's "chalet" style station; the main building has a wide roof that extends beyond the walls on all four sides to give shelter to passengers and there is a small waiting shelter on the opposite platform that is in matching style.
Behind all this, the huge iron and glass train-shed roof by writer and engineer Heinrich Seidel (1842-1906) measured 171 m long by 62 m wide (covering 10,600 m², under which 40,000 people could stand), and rose to 34 m in height along its centre line.
In 1940 a pair of pillboxes was built on the roof of the main station building, flanking its octagonal tower.
1675 Chateau de la Haye d'Esquermes near Loos les Lille, France, evidence of the French influence in its architecture is seen through many stucco enrichments to the exterior and its high-pitched roof.
The firm currently construct the roof module for the Peugeot 206CC and till 2009 built the Vauxhall/Opel Tigra Twin Top.
This roof style set the structure's design apart from the typical round barn designed based on recommendations from the University of Illinois' and the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Agricultural Experiment Stations.
Part of the feature film Hot Fuzz was filmed here, the Church Fete Scene where Adam Buxton's character is crushed by a falling part of the Church roof.
A video was recorded for Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ, of Horslips performing King of the Fairies, a set dance, Beatles-style on the roof of Bank of Ireland's headquarters in 1975.
Most of the roads are named with Hawaiian names, the various community centers and private homes have a Hawaiian look, including prominent Kona/Tahitian roof lines.
The station buildings were designed by the architect George Townsend Andrews, feature an overall roof similar to that further down the line at Beverley and are designated as grade II* listed buildings.
Footage from Fireball 500, specifically shots of the 4B car (Jim Douglas' car) toppling over on its roof, show up later in the demolition derby scenes at the beginning of The Love Bug.
The antenna on the roof has been used by various broadcasters, including television stations WTCN (a predecessor to modern-day KARE), WCCO and KMSP.
(Betty Parris and Abigail Williams lived under the roof of the domineering Puritan minister Samuel Parris, who was a political ally of the Putnam family, one of whom, Ann Putnam, Jr., was among the "afflicted.")
For example, "A Hardened Ballad of a Soldier Man and Woman" from June 1966 was revised as "Black Eagle on a Red Roof" and published after the 1982 Lebanon War.
He was at his Regimental Aid Post when he heard that a gas shell had burst on the Battalion H.Q. at Villers-Bretonneux, had pierced the roof, and penetrated into the cellar.
Although Hendrick added Federal-style dormer windows, the gambrel roof with graceful spring eaves is typical of the Dutch Colonial architectureal style.
In the early 20th century the original L-shaped building was converted into a rectangular structure with a steep roof.
In 1990 Horst Berger was asked to create a tensile fabric roof for the Denver International Airport.
In 1794, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford stripped Houghton House of its furnishings and removed the roof.
The technical requirements were that it would house controlled conditions for the production of electronic microchips, a service area for various offices and a staff canteen, all under one roof.
It is the fourth-tallest building in the Greater China region and the eighth-tallest office building in the world, based on structural heights; by roof height, only the Taipei 101, Shanghai World Financial Center, Willis Tower, International Commerce Centre and Burj Khalifa exceed it.
The Mark 2 is also well known as the car driven by fictional TV detective Inspector Morse played by John Thaw; Morse's car was the version with 2.4 L engine, steel wheels and Everflex vinyl roof.
The Sky Shall Be Our Roof (rare songs from the operas of Ralph Vaughan Williams) – Sarah Fox (soprano), Juliette Pochin (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano).
The haiden's core is just 3 x 1 bays, but it is surrounded on three sides by a 1-bay wide mokoshi (pent roof), bringing the building's external dimensions to 4 x 4 bays.
There were numerous reports of tree and roof damage throughout Springfield, prompting some business to close, and caused Drury University to cancel some morning classes.
The John Hawes designed homestead was built in 1917 and is constructed of stone with a corrugated iron roof.
In early 2011, she moved into a brand new facility of her own Women's Center, built on par with world standards, located in the Northern part of Coimbatore providing all women's healthcare services under a single roof.
On May 27, 2004 CNN showed a segment with Mr. Bill being 'evacuated' from a New Orleans roof the year before Katrina.
In the summer of 1895 he spent nearly all his holidays repairing the roof of Ewerby church.
Since a rescue boat was out of the question, the Niagara Falls (Ontario) Fire Department tried using a grappling gun to shoot a life line out towards the barge, from atop the roof of the Toronto Power House while awaiting the arrival of the US Coast Guard from Youngstown, New York to bring a heavier grappling gun.
Originally the station had an overall roof designed by the architect G.T. Andrews.
A staging that parked an aeroplane on the roof of Glasgow's Theatre Royal on the opening night only seemed to sink the already preposterous plot further into the mire, although Burgess was so taken with the music that he went on to arrange the overture to Oberon for guitar quartet.
During the "I Spy Bill Nye" episode of Living With Ed, Ed Begley, Jr. has a 'SeaHawk' (500w) model turbine installed on the roof of his house.
The group protested on the roof of EasyGroup's headquarters in November 2006 at the same time as the United Nations Climate talks in Nairobi.
In October 1983 Carroll was interviewed by the police in relation to the murder of Deidre, a baby whose body had been found on the roof of a toilet block in Ipswich, Queensland, in April 1973.
According to one hypothesis, an Italian architect called Petrok Maly may have been an author of the Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye, one of the earliest and most prominent tented roof churches.
The building was designed by Harry S Fairhurst in a neo-classical style and displays some Art Deco and Edwardian Baroque motifs such as square windows and roof sculptures which were prevalent during the 1920s.
The simple dolmen with a passage evolved into the "extended dolmens", which are generally longer, usually have more than one capstone and - apart from the transitional types at Neu Gaarz, Bad Doberan county - have orthostats that stand on one of their two smallest faces, thus allowing the roof of the chamber to be higher.
At the resort itself, Georgian Peaks, the tornado tore the roof from the Alpine Centre, pulled cables from chair lifts and ripped apart lift houses and ski ramps.
On 29 March 1918, a German shell, fired by the long-range "Paris Gun", fell on the church, killing 88 people and wounding 68 others; the explosion collapsed the roof when a Good Friday service was in progress.
Sedum roof reducing the need for heating in cold weather and cooling in hot weather.
The double hammer-beam roof over the name was taken from the recently dismantled church of All Saints in the Jewry that stood opposite Trinity College in Cambridge.
If put up next to Chicago's Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower), the WKBT transmitter would surpass the upper roof and fall just about 100 feet short of the highest antenna on top.