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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Uppsala | | | | | |  Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Carl Peter Thunberg - JapanIn August 1775 he arrived at the Dutch factory of the V.O.C. (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) at Dejima, a small artificial island (120 m by 75 m) in the Bay of Nagasaki, connected to the city by a landfill. He was appointed head surgeon (1775-1776) of this trading-post. But, like the Dutch, he was hardly allowed to leave the island. Nevertheless, he was one of the few to be allowed to conduct some botanical research ashore.
In order to obtain more specimens, he traded his knowledge of European medicine with Japanese interpreters f ...
See also:Carl Peter Thunberg, Carl Peter Thunberg - Early Life, Carl Peter Thunberg - Japan, Carl Peter Thunberg - Return to Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg - Selected publications Read more here: » Carl Peter Thunberg: Encyclopedia II - Carl Peter Thunberg - Japan |
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| | | | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Marriage and Family The king married Silvia Sommerlath on June 19, 1976, the half German, half Brazilian daughter of a businessman. Silvia met the then Crown Prince at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where she was an interpreter and host. The King and Queen reside at Drottningholm Palace outside Stockholm, and use the Royal Palace of Stockholm as their workplace.
They have three children:
HRH Princess Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Duchess of Västergötland (1977- )
HRH Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979-)
HRH Princess M ...
See also:Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Youth and education, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Marriage and Family, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Royal duties and personal interests, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Dyslexia Read more here: » Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden: Encyclopedia II - Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - Marriage and Family |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - World War II Ture Nerman was one of the few people in the world who had actually read Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. On April 20, 1933, a couple of months after Hitler had taken power in Germany, Nerman stood up in the Swedish parliament and demanded that Sweden should grant asylum for all German Jews who would like to come. The issue was taken up for vote, but voted against.
When World War II broke out in 1939 Sweden declared itself neutral, but Ture Nerman was not neutral. During the war, Ture Nerman was best known as the editor of Trots ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - World War II |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain In 1937, Ture Nerman and his comrade August Spångberg, traveled to Spain where General Francisco Franco’s fascists had taken power and a civil war was ravaging the country. They went through Nazi Germany and managed to get to Barcelona. The civil war was a chaos. At times the Stalinists were fighting the Trotskyists, and at other times the Anarchists were fighting everyone, and the Fascists benefited from the turmoil within the left. Ture Nerman decided he could not side with any of the grou ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Swedish hip hop - Well known B-Boy/B-Girl dancers (in alphabetical order)
Bounce website
MovesPerMinute website
Main article: Breakdancing in Sweden
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See also:Swedish hip hop, Swedish hip hop - The beginning, Swedish hip hop - The first breakthrough, Swedish hip hop - The second breakthrough, Swedish hip hop - The fourth wave, Swedish hip hop - Well known rappers and crews, Swedish hip hop - Well known DJs, Swedish hip hop - Well known B-Boy/B-Girl dancers, Swedish hip hop - Well known graffiti artists, Swedish hip hop - Books on Swedish hip hop, Swedish hip hop - Links to English language Swedish hip hop resources, Swedish hip hop - Links to Swedish Hip-Hop Labels Read more here: » Swedish hip hop: Encyclopedia II - Swedish hip hop - Well known B-Boy/B-Girl dancers |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald In November of 1912, Nerman attended the special emergency convention of the Socialist International, which had been summoned to Basel in Switzerland, due to the outbreak of the Balkan Wars. At the convention, the leaders of all the European Socialist parties agreed to stand together internationally to prevent any future wars. With a united international working class, they stated, there could be no more wars.
Therefore, the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and the collapse of the Socialist International, came as a shock to Ture Nerma ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - Political Awakening The year 1905 saw both a revolution in Russia and revolutionary development in Scandinavia as Norway declared itself independent from the rule of the Swedish crown. These changes radicalized Ture Nerman politically to the left. He had already started reading August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy and Ellen Key. Soon he would discover Karl Marx (even if it took many years until he fully started to study and understand Marxism). Nerman st ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - Political Awakening |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Dan king - The Gesta Danorum Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum presents three different Danish monarchs named Dan, either splitting up a single monarch into many, or properly keeping separate what others have confused.
Saxo begins his history with two brothers named Dan and Angul, sons of one Humbli, who were made rulers by the consent of the people because of their bravery. They were not however called "kings", as that usage was not then common.
Angul is the eponym of the region of Angul and from his people eventually came the English who gave their name to England. Dan fath ...
See also:Dan king, Dan king - The Leire Chonicle, Dan king - The Rígsthula, Dan king - The Skjöldungasaga, Dan king - Ynglinga saga, Dan king - Sven Aggesen, Dan king - The Gesta Danorum, Dan king - The Song of Eric Read more here: » Dan king: Encyclopedia II - Dan king - The Gesta Danorum |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Early Swedish history - 10th century The Swedish vikings also played a role in the west during the later Viking Age. This first occurred during the conquest of England under the Danish kings Svein Forkbeard and his son Cnut from 1007-1013. Swedes, along with Norwegians, were recruited as mercenaries to participate in this conquest. Indeed, there is at least one rune stone monument in Sweden attesting to a warrior who won much booty during one of these English campaigns. Later on, Swedes were recruited by the infamous King Harald III of Norway (Harald Hardrada), to help h ...
See also:Early Swedish history, Early Swedish history - 9th century, Early Swedish history - 10th century, Early Swedish history - Christianization and struggle for power, Early Swedish history - The first union of Sweden and Norway, Early Swedish history - Kalmar Union Read more here: » Early Swedish history: Encyclopedia II - Early Swedish history - 10th century |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - In America At the start of the year 1915, (before Zimmerwald), Nerman travelled around in the USA for several months. To finance the trip he wrote articles for several Swedish newspapers. He arrived by boat in New York City where he stayed only for a short time but took the chance to go up to the top of the Woolworth Building, the highest skyscraper in the world at the time. He took the express train across the continent to San Francisco where he visited the World’s Fair on opening day.
Ture Nerman then started a tour speaking to American workers, mostly of Scandinavian origin, in Minneapolis and Chicago.
He also took some time t ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - In America |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism In the beginning of 1917, the struggle between the left and the right within the Social Democratic Party resulted in a split. Zeth Höglund and Ture Nerman, now considering themselves Communists, were expelled from the Party together with other prominent radicals such as Kata Dalström, Fredrik Ström and Stockholm’s mayor Carl Lindhagen.
Höglund, who was the leader of the Party’s youth organisation, managed to get the whole young socialists on his side in the foundation of the Swedish Social Democratic Left Party. The new ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism Ture Nerman condemned the rise of Stalinism in Russia, but when Zeth Höglund broke with the Communist Party in 1924, Ture Nerman remained, although less involved in the leadership. The party's new leadership was composed of Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg, both Moscow friendly, however none of them real Stalinist.
In 1929 the Comintern made sure that the power of the Swedish Communist Party was taken over by the minority fraction of Stalinists lead by Hugo Sillén. The majority of the party’s members, the non-Stalinists, were expe ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia At the end of the summer of 1918, Ture Nerman traveled together with Angelica Balabanoff and Anton Nilson to Bolshevik Russia.
In Petrograd, Nerman was invited two visit the home of Zinoviev, who was the leader of the Petrograd Soviet. They knew each other from Zimmerwald. Zinoviev asked him: “When will you make revolution in Sweden?” Nerman replied modestly that they didn’t have a definitive date yet. The next day Nerman attended a rally outside the Winter Palace, in which Zinoviev and Balabanoff spoke to the red ...
See also:Ture Nerman, Ture Nerman - Background, Ture Nerman - Political Awakening, Ture Nerman - World War I and Zimmerwald, Ture Nerman - In America, Ture Nerman - The Birth of Swedish Communism, Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia, Ture Nerman - Against Stalinism, Ture Nerman - In Fascist Spain, Ture Nerman - World War II, Ture Nerman - The Last Years, Ture Nerman - Works Read more here: » Ture Nerman: Encyclopedia II - Ture Nerman - In Soviet Russia |
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| | | | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Theodor Geiger - Work Geiger is considered the founder of the concept of social stratification, using the concept of stratification (introduced by Edward Ross) for the analysis of social structures.
According to this view, society is divided into an indefinite number of social levels or groups, defined according to attributes such as profession, education, upbringing, living standard, power, dress, religion, race, political opinion and organisation. This idea is closely connected to that of social mobility and ...
See also:Theodor Geiger, Theodor Geiger - Life, Theodor Geiger - Work, Theodor Geiger - Publications Read more here: » Theodor Geiger: Encyclopedia II - Theodor Geiger - Work |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Yngling - Names In the Scandinavian sources they are the descendants of Yngvi-Frey of Vanaheim. Yngling means descendant of Frey and in Gesta Danorum they are called the sons of Frey.
In Beowulf appear several of these kings Eadgils (Adils), Onela (Ale) and Ohthere (Ottar Vendelkråka), but here they are called Scylfings (see section below). Snorri Sturluson hints at a less divine origin in Skáldskaparmál for this dynasty: One war-king was named Skelfir; and his house is called the House of Skilfings: his kindred is in the Eastern Region (Sweden is the eastern part of Scandinavia and the Swedish kings co ...
See also:Yngling, Yngling - Names, Yngling - From Sweden to Norway, Yngling - Remaining in Sweden?, Yngling - Family Tree, Yngling - The line, Yngling - Kings of Sweden, Yngling - Intermediary, Yngling - Kings of Norway, Yngling - The name Scylfing, Yngling - Beowulf, Yngling - In Norse tradition, Yngling - Variant spellings Read more here: » Yngling: Encyclopedia II - Yngling - Names |
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| | | | | Uppsala: Encyclopedia II - Rail transport in Sweden - History Main article: History of rail transport in Sweden.
The first Swedish railroad for public transport using horse-drawn carriages, the Frykstads railroad in Värmland was opened in 1849.
In 1853 the Swedish Parliament decided that the state would build main line railways, but that other lines would be built by private enterprises, and in 1856 the first stretch, between Örebro and Nora, was opened for traffic.
The main line railways were of major importance for the development of the Swedish industry. The two first main lin ...
See also:Rail transport in Sweden, Rail transport in Sweden - Operators, Rail transport in Sweden - History, Rail transport in Sweden - Network, Rail transport in Sweden - Main lines, Rail transport in Sweden - Railway links with adjacent countries Read more here: » Rail transport in Sweden: Encyclopedia II - Rail transport in Sweden - History |
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