Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by journalist Stieg Larsson.The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, an asocial computer hacker with a photographic memory, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called Millennium.. Larsson planned the series as having 10 …

The Swedish Academy (Swedish: Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is best known as the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in memory of the donor Alfred Nobel

Swedish or svensk(a) may refer to: . Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe.Or, specifically: Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland . Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language; Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity . A national or …

The Swedish Air Force Museum (Swedish: Flygvapenmuseum) is located at Malmen Airbase in Malmslätt, just outside Linköping, Sweden.Malmen is where Baron Carl Cederström, nicknamed the "Flyer Baron" founded his flying school in 1912. Malmen Airbase is home to the Royal Swedish Airschool operating SAAB 105 (SK60) jet trainers. Along with the Swedish Army Museum …

The Franco-Swedish War or Pomeranian War was the first involvement by Sweden in the Napoleonic Wars. The country joined the Third Coalition in an effort to defeat France under Napoleon Bonaparte Background. In 1803 ... Literature. Lindqvist, Herman(2004) ...

An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional'), or byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage.It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature.

Etymology. The first part of the word riksbank, riks, stems from the Swedish word rike, which means realm, kingdom, empire or nation in English. A literal English translation of the bank's name could thus be Sweden's realm's bank.The bank, however, doesn't translate its name to English but uses its Swedish name the Riksbank also in its English communications.

Finnish and Swedish Lappland was also one province until 1809. Historically, the provinces were grouped in three lands: Götaland, being southern and western Sweden; Svealand being eastern and south-eastern, and Norrland being the entire northern half. The names of the first two refer to ancient tribes, and the third is a geographical reference.

History. Modern history. Early Modern period; Late Modern period. 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; Contemporary history; Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century; Philosophy and sociology. Modernity, a loosely defined concept delineating a number of societal, economic and ideological features that contrast with "pre-modern" times or societies

A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body. These customized vehicles are generally individually painted with intricate, colorful designs, rolling on wire-spoke wheels with whitewall tires. Lowrider rims are generally smaller than the original wheels, ranging down to 13 inches (330 mm). They are also fitted with hydraulic that allow height adjustable suspension, …