Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

Although he is sometimes regarded as among the first and most influential architects of Nordic modernism, a closer examination of the historical facts reveals that Aalto ( while a pioneer in Finland ) closely followed and had personal contacts with other pioneers in Sweden, in particular Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius.

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

Since Rimbert mentions them to have crossed the seas by ship " where it was possible " they clearly had the alternative of going around them as well, meaning that the seas were probably the numerous lakes in southern Sweden.

Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen that oversaw the missionary work in Scandinavia until 1103, had appointed bishops to Sweden at least from 1014 onwards, the first see being in Skara.

Sweden was rich in copper, thus, because of copper's low value, extraordinarily big coins ( often weighing several kilograms ) had to be made.

After second season was over the third season was never dubbed or aried on Swedish TV, Digimon had no chance to Pokemon in Sweden.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

However, some reports outside Sweden incorrectly stated that in Sweden the film had even outgrossed the Hollywood film Titanic.

In fact, Titanic had over twice as many viewers as Show Me Love in Sweden in 1998.

Following the Diet of Porvoo in 1809, Finland, previously part of the Kingdom of Sweden, had been ruled as a nominally autonomous part of the Russian Empire, known as the Grand Duchy of Finland.

By the beginning of the Civil War, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland had recognized Finnish independence.

Chairman Pehr Svinhufvud and Jalmar Castrén had to travel through Estonia, Poland, Germany and Sweden to reach White Finland.

The Spanish delegation retorted that it was only the lazy and unenterprising Goths who had remained in Sweden, whereas the heroic Goths had left Sweden, invaded the Roman empire and settled in Spain.

Within only a few years of his accession Sweden had become the largest nation in Europe after Russia and Spain.

As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.

His masseur, Felix Kersten, who had moved to Sweden, acted as an intermediary in negotiations with Count Folke Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross.

dr .) in 1987, with a study on Swedish romanticism, but had meanwhile been active as a literary critic, translator and journal editor, and was one of the introducers of the continental tradition of literary scholarship in Sweden.

However, after Sweden had submitted its membership application in 1991 and the Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of the year, Finland submitted its own application to the EC in March 1992.

Fleming ( centre ) receiving the Nobel prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden | Gustaf V of Sweden ( right ) in 1945

This is because many of the issues and areas that in other countries are regulated through state or federal law, e. g. working hours, minimum wage and right to overtime compensation, in Sweden instead are regulated through collective agreements between trade union and employer organisation representatives.

René Descartes ( right ) with Queen Christina of Sweden ( left ).

The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.

Previously Televerket, a dominant telephone company in Sweden had sole right to attach equipment to the public network.

Despite this virtually all cars in Sweden were actually left-hand drive and the neighbouring Nordic countries already drove on the right, leading to mistakes by visitors.

Sweden addressed this controversy by reserving the right not to participate in any future EU defense alliance.

In membership negotiations in 1993-1994, Sweden also had reserved the right to make the final decision on whether to join the third stage of the EMU " in light of continued developments.

* 1967 – Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.

British diplomats began negotiations to obtain concessions useful in the event of any invasion of Norway, such as the right to fly reconnaissance missions over Sweden or to refuel planes that made emergency landings.

The solution chosen is to switch the electrical system, from Swedish 15 kV, 16. 7 Hz to Danish 25 kV, 50 Hz AC right before the eastern bridgehead at Lernacken in Sweden.

In 1803 Sweden pledged both town and lordship to Mecklenburg for 1, 258, 000 Riksdaler, reserving, however, the right of redemption after 100 years.

In view of this contingent right of Sweden, Wismar was not represented at the diet of Mecklenburg until 1897.

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Then it is used as: General Strike of a city, i. e., " General Strike in Florence ", or a General Strike in a whole country or province, for the purpose of gaining political rights, i. e., the right to vote ; as in Belgium, or Sweden.

At the electoral reforms regarding the right to vote of 1862, she supported the idea to give women the right to vote, which was talked about as the " horrific sight " of seeing " crinolines at the election boxes ", but Bremer gave the idea her support, and the same year, women of legal majority were granted suffrage in municipal elections in Sweden.

Norway had been ceded to Sweden by Denmark in 1814, at which it promptly rebelled and won the right of self rule, though nominally part of Sweden.

Articles 77 – 79 of the Norwegian constitution specifically grant the King of Norway the right to withhold Royal Assent from any bill passed by the Storting, however, this right has never been exercised by any Norwegian monarch following the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 ( though it was exercised by Swedish monarchs prior to that time when they ruled Norway ).

From 1813 to 1817, he acted as secretary of the crown prince of Sweden, through whose influence the right of his family to noble rank was revived.

This happened on the same day Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road to the right side.

For a quarter of a century he ruled Sweden making the regency almost an office in its own right.