Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

* 1966 – Tim Sköld, Swedish / American musician

Other groups in the British grindcore scene, such as Heresy and Unseen Terror, have emphasized the influence of American hardcore punk, including Septic Death, as well as Swedish D-beat.

Category: American people of Swedish descent

Examples include the German Marder and Puma, the Chinese ZBD-97, the Soviet / Russian BMP-3, the Indian Abhay IFV, the Yugoslavian BVP M-80, the Canadian LAV III, the British Warrior, the American M2 Bradley, the Spanish Pizarro / ASCOD, the Italian Dardo, the South African Ratel, the French AMX-10P and VBCI, the Swedish Combat Vehicle 90 and the Dutch YPR-765 AIFV.

This story was often repeated over the next century, but scholarly research in the late 20th century suggested that John Hanson was of English heritage and not related to these Swedish American Hansons.

Former posts include Principal Oboe with the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Royal Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, and the Royal Danish Ballet.

Category: American people of Swedish descent

Revived in the 1980s by American, Swedish, and British dancers, the Lindy Hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass roots organizations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

* Tuve Hasselquist ( 1816 – 1891 ), Swedish American Lutheran minister and church leader

Rarer lateral consonants include the retroflex laterals that can be found in most Indic languages and in some Swedish dialects, and the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, found in many Native North American languages, Welsh and Zulu.

* 1948 – Barbara Hendricks, American / Swedish singer

Her father was Swedish American and her mother was Norwegian American.

After the American deployment of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II, the Swedish military leadership recognized the need for nuclear weapons to be thoroughly investigated and researched to provide Sweden with the knowledge to defend itself from a nuclear attack.

Category: American people of Swedish descent

* Titans, Swedish / American music trio

British culture continued to influence world culture, including the " British Invasion " into American music, leading many top rock bands ( such as Swedish ABBA ) to sing in English.

* December 24 – Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres.

* March 30 – Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish American silent film star ( d. 1974 )

* Swedish American

* American Swedish Historical Museum

* Laurentius Carels, Swedish American Lutheran pastor

Swedes in America, 1638-1938 ( The Swedish American Tercentenary Association.

* The American Swedish Historical Museum

He had his dwellings in the burial mounds on the farm, hence the now somewhat archaic Swedish names tomtenisse and tomtekarl, the Swedish and Norwegian tomtegubbe and tomtebonde (" tomte farmer "), the Norwegian haugkall (" mound man "), and the Finnish tonttu-ukko ( lit.

Some synonyms of tomte in Swedish and Norwegian include gårdbo ("( farm ) yard-dweller "), gardvord (" yard-warden ", see vörðr ), god bonde (" good farmer "), fjøsnisse (" barn gnome ") or gårdsrå (" yard-spirit ").

Arndt was born at Groß-Schoritz ( a part of Garz / Rügen ) on the island of Rügen in Swedish Pomerania as the son of a prosperous farmer, and emancipated serf of the lord of the district, Count Putbus ; his mother came of well-to-do German yeoman stock.

Interestingly, the Swedish TKS survived the post-war period in Norway, where it was operated by a local farmer as a tractor.

: an American woman who presented the character of a Swedish farmer while under hypnosis conducted by her physician husband.

It appears in Heimskringla, where it is told that the Swedish king Dag the Wise's sparrow was killed by a farmer in Varva.

The borrough The Bronx also got its name after a farmer, a Mr. Bronck of Swedish origin.

Stride was the daughter of a Swedish farmer, Gustaf Ericsson, and his wife Beata Carlsdotter, and was born Elisabeth Gustafsdotter in the parish of Torslanda, west of Gothenburg, Sweden, on 27 November 1843.

It was described as a farmer and fishery village and stood at first under Pomeranian, then Swedish and Prussian sovereignty.

Appointed minister of agriculture in the short-lived coalition cabinet of Christian Lundeberg, formed in 1905 specifically to handle the issue of the dissolution of the union with Norway, he was the first farmer to become a member of the Swedish cabinet and took an active part in the negotiations with Norway.

Benny Andersson also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

Several Swedish kings of the 9th century, Björn, Anund and Olof, are all mentioned in Vita to have spent time in Birka.

The modern term chemical affinity is a somewhat modified variation of its eighteenth-century precursor " elective affinity " or elective attractions, a coinage of the Swedish chemist Torbern Olof Bergman from his book De attractionibus electivis ( 1775 ).

* 1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish politician ( d. 1986 )

* 1977 – Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer

In 1717, Swedish professor Olof Rudbeck proposed about 100 etymologies connecting Finnish and Hungarian, of which about 40 are still considered valid ( Collinder, 1965 ).

During the Age of Enlightenment and Nordic Renaissance, historical scholarship in Scandinavia became more rational and pragmatic in the works of a Danish-Norwegian historian Ludvig Holberg and Swedish Olof von Dalin.

** Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, né Olof Daniel Westling, Swedish prince, married to Crown Princess Victoria

* February 28 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated on his way home from the cinema.

** Olof Palme, Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden ( b. 1927 )

* March 23 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer ( b. 1660 )

* March 15 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer ( d. 1740 )

On February 28, 1986, the Social Democratic leader and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered ; shocked Swedes worried whether the nation had " lost its innocence ".

The yellow area was under Sveinn Hákonarson, his half-brother, held as a fief of Olof Skötkonung, the Swedish king.

The family were rich landowners and belonged to the higher echelons of Swedish society, and she was probably named after Estrid of the Obotrites, who was the queen of Sweden, and the consort of Olof Skötkonung, at the time Estrid was born.

979 – 1035 ) was a Medieval and Viking age Swedish Queen consort and West Slavic Princess, married to Olof Skötkonung, the King of Sweden, ca.

Former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is an important proponent of democratic socialism.

Sven Olof Joachim Palme () ( 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986 ) was a Swedish politician.

As leader of a new generation of Swedish Social Democrats, Olof Palme was often described as a " revolutionary reformist ".

Olof Palme carried out major reforms in the Swedish constitution such as orchestrating a switch from bicameralism to unicameralism in 1969 and in 1975 replacing the 166-year-old Instrument of Government ( at the time the oldest political constitution in the world after that of the United States ) with a new one officially establishing parliamentary democracy rather than de jure monarchic autocracy, abolishing the Privy Council of Sweden and stripping King Carl XVI Gustav of most rights held even by ceremonial monarchs in Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom.

Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen dedicated his 1986 album Trilogy in the memory of Olof Palme.

Following this report, which also claimed that the CIA had been involved in the assassination of the Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme, then President Francesco Cossiga requested the opening of investigations while the CIA itself officially denied these allegations.

During his second stay there, he married Elisabeth ( referred to in Scandinavian sources as Ellisif ), daughter of Yaroslav the Wise and granddaughter of the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung.

Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson ( April 23, 1947-September 29, 2004 ) was a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden.