The City of Stockholm is situated on fourteen islands and on the banks to the archipelago where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea.

The bank's first year of operations was very successful and after only a couple of years, Handelsbanken held a strong position among Stockholm banks.

The banks in Stockholm and Östergötland County were called " Östgöta Enskilda Bank " until May 2011, when they changed name to " Danske Bank ".

However, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, found no association between the consumption of foods high in acrylamide and increased risk of three forms of cancer: bladder, large bowel and kidney.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

When Stockholm County Museum made an archaeological excavation at Broby bro, in 1995, they found three graves.

He found that he could buy matches in bulk very cheaply from Stockholm, sell them individually at a low price, and still make a good profit.

The Indian Buddha statuette, the Irish crozier and the Egyptian scoop which were found on Helgö, are presently on display in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm.

From Haparanda Törni travelled by railroad to Stockholm where he found protection and shelter with the Baroness Von Essen, who harbored many fugitive Finnish officers following the war.

While at NPR, Flatow helped found the NPR science unit and served on the production team for NPR's first remote broadcast: the UN Conference On the Human Environment in Stockholm.

Stockholm, the Swedish capital, is located in both Uppland and Södermanland, and a border stone can be found in the street Västerlånggatan in Stockholm Old Town ( Gamla stan ).

Though their plan was frustrated, Miyazaki found inspiration in the fortified town of Visby and would later set both Stockholm and Visby as the stage of Kiki's Delivery Service.

A statue of St. George and the Dragon ( sculpted by Bernt Notke ) can be found in the Stockholm Cathedral, while Riddarholmskyrkan is the royal burial church.

Though a few assumed medieval subterranean wooden tubes and vaulted underground chambers have been found, relatively few traces remain in Stockholm of the sort of sophisticated system of sewers found in for example Visby and Bergen, so most likely the sloping alleys simply had to do the job.

Today the military presence is low and several museums can be found there instead, such as the Museum of Modern Art, the main modern art museum of Stockholm, the architectural museum, in the same building, and Östasiatiska Muséet ( East-Asian museum ).

In 1787, Swedish part-time chemist Carl Axel Arrhenius found a heavy black rock near the Swedish village of Ytterby, Sweden ( part of the Stockholm Archipelago ).< ref >< cite id = Krogt ></ cite ></ ref > Thinking that it was an unknown mineral containing the newly discovered element tungsten, he named it ytterbite.

Some of his works can be found in the Metropolitan Museum, New York and Skokloster Castle, north of Stockholm.

A few items, pieces of clothing and a knife, believed to be connected with the murder, were found outside the department store, in the vicinity of a Stockholm metro station.

The original can be found at Riksarkivet ( National Archive ) in Stockholm.

It is also found in Sandemar strandängar ( Sandemar beach meadows ), a nature reserve west of the village of Dalarö in the Stockholm archipelago.

He was briefly director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm between 1984 and 1986, but only accepted a two year appointment as he " suspected that the administrative duties would not agree well " with him, and found that " the hunch was right ".

The coat of arms of Sven Hedin, together with those of some two thousand noble families, is to be found on a wall of the Great Hall in Riddarhuset, the assembly house of Swedish nobility in Stockholm ’ s inner city, Gamla Stan.

A permanent exhibition of articles found by Sven Hedin on his expeditions is located in the Stockholm Ethnographic Museum.

* The extensive holdings of the Sven Hedin Foundation ( Sven Hedins Stiftelse ), which holds Hedin effects in trust, are to be found in the Ethnographic Museum and in the National Archives in Stockholm.

Their correspondence can be found in the Riksarkivet in Stockholm.

In the summer season there are regular servicee to Ruhnu and Pärnu operated by Luftverkehr Friesland Harle, and a twice weekly service to Stockholm operated by Estonian Air.

He is rushed towards Stockholm, in order to lead the fight against the Danes from there, but dies from his wounds on February 3.

The protests culminated with the occupation of the Student Union Building in Stockholm ; Palme came there and tried to confornt the students, urging them to use democratic methods for the pursuit of their cause.

In some cities, such as Stockholm, Helsinki, Tel Aviv, Austin, Texas, and Copenhagen, there are no established gay villages, partly due to the differing social dynamics of these cities ( less social segregation within the city ), but also due to earlier and greater social acceptance of the gay community within mainstream society.

However there are areas which were historically known as meeting places for gays, such as Södermalm in Stockholm, Punavuori and Kallio in Helsinki, which remain as somewhat trendy areas for gay people to live in, though they do not have a predominantly gay population.

Most of the bus routes connect to the Stockholm Metro at Gullmarsplan, but there are also buses running directly to and from central Stockholm.

Most working individuals commute to Stockholm, but there are also farmers and fishermen.

The late 1990s saw renewed interest in the Electric Prunes, with the release on Heartbeat Records of Stockholm, a concert recorded by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation while the ( original ) Prunes were on tour there in 1967.

Recently there has also been research development that combines space syntax with geographic accessibility analysis in GIS, such as the place syntax-models developed by the research group Spatial Analysis and Design at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

A constantly repeated theme in the book's background are the social, cultural and physical differences between these two locations: Norrland is more sedate, conservative and slow-moving in comparison with the cosmopolitan Stockholm ; a Stockholmer having to live for an extended period in Norrland feels " exiled to the back of beyond "; Norrland is also colder and a Stockholmer coming there must urgently buy warmer clothes ; Norrlanders often speak regional dialects which Stockholm people find nearly incomprehensible ; Stockholm people look down their noses at " a working class boy from Norrland " even when he had lived many years in Stockholm.

The first was from 29 July 1759, when during a dinner in Gothenburg, he excitedly told the party at six o ' clock that there was a fire in Stockholm ( 405 km away ), that it consumed his neighbour's home and was threatening his own.

Although not typically cited along with these three episodes, there was one further piece of evidence of possible pertinence here: Swedenborg was noted by the seamen of the ships that he sailed between Stockholm and London to always have excellent sailing conditions.

In Stockholm there was a majority in the referendum within the city border ( where the votes counted ), but not outside.

International freight traffic is concentrated to the four railways across the Russian border, but there is also a connection to the Swedish rail network in Tornio and rail ferry connections from Turku to Stockholm, Sweden, and to Travemünde, Germany.

In Stockholm there are two more train systems, fully separated from other rail systems, that go to outer suburbs.

The laboratory was later moved from Stockholm to Falun and from there to Stjärnsund.

** And, east of Barkarholmen, a rocky islet called Lilla Stockholm (" Little Log Islet ") in the 16th century, renamed Bryggeriholmen (" Brewery Islet ") during the 17th century ( in reference to a brewery in operation 1641-45 ), and after that called Slaktarholmen (" Butcher's Islet ") after a slaughterhouse operating there.

Gyllenstierna as defender of Stockholm in a modern statue at the Royal Palace there

Asynchronous Transfer Mode ( ATM ) switches were briefly used at a few IXPs in the late 1990s, accounting for approximately 4 % of the market at their peak, and there was an abortive attempt by the Stockholm IXP, NetNod, to use SRP / DPT, but Ethernet has prevailed, accounting for more than 95 % of all existing Internet exchange switch fabrics.

As duty-free sales are a considerable source of revenue for the ferry shipping companies, the major routes between the Stockholm region ( Kapellskär and Stockholm ) and southern Finland ( Åbo and Helsinki ) include a stop there.