A Green Cargo SJ Rc | RC 4 class electric locomotive repainted in its original livery for the Sweden | Swedish History of rail transport in Sweden | 150-year railway anniversary in 2006.

The other major parties in the council are the Green League ( 11 seats ), the Left Alliance ( 10 seats ) and the Swedish People's Party ( 4 seats ).

The classical chant Jolly-Bob från Aberdeen by the Swedish singer Lasse Dahlquist, tells the story about a young sailorman from Aberdeen town who is getting married with a damsel from Golders Green.

They were mainly consisting of German (" the Blue brigade ") and some Scottish mercenaries (" the Green brigade ") with a few national Swedish / Finnish regiments ( mostly cavalry ) and one national Swedish infantry brigade (" the Yellow brigade ").

After the election the party entered into a coalition government together with the Centre Party, the Green League, and the Swedish People's Party.

Vanhanen's second cabinet was formed on a centre-right basis, with minor partners the Green League and the Swedish People's Party.

Paul Le Flem, with his wife, Jeanne ( Even ), is the grandfather of actress Marika Green and great-grandfather of actress Eva Green by his daughter, Jeanne, who married Swedish journalist Lennart Green.

* 55 % of CargoNet AS, the other 45 % is owned by Swedish owned Green Cargo ( Freight train operation )

Katainen's government is a right-left coalition of the National Coalition Party, Social Democratic Party, Left Alliance, Green League, Swedish People's Party and Christian Democrats.

Kiviniemi's and Vanhanen's governments both were centre-right coalitions, consisting of the National Coalition, Centre Party, Green League and Swedish People's Party.

While being filmed by documentary film-maker Louis Theroux, they picketed a local appliance store because it sold Swedish vacuum cleaners, which the church viewed as supportive of gays because of Swedish prosecution of Åke Green, a pastor critical of homosexuality.

* Swedish metal band Lake Of Tears released a song on their newest album, " Illwill ", called " Behind The Green Door ".

Jobert and spouse Swedish dentist Walter Green's daughter Eva Green is also an actress.

When the show moved to MTV, Green released a single called " Lonely Swedish ( The Bum Bum Song )", encouraging visitors to download the song off his website, burn it onto CDs and distribute it to friends.

The groups biggest hit was the 1967 Swedish language cover of the Tom Jones song " Green, Green Grass of Home " called " En sång en gång för längese ' n " with Swedish lyrics by Stig Anderson.

* 1967: " En sång en gång för längese ' n " ( Swedish version of Green, Green Grass of Home ) / " Det Är Skönt Att Vara Hemma Igen "

In Swedish, the word " rolig " means " fun " ( as in " It was a fun party "), while in the closely related languages Danish and Norwegian it means " calm " ( as in " he was calm despite all the furor around him ").

After being labelled " an upmarket Orange hall " by the party, IKEA assured customers and co-workers that only the Swedish flag would be seen outside the actual store.

In addition to support from his own party, Kekkonen received the backing of the Swedish People's Party and the Finnish People's Party, a small classical liberal party.

Slow to learn the limits of Sweden's diminished strength, a party of nobles, who called themselves the " Hats ", dreamed of revenge on Russia and ruled the country from 1739 to 1765 ; they engaged in wars in 1741, 1757, 1788, and 1809, with more or less disastrous results as Russian influence grew after every Swedish defeat.

The social democratic party held government for 44 years ( 1932 – 1976 ), they spent much of the 1950s and 1960s building Folkhemmet ( The People's Home ), the Swedish welfare state.

The dominant party in the city council has traditionally been the Swedish People's Party.

Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party.

The main Neo-nazi party in Sweden is the " Party of the Swedes ", with around 500 members, and the main neo-Nazi organization is the Swedish Resistance Movement.

In the days before the Swedish election on September 17, 2006, Fonda went to Sweden to support the new political party Feministiskt initiativ in their election campaign.

The roots of the party can be found in Swedish fascism.

In 1999 they rejected Nazism, although SD's long used logo in the 1990s was a Swedish version of the NF torch, SD's first ( albeit short-lived ) logo actually consisted of a stylized Myosotis scorpioides, a flower similar to the one used by the party as logo since 2006, a kidneywort.

While opinion on the early SD vary, it is generally agreed ( including by the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism and Expo ), that the SD has never been a Nazi party, although various " connections " have existed by members.

Swedish Democratic MP William Petzäll was persuaded to leave the party on 26 September 2011 while still retaining his parliamentary seat.

SD is the only party in the Swedish Parliament without an integration policy of their own.

As the party considers Sweden to have had too much immigration in later years, which it claims have seriously threatened national identity and societal cohesion, SD wants to reinstate a common Swedish national identity which in turn would mean a stronger inner solidarity.

In August 1995, Ingvar Carlsson announced that he would resign as party leader and Swedish Prime Minister.

A similar initiative was formed 2002 in Sweden where the party Aktivdemokrati, running for the Swedish parliament, offers its members the power to decide the actions of the party over all or some areas of decision, or alternatively to use a proxy with immediate recall for one or several areas.

To become an MP, a person must be entitled to vote ( i. e. be a Swedish citizen, be at least 18 years old and be or have been resident in Sweden ) and must be nominated by a political party.

The slogan " Keep Sweden Swedish " was taken on by the Sweden Democrats and became prevalent during 2003-2004, when it was used for headlines in the party newspaper " SD Kuriren " and as slogans on bumper stickers.

As a result of the Swedish municipal elections, 2006 the Social Democrats currently hold 28 of 61 mandates, a decrease of three mandates which lost them the absolute majority, though they remain the largest party in Borlänge.

In the 2010 elections the white nationalist Party of the Swedes got 102 votes or 2. 8 per cent in the elections to the council, giving them one seat and making them the first white nationalist party to get any mandate in a Swedish political assembly since the 1940s.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

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.

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.

Anders Celsius ( 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744 ) was a Swedish astronomer.

For years it was simply referred to as the Swedish thermometer.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

The Swedish Minister for Integration and Gender Equality, Nyamko Sabuni, was born in Burundi.

The musical was based on The Emigrants novels by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg.