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

When in the 17th century Gustav II Adolf introduced dragoons into the Swedish Army, he provided them with a sabre, an axe and a matchlock musket, utilizing them as " labourers on horseback ".

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

When a Swedish person uses the word jänkare, it usually refers to cars from the US, but could also be used as a slang term for any US citizen.

When the Social Democratic Party came into power in 1932, its leaders introduced a new political decision-making process, which later became known as " the Swedish model.

When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes in order to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

When the main army turned south to recover in Ukraine, the second army with supplies and reinforcements was intercepted and routed in Lesnaya-so were the supplies and reinforcements of Swedish ally Ivan Mazepa in Baturyn.

When the Swedish government needed 20 computers in the 1960s to calculate taxes, an evaluation between Saab's and IBM's machines proved Saab's better.

When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS ; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that " krans " meant " funeral wreath " in Swedish ( though it simply means " wreath "; this part of the story may be apocryphal ).

When Hygelac's ( aka Chlochaicus ) brother Hæthcyn was fighting with the Swedes, Hygelac ( aka Chlochilaicus ) arrived one day too late at Hrefneshold to save his brother Herebeald, but managed to rescue the surviving Geatish warriors, who were besieged by the Swedish king Ongentheow had three sons named

When ABB's board made the pension payment public, a huge scandal ensued and Barnevik was forced to resign as chairman of Investor, the Swedish investment company controlled by the powerful Wallenberg family, and to hand back a large chunk of his pension to ABB.

When the revelations about Walther Sommerlath broke in the Swedish press, a palace spokesman said, " The Queen ’ s father has never been a part of the Royal Family and therefore I have no comment.

When the new county was established in 1997, it was decided to name it after the historical province Scania, or Skåne, as it is called in Swedish, so it was given the name Skåne län.

When Swedish forces had entered the Duchy of Pomerania in 1630 and subsequently cleared it of imperial troops, Greifswald became the last imperial stronghold in Pomerania.

When the city arms was to be chosen in 1928 a Viking ship became the motif, in the colors of the Swedish flag.

When the first Swedish local government acts went into force in 1863, 20 rural municipal entities ( each corresponding to a parish of the Church of Sweden ) were created in the area.

When the papal diplomat William of Modena visited present Sweden around 1248, he urged the Swedish kings to fulfill the rules of the Catholic Church, an exhortation which Birger seems to have taken as a chance to strengthen his position by simply taking the side of the church against other members of his family ( alternatively possible to interpret as a manifestation of his pious side ).

When, in about November 1767, she was entrapped into a clandestine marriage with an adventurer who passed for a Swedish count ( the Count de Horn ), Reynolds helped extricate her, and it was doubtless owing to Reynolds's good offices that she was among the signatories to the petition to the king for the establishment of the Royal Academy.

When Niklas Sundin and Johan Larsson left HammerFall the following year, Glenn Ljungström ( then guitarist of In Flames ) and Fredrik Larsson ( bassist of the former Swedish death metal band Dispatched ), replaced them.

When the first flight landed at London, a Kuwaiti lawyer had the General Director, Kifah Hassan's documents and passport seized as well as the plane seized too, this however failed as the plane is owned by Swedish company, Tor Air.

When he was summoned to Stockholm in 1782 by Gustav III of Sweden to edit a Swedish Corpus diplomaticum, half an hour's private conversation with the young priest convinced Gustav that Nordin's proper place was in the political arena.

When Gustav IV of Sweden attained his majority, Armfelt was completely rehabilitated and sent as Swedish ambassador to Vienna in 1802, but was obliged to quit the post two years later for sharply attacking the Austrian government's attitude towards Napoleon Bonaparte.

When on 5 May a Russo-Prussian alliance eliminated Swedish hopes for future Russian assistance, and instead posed the threat of a Russian intervention on the Prussian side, Sweden was forced to make peace.

When Sweden broke away from the Kalmar Union, Denmark and Norway entered into their own union, ( see Denmark – Norway ), and the Danish king Christian III continued to carry the Swedish insignia of three crowns in his coat of arms, indicating a supposed claim of sovereignty.

When he had the mishap of breaking his spectacles, his ecumenical colleagues insisted on providing him with new ones.

When Tripoli fell under siege by British forces, he and his colleagues made a narrow escape by boarding a German military plane flying to Sicily.

When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his colleagues formed the GNA in Ankara on April 23, 1920, Kâzım Karabekir's XV Corps was the only corps which had any combat value.

When later authors described the period, this is what they emphasized: Ammianus has Constantius II admonish Julian for disobedience by appealing to the example in submission set by Diocletian's lesser colleagues ; Julian himself would compare the Diocletianic tetrarchs to a chorus surrounding a leader, speaking in unison under his command.

When his colleagues Eugen Bamberger and Friedrich Tschirner characterized the white, waxy, substance that he had created they recognized that it contained long-CH < sub > 2 </ sub >- chains and termed it polymethylene.

When one of Brown's colleagues asked them if they'd settle for a burger the band informed him: " It's heroin we're discussing, not food !".

When Parnell asked his colleagues at one party meeting " Who is the master of the party?

When accused by colleagues including Eric Heffer, left-wing MP for Liverpool Walton, of putting Labour's chances of winning the next election in jeopardy with his tax proposals, Healey said the party and the country must face the consequences of Labour's policy of the redistribution of income and wealth ; " That is what our policy is, the party must face the realities of it ".

When she left the state legislature in 1987, her colleagues recognized her in a resolution as " the conscience of the House.

When he returned to his home country in 1897, he greatly influenced his colleagues by exhibiting what one newspaper called photographs that could be " mistaken for works of art.

When Ivan Nasidze and his colleagues examined both Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosome DNA, they found Kurdish groups most similar genetically to other West Asian groups, and most distant from Central Asian groups, for both mtDNA and the Y-chromosome.

When he was still in David, Morazán also received calls from his liberal colleagues in Costa Rica.

When Theodor W. Adorno, a founder of Critical Theory, published a study with his colleagues on The Authoritarian Personality in 1954, it had at first an enormous intellectual impact.

When commanding the 19th Hussars in India French was cited for adultery with the wife of a brother officer during his leave ( inevitably christened “ French leave ” by his colleagues ) in the Indian hills – he was lucky this did not terminate his career.

When one of Mr Sweet's colleagues vanishes, Tarot traces him to a bizarre Doll's Hospital where Mama Doc ( Pat Nye ) and assistant Bobby ( Michael Mundell ) change real people into dolls.

When The Move was still on tour, he founded, together with his band colleagues Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan, the Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), which was later to gain major commercial success.

When Hugh Scott retired Baker was elected leader in 1977 by his GOP colleagues, defeating Robert Griffin 19-18.

I was of course opposed to this measure, but I still thought, as did my colleagues at the psychiatric university hospital in Prague where I was working, that homosexuality was an experientially acquired neurosis " ( p. 223 ) He then developed phallometry to replace psychoanalytic methods of assessment because " sychoanalysis had turned out to be a failure, virtually unusable as an instrument for individual diagnosis or research .... When phallometry began to look promising as a test of erotic sex and age preferences, we started using it mainly as a test of pedophilia, that is determining who has an erotic preference for children over adults " ( p. 223-224 ).

When my Democrat colleagues of the leadership talk about health care reform, it's about a government-run, socialized health system.

When Becker offered to bring the team into a strictly controlled army rocketry project, Nebel refused, saying that he and his colleagues had invented the technology and that the army would " choke us with their red tape ".

When he stumbled across the Creators monitoring Earth-Two, he sought to impress his colleagues by defeating the aliens single-handedly.

When the ball is goaled, the scorer is carried on the shoulders of his colleagues into the courtyard of The Green Man Royal Hotel, and into the small bar, known as the Boswell Bar.

When President Wilson needed to fill the position of Attorney General at the start of 1919, party officials, including Palmer's colleagues on the Democratic National Committee and many recipients of his patronage during his tenure as Alien Property Custodian, backed him against other candidates with stronger legal credentials.

When her lobbying efforts proved fruitless, Paul and her colleagues formed the National Woman's Party ( NWP ) in 1916 and began introducing some of the methods used by the suffrage movement in Britain.