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Eric A. Hegg, Swedish-American photographer who portrayed the people in Skagway, Bennett and Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush from 1897 to 1901 Olof Jonsson , Swedish-born engineer and psychic, famous for his long-distance telepathy experiment during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971
List of Swedish consorts; List of Swedish entrepreneurs; List of Swedish film directors; List of Swedish folk musicians; List of Swedish journalists; List of Miss Sweden titleholders; Lists of Swedish military personnel; List of Swedes in music; Lists of office-holders in Sweden; List of painters from Sweden; List of Swedish women photographers ...
Barton, H. Arnold. "Cultural interplay between Sweden and Swedish America" Swedish-American Historical Quarterly (1992) 43#1 pp 5–18. Beijbom, Ulf. "The Historiography of Swedish America" Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 31 (1980): 257–85) Beijbom, Ulf, ed. Swedes in America: Intercultural and Interethnic Perspectives on Contemporary ...
I recently had a fascinating meeting with the Swedish ambassador to the United States, Urban Ahlin, who made me wonder if America should be more like Sweden.
The list of best-selling Swedish music artists according to the Swedish newspapers. List. Artist Sales ABBA: 150 million [1] Roxette: 75 million [2] Ace of Base:
The size of the Swedish-American community in 1865 is estimated at 25,000 people, a figure soon to be surpassed by the yearly Swedish immigration. By 1890, the U.S. census reported a Swedish-American population of nearly 800,000, with immigration peaking in 1869 and again in 1887. [43] Most of this influx settled in the North.
The first issue of America’s Swedish newspaper, Nordstjernan, appeared on newsstands on September 21, 1872, in the Manhattan district of the city of New York.When Nordstjernan published its first issue, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), the victorious Union military commander from the American Civil War, was in the last weeks of campaigning for what would be his reelection to a second term as ...
This is a ranking of Swedish billionaires. The following list is based on the annual estimated wealth and assets assessment compiled and published by American business magazine Forbes . The wealth of 45 people exceeds $1 billion.