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Culture: A Short History of Sweden - Short facts from Smorgasboard.
Institute of Urban History - Promotes the study of urban, municipal and local history, primarily in Sweden and other Nordic countries. General information, publications lists, directory of Ph.D students, and related internet links.English/Swedish/French/German.
Swedish History - A website by students at Sven Eriksonsgymnasiet that present an overview of Swedish history from the Prehistoric Age to the 20th Century, including sections such as the Viking Age, the Vasa Period, Sweden becomes a Great Power, The Gustavian Era, emigration and industrialization, and the Foundation of the welfarestate.
Swedish History - The Nordic FAQ, homepage for the Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.nordic.
A Norwegian refugee in Sweden - Per E. Dehlin about his father, who came to Sweden as a refugee at the age of 15.
Lintan´s homepage - A page about my interests like Swedish history.
Chronology of Sweden - Detailed timeline of Sweden, the country, people, language, accomplishments, politics, and military.
A Review of Swedish Emigration to America - The background of the Swedish emigration during the 19th century.
The Iron Age in Southwest Sweden - Iron Age (Early Medieval) archaeology in Southwest Sweden.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) History Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 History It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi History When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) History If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy History Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) History A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) History "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton History Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt History It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X History I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn History "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins History Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams History The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician History The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure History "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder History "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman History When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst History We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) History Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it History Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain History
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