In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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In April 1945 the Swedish Red Cross launched the largest rescue operation of World War II – the mission, involving the now-iconic “White Buses”, ultimately saved 15,000 prisoners
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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Danish archaeological discovery has raised questions about the origins of the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet, thought for decades to have links to Sweden
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Denmark has dropped the Three Crowns, a symbol of the Kalmar Union since the 14th century, from its own coat of arms
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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Did Rome know about Scandinavia and the Vikings?
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Divers find remains of Finnish World War II plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden
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Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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Vikings and glass windows
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Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
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Planned Danish law will make improper treatment of the Quran or Bible a criminal offence punishable by a fine and jail sentence of up to two years
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
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Denmark is considering banning protests involving burning the Quran or other religious texts over security and diplomatic concerns – Sweden looking to follow suit
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Iraq tells Sweden it will cut ties if Quran burned again
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Quran burning and requests to approve the destruction of more holy books have left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities
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Several Muslim-majority countries have condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran at a protest in the Swedish capital
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How well suited is Sweden's Saab JAS 39 Gripen and their dispersal operations in NATO's air forces?
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Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
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Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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What happened to the old Norwegian flag?
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What happened to the old Finnish flag?
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Swedes from across the north-east of England have celebrated the traditional Scandinavian festival of Sankta Lucia at Hexham Abbey
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Götheborg of Sweden – The world's largest wooden sailing ship
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Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war
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Protesters denouncing the intention of a far-right group to burn a Quran in Örebro in central Sweden attacked police on Friday, injuring at least nine
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The Gävle goat
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Ace Linguist: Dialect Dissection: ABBA
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Replica 18th century ship Götheborg of Sweden plans to re-sail the trading route from Sweden to China
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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A sea story
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
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The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engström as the man who killed former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, ending years of mystery
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Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved
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