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  Charles VIII of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles VIII of Sweden, Charles I of Norway, or Karl Knutsson (Bonde), king of Sweden ( 1448 – 1457, 1464 – 1465 and from 1467 to his death in 1470); king of Norway ( 1449 – 1450).
At the coronation of Christopher in September 1441, Charles was dubbed a knight and appointed Lord Chief Justice of Sweden, or Riksdrots.
His election as king of Sweden resulted in an effort to reestablish the Kalmar Union, this time under Swedish initiative, and in 1449 he was elected king of Norway and received the coronation at Trondheim on November 20.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_VIII_of_Sweden   (936 words)

  
 Johan Christopher Toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Count Johan Christopher Toll ( 1743 - 1817), Swedish statesman and soldier, was born at Mölleröd in Scania.
In his youth Johan Christopher served in the Seven Years' War, and then, exchanging the military for the civil service, became head ranger or överjägmästare of the Kristianstad County.
It was he who persuaded the king to summon the Riksdag of 1786, which, however, he failed to control, and in all Gustav's plans for forcing on a war with Russia Toll was initiated from the first.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johan_Christopher_Toll   (744 words)

  
 Station Information - Charles VIII of Sweden
Charles VIII of Sweden, Carl I of Norway, or Karl Knutsson Bonde, king of Sweden ( 1448 - 1470) and Norway ( 1449 - 1550).
At the coronation of Christopher in September 1441, Charles was dubbed to knighthood and appointed Lord Chief Justice of Sweden, or Riksdrots.
At the death of Christopher in 1448, he was elected king of Sweden on June 20 and on June 28 he was according to tradition hailed as the new monarch at Mora Stones, not far from Uppsala.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_viii_of_sweden.html   (343 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy; the crown is hereditary in accordance with the law of primogeniture.
The primate of Sweden is the Archbishop of Upsala; the king is the summus episcopus.
Among the later rulers of Sweden only one was a Catholic, Sigismund; two princesses of the royal family, Cecilia Vasa, daughter of Gustavus I, and Christina, daughter of Gustavus II Adolphus, became converts in their later years.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14347a.htm   (10139 words)

  
 Sweden
Charles IX (of Sweden) (1550-1611), king of Sweden (1604-11), the youngest son of King Gustav I Vasa, born in Stockholm.
Zygmunt landed in Sweden in 1598 and was defeated by Charles at Stãngebro.
Gustav VI Adolph (1882-1973), king of Sweden (1950-73), son of King Gustav V, born in Stockholm, and educated at the universities of Uppsala and Oslo.
website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/sweden.htm   (4128 words)

  
 Christopher of Bavaria
Christopher of Bavaria, Christoffer III af Bayern (Danish and Norwegian title) or Kristofer av Bayern (Swedish title), was king of Denmark, king regent of the Kalmar Union in Norway ( 1440 - 1448) and in king regent in Sweden ( 1441 - 1448).
He was born on January 6, 1418 as the son of duke John of Pfalz-Neumarkt ( Palatinate) and Catherine Vratislava, sister to Eric of Pomerania.
Christopher died on January 6, 1448 and on October 28, 1449 following his death, Dorothea remarried Christian I.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Christopher_of_Sweden.html   (120 words)

  
 One of the Springer Families of Sweden
Christopher Springer was believed to be born 1592 in Lamstedt, Hannover, Germany.
Christopher, born 1661, died probably as student in Uppsala 1677.
TABLE 1) born circa 1635, registered at the University of Uppsala 1649, employed at the country secretariat in Falun circa 1662, book-keeper at the mine of Stora Kopparberg 1664, inspector at Avesta kronobruk 1673-1676 and commissioner at the court of appeal.
www.klaura.se /spring2.htm   (3167 words)

  
 Tonnheim Literary Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Christopher began his career as an electronics engineer and is now also a qualified Technical Author.
This heritage has affected her deeply throughout her life, and at the age of forty-four, spurred on by the sight of swastikas sprayed on the walls at the school where she works, she finally decided to put it into writing.
Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958 and is an expert on Eastern Europe as well as a culture critic for one of Sweden’s largest newspapers.
www.tonnheim.com /clients_authors.asp   (3592 words)

  
 Mortensen Family Tree - pafg112 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Elizabeth Springer was born 1655 in Stockholm, Stockholm,, Sweden.
Christopher Springer was born 1661 in Stockholm, Stockholm,, Sweden.
Baltzer Springer was born 1665 in Stockholm, Stockholm,, Sweden.
reality.sgi.com /kenm/mortensen/pafg112.htm   (704 words)

  
 Christopher Orton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Christopher Orton was born in Surrey in 1981 and received his first musical education as a clarinettist, and later a violist, performing with many major youth orchestras nationally and internationally.
Aged 15, Christopher began studying the recorder and Early Music under the guidance of Valerie Butt and the Dolmetsch family; he won an entrance scholarship to Birmingham Conservatoire in 1999 to study with Ross Winters, Annabel Knight and Louise Bradbury.
Christopher has won a number of competitions and bursaries, including the Conservatoire recorder prize and performed in the BBC's Young Musicians 2000, and has been awarded bursaries to study at Dartington with Piers Adams and Italy with David Bellugi.
www.ccfo.org.uk /christopher_orton.htm   (122 words)

  
 swedish snuff
Christopher Colombus' second journey to America brought the tobacco to Europe where it finally reached Sweden in 1638.
It was the combination of inhaling snuff through the nose and chewing tobacco led to the use of oral snuff.
Today, Sweden is the largest Nordic market with about one million snuff users (or "snus" as it is called in Swedish).
www.swedish-snus.com /snus-history.html   (922 words)

  
 My Ancestors from Kisa, Östergötland, Sweden
Christopher Axelsson was christened on 18 Nov. 1739 in Norra Vi, Östergötland, Sweden.
Johannes Christoffersson was born in 1789 in Hycklinge, Östergötland, Sweden.
Johannes Almine Jacobson was born in Svanhals, Ostergotland, Sweden on March 23, 1873, came to Creston, Iowa in 1893, married Anna Sophia Hoglund in 1914 and died on Sept. 24, 1920.
www.ishipress.com /swedish.htm   (1906 words)

  
 Sweden Sports Links - RealSportsNetwork.com
Sweden Team Handball Links - Extensive number of Swedish handball links from the Handball Oasis site.
That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Sweden "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
www.realsportsnetwork.com /Team_Handball_Regional_Sweden.html   (1759 words)

  
 Scandinavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
An inland district in western Sweden, on the Norwegian frontier east of Trondheim.
According to the sagas, Ivar Vidfame and the early Kings of Sweden and Denmark were descended in the distaff line from Heidrek II (Ivar's father Harald was the son of Heifrek II's daughter Hildur).
Sweden was not unified as a state much before around 1075.
www.hostkingdom.net /scand.html   (3552 words)

  
 From Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Her musical education began at Sweden's Ljungskile College Institute where her potential was recognised and she was encouraged to move to London to pursue her opera studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Gunnar Idenstam, born in Sweden's northernmost city Kiruna in 1961 is a concert organist, composer, arranger and folk musician.
John Christopher Pepusch began life as Johann Christoph Pepusch, in Berlin, and was employed at the Prussian court between 1681 and 1697, at which point he moved to The Netherlands.
www.from-sweden.com /people/index.php?categoryID=30&id=222   (4528 words)

  
 Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The American composer Christopher Rouse studied at Oberlin and with George Crumb, followed by further study at Cornell He teaches at the Eastman School of Music and at the Juilliard School.
His early interest in percussion is reflected in a number of his compositions and his musical language has developed from early dissonance to a synthesis of contemporary techniques and the language of earlier composers whom he admires, Berlioz, Bruckner and Shostakovich among others.
Christopher Rouse's Symphony No.1 is in the form of a single-movement Adagio, and is described by the composer as a sort of homage to composer's he admires, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Hartmann, Petterson and Schuman, and with a quotation from Bruckner's Symphony No.7.
www.naxos.com /mainsite?pn=Composers&char=R&ComposerID=6560   (207 words)

  
 Sweden
Note: Also accredited to France; did not proceed to Stockholm, but negotiated a treaty with Sweden which was signed at Paris, Apr 3, 1783.
Served at the court of Sweden and Norway; resident at Stockholm.
Note: Served at the court of Sweden and Norway; resident at Stockholm.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/po/com/11283.htm   (975 words)

  
 sport.iafrica.com | golf | news Hanell secures maiden tour victory
Sweden's Christopher Hanell opened his European tour account in the Madeira Island Open on Sunday — with a little help from Brad Kennedy.
He mistakenly signed for a quadruple bogey instead of a seven as he completed a weather-interrupted third round of 80 in the morning — and after a stirring fightback in the fourth round, he then bogeyed the 18th.
That left him in a tie for second with Sweden's Steven Jeppesen and American Rob Rashell one shot behind Hanell, who carded a closing 71 for a four under total of 284.
sport.iafrica.com /golf/news/312409.htm   (253 words)

  
 Provincial law of king Christopher; Medeltidshandskrift 37; S:t Laurentius digital manuscript library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
2r-280r) Provincial code of law of king Christopher Christoffers landslag Rubric: “Förste Capittell.” Incipit: “Swerigis Rike är aff hedno wärd samma komit.” Explicit: “till Tiuf eller Rånsmann efter som Lag seger..” Ff.
Sweden first half of the 17th century, rebacked 20th century.
The manuscript was written in Sweden in the first half of the 16th century, before 1546.
laurentius.lub.lu.se /volumes/Mh_37/detailed   (829 words)

  
 Christopher III --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Known for his range of Shakespearean characters as well as other dramatic stage and screen roles, Christopher Plummer received awards in Canada, England, and the United States.
A U.S. actor known for his high cheekbones and pouting expression, Johnny Depp made his motion-picture debut as one of slasher Freddy Krueger's victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
Transcript of an interview of Christopher Hitchens about his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, criticizing Mother Teresa's work and influence.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9082439   (691 words)

  
 A Swedish Dilemma
The center is on the edge of Rosengård, an archipelago of housing projects southeast of Malmö.
It is one of the poorest, most transient, and welfare-dependent neighborhoods in Sweden.
In a fit of absent-mindedness, Sweden has suddenly become as heavily populated by minorities as any country in Europe.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/271dgkju.asp   (573 words)

  
 A CHRISTOPHER MASTERSON FAN PAGE!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As we noted on our main page, Christopher Masterson came in first (by one vote!) over his brother Danny as your favorite star here, but we received so many write-ins for Ben Affleck, Ryan Phillippe and others that we had to re-set the survey counter to include them.
Fans of Christopher's long, wavy, blond locks may not be prepared for his "look" in this film, but his performance (what there is of it) is good.
Christopher in one of his most touching moments, touching an angel.
www.geocities.com /hollywood/hills/1670/chrismasterson.html   (3537 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | African | Christopher moves to Sweden
The midfielder, who played for the Super Eagles at the 2002 World Cup finals, joined the premiership club after a stint with Bulgarian side Levski Sofia.
He will be an important part of Trelleborg's plans, as the club attempts to win honors this season, said a club official.
The 22-year-old welcomed the opportunity to ply his trade in Sweden after a bout with injury.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/africa/3526831.stm   (202 words)

  
 Christopher Priest published in Sweden
This file contains a list of all short fiction that Christopher Priest has published in Sweden, to the best of my knowledge.
If you find anything in this list that is wrong or you have data that is missing, please send me a note.
This list is part of my project to create an index to all science fiction and fantasy short stories published in Sweden.
www.lysator.liu.se /~unicorn/sweden-sf/Priest,_Christopher.html   (106 words)

  
 Eden to Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Set in turn-of-the-century Sweden, the 1955 film has a delicacy the musical lacks.
Both he and Christopher Vettel, as Carl-Magnus, are excellent singers; their satiric second-act duet, about how "wonderful" things would be if Désirée weren't desirable, is a tonsillar high point -- and a forerunner of the disenchanted princes' duet in Into the Woods.
Victoria Boothby has Madame Armfeldt's hauteur and low notes pinned down, and Gayton Scott is marvelously acerb and resigned as Carl-Magnus's long-suffering wife, for whom love brings "Every Day a Little Death." Emma Lampert is a tad too annoyingly shrieky/ditzy as Fredrik's young wife, Anne, but she has an operatic soprano.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/98/07/09/RUDNICK.html   (1354 words)

  
 Estonia Litigation Association - Estonia Protsessi Ühing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This passenger ferry was used for smuggling operations of military contraband, approved and aided by the highest levels of the
Hirschfeldt's report stated that this arrangement was known at the highest levels of Sweden's government and defense department.
Enforced disappearance, a form of kidnapping, is considered a "crime against humanity," according to the Rome Statute, which Sweden ratified in June 2001.
www.elaestonia.org /eng/index.php   (1811 words)

  
 Sweden's Christopher Hanell takes over third-round lead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sweden's Christopher Hanell shot a 5-under-par 65 Saturday to take the lead after the third round of the Hong Kong Open.
Defending champion Fredrik Jacobson of Sweden was two off the lead after carding a 71.
Harrington and Prayad both three-putted the 18th and final hole for bogey and a 67.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/12/06/sports0634EST0290.DTL&type=printable   (168 words)

  
 Hanell grabs victory at Madeira Island as the final hole bites Kennedy twice
Christopher Hanell of Sweden edges Brad Kennedy by a single shot after the 18th hole bedevils Brad Kennedy of Australia.
SANTA CRUZ, Madeira (PA) -- Sweden's Christopher Hanell won the Madeira Island Open on Sunday after Australia's Brad Kennedy twice cruelly fell victim to the 18th hole as the rain-delayed European Tour event completed both the third and fourth rounds.
Kennedy finished in a tie for second on 3-under alongside Sweden's Steven Jeppesen and American Rob Rashell.
www.pga.com /news/tours/european/madeira032804.cfm   (727 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Golf | Hanell triumphs in Madeira
Sweden's Christopher Hanell won the Madeira Island Open after Brad Kennedy twice cruelly fell victim to the 18th.
The Australian mistakenly signed for a quadruple-bogey eight instead of a seven in his third-round 80 to fall five shots off the lead.
Kennedy finished in a tie for second on three under alongside Sweden's Steven Jeppesen and American Rob Rashell.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/golf/3570757.stm   (284 words)

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