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  Kalmar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the seat of Kalmar Municipality with roughly 60,000 inhabitants, in turn the seat of the Kalmar County (12 municipalities, 236,000 inhabitants).
Kalmar's importance to the defense of Sweden stemmed from its location near the Danish border, since its castle was the Southernmost bulwark against foreign invasion.
Kalmar is one of 134 towns with the historical City status in Sweden.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalmar   (381 words)

  
 Kalmar
Kalmar (population 59,308) is a municipality in southeastern Sweden, on the mainland's coast of the Baltic Sea, strategically watching over the narrow sound to the large island Öland, since the 1970s connected by the Öland bridge.
Kalmar is situated in the province Småland and is the capital of Kalmar county.
Kalmar Castle is a powerful "fist of granite" from the 16th century, Scandinavia's most well kept renaissance castle.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kalmar.html   (184 words)

  
 Oregon Symphony: Carlos Kalmar, Music Director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kalmar's guest conducting engagements in North America have included subscription concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, New World Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and the Houston Symphony.
Carlos Kalmar was born in 1958 of Austrian parents in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Kalmar resides in Vienna with his wife and two daughters; he also maintains a Portland residence and is committed to being an active and visible member of the artistic community.
www.orsymphony.org /orchestra/conductors/kalmar.html   (400 words)

  
 Kalmar Nyckel -- The Tall Ship of Delaware
The original Kalmar Nyckel sailed from Sweden to the New World in 1638 leaving its passengers to establish the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley, the Colony of New Sweden in present-day Wilmington, Delaware.
She was built by a group of committed citizens to be a continuing witness to the courage and spirit of those individuals who undertook the mid-winter North Atlantic crossing in 1637-1638.
The ship is owned and operated by the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers people of all ages a variety of sea and land based learning and recreational experiences.
www.kalmarnyckel.org /aboutship.asp   (248 words)

  
 Kalmar Village, Cape Cod Massachusetts
Kalmar Village is ideally located directly on the shore of beautiful Cape Cod Bay across from the National Seashore sand dunes...and is a short 5 minute ride away from the numerous shops, restaurants, and activities of Provincetown.
Kalmar is consistently recommended by respected publications such as Frommer's and Mobil Travel Guide.
Kalmar Village is a family resort of authentically styled Cape Cod cottages, efficiency units and motel rooms at the shore of beautiful Cape Cod Bay.
www.kalmarvillage.com   (222 words)

  
 Oregon Symphony: Carlos Kalmar Fact Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kalmar has a fine imagination for sound which combines friendliness with severity, carefully observes the various colors of sonority, and makes the musicians listen.
Kalmar's reading of the 'Rite of Spring' was taut and relentless, with more bite than any heard in Music Hall recently.
Kalmar's musical interpretation, backed up by near perfect singing of the cast, one was positively able to feel the constant danger of the situation, the hidden uneasiness that lies over the events, the feeling of disaster creeping up on one.
www.orsymphony.org /orchestra/conductors/kalmarpress.html   (1307 words)

  
 Maritime Global Net
Kalmar makes its mark on heavy industry Kalmar's ability to adapt machinery to extreme handling environments proved the deal-clincher when foundry operator Fritz Winter needed trucks to handle its castings.
Kalmar has also achieved an important breakthrough in Turkey through its deal with the Turkish steel producer Içdas for the purchase of six 15-tonne trucks.
Kalmar is also supplying 13 trucks to ISPAT Hamburger Stahlwerke for the same kind of activity.
www.mgn.com /news/newsreleasedetails.cfm?id=4139&type=   (908 words)

  
 Bert Kalmar - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Together Kalmar and Ruby authored several Broadway shows and helped bring some fairly illustrious musical talent to the fore through them, but it was as songwriters that they made their biggest mark.
Kalmar began thinking of becoming a comic and specifically catering to Hebrew-speaking audiences -- which was a significant population in New York in those days.
Kalmar, Snyder, and Ruby later co-authored "Who's Sorry Now," a song whose appeal transcended several generations, as a hit in the '10s and '20s and then, again, for Connie Francis three decades later.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,451373,00.html   (648 words)

  
 A New Kalmar Nyckel
Kalmar Nyckel II will join the exclusive ranks of Sea Worthy Tall Ships when she is commissioned in the spring of 1998, coinciding with her original landing--on the same spot--360 years earlier.
In 1637, a colonial charter was granted under the Swedish child queen, Christina, encouraging trade, settlement and "the spreading of the gospel." The three masted original Kalmar Nyckel brought the first permanent European settlers from Sweden to the Delaware Valley in the year 1638.
Kalmar Nyckel is the only colonial vessel to successfully complete more than two trips to the New World, four in fact--eight crossings of the North Atlantic.
www.ritaleydon.com /Zwriting/1997/kalnyck.html   (1003 words)

  
 Kalmar AC Info Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
These trucks are anything but lightweight when it comes to getting the job done The Kalmar AC AX series of cushion and pneumatic tire lift trucks have been dramatically engineered to be easier to maintain, and more comfortable and user-friendly to operate.
The Kalmar AC BX series of cushion and pneumatic tire lift trucks have been dramatically engineered to be easier to maintain, and more comfortable and user- friendly to operate.
The Kalmar AC CX series of cushion and pneumatic tire lift trucks have been dramatically engineered to be easier to maintain, and more comfortable and user-friendly to operate.
www.maybury.com /liftruck/Kalmar   (354 words)

  
 KalmarMailPro AB - mail inserting systems and mail handling equipment
Kalmar Mailpro AB is a Swedish manufacturer of intelligent inserting machines and inserting systems, based upon latest technology.
Kalmar MailPro AB was founded in 1994 as a subsidiary of Kalmar Teknik AB.
The typical Kalmar MailPro customer can be the international bank or insurance company that sends out annual reports to its share holders during one period, and during the rest of the year booklets describing investment opportunities.
www.kalmarmailpro.se   (379 words)

  
 Ship Technology - Kalmar Industries - Heavy-Duty Materials Handling Cranes, Straddle Carriers and Mast Lift Trucks
Kalmar is a global provider of heavy-duty materials handling equipment and services to ports, intermodal traffic, terminals and demanding industrial customers.
Kalmar offers a comprehensive range of market-leading products for your straddle carrier systems, the quickest method for medium-size terminals handling between 150,000 TEU and 3,000,000 TEU a year.
Kalmar offers all of the mast truck solutions for handling containers, laden/empties and other loads, whether by dedicated spreaders or by traditional forks or other equipment.
www.ship-technology.com /contractors/port/kalmar   (763 words)

  
 The Kalmar AC Edge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Kalmar AC Edge is our commitment to focusing our energies and resources around building an internal support system capable of allowing our dealer/customers a hassle-free environment in which to grow their businesses.
Kalmar AC is a full service company offering a variety of lift trucks, services, support and lift truck parts.
Kalmar AC dealers have a variety of programs that make responding to customer needs and maintaining accurate records on their customers' equipment quicker and more efficient.
www.kalmarac.com /edge.htm   (477 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kalmar Union
The last structures of the Kalmar Union remained until 1536 when the Danish Privy Council, in the aftermath of a civil war, unilaterally declared Norway to be a Danish province, without consulting their Norwegian colleagues.
In 1814 the king of Denmark-Norway was forced to cede Norway to the king of Sweden.
In the middle of the 19th century, this would give rise to the Scandinavian movement, which sought to reunite the countries of the Kalmar Union, except Finland, under one monarch.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kalmar_Union   (600 words)

  
 Kalmar Industries
The Kalmar reachstacker family has a selection of machines guaranteed to meet most customer demands - from top of the range machines through to their purpose built standard counterparts.
Kalmar's focus is always on providing machines that demonstrate optimal performance at the lowest operational cost over a machine's entire lifetime.
The range, which includes its top of the range ContChamp model - for advanced and varied types of handling - and the ContMaster - the purpose built reliable machine - means that customers can choose the machine that best suits their requirements and budget.
www.kalmarind.com /show.php?id=694   (166 words)

  
 Kalmar Investments
From its headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, Kalmar actively manages over $2 billion in Small and SMid cap growth company stocks for institutional and individual investors, including some of the nation's prominent families, charitable institutions, endowments, foundations and retirement funds.
Since our founding in 1982, Kalmar has offered separate account management for small cap equity investing to both taxable and tax-exempt clients.
Kalmar's investment success for clients has been generated by our team-oriented, hands-on original research and our unique "Growth-with-Value" low turnover investment approach--Investing in Rapidly Growing yet Inefficiently Valued, Successful Small Companies.
www.kalmarinvestments.com   (140 words)

  
 Mariedi Anders Artists Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Carlos Kalmar is the newly appointed Music Director of the Vienna Tonkünstlerorchester, a post he will assume in 2000.
Kalmar returns to North America for guest engagements every season conducting such orchestras as the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Buffalo Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Jacksonville (Florida) Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
Kalmar's musical interpretation, backed up by near perfect singing of the cast, one was positively able to feel the constant danger of the situation, the hidden uneasiness that lies over the events, the feeling of disaster creeping up on one the audience was captured by the suspense "
www.andersmanagement.com /cockalmar.htm   (927 words)

  
 Kalmar AC Info Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Kalmar AC Integrity series of “high performance” electric lift trucks are engineered to be easier to maintain and operate, providing extended up time and a greater return on your investment.
Kalmar AC has the electric pallet truck to fit a complete range of applications whether your application involves the intermittent movement of light weight materials or a heavy duty industrial or truck loading operation.
Kalmar AC has high lift electric walkies to fill the need of economical warehouse materials handling where high stacking and moderate duty cycles are encountered.
www.maybury.com /liftruck/Kalmar/Electric.htm   (253 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay:Now & Then -- Seattle's Kalmar Hotel
One of its lovingly rendered pen-&-ink drawings was of the Hotel Kalmar, built in 1881 at 6th Avenue and James Street.
In l955, the Kalmar's fate was prescribed when the path of the proposed (Interstate 5) freeway, then called the "Seattle tollway," was drawn through it.
In l960, responding to the imminent destruction of the Kalmar and three other historical landmarks, Steinbrueck reflected, "To let them be destroyed is esthetic idiocy on the part of the city.
www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=2571   (499 words)

  
 Kalmar Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Later a harbour was built and with time the tower was extended and became a castle, eventually taking the name Kalmar, 'the key to the nation'.
Kalmar Castle was the site of important defence grounds that bordered towards Denmark.
Kalmar Castle derives its present appearance from the 1500's.
www.mikitravel.se /place174en.HTML   (141 words)

  
 Kalmar Nyckel Project - Greetings to USA
Eighteen years later in 1637, at the time of the departure of the Kalmar Nyckel, it was reestablished to as strong a fortress it would ever be.
The Kalmar Nyckel who was 33 meters long at the waterline were part of the Gothenborg Squadron.
Fogel Grip, to the left, and Kalmar Nyckel, to the right soon were hit by a severe storm in the North Sea on their way to New Sweden in 1637.
www.gotheborg.com /kalnyck   (616 words)

  
 CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
Since the founding of the nation of Sweden, Kalmar has played an intricate role in the industries of trade and shipping.
The natural beauty of Kalmar is the main draw of this wonderful city.
Every year, the Port of Kalmar sees 1000 ships dock, and 660,000 tons of cargo come in and out.
www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=128   (237 words)

  
 Kalmar Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The view of the Kalmar Castle is the defining view of the Kalmar Kommun.
An official of the Kalmar Kommun, that we met when Margaret spoke at the Castle, agreed to help us find a contact and mailed the info to Huddinge outside of Stockholm where we would be a week later.
On Monday morning, August 9th, we were picked up by the Chairman of Kalmar Lodge, Gun Sellerberg, and her husband, Gunnar, for a day trip by car across a 4 mile bridge to Öland Island.
members.aol.com /gschueman/Kalmar.htm   (1085 words)

  
 Kalmar Union --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Scandinavian union formed at Kalmar, Sweden, in June 1397 that brought the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark together under a single monarch until 1523.
When Margaret I became ruler of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1387–88), it was understood that she should, at the first convenient opportunity, provide the three kingdoms with a king who was to be her nearest kinsman; and in 1389 she proclaimed…
In 1397, during the reign of Queen Margaret, the Union of Kalmar was formed.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044424   (849 words)

  
 History: The Kalmar Union
This was the prelude to the Kalmar Union.
The Union was formed in 1397 in the town of Kalmar on the Swedish east coast.
This was the notorious "Bloodbath of Stockholm" and the beginning of the end of the Kalmar Union.
www.sverigeturism.se /smorgasbord/smorgasbord/society/history/kalmar-union.html   (505 words)

  
 Kalmar Union Flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At a conference held at Dalaborg Castle, in March 1388, the Swedes were compelled to accept all Margaret's conditions, elected her "Sovereign Lady and Ruler", and engaged to accept from her any king she chose to appoint.
There is no pictorial evidence attesting to the Union flag from the time of the Union of Kalmar (though some authors point to heraldic evidence for a red union cross) and definitely no surviving flag.
What remains of evidence is two letters from 1430 in which King Erik orders the priests of Vadstena and Kalmar to wear the "banner of the realms" on their robes.
www.fotw.net /flags/dk_ku.html   (275 words)

  
 kalmar.se - alla tiders Kalmar
He was on the throne from 1673 to 1692.
On July 20th, 1397 Queen Margaret I signed the controversial yet memorable pact which joined all of the Nordic countries under a common ruler.
Kalmar kommun, Box 611, 391 26 Kalmar, tfn.
www.kalmar.se /templates/Page.aspx?id=3775   (192 words)

  
 classical music - andante - carlos kalmar named oregon symphony music director
Musicians in orchestra voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to accept Kalmar, who is principal conductor of Vienna's third-ranking orchestra, the Tonkunstlerorchester.
Kalmar is scheduled to lead his first concerts as music director designate 7–9 December.
Kalmar made his U.S. debut with the Cincinnati Symphony in 1990 and he still conducts the orchestra regularly.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=17113&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords=   (365 words)

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