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  A Brief History of Stockholm
Stockholm is a city built on water, with 30% of the city's 4,900 km
He founded Stockholm in order to block off the water passage between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic, and within 100 years it grew to be the largest settlement in Sweden.
Sweden separated from its union with Denmark and Norway in 1521 after the Stockholm Blood Bath, and Stockholm became Sweden's capital in 1634.
www.photo.net /sweden/stockholm/history   (271 words)

  
 Sweden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
This “Stockholm Blood Bath” stirred the Swedes to new resistance; at Strängnäs, in 1523, they made Gustavus Vasa their king as Gustavus I.
The founder of the modern Swedish state, Gustavus eliminated the influence of the Hanseatic League in Sweden, strengthened the central authority, made (1544) the kingship hereditary in the Vasa dynasty, and made Lutheranism the state religion.
Under the treaties of Stockholm (1720) and Nystad (1721), Sweden ceded the archbishopric of Bremen to Hanover, part of Pomerania to Prussia, and Livonia, Ingermanland, and Karelia to Russia.
www.bartleby.com /65/sw/Sweden.html   (2264 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
To the north of the highlands is the Central Swedish Depression, a down-faulted, lake-strewn lowland extending across the peninsula from near Göteborg to east of Stockholm and Uppsala.
The dialects around and between Stockholm, Gothenburg and the coast of Norrland are characterized by fewer diphthongs.
Stockholm, as situated at the very center of the realm, between the rich Svealand provinces, becomes the constant residence for the crown's administration.
archive.cs.uu.nl /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS/nordic-faq/part7_SWEDEN   (18576 words)

  
 Lonely Planet
Sweden's most important chieftain in the mid-13th century, Birger Jarl, ordered the construction of a fort on one of the strategically placed islets where the fresh water entered the sea, and traffic on the waterways was controlled using timber stocks arranged as a fence, or boom.
Within a hundred years, Stockholm was the largest city in Sweden, dominated by an impregnable castle (which was never taken by force) and surrounded by a defensive wall.
This ghastly event became known as the 'Stockholm Blood Bath': heavy rain caused rivers of blood from the bodies to pour down steep alleys descending from the square.
www.expedia.co.uk /lonelyplanet/Stockholm/historyandculture.aspx   (974 words)

  
 Stockholm Hotels - Discount Hotel Reservations in Stockholm
Enmeshed in a web of sea and fresh water, Stockholm is almost unparalleled among capital cities for the beauty of its natural setting.
Today Stockholm remains a delightful city to explore and Sweden’s design-conscious heritage ensures that it is one of the most stylish destinations in the world.
There are frequent attempts to build much needed new housing on the open area of Gärdet, at the north end of the island, but these have so far been fought off by citizens for whom the oasis of Djurgärden is a much-loved green retreat from the rest of the city.
www.stockholmhotels.co.uk /stockholm_general_info.php   (1614 words)

  
 Stockholm
The lovely, lively Stockholm, with its maritime bent and international flavour, is a magnet for tourists.
Stockholm's coastal archipelago (skärgård) consists of at least 24,000 islands and is served by one of the largest antique steamer fleets anywhere in Europe.
Stockholm is built on islands, except for the modern centre (Norrmalm), focused on the ugly Sergels Torg.
www.aol.com.au /site/aol/travel/destinations/stockholm.html   (2934 words)

  
 Nordic FAQ - 7 of 7 - SWEDEN
Stockholm is sometimes known as the Venice of the North.
Stockholm is famous for its cleanliness and for its large number of parks and open spaces.
The University of Stockholm, founded in 1877 as a private institution, was taken over by the state in 1960 and is now the country's largest university.
www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part7_SWEDEN   (17175 words)

  
 ISLAND HOPING IN STOCKHOLM
The three buses drive through the fall coloured forests on their way to the fourteen islands that the Swedish capital is built upon.
The sounds of bell-strokes from the Finnish- and German church, in Stockholm's Old City, announce that it is late afternoon when the buses arrive at Slotts backen (the Castle Hill).
Several historical places are visited and the guide's historical accounts vary from amusing anecdotes about different eccentric characters to the description of horrible mass executions like the Stockholm blood-bath in 1520.
www.mil.se /pfp/viking99/ne10121.html   (270 words)

  
 Sweden.TV - Powered By Bloglines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Kungsholmen is one of the 14 islands that comprise Stockholm.
Stockholm City Centre is divided into 21 districts, which are in turn organized into five boroughs: Katarina-Sofia borough, Kungsholmen borough, Maria-Gamla stan borough, Norrmalm borough and Östermalm borough.
Stockholmers are also immensely concerned with the environment, and the city is made up of one-third water, one-third green space, one-third buildings and the cleanest air of any city in the world.
www.bloglines.com /blog/SwedenTV/2005_6   (6900 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Ghosts in Stockholm and Sweden don’t wait for Halloween for haunting activity: they are busy all-year-round creating scary noises and fearsome phenomena in many historic houses, and, in some famous castles, too.
Northern people are certainly not strangers to things that go bump in the night: the German word spök became the definitive word for “ghost” in all of Scandinavia, and, eventually found it’s way into the English language as those eerie words that make us shiver and shriek: spook and spooky.
The oldest ghost in Stockholm is the ghost of the monk Gideon, who belonged to the Benedictine Order.
www.parentnetsweden.com /Infopages/Resources/Sweden_directory/Ghosts.htm   (1124 words)

  
 Tour Scandinavia - Colors of the Baltic Sea
The city of Stockholm, built on 14 islands, connected by 57 bridges, embraces the unique character of the 13th century Old Town and modern high-tech architecture.
Stockholm's islands are bordered by Lake Mälaren in the west and the Baltic Sea in the east where the archipelago with it's 30.000 islands awaits exploration.
Stockholm is proudly called Beauty on Water and a sightseeing tour including a walk in the Old Town and inside visits to the City Hall, where the Nobel festivities take place, and the Cathedral makes a memorable morning tour.
www.scantours.com /colors_of_baltic_sea.htm   (1387 words)

  
 Danish Kings · Christian 2.
The nobility was not thrilled at the thought of a strong monarchy intent on fighting for the Union and the advancement of the commoners.
On the fourth day of the festivities, he ordered that the gates to the castle be closed and jailed a large number of the festively dressed bishops and noblemen who had arrived, confident of the promised amnesty.
With Archbishop Gustav Trolle as the prosecutor, the former opponents were charged with heresy, and upwards of ninety of the accused were sentenced to death.
www.danskekonger.dk /eng/biografi/ChrII.html   (1080 words)

  
 Hotel Birger Jarl - Stockholm Hotels - Sweden
"He abolished Man's vested freedom to seek vengeance for blood shed in feud and secured by law the sanctity of the home, the church and the lawcourts.
In spite of the central Stockholm location, and guests are not disturbed by noise from the street.
Ideally situated right in the heart of Stockholm by the gateway route towards the airport Arlanda, but still very central.
www.stockholm-hotels.demon.co.uk /birger.html   (420 words)

  
 myArmoury.com: The Rapier of Gustav Vasa, King of Sweden
It is most likely that the blade was made in either Germany or in Arboga, and that a cutler made the hilt according to the latest fashion.
Later, on the initiative of King Gustavus II Adolphus in the early 17th century, the collection became the The Royal Armoury Stockholm in 1654, and thus the oldest museum in the world.
In 1697, the Royal Castle in Stockholm was destroyed by a fire.
www.myarmoury.com /feature_vasa.php?print   (1881 words)

  
 Stockholm's Blood Bath
I am the chief executioner in Stockholm and I must say that there are some really fine opportunities to make a good income.
Once it is done shall this blood bath be forgotten, I suppose.
It was then the Danish king moved in to Sweden towards Stockholm again, with his enlisted soldiers and occupied one fortress after another.
hem.passagen.se /labb/blood.html   (740 words)

  
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Returning to Stockholm, he groped around for a while as he had done a year earlier, what he even tried to eke out a living as the editor of a trade journal.
But the Riksdag was held at Vesterås, and we know that Olof was one of two delegates sent by the burghers and the peasants to the King, whom they implored "on their knees and with tears" to withdraw his abdication.
Soon the bells of Stockholm will respond, and then the blood of Hus, and of Ziska, and of all the thousands of peasants will be on the heads of the princes and the papists.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/8olof10.txt   (18525 words)

  
 University of Bath - Department of Chemical Engineering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Bath is a beautiful city which stands on the River Avon among the hills of England's West Country.
Bath is approximately one and a quarter hours from London by train and fifteen minutes from Bristol.
Bath MPhil/PhD programmes are open to graduates from many disciplines.
www.science-engineering.net /colleges/bath_chemistry.htm   (81 words)

  
 JTA NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
TEL AVIV, Jan. 19 (JTA) — The blood was fake, but the diplomatic spat over a Swedish art exhibit depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber was very real.
The incident that sparked the brouhaha occurred last week at a genocide conference in Stockholm.
The conference was supposed to be free of references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — a tacit deal watched closely by Israel’s ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel.
www.jta.org /page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13676&intcategoryid=1   (129 words)

  
 Early Blood Chemistry in Britain and France -- Coley 47 (12): 2166 -- Clinical Chemistry
Scudamore C. An essay on the blood comprehending the chief circumstances which influence its coagulation; the nature of the buffy coat; with a concise medical view of the state of the blood in disease and an account of the powers of a saturated solution of alum as a styptic remedy in hemorrhages 1824 Longmans London.
Scudamore C. An essay on the blood comprehending the chief circumstances which influence its coagulation; the nature of the buffy coat; with a concise medical view of the state of the blood in disease and an account of the powers of a saturated solution of alum as a styptic remedy in hemorrhages 1824:103 Longmans London.
On the presence of urea in the blood.
www.clinchem.org /cgi/content/full/47/12/2166   (8296 words)

  
 Peptidergic control of gastrointestinal blood flow in the estuarine crocodile, Crocodylus porosus -- ...
previous in vivo studies on the estuarine crocodile in which SP injections increased the celiac artery blood flow (1, 19).
Effects of substance P and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide on gastrointestinal blood flow in the Atlantic cod Gadus morhua.
Somatostatin causes vasoconstriction, reduces blood flow and increases vascular permeability in the rat central nervous system.
ajpregu.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/274/6/R1740   (5414 words)

  
 Blood Gas Analysis and Critical Care Medicine -- SEVERINGHAUS et al. 157 (4): 114 -- American Journal of Respiratory ...
Blood carbon dioxide content is almost all bicarbonate.
A simple electrometric technique for the determination of carbon dioxide tension in blood and plasma, total content of carbon dioxide in plasma and bicarbonate content in `separated' plasma at a fixed carbon dioxide tension.
Rapid measurement of the tension of carbon dioxide in blood.
ajrccm.atsjournals.org /cgi/content/full/157/4/S114   (6255 words)

  
 Bloodbath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1966 horror thriller, see Blood Bath.
For the 1971 Italian horror directed by Mario Bava, see Twitch of the Death Nerve.
Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm, formed in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloodbath   (358 words)

  
 Index to Comic Art Collection: "Blondin" to "Blood Wing"
A good place to look for stories about blood is under Vampires.
The theme of blood as nourishment appears elsewhere as well.
Blood from the Moon / written by Patrick Cothias ; illustrated by Adamov ; translated by Mary Irwin ; edited by Greg S. Baisden ; lettered by Mary Kelleher.
www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/brri/blondin.htm   (6297 words)

  
 Official Bloodbath web site
The flight was delayed so we decided to chill at the bar with the arsenal of Jägermeister with redbull, Whiskey with coke, you name it.
Stockholm – Lübeck was only one hour in the air, so we got to Germany in no time.
We got dressed up in our thrashed white shirts, stained with blood and dirt and took the stage as the old style death metal intro was building up the mood.
www.bloodbath.biz   (2402 words)

  
 Mazel's Muzzle
It can be summed up by a biblical quote: 'He who spills human blood shall have his own blood spilled by man,' and this is exactly what we need to put an end to.
In the work, entitled Swedeness, Lev has filled a bath tub with red liquid, and scattered dolls' limbs, representing the blood and bodies of terror victims.
The Director General also rejected the claim that the object of the dispute was an "artistic exhibit." Our love and appreciation of art, he noted, is not less than other peoples, but we will not accept inciting or distorted political messages even when they come under the heading of art.
www.annoy.com /covers/doc.html?DocumentID=100570   (833 words)

  
 Travelocity.com: Destination Guides: Stockholm
Many Stockholmers come here for a morning cup of coffee and a stunning view of the waterfront.
This plaza was the site of the Stockholm Blood Bath of 1520 when Christian II of Denmark beheaded 80 Swedish noblemen and displayed a "pyramid" of their heads in the square.
Järntorget, which used to be known as Korntorget when it was the center of the copper and iron trade in the 16th and 17th centuries.
dest.travelocity.com /DestGuides/0,1840,TCYDE|2410|3|1|170037,00.html   (1130 words)

  
 My Newsletter - Swedish Genealogy Archives at Zinester
In 1523 Gustav Eriksson, the son of Erik Johansson Wasa, was elected King of Sweden and took the name Gustav Wasa and begin a dynasty of Swedish and Polish kings.
He is one of the most important kings of Sweden as he formed Sweden as an independent nation with Stockholm as its capital after the Kalmar Union.
His father was executed in the Stockholm blood bath and he was on the run from the Danish King.
archives.zinester.com /63666/51391.html   (597 words)

  
 The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia
in Lake Mälaren, near Stockholm, and visited the land more than once; it is not known how long the Christian communities he est.
The next period (1718–72) began with the death of Charles XII and soon saw growing manifestations of Pietism,* which gained the support of E. Benzelius the Younger (see 2), A.
Stockholm; king 1771–92; has been called the prince of the Enlightenment*) arrested council in a body and est.
www.lcms.org /ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=S&t2=w   (1831 words)

  
 STOCKHOLM Sightseeing Tours
If you want to see the whole of Stockholm from the water, you should choose a two-hour trip which passes under 15 bridges and through two locks.
Our open wooden boat, the m/s Stegeholm, with her captain and our guide in typical uniforms of the era, all contribute to what is a rather special experience.
We show you the most famous buildings and views, including a stop at Fjällgatan, where the view of Stockholm's islands and waters is truly wonderful.
www.scantours.com /stockholm_sightseeing_tours.htm   (762 words)

  
 Differences between rat alveolar and interstitial macrophages 5 wk after quartz exposure -- Zetterberg et al. 274 (2): ...
Stockholm, Sweden) diluted in sterile water to 0.05 mg/ml.
Human blood monocytes, but not alveolar macrophages, reveal increased CD11b/CD18 expression and adhesion properties upon receptor-dependent activation.
Macrophage heterogeneity in the rat as delineated by two monoclonal antibodies MRC OX-41 and MRC OX-42, the latter recognizing complement receptor type 3.
ajplung.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/274/2/L226   (4422 words)

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