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The Vasa - learn from History!
08-12-2008 3:44 PM

In 1625 King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ordered his shipyards to build (among others) a mighty fighting ship called the Vasa.  He gave very specific instructions for what he wanted in this ship, how he wanted it outfitted, and made it clear that it should be the mightiest ship on the seas, and it was... sixty-four guns on two gundecks, it was truly the... Read More...

by Mitch Garvis | with no comments

Filed under: Archived, Sweden, Vasa

Anti-American Sentiment
03-30-2008 1:32 PM

I got to Sweden on Tuesday and it did not take me an hour to be fleeced by a taxi driver (A four minute taxi ride from the Kista subway station to the Microsoft office which was not my intended destination cost me 195SEK, or about USD$33).  Later in the evening I was speaking with one of the clerks at my hotel she told me that it was not uncommon for taxis... Read More...

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Filed under: Article, Archived, Sweden, Norway

Sweden!
03-28-2008 3:30 PM

I arrived in Sweden on Tuesday on a Lufthanza plane filled with a Canadian hockey team coming to play a tournament here.  Good luck Canada! Getting to my hotel was a little tricky.  Fortunately there is a great tourist information counter at Stockholm/Arlanda airport which pointed me in the right direction, starting with the fact that Kista is pronounced... Read More...

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Filed under: Archived, Sweden