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Swede Starband
Swede or Swedes may refer to: People *Swede, a resident or citizen of Sweden *Swedes, a Germanic ethnic group *Swedes (tribe), an ancient North Germanic tribe inhabiting parts of modern-day Sweden and Finland Individuals *Swede (nickname), a list of people *George Swede (born 1940), Canadian psychologist, poet and children's writer *Puma Swede (born 1976), Swedish porn star *Swede Hanson (wrestler) (1933–2002), ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Fort Hanson Characters *Seymour "Swede" Levov, protagonist in the Philip Roth novel ''American Pastoral'' *"The Swede", a Norwegian on the AMC TV show ''Hell on Wheels (TV series), Hell on Wheels'' Other uses *Swede, a root vegetable, called rutabaga in North America *Swede Lake, Minnesota, United States *Swede Mountain, New York, United States See also *Suede (other) *Sweden (other) {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedes
Swedes (), or Swedish people, are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, Culture of Sweden, culture, History of Sweden, history, and Swedish language, language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, Swedish-speaking population of Finland, in particular, neighboring Finland, where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial Swedish diaspora, diaspora in other countries, especially the Swedish Americans, United States. Etymology The English term "Swede" has been attested in English since the late 16th century and is of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. In Swedish language, Swedish, the term is ''svensk'', which is from the name of ''svear'' (or Swedes), the people who inhabited Svealand in eastern central Sweden, and were listed as ''Suiones'' in Tacitus' history ''Germania (book), Germania'' from the first century AD. The term is believed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedes (tribe)
The Swedes (; Old Norse: ''svíar,'' ) were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden. Along with Geats and Gutes, they were one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes. They had their tribal centre in Gamla Uppsala. The Roman historian Tacitus was the first to write about the tribe in his ''Germania'' from AD 98, referring to them as the ''Suiones''. Locally, they are possibly first mentioned by the Kylver Stone in the 4th century. Jordanes, in the 6th century, mentions ''Suehans'' and ''Suetidi''. These names likely derive from the Proto-Indo-European root * s(w)e, meaning "one's own". ''Beowulf'' mentions the Swedes around 1000 A.D. According to early sources such as the sagas, especially ''Heimskringla'', the Swedes were a powerful tribe whose kings claimed descendence from the god Freyr. During the Viking Age they constituted the basis of the Varangian subset, the Norsemen that travelled eastwards (see Rus' people). The scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swede (nickname)
Swede is a nickname for: * Carl Anderson (American football) (1898–1978), American college football head coach * Swede Ellstrom (1906–1994), American National Football League player * Geary Eppley (1895–1978), American university administrator, professor, agronomist, military officer, athlete and track and field coach * Swede Hagberg (1907–1960), American National Football League player * Swede Halbrook (1933–1988), American National Basketball Association player * Andy Hansen (1924-2002), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Tom Hanson (American football) (1907–1985), American National Football League player * Swede Johnston (1910–2002), American National Football League player * Swede Knox (1948–2021), Canadian hockey linesman * Swede Larson (c. 1899–1945), 23rd head football coach for the United States Naval Academy * Hugo Leistner (1902–2002), American hurdler * Swede Masin (1920–2005), American multi-sport college athlete and professional bask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Swede
George Swede (), (born as ''Juris Puriņš'', November 20, 1940 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian Canadian psychologist, poet and children's writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is a major figure in English-language haiku, known for his wry, poignant observations Life In 1947, Swede arrived with his mother and stepfather from post-WW II Europe to live with his maternal grandparents on a fruit farm in Oyama, British Columbia and, when his stepfather died in 1950, Swede moved with his mother to Vancouver where he finished junior high and high school. Then he studied at the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a B.A. in Psychology in 1964. After that, he worked briefly as a psychologist at B.C. Penitentiary in New Westminster. In 1965, he got an M.A. at Dalhousie University with a published thesis From 1966 to 1967, Swede was a psychology instructor at Vancouver City College, after which he worked as a school psychologist at the Scarborough Board of Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puma Swede
Johanna Jussinniemi (born 13 September 1976), better known by her stage name Puma Swede, is a Swedish pornographic actress and feature dancer. The first part of her stage name comes from the sports car, the Ford Puma. Since 2005, she has appeared in over 200 movies. Biography She was born in Sweden of Finnish descent; both her parents were Finns, and she has resided in California since 2004. She worked as a computer sales representative in Sweden and later on as a glamour model before moving into adult films. She initially only performed in girl–girl scenes, but made her hardcore boy–girl debut in the 2005 video ''School of Hardcore'' by the studio AntiInnocence Video, with whom she was previously a contract performer. In 2009, a video of Puma performing fellatio on celebrity helicopter pilot David Martz, while they were flying over San Diego was leaked to TMZ and went viral. The video, filmed in 2007 led the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to suspend David's licens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swede Hanson (wrestler)
Robert Fort Hanson (March 27, 1933 – February 19, 2002) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Swede Hanson. He spent much of his career wrestling as part of a tag team with Rip Hawk. Together, they held championships in four different promotions. Hanson and Hawk were villain wrestlers and competed against some of the most popular teams of their time. They later feuded with each other when Hawk found a new partner after Hanson suffered a legitimate heart attack. Hanson retired in 1986 and lived in South Carolina until his death in 2002. Early life Hanson was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He attended high school until his senior year; although he was offered a football scholarship to Wake Forest University, he declined the offer and stopped attending school. His mother was struggling financially, so Hanson became an aircraft mechanic to help his family. He also competed as an amateur boxer, and he compiled a 61–3 record in New Jersey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Pastoral
''American Pastoral'' is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk". It is the first in Roth's ''American Trilogy'', followed by '' I Married a Communist'' (1998) and '' The Human Stain'' (2000). The framing device in ''American Pastoral'' is a 45th high school reunion attended by frequent Roth alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, who is the narrator. At the reunion, in 1995, Zuckerman meets former classmate Jerry Levov who describes to him the tragic derailment of the life of his recently deceased older brother, Seymour "Swede" Levov. After Seymour's teenage daughter Merry, in 1968, set off a bomb in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hell On Wheels (TV Series)
''Hell on Wheels'' is an American Western (genre), Western television series about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States, which broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC (TV channel), AMC, from November 6, 2011 to July 23, 2016. The series, which features Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common (rapper), Common, and Dominique McElligott, chronicles the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers, mercenaries, prostitutes, surveyors, and others who lived, worked, and died in the mobile encampment, called "Hell on Wheels", that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. In particular, the story focuses on Cullen Bohannon (Mount), a former Confederate States Army, Confederate soldier who initially joins the railroad to track down Union Army, Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War. In the process he becomes a foreman and eventually chief engineer on the railroad. The series was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutabaga
Rutabaga (; North American English) or swede (British English and some Commonwealth English) is a root vegetable, a form of ''Brassica napus'' (which also includes rapeseed). Other names include Swedish turnip, neep (Scots language, Scots), and turnip (Scottish English, Scottish and Canadian English, Hiberno-English, Irish English, Cornish English and Manx English, as well as some dialects of English language in Northern England, English in Northern England and Australian English). However, elsewhere, the name ''turnip'' usually refers to the related white turnip. The species ''B. napus'' Triangle of U, originated as a hybrid between the cabbage (''B. oleracea'') and the turnip (''B. rapa''). Rutabaga roots are eaten as human food in various ways, and the leaves can be eaten as a leaf vegetable. The roots and tops are also used for livestock, Livestock feed, fed directly in the winter or Forage, foraged in the field during the other seasons. Scotland, Northern and Western Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swede Lake
Swede Lake is a lake in Carver County, Minnesota, in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 .... Several Swedish immigrants settled at Swede Lake, causing its name to be selected. References {{authority control Lakes of Minnesota Lakes of Carver County, Minnesota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swede Mountain
Swede Mountain is a mountain in the Adirondack Mountains region of New York. It is located southwest of Ticonderoga and north of Glens Falls in Warren County. The Swede Mountain Fire Observation Station is located on top of the mountain. History The first structure built on Swede Mountain was a wooden tower erected by the Conservation Commission in 1912. In 1918, the wood tower was replaced with a Aermotor LS40 tower. The fire tower was decommissioned for fire watch purposes by New York State in 1968. The tower and a small parcel of land was purchased by Warren County in 1995, as a site for radio communication equipment. The fire tower was rehabilitated in the spring and summer of 2021, by the Warren County Parks and Recreation Department and Public Works staff. Also a trail was made from New York State Route 8 New York State Route 8 (NY 8) is a north-south state highway in the central part of New York (state), New York in the United States. It runs in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
