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In sports he chaired the Association for the Promotion of Skiing from 1937 to 1939 and 1946 to 1948, [11] and was a board member of the rowing club Studentenes RK. [1] He was also a board member of the National Theatre .
Vasaloppet (Swedish for 'the Vasa race') is an annual long distance cross-country ski race held on the first Sunday of March. The 90 km (56 mi) course starts in the village of Berga, just south of Sälen in western Dalarna, Sweden, and ends in the town of Mora in the central part of the province. It is the oldest cross-country ski race in the ...
Vasa became the most widely recognised name of the ship, largely because the Vasa Museum chose this form of the name as its 'official' orthography in the late 1980s. This spelling was adopted because it is the form preferred by modern Swedish language authorities, and conforms to the spelling reforms instituted in Sweden in the early 20th century.
Life Guards' Dragoon Music Corps. The Royal Swedish Cavalry Band (Swedish: Livgardets dragonmusikkår, LDK) is one of three professional military bands in the Swedish Armed Forces. The band traces its ancestry back to the 1500s when King Gustav Vasa raised his first regiment of horse. Today LDK is one of few mounted bands in the world.
In addition to his military activities, Tamm was chairman of the board of Ströms Bruks AB, Ljusne-Woxna AB and Rederi AB Svea (1945–52). [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Tamm was also chairman of the board of the Association of Army, Navy and Air Film ( Föreningen Armé- Marin- och Flygfilm ) from 1932 to 1939 [ 6 ] and board member of AB Finnboda Varv.
A portion of the community is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Vasa Historic District.Vasa was established in 1853 by Swedish immigrant farmers. . While its population declined significantly in the twentieth century, the architecture and landscape of the district is well-preserved and its National Register nomination described it as "the most intact... of the original ...
Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (Polish: Anna Katarzyna Konstancja Waza; 7 August 1619 – 8 October 1651) was a Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa and his second wife, Constance of Austria.
Edwin Fox is one of the world's oldest surviving merchant sailing ships. [Note 1] The Edwin Fox is also the only surviving ship that transported convicts to Australia.She is unique in that she is the "only intact hull of a wooden deep water sailing ship built to British specifications surviving in the world outside the Falkland Islands". [2]