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The Åland Islands are located in the northern Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. The population is Swedish-speaking, but after the 1809 Treaty of Fredrikshamn the islands were ceded to the Russian Empire together with a vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden, becoming the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire.
At the same time he ordered Albatross to find shelter in Swedish territorial waters. Bogatyr and Oleg managed to catch up with Albatross and opened fire. The flaming Albatross ran aground near Östergarn. Bayan, Oleg and Rurik then attempted to return to their base. A couple of hours later they encountered Roon and Lübeck. A short artillery ...
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
Swedish victory Swedish raids in the Mediterranean Sea (859) Location: Mediterranean Sea, Spain, Italy Luni, Italy. Swedes (Germanic tribe) Islamic Spain Carolingian Empire: Swedish victory [2] [3] Swedish expedition to Courland (862) Sweden: Curonians: Swedish victory Swedish wars of conquest in Eastern Europe (850s-870) Location: Eastern Europe
Crashing waves and erosion persistent enough to wear down cement tubes have been chipping away at Michigan's western shores throughout the years, but rough surf and storm surge from a Thanksgiving ...
A strong tornado tracked through Elkhart County in Indiana, before crossing the Indiana-Michigan state line into Cass County, destroying four farm buildings at F3 intensity and injuring 8 people. [8] 2 F2 tornadoes touched down near Kalamazoo, briefly causing damage to homes and other small structures.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Michigan designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Slick roads caused by a winter storm pummeling the Great Lakes area led to a box truck smashing into multiple emergency vehicles along Michigan's Interstate 94 Thursday morning.