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The Vasa National Archives is a 501(c)3 and its parent organization the Vasa Order of America is a 501(c)8. The Vasa National Archives term of office is four years. The Vasa National Archives president position is held by the outgoing grand lodge grand master (ending a grand lodge four-year term).
Free Software Foundation (FSF) – founded 1985; began as a development center for the GNU Project. It currently advocates for free software and against proprietary software and formats; and maintains and legally enforces the GNU General Public License. It also created the Free Software Definition.
On 20 December 2022, the Swedish Government published a new regulation that repealed the 1974 regulation, and once again opened the Royal Orders to Swedish citizens and reactivated the Order of the Sword, Order of the Polar Star and Order of Vasa, which came into effect from 1 February 2023.
The Royal Order of Vasa (Swedish: Kungliga Vasaorden) is a Swedish order of chivalry founded on 29 May 1772 by King Gustav III. It is awarded to Swedish citizens for service to state and society especially in the fields of agriculture, mining and commerce.
The Vasa coat of arms was set as an inescutcheon into the Swedish National Coat of arms (see below) when the Vasa's reigned both in Sweden. Since 1810 it has been impaled on the left with the Bernadotte arms on the right as part of the inescutcheon in the Swedish national coat of arms, after the Bernadotte family's first king in Sweden, Karl ...
Order of Vasa, a Swedish order of chivalry, awarded to citizens of Sweden Vasa Medal, a Swedish medal; vasa gene, a gene that is essential for germ cell development; Vasa IFK, a Finnish football club; Vasa parrot, a genus of parrots from Madagascar; Vasa Museum, a museum in Stockholm, Sweden; Vatican Amateur Sports Association
The Polish–Swedish union was a short-lived personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Sweden between 1592 and 1599. It began when Sigismund III Vasa , elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania , was crowned King of Sweden following the death of his father John III .
This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]