Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is an example of a monochronic-time-oriented individual running in to conflict with a polychronic-time-oriented individual. [15] Though the United States is seen as one of the most monochronic countries, it "has subcultures that may lean more to one side or the other of the monochronic-polychronic divide" [ This quote needs a citation ...
Sweden, [f] formally the Kingdom of Sweden, [g] [h] is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), [ 4 ] Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the fifth-largest country in Europe.
Five people are killed in a fire at Sundsvall nursing home. [39] Fire: Sundsvall: 5: 25 June 1888: Five people are killed and 9,000 become homeless when the city of Sundsvall burns down. [70] Fire: Malmköping: 5: June 1971: Five people are killed in a fire in a rehabilitation ward in Malmköping. [39] Fire: Staffanstorp: 5: 2 September 2009 ...
In 1759, the city was hit again by a disastrous fire to the same extent as the Clara Church fire eight years earlier. In Sweden, this fire is named Mariabranden (Swedish brand= fire). The Mary fire in 1759 in the Maria parish in Södermalm destroyed 300 houses and the Maria Magdalena church. About 2,000 people were left homeless.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Sweden: Sweden – Scandinavian country in Northern Europe, situated between Norway and Finland. Sweden maintained a policy of neutrality in armed conflicts from 1814 until 2009, when it entered into various mutual defence treaties. Sweden joined NATO in 2024.
On the outskirts of Sweden’s capital, construction of ‘Stockholm Wood City’ began in October, several months ahead of schedule, and is set to provide 2,000 new homes by 2027.
Jan Mayen was made part of the Kingdom of Norway. 1814: Dissolution of the union between Norway and Denmark. 7 June 1905: Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. 8 May 1945: German occupying forces surrender. Poland: 4 June 1989: The first partially free Parliament's vote after 45-year-long Soviet domination 966
The counties of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges län) are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Sweden. There are twenty-one counties; however, the number of counties has varied over time, due to territorial changes and to divisions and/or mergers of existing existing counties.