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Sweden's capital, Stockholm, is the host of the country's biannual fashion week. [1] Swedish fashion embraces usefulness as it is the attitude surrounding most consumer products throughout Northern Europe. Clothing is made to be practical and purposeful.
The large end is closed by a lid with a chain and on the opposite point of the horn stands a small figure of justice holding a pair of scales. The horn is decorated in ornamental relief work with multi-colored opaque and translucent enamel and set with 10 diamonds and 14 rubies, including 6 Karelian 'rubies' (i.e., garnets).
Märta Jörgensen with her husband Georg Crown Princess Victoria and Princess Sofia wearing the Swedish National Costume. Märta Emilia Matilda Jörgensen née Pettersson, also Märte Palme, (1874–1967) was a key figure in reforming Swedish national costumes for women.
There are also often special shows commemorating the ending of the TV year, showing highlights from the year. TV also broadcast popular movies on this night. At midnight, SVT shows the celebration in Skansen in Stockholm, where a prominent actor reads Edvard Fredin's translation of Alfred Tennyson's Ring Out, Wild Bells On New Year's Day.
Between April and August, the mounted squadrons in light blue full dress uniforms and silver pickelhaube helmets and the companies in dark blue full dress uniforms with black pickelhaube helmets, both of the Life Guards, can be seen in Stockholm street parades and around the Royal Palace.
The Nobel Banquet, organized by the Nobel Foundation, is a formal dinner held after the Nobel Prize award ceremony and as part of a wider series of events celebrating the Nobel Prize laureates on 10 December (the death anniversary of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel), with the Nobel lectures and the Nobel Prize Concert occurring prior.
Swedish police detained 19 pro-Palestinian activists who barricaded themselves in the country's main technical education and research university on Friday. After two hours, police carried out the ...
Coronation of King Gustav III The Silver Throne, used by all Swedish monarchs from Queen Christina in 1650 onward. Coronations of the Swedish monarchs took place in various cities during the 13th and 14th centuries, but from the middle of the 15th century onward in the cathedrals of Uppsala or Stockholm, with the exception of the coronation of Gustav IV Adolf, which took place in Norrköping ...