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  2. Culture of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Swedish culture is an offshoot of the Norse culture which dominated southern Scandinavia in prehistory.Sweden was the last of the Scandinavian countries to be Christianised, with pagan resistance apparently strongest in Svealand, where Uppsala was an old and important ritual site as evidenced by the tales of Uppsala temple.

  3. List of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants based on ...

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    (not confuse with Louisiana French or Cajun French) Varieties with progressive aspect marker ka [ 3 ] Antillean Creole is a language spoken primarily in the francophone (and some of the anglophone) Lesser Antilles , such as Martinique , Guadeloupe , Îles des Saintes , Dominica , St. Lucia , Trinidad and Tobago and many other smaller islands.

  4. List of English-language films with previous foreign-language ...

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    Italian-language film Common source material (if any) 13 Men and a Gun (1938) Tredici uomini e un cannone (1936) Black 13 (1953) Gioventù perduta (1948) Crackers (1984) I Soliti Ignoti (1958) Everybody's Fine (2009) Stanno Tutti Bene (1990) Heartbeat (1946) Heartbeat (1939) I'll Give a Million (1938) Darò un milione (1935) Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

  5. Languages of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10.23 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a dialect continuum.

  6. Culture of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Minnesota is a subculture of the United States with influences from Scandinavian Americans, Finnish Americans, Irish Americans, German Americans, Native Americans, Czechoslovak Americans, among numerous other immigrant groups. They work in the context of the cold agricultural and mining state. People In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre May Day Parade, Minneapolis ...

  7. Nordic Bronze Age - Wikipedia

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    The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC.. The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Late Neolithic Dagger period, which is rooted in the Battle Axe culture (the Swedish-Norwegian Corded Ware variant), the Single Grave Culture (the north German and Danish ...

  8. Scandinavism - Wikipedia

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    The Pan-Scandinavian movement paralleled the unification movements of Germany and Italy. [7] As opposed to the German and Italian counterparts, the Scandinavian state-building project was not successful and is no longer pursued. [2] [7] It was at its height in the mid-19th century and supported the idea of Scandinavian unity. [8] [1]

  9. Medieval Scandinavian architecture - Wikipedia

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    In much of the Norse region, the longhouses were built around wooden frames on simple stone footings. Walls were constructed of planks, of logs, or of wattle and daub. The walls were curved inwards to create a boat-like shape similar to the boating houses. The walls were covered with clay and vertical poles lined the inside to help create support.