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Norsemen had explored the eastern coast of North America as early as the 11th century, though they created no lasting settlements. Later, a Swedish colony briefly existed on the Delaware River during the 17th century. The vast majority of Americans of Nordic or Scandinavian ancestry, however, are descended from immigrants of the 19th century.
The Swedish American cultural heritage and recreation center is situated west of Morgan Hill, California in the eastern Santa Cruz Mountains, adjacent to Uvas Canyon County Park. Since its founding in 1926, it has been owned and operated by the Swedish American Patriotic League, a congress of local organizations, dedicated to promoting and ...
The Old Country and the New: Essays on Swedes and America (2007) ISBN 978-0-8093-2714-0; Benson, Adolph B. and Naboth Hedin, eds. Swedes in America, 1638–1938 (Yale University Press. 1938) ISBN 978-0-8383-0326-9; Biltekin, Nevra. "Migrating women and transnational relations: Swedish-American connections since the 1920s."
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There is such a thing as a passport power ranking. And, spoiler alert, a U.S. passport isn’t at the top. Citizens in six countries are now considered to have the world’s most powerful ...
Now published in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, it is the oldest Danish American newspaper in publication. [12] Snow College, located in Ephraim, Utah in Sanpete County, Utah, holds an annual Scandinavian Festival to honor their heritage and Danish as well as immigrants from other Scandinavian countries. [13] The festival is held during two days in ...
'Someone who was special' Harris, 59, and Pelosi, 84, come from different political generations, but both have bridged San Francisco’s long activist tradition and its old-school local Democratic ...
Los Altos also boasts the highest median home value at more than $2,000,000, according to the 2021 survey—now, in 2023, Zillow reports that the typical home value in the California city is a ...