In war, ice is often treacherous, as the Dutch learned when French cavalry seized a fleet by riding over the frozen Niewediep ...

Step back in time by visiting fairytale palaces and castles in Sweden that kings and queens once called home. Here are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s interesting how the city almost slumbers during the colder months, and then suddenly awakens with ...

Secure & Static. In Sweden the church has knuckled under to the state since the 16th century, when King Gustav Vasa led Sweden’s break from Rome during the Reformation. Today the church’s ...

One year ago Microsoft Researchers created a hyper releastic AI video animator, VASA-1, but did not release it. Now, Bytedance owner of TikTok, is getting closer to matching the VASA-1 ability to ...

along with a few studies in oil on canvas of horses that he later included in his monumental 1908 painting “The Entry of King Gustav Vasa Into Stockholm, 1523,” which has dominated the upper s ...

Gustav Vasa is a 3yo bay unknown from Ireland trained by H Shimizu, who is based at . It is sired by the stallion Recorder out of the dam Eiriamach Na Casca. Gustav Vasa is yet to break its maiden ...

RIVERTON, Utah (KUTV) — A man has been arrested after being accused of filming a 17-year-old girl in a tanning bed booth at VASA in Riverton. Charging documents state 36-year-old Justan Grover ...

One form of long-distance cross country ski racing is called a loppet. The loppet’s origins begin in 1520 when Gustav Vasa of Sweden fled the Danish king’s troops on skis. Vasa would later defeat the ...

On August 10, 1628, Vasa, the would-be jewel of Sweden’s navy sank only minutes after departing Stockholm. This tragedy – that claimed the lives of 30 of those on board – launched an inquest probing ...

In Sweden, schoolchildren learn the story of the good ship Vasa, which today has its very own museum in Stockholm. In the 1620s, when King Gustav II Adolph wanted to outfit his navy with the most high ...

Kalmar Castle was originally a medieval castle that underwent a rebuild during the 16th century. Vasa Kings Gustav, Erik XIV and Johan III all contributed to the current castle’s design and structure.