It has been a public holiday since 2005, replacing Whit Monday, but was first celebrated in 1916 in honour of the election of King Gustav Vasa on June 6th, 1523. Gustav Vasa's election also marks the ...

This is Viikki Research Farm. It used to be called Latokartano Farm. It is about 470 years old. King Gustav Vasa of Sweden established the city of Helsinki in 1550. He established it on the banks of ...

That construction gives us the opportunity to be very generous to people, to be very open.” The Church of Sweden was founded in 1536 when King Gustav Vasa broke with the Roman Catholic Church. It ...

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

This latter conflict had an economic motivation, with Sweden undergoing a commercial expansion in the Baltic, but also a political one, as Swedish King Charles X Gustav wanted to halt the aspirations ...

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Like so many of the Nazis’ weapon designs, the Gustav gun was fantastically expensive and completely impractical. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime were the über-villains of the Second World War.

Gustav Forsling’s wizardry can sometimes go unnoticed. The Florida Panthers’ top defenseman is so sound with his movements, so accurate with his positioning, that his production comes quietly ...

The New Mexico Philharmonic, under the direction of Grammy-winning conductor Roberto Minczuk, will present Gustav Mahler’s magnum opus, Symphony No. 3 in D minor, at Popejoy Hall on Saturday ...

Generally speaking, Gustav Nyquist prefers it when officials let play continue, and there are fewer whistles in a game. But if they had called offside on the ice late in Game 5 of the Minnesota ...

Facing him was “MAHLER” etched in gold on a cartouche and shining in a spotlight, centered in a permanent position of honor among the 17 composers enshrined across the balcony front.