Sweden’s Contribution To The World
Take my advice and never mess with Swedish ;)
I did mistake, stirred my cyber mate Matthew Snowball’s Swedish pride and he bombarded with everything which is Swedish. Most of them I never heard of and some of them I was sure are not Swedish.
So here you go.
Great Swedish Inventions
The Safety Match – I thought Brits invented it.
Dynamite
The zipper
Turbo engines for cars
Ball bearing
Brands
IKEA – Founded by Ingvar Kamprad which is one of the richest men in the world. Luckily I don’t have a any IKEA masterpiece in my house.
Sony Ericson – I used to have one Sony Ericson smartphone in the past which I never liked.
Volvo
Scania
Saab
Electrolux
Astrazeneca – The pharmaceutical company. Astra is Swedish brand which after mergers with British company became Astrazeneca and now one of major player in Pharma.
The computer mouse is also an swedish invention
Roxette
Tetra Pak
Famous Swedish People
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel – Inventor of dynamite which made him very rich and his richness now funds Nobel Prizes.
Bjorn Borg – Tennis player
Stefan Edberg – Tennis player
Jan Stenbeck – Famous Journalist. His son own the hockey team Malmo Redhawks. Stenbeck is a very old family in Sweden
Annika Sorenstam – Golf player
Greta Garbo
Ingemar Bergman
Pripps Blå
Music Bands
ABBA – If you don’t know ABBA then you better immigrate to Mars.
ABBA, the Swedish pop group, is the most famous and well known Swedish export to the World. It was formed in Stockholm in 1972 which consisted of Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog.
ABBA
Ace of Base
Infamous and Rest of bunch
The Pirate Bay (TPB) – World’s largest torrent site where you can download music, video, games, movies etc illegally for free. Well it doesn’t host the illegal files but it provides magnet to the torrent peer-to-peer network.
The Pirate Bay is based and hosted in Sweden and despite all efforts from Music and Film production company to close it down it remains active.
In the past it used to have it’s famous logo at the top which has now been replaced by the advertisements.
Food
Smorgasboard
Snus
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Sweden’s Contribution To The World ”
Sweden was one of the richest countries in te world in the 70s!
Typical swedish food:
Sur strömming
Pitepalt
Kroppkakor
Köttbullar
Great Swedish Inventions:
The computer mouse
Sweden is also famous for the popular porn that was made there in the 70s
Famous Swedish companies:
SSAB
Asea Brown Boveri(ASEA
METRO(Paper that exist in several countries in the world)
Sports:
Peter Forsberg
Mats Sundin
Markus Näslund
Niklas Lidström
Kenta Nilsson
Börje Salming
Famous writers:
Ingmar Bergman(Movies)
Astrid Lindgren
Moa Martinsson
Carl Michael Bellman
Vilhelm Moberg
Famous Movie stars:
Greta Garbo
Ingrid Bergman(Cassablanca!)
Stellan Skarsgård
Eva Ohlin
Peter Stormare
Max Von Sydow
Sweden: Scandinavia, Vikings, Hockey and Skiing, Neutral, Stockholm, vast landscape similar to Canadian North. People: Educated, civil, almost all speak perfect english, culturally aware, Althletic..outdoors types, highly computer literate. They very much like to sing national songs together at parties (especially one where they make some kinda antler gesture with their hands on their heads..wierd) drink alot, good looking.