Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium 6, Denmark 4, France 18, Ireland 4, Italy 18, Luxembourg 3, The Netherlands 6, Norway 4, Sweden 6, United Kingdom 18. Greece and Turkey were invited to join this week; Western Germany may join...
After a sordid divorce from Baron Wrangel, Siri married Strindberg. He wrote furiously-learned history (Sweden's Relations to China and the Tartar Lands), a religious play (The Secret of the Guild), a novel (The Red Room) for which he was denounced as an atheist and a radical. In 1884 he briefly became a popular hero when he was brought to trial (and acquitted) for committing blasphemy in print. He once called Christianity a religion for "women, eunuchs, children and savages." When his four-year-old son asked him whether God could see in the dark, Strindberg answered...
...Sweden, King Gustaf took a chance in a lottery at a Red Coss bazaar, won two bunches of carrots, a flashy garter and some gingerbread, but missed out on a three-foot spettekaka (Swedish egg and spun-sugar delicacy) which he had set his heart...
...Persuaded Sweden to sign the treaty...
...Sweden. 4. The Island of Jersey...