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The krona (Swedish: ⓘ; plural: kronor; sign: kr; code: SEK) is the currency of the Kingdom of Sweden.It is one of the currencies of the European Union.Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use for the krona; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value.
Kronos Incorporated corporate headquarters in Lowell, MA. Kronos was founded in 1977 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Simon Business School alumnus Mark S. Ain. [4] Under Mark Ain's leadership, Kronos sustained one of the longest records of growth and profitability as a public company in software industry history. [5]
Swedish (svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countries overall.
The primary obstacles to mutual comprehension are differences in pronunciation. According to a scientific study of the three groups, Norwegians generally understand the other languages the best, while Swedes understand the least. [1] Danish and Norwegian are especially comprehensible to one another. [2]
Visual Arts (decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts) Musical Arts (decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music ) The 2024 laureates are the philosophers and linguists Hans Kamp and Irene Heim, mathematician Lai-Sang Young, director, screenwriter and artist Steve McQueen, and singer Oumou Sangaré.
Jens Ola Johansson [1] (born 2 November 1963 in Stockholm) is a Swedish keyboardist and pianist. Jens got famous in the early 80's when he and his brother Anders (drums) joined Yngwie Malmsteen 's "Rising Force". Jens is the son of the legendary Swedish Jazz pianist Jan Johansson. Jens has also worked with the legendary guitar player Allan ...
Old Swedish (Modern Swedish: fornsvenska) is the name for two distinct stages of the Swedish language that were spoken in the Middle Ages: Early Old Swedish (Klassisk fornsvenska), spoken from about 1225 until about 1375, and Late Old Swedish (Yngre fornsvenska), spoken from about 1375 until about 1526.
The early and then medieval Swedish kingdom was an elective monarchy, with kings being elected from particularly prominent families; this practice did however often result in de facto dynastic succession and the formation of royal dynasties, such as those of Eric (intermittently c. 1157–1250) and Bjelbo (1250–1364) as well as infighting ...