Tag Archives: A Concise History of Sweden
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Neil Kent
Those Unhealthy Swedes… wait, what? Sweden is today one of the healthiest countries in which to live and has some the world’s highest rates of human longevity. However, this was not always so. In the early modern period, it was frequently afflicted by the bubonic plague, with extraordinarily high mortality rates. Smallpox, until the late […]
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Neil Kent
This week — Sweden: the Colonial Power Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard brings us tidbits and snippets about a country that many Americans, myself included, sadly know little about. Here in New York, we have Dutch and English street names, and a flag adapted from the Netherlands’. I grew up in Pennsylvania, surrounded by the […]
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Neil Kent
Those Unhealthy Swedes… wait, what? Sweden is today one of the healthiest countries in which to live and has some the world’s highest rates of human longevity. However, this was not always so. In the early modern period, it was frequently afflicted by the bubonic plague, with extraordinarily high mortality rates. Smallpox, until the late […]
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Neil Kent
This week — Sweden: the Colonial Power Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard brings us tidbits and snippets about a country that many Americans, myself included, sadly know little about. Here in New York, we have Dutch and English street names, and a flag adapted from the Netherlands’. I grew up in Pennsylvania, surrounded by the […]
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