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6 unusual facts about Aftonbladet


Abraham Hirsch

From 1869-1876 he was the CFO of Aftonbladet and for many year he was a councilman for the city of Stockholm.

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Almqvist was ordained as pastor in 1837, but could not find work, and after publishing Det går an in 1839 gave up that career altogether and supported himself by working for various newspapers (including Aftonbladet and Jönköpingsbladet).

Come Clarity

Come Clarity was named Best Swedish album of the Past Decade by readers of Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.

Hitta.se

In February 2005, Hitta.se's parent company TA Teleadress Information Holding AB was bought by Aftonbladet Hierta, who own the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet, for 200 million Swedish krona.

Kung av sand – en liten samling 1983–2007

Kung av sand - en liten samling 1983–2007 was released on August 30, 2007 through Aftonbladet and is a compilation album from Swedish pop artist Per Gessle.

Opportunity Nox

Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen both gave the song 4 stars and called it their best song since "Dangerous" and "Joyride" respectively.


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Anna Hierta-Retzius

She was the daughter of Lars Johan Hierta, the founder of the paper Aftonbladet, and Wilhelmina Fröding and married to the scientist Gustaf Retzius, with whom she was active in social and scientific projects.

Camilla Henemark

On November 3, 2010,in the during of her illness that was cured by singer Agent unprejudiced the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published excerpts from a book about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, Den motvillige monarken ("The Reluctant Monarch"), claiming that he had a year-long love affair with Henemark in the late 1990s.

Constitution of Sweden

Publisher Lars Johan Hierta solved this by adding a different numeral to the name Aftonbladet, thus publishing a formally different newspaper.

Era stupendo

On 20 January 2008, Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reported that the song had been accused of being plagiarised from Amy Diamond's "It Can Only Get Better".

Expressen

Ownership of Expressen (and Sweden's largest morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter) is controlled by the Bonnier family, while Aftonbladet is owned jointly by Swedish trade unions and the Norwegian publishing family Schibsted.

Kungsbrohuset

Schibsted are the main tenants, gathering Swedish subsidiaries Aftonbladet and the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Blocket.se, Hitta.se and Tasteline into the building.

LunarStorm

But LunarStorm has through the years also cooperated with numerous other companies including Arla, EA Games, Loka, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Aftonbladet, Sveriges Radio and Logitech.

Pontus Wernbloom

He openly took a stance against Sweden Democrats prior to the 2010 Swedish general election, and stated his support for the socialist side in Aftonbladet.

Sophie Bolander

During the 1850s, many of her novels was published as serials in papers such as Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, Post- och Inrikes Tidningar and Aftonbladet.

Swedish slave trade

According to Herman Lindqvist in Aftonbladet (8 October 2006), 523 slaves were bought free for 80 riksdaler per slave.

Thomas Di Leva

The album was nominated by Slitz as best album of the year and placed second in the Aftonbladet re-vote of the yearly Rockbjörnen award in the category 'Best Swedish album'.


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