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100 unusual facts about Stockholm


Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin

The album consists of concert recordings made in Berlin to celebrate DeVille’s 25 years of performing, and concert recordings made in Stockholm.

Alan Clay

Clay studied clowning in Stockholm, Sweden in 1977, and then formed the Imperial Trunk Fools Theatre Company (pictured right), which toured New Zealand in 1978 performing at Community Arts Festivals.

Bain à la Grenouillère

An almost identical composition of the same subject by Renoir is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Benjamin Szold

While a student he officiated during the holy days at Brieg, Silesia (1857), and at Stockholm, Sweden (1858).

Birger Jarls torn

For the construction bricks were taken from a monastery, St. Clare's Priory near today's Sergels torg (Sankta Klara kloster) destroyed in 1527 and churches from the ridges surrounding the city was used.

Boxing in the 1960s

September 14- Jimmy Ellis retains the WBA world Heavyweight title with a fifteen round decision over Floyd Patterson, who was attempting to become the first boxer to hold the world Heavyweight title three times, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Brita Pipare

In September 1593, two women were accused of witchcraft in the city of Stockholm in Sweden; the first one was a woman known as "Margareta from Norrsunda", and the second was Brita.

Cabbage roll

The creditors lived in Stockholm until 1732, and during this time it is most likely that the dolma was introduced in Sweden.

Cambodian Television Network

Cambodian Television Network (CTN) was launched in March 2003 as a joint venture between local conglomerate the The Royal Group and Stockholm-based Modern Times Group, this free-to-air terrestrial television channel Cambodian Television Network (CTN) is now part of Mobitel.

Carl Axel Magnus Lindman

In 1887 Lindman started work as the Regnellian Amanuensis at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, spending some of his time as assistant in Bergius Botanic Garden and the rest as lecturer in Natural History and Physics at Högre Latinläroverket, a secondary school in Stockholm.

Carl Unander-Scharin

Born in Stockholm, he studied in his native city at the Royal College of Music and the University College of Opera, Stockholm.

Christina Johansdotter

Christina Johansdotter (died 1740) was a Swedish murderer, who killed a child in Stockholm with the sole purpose of being executed.

Chrystal Macmillan

In 1911, Macmillan attended the sixth congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in Stockholm.

Crypto AG

Originally called AB Cryptoteknik and founded by Arvid Gerhard Damm in Stockholm in 1920, the firm manufactured the C-36 mechanical cryptograph machine that Damm had patented.

Don't Get Around Much Anymore – Live at Bullerbyn

Don't Get Around Much Anymore – Live at Bullerbyn is a live 1975 jazz recording of a two-evening jam session at the Bullerbyn jazz club, Stockholm, Sweden.

East Middle Sweden

The region is situated in the central part of the Sweden, close to the county and the metropolitan area of Stockholm.

Ebbe Carlsson

Nils "Ebbe" Knut Carlsson (28 September 1947 – 3 August 1992 in Stockholm) was a Swedish journalist and publisher with connections within the Social Democratic leadership and the Cabinet of Sweden.

Edsberg Castle

It now houses Edsbergs Musikinstitut; the independent chamber music division of the Royal College of Music, Stockholm.

Egron Lundgren

He studied at the Academy of Stockholm, and afterwards in Paris under Cogniet.

Ependyma

Jonas Frisén and his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm provided evidence that ependymal cells act as reservoir cells in the forebrain, which can be activated after stroke and as in vivo and in vitro stem cells in the spinal cord.

Erik Leonard Ekman

While there, he was offered a position as the Regnellian amanuensis at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, which he gladly accepted.

Finland–Mozambique relations

Mozambique is represented in Finland through its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

Finland–Namibia relations

Namibia is represented in Finland through its embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

Georg Baumann

He competed in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition along with two other Estonians, August Kippasto and Oskar Kaplur, at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, where he was eliminated after losing against later winner Emil Väre and Johan Alfred Salonen.

Georg von Rosen

intåg i Stockholm (1864) målning av Georg von Rosen.jpg"Sten Sture the Elder enters Stockholm" (1864).

Gherasim Luca

From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City, and San Francisco.

Gipsy Daniels

Daniels continued fighting in Wales and England, but in September 1925 he travelled to mainland Europe for the first time in his career, to face Swedish boxer Harry Persson at the Cirkus in Stockholm.

Håkan Hagegård

Hagegård studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has performed on stages around the world, including Carnegie Hall, the London Royal Opera House, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Sydney Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera (Così fan tutte conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt), and the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Hans von Rosenberg

Beginning in 1924 he worked in Stockholm and then served from 1933 to 1935 as ambassador in Ankara.

Herbert C. Brown

According to Brown, after receiving the Nobel prize in Stockholm, he carried the medal and she carried the US$100,000 award.

Holger Meins

The RAF members who carried out the West German Embassy siege in Stockholm in 1975 named their group after him, with the purpose of commemoration.

Illusive Tracks

The story revolves around the passengers on a train heading from Stockholm non-stop to Berlin, and includes murder, adultery, religion, Santa Claus and a very angry train conductor.

Ivan Mazepa's Hetman's Banner

Ivan Mazepa's Hetman's Banner is one of the only three Cossack banners in the world (the second one is in Moscow, the third is in Stockholm).

Jawhar Namiq

On March 22 in 2011, Kak Jawher died in Stockholm - Sweden , leaving a wife (Nergis Awni) and three children (Serwan, Aran, Sahi).

Jean Elichagaray

Jean Baptiste Pierre Eugène Elichagaray (September 3, 1886 – June 8, 1987) was a French rower who competed in the men's eights event at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Johan Ramstedt

Johan Ramstedt was born in Stockholm, son to clothing manufacturer Reinhold Ramstedt and his wife Maria Sofia Haeggström.

Johann Gottlieb Naumann

In 1777, as a result of negotiations by Swedish diplomat Count Löwenhjelm, Naumann was appointed to reform the Stockholm Hovkapell and assist King Gustavus III in his opera plans.

Johannes Matthiae Gothus

John Matthiae Gothus (born December 29, 1592 in Västra Husby - died February 18, 1670 in Stockholm) was an Uppsala University professor, the rector of the Collegium illustrious in Stockholm (1626–1629) and the most eminent teacher in Sweden during the seventeenth century.

Jubileumspokalen

Jubileumspokalen (literally: The Jubilee Trophy) or Solvallas Jubileumspokal is an annual Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Solvalla in Stockholm, Sweden.

Julie Blanchette

She played in the Ringette World championships of 2004 in Stockholm, of 2007 in Ottawa and of 2010 in Tampere.

Karl von Luxburg

In the summer of 1917, Luxburg sent secret dispatches to Berlin through the Swedish legation via Stockholm, which were made public by United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing.

Karlsson-on-the-Roof

Karlsson is a very short, very portly and overconfident man who lives in a small house hiding behind a smokestack on the roof of a very ordinary apartment building, on a very ordinary street in Stockholm.

Knut Frænkel

After cremation, their ashes were interred together at the cemetery Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

Kurt Kaiser

In 1999 Kaiser was invited to Sweden to perform for a gathering of dignitaries and guests at the prestigious Museum of History at Stockholm, at the request of the Ambassador of the United States.

Lisbeth Salander

In the trilogy, Salander has the name "V. Kulla" displayed on the door of her apartment on the top floor of Fiskargatan 9 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Live in Stockholm: Wild Frontier Tour

Live in Stockholm: Wild Frontier Tour is the 1987 live video of musician Gary Moore, recorded live April 25, 1987 at Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lou Amundson

Amundson has Swedish heritage on his father's side, and also lived in Stockholm for a time.

Margarita Stolbizer

Stolbizer represented the Argentine Congress in the 2002 conference of Parliamentarians for Global Action in Stockholm, and was named Vice President of their International Council.

Markus Leoson

Markus Leoson began 1986 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

Matti Raekallio

A professor at the Swedish Royal College of Music (1994-1995), Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (2005-2010) and the Sibelius Academy (1998-2008 ), Raekallio trained Antti Siirala and Gergely Boganyi at the latter.

Mikael Blomkvist

Blomkvist is an investigative journalist and co-owner of the monthly magazine Millennium based out of Stockholm, Sweden.

Miss Maud

The business was founded in 1971 by Maud Edmiston, a Swedish immigrant who opened a small Swedish Pastry House to resemble the bakery near her home in Stockholm.

On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

Shortly after conclusion of the speech, reports of its having taken place and its general content were conveyed to the West by Reuters journalist John Rettie, who had been informed of the event a few hours before he was due to leave for Stockholm; it was therefore reported in the Western media in early March.

Paul Makanowitzky

Paul Makanowitzky (June 20, 1920 Stockholm - February 24, 1998 Freeport, Maine) was an American violinist, and violin teacher.

Paul Underwood Kellogg

An opponent of U.S. involvement in the First World War, Kellogg joined Jane Addams and Oswald Garrison Villard, to persuade Henry Ford, the American industrialist, to organize a peace conference in Stockholm.

Pierre Brizon

He also asked for an inquiry into the position the government had taken regarding sending delegates to the Third Zimmerwald Conference, held in 1917 in Stockholm.

Postage stamps and postal history of Norway

These stamps were also used in Jan Mayen island, and, from February 1945, in a Norwegian post office established in Stockholm.

Potential Kontinental Hockey League expansion

In November 2009, the KHL and AIK IF from Stockholm, Sweden (at that time playing in the HockeyAllsvenskan) signed a document announcing an invitation from the KHL to AIK IF club to become a member of the KHL, and join the league, beginning from the 2010–11 season provided that AIK observes all the terms and conditions, and meets all KHL admission criteria.

Primus stove

The Primus stove, the first pressurized-burner kerosene (paraffin) stove, was developed in 1892 by Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, a factory mechanic in Stockholm, Sweden.

Ragnhild Grågås

Ragnhild Grågås (died 1510), was the person after whom the Gåsgränd in Gamla stan in Stockholm, Sweden is named.

Richard Wetherill

Ruiner af Klippboningar I Mesa Verde's Cañons, Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söners, 1893.

Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden

She died in Stockholm and was buried in the Cloister Church at the Black Friars' Monastery.

Ringmasters

The quartet received first place gold medals at the Nordic Barbershop Quartet Contest in Stockholm (April 2008), and won the Barbershop Harmony Society International Collegiate Championship in July 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Roger Tallroth

He also works as an arranger, and teaches at both the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and in Örebro University.

Saab 210

During Stockholm's 700 year celebrations on 6 June 1953, the SAAB 210 performed an air show over the centre of the city.

Saab Formula Junior

Nonetheless, two first places and a track record (Stockholm) were achieved.

Scandinavian Nights

It was originally recorded by Swedish National Radio for a radio show called Tonkraft at the Stockholm Konserthuset on 12 November 1970, but not released until 1988.

Scania OmniCity

The OmniCity is popular in several European cities, notably with SL in Stockholm, Sweden.

Shūkōkai

Sanshin-kan (糸東流三身館空手道), taught since 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Tamas Weber, a student of Tani, and others like Hayashi, Kuniba.

Siegfried Hausner

In 1975 Hausner was handpicked by Siegfried Haag to lead the group, known as Kommando Holger Meins who conducted the West German embassy siege in Stockholm to force the release of 26 of his RAF comrades.

Sighsten Herrgård

In the 1970s Herrgård established internationally in Paris and North America; he also started a company in Stockholm and worked with television, magazines and shows.

Sport policies of the Arab League

Egypt became the first Arab country to send an Olympic delegation - fencer Ahmed Hassanein - to the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Springer Hoax

The Springer Hoax was a scam starting in the mid 19th century, often using a phony genealogy in various ways to collect money based on the supposed estate of prominent colonialist Carl Christopher/Christoffersson Springer and debts said to be owed to him by various government agencies of Wilmington, Delaware and Stockholm, Sweden.

Steve Dobrogosz

He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and afterwards moved to Stockholm, Sweden in 1978, where he began recording and performing.

Stockholm-class corvette

In early 2009 the Swedish government decided that the two ships in the class was to join the EU-lead taskforce outside Somalia, where its would fight piracy.

Stojan Aralica

He remained in Belgrade for the rest of his life, with the exception of his stay in Stockholm from 1946 to 1948.

Sven Markelius

Born in Stockholm in October 1889, he attended the Royal Institute of Technology and the Academy of Arts in Stockholm from 1910 to 1915, later working at the offices of Ragnar Östberg and Erik Lallerstedt.

Sweden India Film Association

Since then SIFA has arranged a film festival in Stockholm, guested by among others Dev Anand, and is currently working to realize more Indian shoots in Sweden and Scandinavia.

Sweden lunar sample displays

The Apollo 11 plaque display given to Sweden by President Nixon in 1970 was reported missing by the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm on September 7, 2002.

Sweden men's national volleyball team

The team's biggest success came in 1989, when Sweden won the silver medal at the 1989 European Championship in Örebro and Stockholm, from September 23 to October 1.

Swedish Trotting Oaks

The Swedish Trotting Oaks (Swedish: Svenskt Trav-Oaks or only Oaks) is an annual national Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Solvalla in Stockholm, Sweden.

Tage Erlander

He died on 21 June 1985 in Stockholm and, after a ceremony, was returned to Ransäter, Värmland in a triumphant procession for the final rest.

Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra

In September 2001, TPO, led by conductor Lin Tien-chi, had a tour to Scandinavia to give two concerts in Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland.

Talaat Pasha

Before the assassination, the British intelligence services identified Talaat in Stockholm where he had gone for a few days.

The Real Group

The Real Group was formed in 1984, when its original members were students at the Swedish Royal College of Music.

Theodore William Dwight

Dwight was particularly interested in prison reform; he collaborated on A Report on Prisons and Reformatories in the United States and Canada (1867), served as president of the New York Prison Association, and was a delegate to the International Prison Congress at Stockholm in 1878.

Thunderhoney

Thunderhoney is a music licensing company based in Stockholm and Los Angeles, founded by Sven Bondesson and Tobias Karlsson in June 2011.

Time zone

Near the summer solstice, Muxia has sunset times (after 10:00 pm) similar to those of Stockholm, which is in the same time zone and 16 degrees further north.

Tjorven

Based on a book by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, the story is about a number of characters living in the archipelago outside Stockholm.

Ulla Billquist

Ulla Billquist, born Schönström (Eslöv, 14 August 1907 - Stockholm, 6 July 1946) as Ulla Ebba Ingegerd Hahn, was a Swedish female schlager singer.

Valborg Eriksdotter

She also visited the court at Stockholm, and she is believed to be the unidentified royal mistress who were mentioned as a friend of Karin Månsdotter during the Sture Murders in 1567.

Valdis Pultraks

Pultraks later played with Sarkanais metalurgs Liepāja and he also played for Daugava in its first serious international match against IK Sture from Stockholm.

Viktor Fomin

Fomin made his debut for USSR on 26 June 1955 in an away friendly game against Sweden in Stockholm when he came out as substitute on the 41st minute (the Soviet Union won the game 6:0).

Vladimír Országh

After becoming an unrestricted free agent after the 1999–2000 NHL season, Országh signed a contract with the Djurgårdens IF hockey team of the Swedish Elitserien, based in Stockholm.

Walter Nicks

In Sweden, under the auspices of Lia Schubert, Nicks became a consultant at the University of Stockholm (1960–67), a guest instructor at the Swedish Ballet Academy (1960), and performed there with his small company (1961–65).

He danced in a 1969 concert of Duke Ellington’s sacred music with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Gustav Vasa Church in Stockholm, which was broadcast on Swedish television.

Watchet

Under Alfred the Great (AD 871−901) Watchet became an important Saxon port, and the site of a mint with coins found as far away as Copenhagen and Stockholm.

What the Swedish Butler Saw

The film was shot in Stereoscopic 3-D at studios in Stockholm with exteriors in Denmark.

William Colby

Colby spent the next 12 years in the field, first in Stockholm, Sweden.

William Edmund Harper

By 1938 he was suffering from ill-health, which was further undermined by a bout of pneumonia while representing Canada at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm.


Alan H. Goodman

He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the University of Connecticut, and a research fellow in stress physiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Appeal Virtual Machines

Appeal Virtual Machines was a Swedish company created in 1998 by students from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Ark Yuey Wong

He stayed in San Francisco, Oakland and Stockholm, where he taught many Chinese students, since at the time the Chinese community was still very secretive about their martial arts.

C/o Segemyhr

The series took place in and around an apartment in an exclusive neighbourhood in Stockholm, Artillerigatan 35 (in reality Grevgatan 14) and later Styrmansgatan 52 in the same area.

Cătălin Moroșanu

On November 27, he rematched Gary Goodridge at K-1 Scandinavia Rumble of the Kings 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden and was able to better "Big Daddy" once again as he won via TKO (referee stoppage) in the second round.

Christian Pontus Andersson

Christian Pontus Andersson (born 1977) is a Swedish artist and sculptor, living in Södermalm, Stockholm.

Edwin C. May

His technical expertise is well respected, and he has given presentations at the famous World War II site Bletchley Park (UK), Harvard University, the Universities of California at Los Angeles and at Davis, Stanford University, the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Cambridge, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Stockholm, Imperial College London and others.

Élisabeth Daynès

Her work is present at museums all over the world, like Musée des Merveilles in Tende, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Transvaal Museum in Pretoria and Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm.

Elise Hwasser

Elise Jakobsson was born in Stockholm 16 March 1831 – her father worked as a custom-caretaker – and became a student at Dramatens elevskola in 1849 and had already found employment by the following year at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where she was originally hired as a replacement for Aurora Strandberg.

Emil Oskar Nobel

Emil died on 3 September 1864, the victim of an explosion while experimenting with nitroglycerine in his father's factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm.

Frank Etc.

It was founded in Stockholm in 1994 by the industrial designer Nikolaus Frank and the graphic designer Cecilia Frank.

Get On

However, according to Richard Stanley, the band had been playing the song live already during the previous summer, months before the recording sessions in Stockholm.

Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir

Musafir was a member of the Indian delegations to the International Peace Conference in Stockholm in 1954, World Peace Conference in Helsinki in 1965, and the World Peace Conference in Berlin in 1969.

Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland

Vane entered the foreign service and held posts in Paris and Stockholm before entering the House of Commons in 1841 as a member for South Durham.

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm was also active as a translator of plays, and she was also an instructor and a teacher of drama, both in private-tutoring and in Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm, where she tutored until 1906.

Helen Aitchison

In 1913 she won the singles title at World Covered Court Championship in Stockholm, defeating Kate Gillou in the final in straight sets.

Illusive Tracks

All of the scenes depicting Stockholm Central Station were filmed at the Krylbo railway station to resemblance the 1940s look of Stockholm.

It Only Happens Every Time

It Only Happens Every Time is a 1977 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra with singer Monica Zetterlund in Helsinki and Stockholm and released by EMI in Europe and by Inner City Records in the US.

Kahn Lectures

After considering Arthur Pillans Laurie, Eugénie Sellers Strong and Herbert Joseph Spinden, the Department settled on the Swedish art historian Johnny Roosval, professor at Stockholm University, as the first lecturer.

Krister Linder

In 2009, he won the Jameson Film Music Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival for the score to the animated feature film Metropia (directed by Tarik Saleh) and that same year, he did co-vocals on the song "Departer" on the album Night Is the New Day by Katatonia.

Lyndhurst Winslow

He won two gold medals, once each in the men's singles and doubles at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

Malmskillnadsgatan

In the central-northern part of Stockholm, the Brunkebergsåsen, divided the Norrmalm district in an eastern and western part, Östermalm and Västermalm, and Malmskillnadsgatan is a street passing along the top of the ridge.

Marguerite Georges

She toured Europe in 1812–1813, during which she performed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and Dresden.

Mia Permanto

She grew up and studied in Stockholm, but decided to move to Finland, the country of her parents.

Mildred Barnes Bliss

Because of his diplomatic postings, they lived in Brussels (1908–1909), Buenos Aires (1909–1912), Paris (1912–1919), Washington, D.C. (1919–1923), Stockholm (1923–1927), and Buenos Aires again (1927–1933) before returning, in retirement, to Washington, D.C. (1933).

Murphy Himself

The duo had a terrific success together, completing Badminton several times, receiving the silver medal at the 1990 FEI World Equestrian Games in Stockholm representing the British Team, and competing in the Barcelona Olympics.

Nicolae Milescu

In 1660-1664, he acted as representative of his country with its Ottoman overlord, and then as envoy to Berlin and Stockholm.

Peter David Edstrom

He returned to Sweden after a hobo's journey started in a freight train car on July 29, 1894 and ended (after a wage earner's trip across the Atlantic) in Stockholm where he supported himself during his studies at the Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology and Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

Rålambshovsparken

Rålambshovsparken (sometimes called Rålis) is a big park in Marieberg district in Kungsholmen, Stockholm.

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

The organization also organizes two annual festivals at its home, the Stockholm Concert Hall, namely the Stockholm International Composer Festival (2007: Tan Dun) and Composer Weekend in May, focusing on a contemporary Swedish composer.

Samir Brikho

Brikho holds a Master of Science degree in Thermal Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Söder tea

Söder tea (tea from Södermalm - a district of Stockholm) or Söderblandning (blend from Södermalm) is a Swedish blend of tea made from black tea, tropical fruits and flowers.

Soffi Schønning

In 1928 she joined the roster of artists at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm where she made her debut as Gilda in Rigoletto under the baton of Armas Järnefelt.

Sophie Hagman

At some point, Hagman was employed to look after the children to Louis Gallodier, dance master of the Royal Swedish Ballet at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Spånga

Viking Airlines has its head office in Spånga and in Stockholm Municipality.

Stalinisme

Den tyska propagandan i Sverige under krigsåren 1939-1945. Stockholm: Socialdepartementet, 1946.

The Pimp

# "Drop the Hate" (Remixed By Reverend H. Lidbo & The Progressive Baptist Choir Of Stockholm) (Cook, Daniels) - 7:20

Tyska

Tyska Brinken, street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden

Ulf Adelsohn

He was the chairman of the Confederation of Swedish Conservative and Liberal Students, opposed the occupation of the Student Union Building in Stockholm in 1968 and was a co-founder of Borgerliga Studenter – Opposition '68 later in the same year.

Utö

Utö, Sweden, an island in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden

Volvo S40

It is set on 25 October 2003, where 32 people supposedly purchased a Volvo S40, at the same local Volvo dealership in Dalarö, a small village to the south-east of Stockholm.