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Ericsson Globe
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Ericsson Globe is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockholm, Sweden. The Ericsson Globe is the largest hemispherical building on Earth and took two and a years to build. Shaped like a white ball, it has a diameter of 110 metres. The volume of the building is 605,000 cubic metres and it has a seating capacity of 16,000 spectators for shows and concerts, and 13,850 for ice hockey. It represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the worlds largest scale model of the Solar System, on February 2,2009, the naming rights to the Stockholm Globe Arena were officially acquired by Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, and it became known as the Ericsson Globe. The Globe is primarily used for ice hockey, and is the home arena of AIK, Djurgårdens IF. It opened in 1989 and seats 13,850 for ice hockey games and it is owned by FCA fastigheter. The third team to play a game in their league was Huddinge IK, followed by Hammarby IF. The arena has been the home of the finals of Sveriges Televisions yearly music competition Melodifestivalen since 2002, Ericsson Globe has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 and Eurovision Song Contest 2016. The first two games of the 2008–09 season of the NHL, between the Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins were played in the Globen, although the rink was altered to NHL specifications. The first two games of the 2009-10 season of the NHL, a series between the St. Louis Blues and Detroit Red Wings October 2–3. The first two games of the 2010-11 season of the NHL, a series between the San Jose Sharks and Columbus Blue Jackets took place on October 8 and 9,2010. The game on October 8 was won by San Jose Sharks 3-2, the second game, on October 9, was won 3-2 in overtime by Columbus Blue Jackets. The venue once again played host to two NHL Premiere games for the 2011–12 NHL season as the New York Rangers played the Los Angeles Kings on October 7 and Anaheim Ducks on October 8. Pope John Paul II held a mass in the arena in 1989 as the first pope to hold a mass in Sweden, other political leaders appearances at the arena have included Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. American rapper Eminem performed in 2001 with the The Anger Management Tour, the first and only ever appearance in Sweden for the rapper Eminem owing to cancellation of the 2005 tour. American singer Mariah Carey performed at the arena during her Charmbracelet World Tour on October 5,2003, american singer Cher performed during her marathon Living Proof, The Farewell Tour on June 15,2004. Justin Timberlake performed for 15,000 fans in 2007 with the show of his tour FutureSex/LoveShow, nine years later in the same arena, he was invited to an interval act of Eurovision Song Contest 2016
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Sweden
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Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, at 450,295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. Approximately 85% of the lives in urban areas. Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear, Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the area of Fennoscandia. The climate is in very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence. Today, Sweden is a monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a monarch as head of state. The capital city is Stockholm, which is also the most populous city in the country, legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag. Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister, Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages, in the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, the last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, maintaining a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Swedens current borders, though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars, Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe. After the end of the Cold War, Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 and it is also a member of the United Nations, the Nordic Council, Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides health care. The modern name Sweden is derived through back-formation from Old English Swēoþēod and this word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas. The Swedish name Sverige literally means Realm of the Swedes, excluding the Geats in Götaland, the etymology of Swedes, and thus Sweden, is generally not agreed upon but may derive from Proto-Germanic Swihoniz meaning ones own, referring to ones own Germanic tribe
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Stockholm
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The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC. It is also the capital of Stockholm County, Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the countrys GDP and it is an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europes top ranking universities, such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute and it hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the citys most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is known for its decoration of the stations. Swedens national football arena is located north of the city centre, Ericsson Globe, the national indoor arena, is in the southern part of the city. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics, and hosted the equestrian portion of the 1956 Summer Olympics otherwise held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish government and most of its agencies, including the highest courts in the judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Ministers residence is adjacent at the Sager House. After the Ice Age, around 8,000 BCE, there were already a number of people living in the present-day Stockholm area. Thousands of years later, as the ground thawed, the climate became tolerable, at the intersection of the Baltic Sea and lake Mälaren is an archipelago site where the Old Town of Stockholm was first built from about 1000 CE by Vikings. They had a positive impact on the area because of the trade routes they created. Stockholms location appears in Norse sagas as Agnafit, and in Heimskringla in connection with the legendary king Agne, the earliest written mention of the name Stockholm dates from 1252, by which time the mines in Bergslagen made it an important site in the iron trade. The first part of the name means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word meaning fortification, the second part of the name means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm. Stockholms core, the present Old Town was built on the island next to Helgeandsholmen from the mid 13th century onward. The city originally rose to prominence as a result of the Baltic trade of the Hanseatic League, Stockholm developed strong economic and cultural linkages with Lübeck, Hamburg, Gdańsk, Visby, Reval, and Riga during this time
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Stureby
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Stureby is a residential area in southern Stockholm, approx. The district at 205 hectares is bordered with Örby, Örby slott, Östberga, Årstafältet, Gamla Enskede, Svedmyra, there were farms in the area where Stureby is located in the year 1689 according to a map. The area started to be developed in the year 1921 by the company Fastighets AB Villahem, in 1923 the politicians in Stockholm decided to build a retirement home that was named Gammelbyn to commemorate Gustav Vasas arrival in Stockholm 400 years earlier. The area was named Stureby after Sten Sture the Younger in 1926, in 1930 the retirement home Gammelbyn was finished and also a new tram station that was part of the tram line Örbybanan. Stureby nursing home opened in 1935, there once lived 1000 people in the retirement home and the nursing home. In 1938 a cinema named Tusse-bio opened in Stureby and was renamed to Corso in 1939, the tram line in Stureby was improved in the 1940s but got replaced with the metro in 1951. In 1953 the temporary metro station Stureby was made permanent and was then an end station, during the 1950s there was an elementary school called Sturebyskolan built and also some apartment blocks were built. Landstinget took over the retirement home Gammelbyn in 1971 and renamed it to Stureby sjukhus, the elementary school was renovated in the year 2000 and currently has 1000 students
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First Aid Kit (band)
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First Aid Kit is a Swedish folk duo that consists of the sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg. When performing live, the duo has been accompanied by a drummer, in 2008, they became internationally known by their YouTube video cover of the Fleet Foxess song Tiger Mountain Peasant Song that gained significant Internet popularity. As a result, they were signed to the Wichita label and recorded their debut album The Big Black and they have now released three albums, two EPs and a handful of singles. In 2015 they were nominated for a Brit Award as one of the five best international groups in 2015, sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg are from Enskede, in the outskirts of Stockholm. Johanna was born on October 31,1990 and Klara on January 8,1993 and their father was a member of the Swedish rock pop band Lolita Pop but he quit before Johanna was born and later became a teacher of history and religion. Their mother is a teacher of cinematography, from childhood, Klara and Johanna were eager singers by giving concerts using a jump rope as a pretend microphone. Klaras first favorite songs were Judy Garlands songs from The Wizard of Oz and Billie Holidays version of Gloomy Sunday, Klara wrote her first song Femton mil i min Barbiebil when she was six. They both attended the International English school of Enskede, Klara applied for admission to a music school but she was not accepted. In 2005 when Klara was 12, a friend introduced her to the band Bright Eyes and this led her to country music stars such as Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Carter family, Louvin Brothers, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. The same year she received a guitar of her own as a Christmas present, Johanna enjoyed a wide range of music from Britney Spears to German Techno. However, it wasnt until watching the film O Brother, Where Art Thou. and listening to the soundtrack that she was inspired to sing Down to the River to Pray with her sister. Fascinated by the result they started to sing together first at home and then as street singers, for example in the Stockholm metro and they came up with the name for their band simply by randomly opening a dictionary. Their father confessed later in a Swedish radio program that he was astonished, the most important advice their father gave to them was to sing so loud that even somebody behind the wall could hear it. In April 2007 the sisters started to upload their songs to the social networking site MySpace. They also sent a demo of their song Tangerine to the Swedish radio and it immediately went on air and was listed as one of the best songs of the summer 2007, which led to requests for live performances and even some offers from record companies. The first official performance as First Aid Kit was at PUNKTmedis library in Stockholm, more gigs followed but as Klara, who was then 14, was still at school, they could play only during weekends. Meanwhile, their younger brother attended the kindergarten as the daughter of Karin Dreijer Andersson, half of Swedish electronic duo The Knife. Their mother asked Dreijer to check out her daughters songs on MySpace, after doing so, and seeing them play live, Dreijer said that the duo had to be saved from bad deals with the industry
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Sanna Nielsen
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Sanna Viktoria Nielsen is a Swedish singer and television presenter. After her seventh attempt, she won Melodifestivalen in 2014 with the song Undo and so represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, sanna was one of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 commentators for Sweden and hosted Melodifestivalen 2015 along with comedian Robin Paulsson. She was announced as the new presenter for the sing-along show Allsång på Skansen for the summer of 2016 and she will host Eurovision The Party at the Tele2 Arena for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Nielsen was born and grew up in the town of Edenryd in Bromölla Municipality and her paternal grandfather was a Dane from Århus. Nielsens career started at several talent searches, the first being in 1992 in Olofström, in 1994 she participated in a talent search in Kallinge and won with the song Can You Feel the Love Tonight. Nielsen performed with the danceband Mats Elmes between 1995 and 1996 at the age of eleven, at the same time she reached the number one spot on the Svensktoppen chart with the song Till en fågel. Nielsen became the youngest person to reach number one at the chart, in September 1996 Nielsens debut album Silvertoner was released. A reviewer of the album for Göteborgs-Posten compared Nielsen to Carola Häggkvist, during the following years Nielsen released the album Min önskejul in 1997 and the single Time to Say Goodbye in 1999. During her high school years, she studied the Estetichal programme, in December 2001 Nielsen participated in a Christmas tour along with Christer Sjögren, Sten Nilsson and Charlotte Perrelli. In 2002 she toured with Roger Pontare and in December the same year she participated in a Christmas concert with Kalle Moraeus, in February 2006, her second solo music album Nära mej, nära dej was released with lyrics and music by Fredrik Kempe and Marcos Ubeda. In July–August 2007 she was on a new tour called Sommar, Sommar, Sommar along with Shirley Clamp. In April 2008 the album Stronger was released, an album completely in English language, the same year the album Our Christmas was released, containing Christmas songs along with Shirley Clamp and Sonja Aldén. In 2011, she released the album Im In Love, in December 2013 Nielsen released her seventh studio album called Min jul with Christmas songs. Nielsen has participated seven times in Melodifestivalen, Swedens annual music competition and she made her debut in 2001 performing I går, i dag, which finished third. She returned to the contest again in 2003 with Hela världen för mig finishing fifth, after a one-year break, Nielsen returned again in Melodifestivalen 2005 with Du och jag mot världen, this time as a duet with Fredrik Kempe, which finished eighth. On 3 March 2007, Nielsen participated in Melodifestivalen again with Vågar du, during the Second Chance round, the song qualified for the final at the Stockholm Globe Arena on 10 March 2007, where the song ended up in seventh place after the final of Melodifestivalen 2007. Nielsen participated in Melodifestivalen 2008, performing Empty Room, written and composed by Bobby Ljunggren and she reached the final from the Västerås semifinal on 16 February 2008. During 2008, Empty Room won the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2008 with a 91 points lead to runner-up Coral from Spain, Nielsen participated in the Melodifestivalen 2011, with the song Im in Love
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Janet Leon
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Janet Ava Leon is a Swedish singer-songwriter of Persian descent. She was part of the pop group, Play between 2003–2005, replacing Faye as the lead singer she would then go onto released her solo self-titled debut album. Leon was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to Iranian-born parents who immigrated to Sweden, as a child, she participated in dance classes and played the violin. At a much older age she joined a band with friends called Walking Spanish. The band performed at music festivals across Sweden. Leons professional music career began when she was 12 years old and she joined the Swedish pop group Play in late 2003. Plays lead singer Faye Hamlin left the group to finish school in Sweden in 2003. In October 2003, Leon received a call from the bands manager, Laila Bagge. Leon was an acquaintance of original member Anaïs Lameche prior to joining Play, on 15 December 2003, an official press release announced that Janet had officially joined the group and production on the bands third studio album had begun. The bands third album, Dont Stop the Music, was released on 9 March 2004. She is not featured in the video for Its a Hard Knock Life, originally, the group recorded the song with then member Faye Hamlin and filmed the music video before her departure. A subsequent Christmas album followed in November 2004 called Play Around the Christmas, Leon toured with the group throughout the United States for most of 2004 and part of 2005. In September 2005, the group announced their indefinite breakup, when the band reformed in late 2009, Leon did not rejoin. In 2005, Leon began her career as a solo artist and that same year, she recorded a song for the American toy store brand Build-a-Bear Workshop and another song for Kohls clothing brand everGirl. Also, she contributed to the Rock Angelz album to promote the Bratz dolls franchise and she was featured on the Lindsay Lohan remake Change the World and lent her vocals in the song Nobodys Girl. The show documented her progress working on her album, promotional work across Sweden. On 30 January 2009, her debut single Let Go peaked on the charts at number 3 in Sweden and her eponymous debut album was released in Sweden on 18 February 2009 and spent three weeks on the charts in Sweden. Later that same year, her single, Heartache on the Dancefloor rose to number 34 in Sweden
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