David Wilson
Contributor
We now head north-east in Europe from the kingdom of Denmark to the kingdom of Sweden, which may be best known nowadays as the homeland of the teenage climate-change activist Greta Thunberg, the pop music supergroup ABBA and the fictional police officer Kurt Wallander.
Famous historical citizens of this country include the man who invented dynamite, Alfred Nobel, who bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prize:
Carl Linnaeus, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms:
Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius, after whom the temperature scale is named.
On a more mundane level, the noun "Swede" denotes not only a citizen of Sweden but also a root vegetable originating as a cross between a cabbage and a turnip:
But I digress...
Famous historical citizens of this country include the man who invented dynamite, Alfred Nobel, who bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prize:
Carl Linnaeus, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms:
Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius, after whom the temperature scale is named.
On a more mundane level, the noun "Swede" denotes not only a citizen of Sweden but also a root vegetable originating as a cross between a cabbage and a turnip:
But I digress...