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New Sweden

American  

noun

  1. a colony established by Swedish settlers in 1638 along the Delaware River and captured by the Dutch in 1655: the only Swedish colony in America.


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“This is me representing the new Sweden,” he said after training Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times

The new Sweden team, under Janne Andersson, are extremely hardworking and disciplined.

From The Guardian

The outage has cut service to customers from Allagash to Caribou and Madawaska to New Sweden.

From Washington Times

A tornado also was reported north of New Sweden, also in Nicollet County.

From Washington Times

"As a concept, underground reservoirs are not new. Sweden has been building them since the 1950s" The US Navy did that in Hawaii before WW2, the Red Hill complex.

From New York Times