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More than 100 bottles of champagne found in 19th century shipwreck in Baltic Sea
A team of Polish divers has discovered a 19th century shipwreck filled with more than 100 bottles of champagne and other luxury goods off the Swedish coast. The diving group BaltiTech found the ...
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Failure Is an Option
This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the end of the 19th century a middle-aged Swedish engineer, a patent officer captivated by the promise and ...
Opinion
Commentary: The key to traditional Swedish music
The nyckelharpa or “key harp” is a traditional Swedish musical instrument. It is a string instrument. Its keys are attached to tangents which, when a key is depressed, serve as frets to change the ...
Business Today6mon
'100 champagne bottles': Lavish 19th-century shipwreck discovered on the coast of Sweden
A 19th-century shipwreck has been uncovered in the ... The discovery was made by Polish divers off the south coast of Sweden. The ancient sailing ship was found "loaded to the sides with champagne ...
Archaeology4mon
Nineteenth-Century Booze Cruise
A sailing ship that sank in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish island of Öland in the late nineteenth century was packed with specialty beverages. Divers from the Baltictech diving group, led by ...
BBC1y
Eight athletic anecdotes about the history of bodybuilding
In 1865, the largest gymnasium in the world was opened in Liverpool. A 19th-century Swedish doctor, Gustav Zander, invented some of the first exercise machines, which he used to help workers ...
BBC1mon
KS3 Art and Design: 17th Century - 19th Century: 5 influential female artists
from the 17th Century to the end of the 19th Century. These clips are taken from the BBC series The Britain that Women Made. Suitable for: Art and Design and History at KS3 in England, Wales and ...