04 May 08 Work In Shreds
Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.
Tags: book, economy, sweden, swedish economy, Ulf
16 Jan 08 Death by Dessert
King Adolf Frederick,of Sweden loved to eat and died from it too!
The “King Who Ate Himself to Death” died in 1771 at the age of 61 from a digestive problem after eating a giant meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, cabbage soup, smoked herring, champagne and 14 servings of his favorite dessert: semla , a bun filled with marzipan and milk.
Tags: bun, cabbage soup, caviar, champagne, dessert, digestive problem, herring, marzipan, sauerkraut, sweden
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