For example, do you know what an interpellation is, or the name of the head of government in Bangladesh? See the admissions test (published on 5 January 2019) for the Diplomatic Training Programme of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
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Holidays are approaching and for many Swedes a trip abroad awaits. However, they may feel the pinch with the Swedish currency at such a low rate.
“It is probably something we need to get used to”, says Fredrik NG Andersson, economist at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University who believes the issue with the currency lies both with the politicians and a rigid management at the Central Bank.
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How tall and heavy is Sweden’s largest midsummer maypole? Why do people collect midsummer dew? When is it a good thing to have a bit of stolen ink at home? Archivist Patrik Sandgren answers these and a few other questions.
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Last summer Sweden suffered one of the worst ever forest fires. A large number of public authorities, emergency services and volunteers worked intensively for several weeks to get the fires under control. Sweden was also assisted by international resources in the form of firefighting planes, helicopters and ground crew.
Faculty of Engineering alumnus and fire safety engineer Johan Szymanski was the Incident Commander for three weeks in July. His firefighting resonated worldwide, including a New York Times article about his way of thinking outside the box. He is a real-life hero.
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Lund has had its fair share of eternal students, and their names appear like shadows from an arrack punch-flavoured past: “The Last Athenian” Otto Steiman, Sam Ask, Adolf Herrlin – the list goes on. Similarly, Lund University has had many academic eccentrics, both of the kind who made a career for themselves and the kind who never even completed a degree.
Here, University archivist Henrik Ullstad tells the story of yet another of these eternal student eccentrics, the wonderful rabble-rouser, trainee priest, book peddler, tailor-hater, eloquent and long-winded speaker and pamphletist Erik August Torbjörnsson.
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