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Sweden has a rich musical tradition, from medieval folkloric ballads to hip hop. Nordic music, pre-Christian faded with time, although there are historical re-creations based on instruments found in Viking sites. Among the instruments used are the lur (a sort of trumpet), simple string instruments, wooden flutes and drums. It is possible that some features of the music Viking remain until today in traditional Swedish songs.
Traditional music in Sweden is an important music scene, both in the traditional style and modern style, which often incorporates elements of other genres like rock and jazz. Among the main groups of traditional Swedish music highlights Vasen (only group that uses an instrument called Swedish nyckelharpa), Garmarna, Nordman, and Hedningarna. There is also the music Lapps, yoik call, which is a kind of song that is part of the traditional spirituality of the people Lapps, who has won worldwide recognition in the traditional music. Sweden is a big market for music and new age of environmental awareness, as well as for rock and pop music containing messages of liberalism and the left.
Sweden also has a prominent tradition in choral music, derived in part from the cultural importance of folk music. In fact, of the 9.2 million inhabitants, it is estimated that between 500 and 600 thousand people sing in choirs.
Agnetha Faltskog of the Swedish group ABBA, in a concert in 1977.
Sweden is the third largest music exporter in the world, with over 800 million dollars of revenue in 2007, surpassed only by the U.S. and the UK. ABBA was one of the first bands from Sweden that became famous around the world, even among the most successful artists, with nearly 370 million albums sold. With ABBA, the music of Sweden enters a new era, in which the Swedish pop won international . Other bands that became famous worldwide are Roxette, Ace of Base, Europe, and The Cardigans among others. In addition, Sweden has won four times in the Song Festival Eurovision with ABBA, the Herreys, and Carola H ggkvist Charlotte Perrelli.
Another type of music that has become more important in Sweden is metal and heavy metal (including sub-death metal, progressive metal and power metal). Some Swedish bands who excel in this genre are Therion, Falconer, At the Gates, Scar Symmetry, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Opeth, Dissection, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Hammerfall, Dark Funeral, Amon Amarth, Meshuggah and the vocalist of Nightwish , Anette Olzon, among others.
Finally, jazz is one of the major genera within the Swedish music. During the past sixty years has maintained a high artistic standard, largely because of the local bands that are influenced by other countries such as Belgium, France, UK and USA. Lars Gullin is the maximum representative of the Swedish jazz. Spain: New service for streaming music subscription will be released in September … Lina Mosquera on Mexico: Nokia launches online music store …
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Brief history of the exchange rate

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A rand worth more than a dollar at the time of its birth in 1961 until 1982, when political pressure combined with increased sanctions against the country because of apartheid started to erode its value. Change traded above parity with the dollar for the first time in March 1982 and continued paying between R1’R1, 30 per dollar until June 1984 when the depreciation gain momentum. Towards February 1985, was trading for about R2 per dollar in July that year all foreign exchange was suspended for 3 days to try to avoid its further devaluation.
When the State President PW Botha gave his speech on August 15, 1985, the change had weakened to R2, 40 per dollar. The currency recovered somewhat between 1986’88, contributing close to the level of R2 for most of the time and breaking up the floor occasionally. The recovery was however short-lived and by the end of 1989 the rand was trading at levels of more than R2, 50 per dollar.
When it became clear in early 1990 that the country was bound for the black majority government and a reform after another was announced, uncertainty about the future of the country to hasten the depreciation of the dollar was shifted by R3 in November 1992. A number of local and international events influenced later on the exchange rate, notably the democratic elections of 1994 saw a weakened R3, 60 per dollar, the election of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the Reserve Bank of South Africa and inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999 that saw him slip on quickly R6 to the dollar. The controversial land reform program was initiated in Zimbabwe, followed by the attacks of September 11, 2001, propelled to its historical levels rand weaker R13, 84 per dollar in December 2001.
The sudden depreciation in 2001 led to a formal investigation, which in turn led to a dramatic recovery. Towards the end of 2002, the currency was trading below the R9 per dollar again, and towards the end of 2004 was trading below the R5, 70 per dollar. The currency depreciated somewhat in 2005, and was trading around R6, 35 per dollar at the end of this year. In early 2006, however, the currency resumed its recovery, and since January 19, 2006 was trading below R6 to the dollar again. The South African president Thabo Mbeki will resign amid allegations of … South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki resignation …
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Academic dress

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The dress attire online study or university academic, is the traditional dress, dress to the components of the university community and academia in very specific acts. Austin has the second strongest economy in the US Downtown Austin Condos Barton Place i s located on Barton Springs Road This article is about the academic dress in Spain and by extension American continental University other countries Hispanics.
Proper attire university has its roots in the Greco-Roman tradition, which through the clerical habits, currently make up the riquisimo attire of the components of the online degrees university community, students, graduates, doctors, guiding, and so on.
One of the earliest documents which dictate certain standards for academic dress are the Constitutions of the Cardinal Cisneros, although it is in the graduate XII of the Constitution promulgated by Carlos III in 1779 where it differs for the first time, through the Fellowship and the screw , Between different degrees (grammar, philosophers, of leagues, doctors and theologians), combining the rest of the dress, looking clerical (blankets and clothing degrees interior color black).
This dress has reached its regulations due to regulations imposed by Isabel II in 1850, and subsequent ratification of the regulations promulgated in 1931 set the academic dress, leaving, however, that these online program at the art institute regulations did not do more to legalize the customs university although at that time were in disuse.
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