The Riksdag (also Sveriges Riksdag {Sweden's Parliament}) is the national legislative parliament of Sweden. The Riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members (Swedish: riksdagsledamöter), who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years. The Riksdag building stands on the island of Helgeandsholmen in Stockholm.

Riksdag is the direct Swedish equivalent of the German Reichstag. A precise English translation of this German-Nordic word does not actually exist, but "Meeting of the Realm" may serve as a literal translation. The word is also used by Swedish speakers for the parliaments of Finland (it is the official term used by the Swedish-speaking minority there) and Estonia, and for the old Reichstag of Germany as well as the parliament building in Berlin. In Sweden Riksdag is today also frequently used to refer to the contemporary parliament of Germany per se. The word is also used by Norwegian speakers with the same spelling; in Danish it is spelled rigsdag.

Swedish Royal Palace built in 1700-1760 upon design of the architect Nicodemus Tessin, to replace a previous palace, that burned in 1697.

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Object near Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA

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Colosseum kino - the largest cinema in Oslo. It is also the worlds largest THX-certified theater.

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Zeeburger tunnel - part of the Amsterdam circle highway.

Length: 946 m.

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Lysefjord (or Lysefjorden, the suffix "-en" is a form of the definite article in the Norwegian language) is a fjord located in Forsand in south-western Norway. The name means light fjord, and is said to be derived from the lightly coloured granite rocks along its sides.

The fjord was carved by the action of glaciers in the ice ages and was flooded by the sea when the later glaciers retreated. End to end, it measures 42 km (23 miles) with rocky walls falling nearly vertically over 1000 m (3,000 ft) into the water. Because of the inhospitable terrain, the fjord is only lightly populated and only has two villages on its length - Forsand and Lysebotn, located at opposite ends of the fjord. The few people who live or lived along the fjord are only able to leave their homes by boat, as the hills are too steep for roads.

Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the village of Wewelsburg (the same name as the castle) which is a quarter of the city Büren, Westphalia, in district of Paderborn in the Alme Valley. The castle has the outline of a triangle. It is known for becoming the ritual headquarters of the SS in 1934 under Heinrich Himmler.

On June 29, 1950 the castle was reopened as a museum and youth hostel, while the Niederhagen kitchen had been renovated into a village fire station.

In 1973, a two-year project was begun to restore the North Tower, and by 1977 it had been decided to restore the entire site as a war monument. It opened on March 20, 1982, with several survivors of the Niederhagen camp present. Karl Hueser of the University of Paderborn was considered influential in the reopening project, and Wulff Brebeck would become the curator through the 1990s.

UFO? Crash on Anapa Beach, Russia

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