The Girl Who Flew to Stockholm? What Arthur Conan Doyle did for Baker Street, Stieg Larsson has done for the island of Sodermalm and other locations in and around Stockholm: they've become tourist attractions because they appear in his books. While you're planning your Larsson-themed vacation, you can listen to an hour-long appreciation of Scandinavian crime fiction from Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Bubbly Bottles in Baltic's Bed
The best place to store your champagne just might be the bottom of the Baltic Sea. That's where, on July 6, a team of Swedish divers exploring a shipwreck found a cache of what are believed to be 230-year-old bottles of Veuve Clicquot—still drinkable, tasting "fabulous" according to a wine expert, and worth at least $69,000 a pop. Leave it to Swedes to find such an effective method of preserving fine libations. Where exactly is the shipwreck located? The divers aren't telling, and in their swim fins, neither would you.

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Meet Our 2010 Scholarship Winners
University students Margaret Berry and Emilia Sternberg will both further their education with help from the Swedish Cultural Center. Your donations and bids at our annual auction make it possible.

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Are You Needin' News from Sweden?
Hit The Swedish Wire any time you want to catch up on events between the border and the Baltic. And for a weekly report on Swedish business, economy, politics and other news, you can subscribe to The Swedish Wire’s newsletter.

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Founded in Seattle in 1892 as
the Swedish Club, the Swedish
Cultural Center has grown to become a center of Scandinavian activities in the Pacific Northwest. Our members are not only Swedes and other Scandinavians, but people of many cultural backgrounds.

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What’s Cooking at the Club?
Svedala Bakery prepares our smörgås sandwiches, with fresh bakery-style bread, homemade lox and other tempting toppings. Meanwhile, chef Ann-Margret Lightle serves up amazing Swedish entrees and desserts for Happy Hour. Come by the Center for lunch (starting at 12 noon) or dinner!

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Speak Like a Swede
Our Swedish language classes meet weekly. Several levels of instruction; expert teachers. Call 206-937-0441 for information and to register. $95 ($70 members).

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It's Happening Here
Tired of marking your calendar for Swedish Cultural Center events? Now you don't have to! Just visit our new Calendar page for another convenient way to keep up on what's happening. You can still visit our Events page for details on any upcoming event. If you know of something we should add,
please

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Culinary Kudos
It seems that every time the Swedish Cultural Center is mentioned in local media, it has something to do with food and drink. Not that we're complaining. Seattle Metropolitan lauded us for offering the city's best Swedish happy hour. The Seattle Weekly found some nice things to say about our smörgås sandwiches and gave a blow-by-blow account of our pea soup challenge, while the P-I reported on our Swedish meatball cook-off.

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Got Viking Books?
To put it mildly, Vikings are underrepresented on the shelves of the Swedish Cultural Center’s library. Heck, Bluetooth probably shows up more often in our ears than in our books. (And if you didn't know that Harald Bluetooth was a Viking king who erected the famous Jelling rune stones in Denmark, maybe that's because we don't have enough books about him. But now we're arguing in circles.)

Well, not a moment too soon, we're starting a donation drive. Our goal is to have 100 Viking books in our library by Leif Erikson Day, Oct. 9, 2010. Please bring your books to the Center and drop them off in the office.

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