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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of eastern Sweden north-northwest of Stockholm. Capital of a pre-Christian kingdom in the early Middle Ages, it became an archepiscopal see in 1164 and the coronation place of Swedish monarchs. The University of Uppsala was founded in 1477.
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- proper noun A city in eastern central Sweden. The fourth-largest city in Sweden.
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- noun a city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm
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Examples
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People demonstrate at at Uppsala University where Swedish artist Lars Vilks was giving a lecture about the limits of artistic freedom in Uppsala, Sweden, May 11.
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Vilks said a group of about 15 people had been shouting and trying to interrupt the lecture before the incident at the university in Uppsala, about 40 miles (70 kilometers) north of Stockholm.
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Like much of Sweden, Uppsala is in the midst of a very Linnaean-spirited culinary trend that champions local foods such as cloudberries, chanterelle mushrooms, tangy Västerbotten cheese, and turbot with truffles.
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Like much of Sweden, Uppsala is in the midst of a very Linnaean-spirited culinary trend that champions local foods such as cloudberries, chanterelle mushrooms, tangy Västerbotten cheese, and turbot with truffles.
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Pettersson when both were students in Uppsala, but it was not until her return to Göteborg that they developed a relationship.
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Unai lives and works in Uppsala, Sweden, where he's been making music for Force Tracks/Disco Inc, and Raum (all in Germany), and San Francisco's Naked Music among a handful of other labels, since the mid 90s.
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Johan sez, A few science fiction fans in Uppsala, Sweden, gather each first advent to bake something in gingerbread.
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006
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Unai lives and works in Uppsala, Sweden, where he's been making music for Force Tracks/Disco Inc, and Raum (all in Germany), and San Francisco's Naked Music among a handful of other labels, since the mid 90s.
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This was, however, realized by the docent of physical chemistry in Uppsala, Svante Arrhenius.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 - Presentation Speech 1999
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Myrdal was born in Uppsala in 1902, graduated from University in 1924, and married Gunnar Myrdal the same year.
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