˙˙00˙ ˙00˙01˙03˙01Swedes We Cound not Have Lived Without˙00 ˙ ˙ ˙03˙02COUNT DRAGONSBANE / ONE ˙02˙01˙01˙00˙ ˙˙02Dwane Duane Montgomery˙01 (1412-1448) invented the Swedish flag as it looks today (i.e. a yellow cross upon a blue background). Rumour has that he first had planned a twisted cross, but that he had to change that after heavy complaints from the State Church. Our friend Dwane was somewhat stragne, and one of his many deeds lead to his death; on the 7th of July 1448 he was executed for having planted wheat that was not his in soil that was not his with the help of tools that were not his. ˙02Abigail MacAlistair McNeil˙01 (1551-1598) was the first one to find a solution to X˙03˙2˙ ˙00=6. He also found that equations of this type very often, not to say always, have two soultions, but that discovery took him another 40 years to make. ˙02James Thames Flames˙01 (1568-1567) realized that crop will grow better if you A) give them water B) give them a lot of, but not too much, fresh air and sun C) planted them when they were to be planted D) planted them in real soil and not just in sand E) followed the printed advice on the back of the bag of seed. ˙02Jean-Pierre Sylvester Guy de Georg Theodore˙01 (1666-1699) was the first one to introduce a bar for (I quote him) "men who liked... ehhh... now how shall I put this... hmm... well never mind". Not many quite got him, but his bar was crowded anyway. As there were no females in it, the men of those days saw it as (and I quote him again) "a place where to be free from the oppression of women and... ehh... find equally minded... hmm..." ˙02Olof van Dyck˙01 (1712-1902) was the unsuccessful inventor of a "Ages - the drink that'll keep you young". Nobody believed in that Ages would preserve the youth of its drinker, and van Dyck died in poverty in 1902 at the age of 190. ˙02Rigmor Mortis˙01 (1775-1832) introduced chorea, i.e. St. Virgil's dance, to Sweden. This feared disease then spread all around Sweden and caused the death of thousands of people. Rigmor was arrested and put in an asylum, but she soon escaped and went to Hawaii, where she tried to catch another disease. She got stoned to death by maniac village people outside Huerehon, Hawaii in 1832. ˙02Ethenel Athelstone III˙01 (1799-1857) was the famous son of Ethel Athelstone II, who was brotherless. His fater's father, who had two sons, one daughter and as many a brother, sent his sons to his brother's son, the cousin of whom actually was Athelstone's grandfather. His brother, who was in love with his cousin's sister Clara, sent his father to catch as many of Athelstone's brothers as possible, but his son and father stopped that and instead sent Athelstone's elder brother (younger son) to fix the whole thing. Athelstone was married and had as many sons as his grandfather had brothers minus that missing cousin. Ethel spent the rest of his life trying to understand his messed-up family tree. ˙02Ben Wayne Dover˙01 (1812-1892) was a gardener. He spent all his life raising potatoes and chickens. His wife, Loretta Sarah O'Connor Davis Belinda, kept teasing his where he stood leaned over his beloved vegetables: "Bend over, Ben Dover!" ˙02Mariah-Piah Rosenblath˙01 (1853-1891) was the first female surgeon. She was not that good, though, often leaving patients wide open and with scissors and nails inside. There was, of course, a scandal when people realized she was a Voodo maniac who had hidden special talisman-dolls inside her patients. ˙02Rostbjörn Blanksvärdh˙01 (1878-1915) was the first Swede to go AWOL from the US army. During his common moments of wrath, Rostbjörn managed to sent a spike through the horse he rode on in the Civil War, the horse got panic, Rostbjörn too, a barn was burned down, a few cows died, crosses were burned, dogs were sent after negroes, mines was placed all over Alaska, South State people were truncated, buildings demolished, yeah, you know what it looks like where a berserk has stormed. Anyway, Rostbjörn, who by the way was Athelstone's brother's third oldest son, was caught and executed. ˙02Svenh "Svarten" Slinkemann˙01 (1900-?) lived a strange life. He was born on a grey Aprilday in June, and his mother had left him before birth. At the age of three kilos, he put his first hand on his new home. He kept the other one. In 1919, he was elected by the Nazis to move birds to Africa. There he began sawing operation tables, and nobody knows where he is today. ˙02Sean Ursut Jägur˙01 (1931-) invented the AGA chipset at the age of but eight. Nobody found that interesting back in 1939; "pal, PC is the future, to hell with your Amiga". He kept his hopes high, and four years ago, he sold the rights to Commodore for a secret price. Today he is working on a 100 MHz Rentium Turbo Processor for the 64. The idea is that you, for a small amount of money, will be able to rent your own processor for a period of two years. ˙01