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Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 – 24 November 1961) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s.[1]

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  1. 74 relations: Alaska, Alfa Laval, ALWAC III-E, Alweg, Anthropology, Autonetics, Axel Wenner-Gren, BC Rail, Berlin, Berlitz Corporation, Biomedical engineering, Blacklisting, California, Cancer, Disneyland Monorail, Drum memory, Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII, Electrolux, English language, Enrique Krauze, Entrepreneurship, Financial endowment, Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Fredrik Ljungström, French language, Gene Gauntier, German language, Gothenburg, Greifswald, Hawthorne, California, Hermann Göring, Hewitt Crane, IBM 650, Ivar Kreuger, Kansas City, Missouri, Karl Otto Lange, List of governors of the Bahamas, Litton Industries, Magnetic logic, Magnetic-core memory, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Maximino Ávila Camacho, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monorail, Nassau, Bahamas, Nazism, Northrop Corporation, Panama Canal, Paradise Island, ... Expand index (24 more) »

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alfa Laval

Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm.

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ALWAC III-E

The ALWAC III-E was an early commercial vacuum-tube computer employing a rotating magnetic drum main storage unit, operational in 1955.

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Alweg

Alweg was a transportation company based in Germany known for pioneering straddle-beam monorails. Axel Wenner-Gren and Alweg are Science and technology in Sweden.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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Autonetics

Autonetics was a division of North American Aviation that produced various avionics but is best known for their inertial navigation systems used in submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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Axel Wenner-Gren

Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 – 24 November 1961) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s. Axel Wenner-Gren and Axel Wenner-Gren are 20th-century Swedish businesspeople, people from Uddevalla Municipality and Science and technology in Sweden.

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BC Rail

The British Columbia Railway Company, commonly known as BC Rail, is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Berlitz Corporation

Berlitz Corporation is a language education and leadership training company which is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Biomedical engineering

Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes).

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Disneyland Monorail

The Disneyland Monorail (originally named the Disneyland Alweg Monorail System) is an attraction and transportation line at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, United States.

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Drum memory

Drum memory was a magnetic data storage device invented by Gustav Tauschek in 1932 in Austria.

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Duke of Windsor

Duke of Windsor was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.

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Electrolux

Electrolux AB is a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Enrique Krauze

Enrique Krauze Kleinbort (born 16 September 1947) is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.

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Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors.

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Fort Nelson, British Columbia

Fort Nelson is a community in northeast British Columbia, Canada, within the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality (NRRM).

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Fredrik Ljungström

Fredrik Ljungström (16 June 1875 – 18 February 1964) was a Swedish engineer, technical designer, and industrialist. Axel Wenner-Gren and Fredrik Ljungström are 20th-century Swedish businesspeople.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gene Gauntier

Gene Gauntier (born Genevieve Gauntier Liggett, August 26, 1885 – December 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Greifswald

Greifswald, officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: Griepswoold, Kashubian: Grifiô) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg.

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Hawthorne, California

Hawthorne is a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal.

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Hewitt Crane

Hewitt D. Crane (1927–2008) was an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for Bank of America, magnetic digital logic, neuristor logic, the development of an eye-movement tracking device, and a pen-input device for computers.

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IBM 650

The IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine is an early digital computer produced by IBM in the mid-1950s.

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Ivar Kreuger

Ivar Kreuger (2 March 1880 – 12 March 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. Axel Wenner-Gren and Ivar Kreuger are 20th-century Swedish businesspeople.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area.

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Karl Otto Lange

Karl Otto Heinrich Lange, Dr.-Ing.

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List of governors of the Bahamas

This is a list of governors of the Bahamas.

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Litton Industries

Litton Industries, Inc., was an American defense contractor that specialized in shipbuilding, aerospace, electronic components, and information technology.

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Magnetic logic

Magnetic logic is digital logic made using the non-linear properties of wound ferrite cores.

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Magnetic-core memory

In computing, magnetic-core memory is a form of random-access memory.

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Manuel Ávila Camacho

Manuel Ávila Camacho (24 April 1897 – 13 October 1955) was a Mexican politician and military leader who served as the President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946.

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Maximino Ávila Camacho

Maximino Ávila Camacho (1891 in Teziutlán, Puebla – 1945 in Mexico City) was a Constitutionalist Army officer in the Mexican Revolution and afterwards politician who served as governor of Puebla from 1937 to 1941 and as secretary of Public Works in the cabinet of his brother, President Manuel Ávila Camacho.

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Monarchy of the United Kingdom

The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution.

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Monorail

A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or beam.

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Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Northrop Corporation

Northrop Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its 1994 merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.

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Paradise Island

Paradise Island is an island in The Bahamas formerly known as Hog Island.

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Peace River

The Peace River (rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta.

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President of Mexico

The president of Mexico (Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States (Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico.

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Prince George, British Columbia

Prince George is a city in British Columbia, Canada, situated at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers.

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Red Cross University College of Nursing

Swedish Red Cross University (Röda Korsets Högskola) is a Swedish university operated with the Swedish Red Cross Home Foundation as its accountable authority.

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Redondo Beach, California

Redondo Beach (Spanish for) is a coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Refrigerator

A refrigerator, colloquially fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature.

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Rocky Mountain Trench

The Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks or simply the Trench, is a large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains.

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Rover (yacht)

The Rover was a steam-powered yacht built in 1930 by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Glasgow, Scotland for Lord Inchcape, then chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).

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Seattle Center Monorail

The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated straddle-beam monorail line in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Steam yacht

A steam yacht is a class of luxury or commercial yacht with primary or secondary steam propulsion in addition to the sails usually carried by yachts.

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Studentlitteratur

Studentlitteratur is an academic publishing company based in Sweden and publishing mostly in Swedish.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Transistor

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.

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Uddevalla

Uddevalla is a town and the seat of Uddevalla Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.

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University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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W. A. C. Bennett

William Andrew Cecil Bennett (September 6, 1900 – February 23, 1979) was a Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972.

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W. A. C. Bennett Dam

The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada.

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Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science (מכון ויצמן למדע Machon Weizmann LeMada) is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded.

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Wenner-Gren Center

Wenner-Gren Center is a tower and building complex in Vasastaden, Stockholm, Sweden.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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YMCA

YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Wenner-Gren

Also known as Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren, Axel Wenner Gren, Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren, The Viking Fund, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, Wenner-Gren, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

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