Historical Figure
Jonas Berggren
b. 1967
Swedish musician and producer (born 1967)
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Biography
Jonas Petter Berggren is a Swedish musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, also known as Joker. He started writing songs when he was seven and continues to write for the band Ace of Base, a group he formed with his two sisters Linn and Jenny. Berggren has written most of their hit songs including "All That She Wants", "The Sign", and "Beautiful Life". As well as singing, he also plays the guitar and keyboards.
Timeline
The story of Jonas Berggren, told in moments.
Co-founded Ace of Base with his two sisters and friend Ulf Ekberg. They started out playing at teen clubs in Gothenburg for free.
"The Sign" became the best-selling debut single in history at the time. Their album Happy Nation/The Sign sold 23 million copies worldwide. Four number-one hits from one record.
The group went on indefinite hiatus. Jonas shifted to producing and songwriting in Sweden. Ace of Base remains one of the best-selling groups of all time with 75 million records sold.
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the most original genius of the American Civil War
tary campaign against the Confederate States. British military theorist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart declared that Sherman was "the most original genius of the American Civil War" and "the first...
one of the brightest and most popular fellows
ademically at West Point, but he treated the demerit system with indifference. Fellow cadet William Rosecrans remembered Sherman as "one of the brightest and most popular fellows" at the academy and...
a population less than should make a good State
remove the Seminoles at all [as Florida] was the Indian's paradise" and still had (at the time that Sherman wrote his memoirs in the 1870s) "a population less than should make a good State". Sherman...
it was a great pity to remove the Seminoles at all [as Florida] was the Indian's...
nant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery and saw action in Florida in the Second Seminole War. In his memoirs he noted that "it was a great pity to remove the Seminoles at all [as Florida] was the Indian's...
I still think it is to be a long war—very long—much longer than any Politician t...
resident Lincoln) and other connections in Washington helped him to obtain a commission. On June 3, he wrote in a letter to his brother-in-law: "I still think it is to be a long war—very long—much...
if you had hunted the whole Army, from one end of it to the other, you could not...
Louisiana State University. Colonel Joseph P. Taylor, brother of the late President Zachary Taylor, declared that "if you had hunted the whole Army, from one end of it to the other, you could not have...
Why, you might as well attempt to put out the flames of a burning house with a s...
ervice. He privately ridiculed Lincoln's call for 75,000 three-month volunteers to quell secession, reportedly saying: "Why, you might as well attempt to put out the flames of a burning house with a...
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