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VBAl8 TIL Swedish mass-immigration to the USA began in the mid-1840s and peaked in 1887 with over 46,000 registered emigrants that year. Out of the 1.3 million Swedes who emigrated to the US, approximately one-fifth returned to their homeland
9Vmr TIL that birth certificates produced for children born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan Project read “P.O. Box 1663” as the place of birth.