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51 unusual facts about Norway


Ahmad Ghanizadeh

After relocating to Norway, Ghanizadeh settled in Ringerike, and later to Sundvollen in Hole municipality, outside Oslo.

Alver

Alver, Norway, settlement in Lindås municipality, Hordaland, Norway

An InCONvenient Truth

An InCONvenient Truth is the third album by Norwegian urban music duo Madcon.

Anne Jøtun

She was born in 1955 in Oslo, Norway and is currently living in Jar.

Årø

Årø, Norway, a neighborhood of Molde, on the north coast of Norway

Billingsdal

For many centuries a route traveled from the village of Lom up through Billingsdal and then down to Nordfjord and Sunnmøre.

British submarine flotilla in the Baltic

Four C-class submarines were sent there in September 1915 by a tortuous route—towed around the North Cape to Archangelsk and taken by barge to Krondstadt via the White Sea Canal.

Corey Engen

After his father died of the Spanish flu in 1918, his mother and brothers moved the short distance to small town Steinberg.

Denmark–Norway

The great ransom paid by Sweden (called the Älvsborg Ransom) was used by Christian IV, amongst many other things, to found the cities of Glückstadt, Christiania (refounded after a fire), Christianshavn, Christianstad and Christianssand.

Erich Bey

Promoted to Rear Admiral, on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, Bey led a task force consisting of the battleship Scharnhorst and the Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of Alta Fjord in Operation Ostfront.

Ferdinand Julian Egeberg

Egeberg was born in Moss as the son of merchant Peder Cappelen Egeberg and Hanna Wilhelmine Scheel.

Festen er ikke over... det er kake igjen

Festen er ikke over... det er kake igjen is a compilation from the Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Gamle sanger om igjen

Gamle sanger om igjen is a compilation from the Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Hans Nielsen Hauge

Hans Nielsen Hauge was born the fifth of ten children in his ancestral farm of Hauge in Tune in the county of Østfold.

Haram Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota

Early Norwegian settlers in the area named the township after Haram, Norway.

History of Orkney

Vikings having made the islands the headquarters of their buccaneering expeditions (carried out indifferently against their own Norway and the coasts and isles of Scotland), Harold Hårfagre ("Fair Hair") subdued the rovers in 875 and annexed both Orkney and Shetland to Norway.

Hjalmar Christensen

Hjalmar Christensen (5 May 1869 – 29 December 1925) was a Norwegian writer.

HNoMS Sæl

After the battle, a Norwegian motorboat brought the wounded to the hospital in Rosendal.

Illinois Route 71

From here it continues to the northeast, passing through Norway, Newark, and Yorkville.

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Just south of Norway, there is a memorial dedicated to Norwegian immigrants who settled in the area, with a small park, a cemetery, and a plaque from King Olav V.

In Abhorrence Dementia

In Abhorrence Dementia is the second studio album by Norwegian symphonic black metal band Limbonic Art released in 1997 through Nocturnal Art Productions.

Jens Rathke

Jens Rathke (14 November 1769 – 28 February 1855) was a Norwegian zoologist.

Jostein Flo

Jostein Flo (born 3 October 1964 in Flo, Stryn, Norway) is a Norwegian former football player, famous for his physical playing style and aerial dominance.

Jovanka Houska

Houska married Norwegian chess player Arne Hagesaether on 14 March 2009 at the Ice Chapel in Alta, Norway.

Kristiansand Teacher Training College

Kristiansand Teacher Training College (Kristiansand Lærerhøgskole) was established as Holt Seminary in Holt, Aust-Agder, Norway in 1839.

Kurt Aust

He has written several historical crime novels based on Denmark–Norway around the beginning of 18th century.

Lambertseter Line

Following the 1948 merger of the municipalities of Oslo and Aker, it was decided that the Nordstrand area in the former Aker would be opened to large-scale construction of housing.

Matthias Numsen Blytt

Matthias Numsen Blytt (26 April 1789 – 26 June 1862) was a Norwegian botanist.

Midt i begynnelsen

Midt i begynnelsen is the tenth studio album by Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Nordstrand IF

Nordstrand Idrettsforening is a sports club in Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway.

Norway, Illinois

The settlers had in large part relocated from the Kendall settlement in New York State which had been founded seven years before by pioneers who arrived from Norway during 1825 aboard the Restauration.

Norway's Next Top Model

With Martina Lervik, another girl from Ålesund also won the sixth Cycle which was running from September to December 2008.

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It was hosted by Vendela Kirsebom, who was also hosting Sweden's Next Top Model at the same time.

Norway's Next Top Model, Cycle 5

At last, 18 year old Kamilla Alnes from Ålesund triumphed over fellow finalists Ivanna Petrova and Polina Barbasova.

Of Magic Illusions

Of Magic Illusions is the first full-length album by the Norwegian band Ancestral Legacy.

Old Oslo

Old Town, Oslo (in Norwegian : Gamlebyen, Oslo), a neighborhood in Oslo, Norway, where the first settlement of town was located

Øystein Ingar Larsen

Øystein Ingar Larsen (born 1 November 1941 in Aker) was Bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland from 1992 to 2006.

Paul Thyness

Paul Thyness (born 10 April 1930 in Aker) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

People's Democratic United Front

The People's Democratic United Front was a short-lived political coalition in Nepal, formed by the Communist Party of Nepal and the Nepal Praja Parishad in July 1951 to fight against the Rana-Nepali Congress combine.

Preben Munthe

He was born in Aker, the son of librarian Wilhelm Munthe (1883–1965) and his wife Jenny Hempel (1882–1975).

Reasons to Hang Around

Reasons to Hang Around is the fourth album of the Norwegian band Minor Majority, released in 2006.

Ris Church

The watches are designed by the architect Carl Berner and was provided by O. Olsen & Søn bell foundry at Nauen in Sem.

Rune Skarstein

Skarstein was born on 7 April 1940 in the village of Olden in Nordfjord in Western Norway.

Sauda-class mine countermeasures vessel

Vosso was built by Skaaluren Skibsbyggeri, Rosendal, delivered on 15 March 1955, and decommissioned on 8 July 1987.

Sportsplassen

Sportsplassen ("The Sports Field") is a multi-use stadium in Nordstrand borough, Oslo, Norway.

Stylistic Changes

Stylistic Changes is the first full-length solo album by Norwegian Progressive/Heavy metal guitarist Carl August Tidemann.

Suser avgårde

Suser avgårde is the first studio album by Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Terje Sagvolden

He was a member of the Lier municipal council for the Conservative Municipal Group from 2003 until his death, and served in the areas of health, culture, childhood, education.

This Is Pop Music

This Is Pop Music is the 3rd album by the Norwegian singer/song-writer Espen Lind and the second released under his name.

Undersea tunnel

North Cape Tunnel (6.8 km), The tunnel goes under the Magerøysundet strait between the Norwegian mainland to the large island of Magerøya and the North Cape, Norway (1993 - 1999).

Westby, Wisconsin

Westby was named after general store owner and Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby of Biri, Norway, where many of the city's Norwegian-American settlers originated.


1991 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

Out of the 18 teams participating in the tournament, the qualifiers were the four semi-finalists - Denmark, Germany, Italy and Norway - and the best quarter-final loser - Sweden, who lost their two leg quarter-final clash against Italy on a single away goal.

2011 Bergen International Film Festival

This year the five videoes from the respective three countries was nominated by NRK P3 in Norway, SVT in Sweden and the magazine Soundvenue in Denmark.

2011 in Norway

22 July – The 2011 Norway attacks: At least 76 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet, the government center in Oslo and a massacre in the political youth camp in the island of Utøya.

2nd Combat Engineer Battalion

In the 1970s and early 1980s the battalion furnished Combat Engineer Support to the Battalion Landing Teams (BLT) in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, 29 Palms, Norway, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Anders Sømme Hammer

He delivered news and radio and television documentaries for NRK and TV 2, and wrote for national outlets such as Dagbladet, Dagsavisen, Dagens Næringsliv, Morgenbladet, the Norwegian News Agency and Samtiden.

Ansar al-Islam

On May 4, 2010 Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i, Ansar al-Islam's leader since Mullah Krekar left for Norway in 2003, was captured by US forces in Baghdad.

Åpen Post

The show became one of Norway's most popular TV productions though it was the center of criticism due to controversial episodes such as Bård Tuft Johansens "Chicken stunt", involving the then Norwegian Labour Party leader Thorbjørn Jagland.

Augie Wolf

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) initially banned Wolf for life after ruling he had refused post-match testing on July 7, 1985 in Byrkjelo, Norway.

Brakebein

Brakebein, is the second full-length album by Norwegian folk metal band, Trollfest.

Carl II

Charles VIII of Sweden or Carl II, King of Sweden (and of Norway as Carl I) (1409–1470)

Christensen Nunatak

It was discovered in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under C.A. Larsen, who named it for Christen Christensen of Sandefjord, Norway, a pioneer of modern Antarctic whaling.

Christian Beyer

While Luther abstained he made the long journey and acted as an assigned as legal adviser to King and the Queen of Denmark, who through the Nordic Kalmar Union also was regent of Sweden as well as Norway.

Dalen Hotel

After its opening in 1894, the hotel drew royal guests from all over Europe, playing host to the likes of King Oscar II of Sweden, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King Leopold II of Belgium, King Haakon VII of Norway and his family, and several members of the British aristocracy.

Eidsvolls plass

Eidsvolls plass ('Eidsvoll Square') is a square and park in Oslo, Norway, located west of the Parliament of Norway Building, south of Karl Johans gate and east of Studenterlunden and the National Theatre.

Ervik

Ervik, Sogn og Fjordane, a village in Selje municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway

F. Melius Christiansen

Fredrik Melius Christiansen, the son of a Norwegian factory worker, was born in Eidsvold, municipality in Akershus county, Norway and emigrated to the United States at the age of 17.

Give Us Our Skeletons

The movie describes three parallel plots; the first is Niillas Somby's story on how he became one of the most celebrated protesters during the Alta Dam Protests between 1979-1981 near Kautokeino, Norway.

Hannah McKeand

She has founded a company with polar guide Carl Alvey called Expeditions 365 that conducts polar training courses each spring on the Hardangervidda plateau in Norway.

Helge Jordal

Helge Jordal (born 17 February 1946 in Bergen, Norway) is an Norwegian actor, appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his long career as an actor on both screen and stage, and his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian actors.

Hessdalen light

The Hessdalen light is an unexplained light usually seen in the Hessdalen valley in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.

I. German/Dutch Corps

Due to its role as a NATO High Readiness Forces Headquarters, soldiers from other NATO member states, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom amongst others, are also stationed at Münster.

Imre Hercz

After being hospitalized in Amberg for five and a half years, he recovered and emigrated to Norway in 1952 as one of several Jewish Holocaust-survivors of lesser health accepted to Norway with substantial grants from Joint to the Norwegian government.

Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter

Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter was, alongside Ragna Nikolasdatter and Estrid Bjørnsdotter, known as one of the only two acknowledged queen consorts in Norway between the mid 11th century to the 13th century not to have been foreign princesses.

Jæren Arena

Jæren Arena was a proposed multi-use stadium in Bryne, Norway, that was expected to begin construction sometime in 2008.

Johannes W. Løvhaug

Johannes Waage Løvhaug (born 1967) is a Norwegian historian and editor-in-chief of the gazette Apollon of the University of Oslo.

Lake Mungo

Two excursions have been recorded in sediments from Skjonghelleren on Valderøy, Norway with the Virtual Geomagnetic Pole (VGP) of one being synchronous with Lake Mungo suggests that the Lake Mungo event was global rather than a local event.

Lanke

Lånke, a former municipality in Stjørdal, Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway

Legoland Billund

In addition there are famous landmarks from Sweden, Bergen in Norway, Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, Kennedy Space Center, Mount Rushmore, Abu Simbel in Egypt, Statue of Liberty, Acropolis of Athens, and Star Wars.

Max Manus

In Norway he resumed his organizational work and made various sabotage attempts on ships in the Oslofjord with home-designed limpet mines and even ‘swimmer-assisted torpedoes’.

Neset

Enebakkneset (also called Neset) in Fet municipality, Akershus, Norway

Nikolai Kolomeitsev

Kolomeitsev supervised the fitting out of the Zarya in Larvik, Norway.

Nocturno Culto

Ted Skjellum (born 4 March 1972 in Kolbotn, Oppegård), also known by the stage names Nocturno Culto, Nocturno or Kveldulv, is a Norwegian musician best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist, and partial bassist (shared with Fenriz) of the influential black metal band Darkthrone.

Norway in 1814

He learned that Prussia and Austria were waning in their support of Sweden's claims to Norway, that Tsar Alexander I of Russia (a distant cousin of Christian Frederik's) favored a Swedish-Norwegian union but not with Bernadotte as the king, and that the United Kingdom was looking for a solution to the problem that would keep Norway out of Russia's influence.

Norwegian Media Authority

Norman successor, Heidi Grande Røys of the Socialist Left Party, stated that the moving had had an important symbolic effect on the target areas, and that she did not see the lack of advantages as a reason to not move similar agencies later.

NRJ Group

With its pan-European NRJ/ENERGY stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from diversifying market players like the Luxembourg-based RTL Group (Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and SBS Broadcasting (Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or Stockholm-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter).

Ogmund Crouchdance

In 1261 he was one of the leaders of the Norwegian delegation who took princess Ingebjørg Eiriksdotter, the daughter of Eric IV of Denmark, out of the convent in Horsens (dominikanerkloster ved Horsens) to bring her to Norway as the bride of the king's son, Magnus Håkonsson.

Øyvind Svenning

Øyvind Svenning (born 29 January 1980) is a Norwegian football defender who currently plays for the Norwegian team Randaberg.

Paulus Church

Paulus Church (no: Paulus kirke; really Paul's Church or St. Paul's Church) is a church which was consecrated in 1892, located in Grünerløkka in Oslo, Norway, just opposite the Birkelunden Park.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Queen Maud Bay

Roughly charted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, it was named prior to 1922 for Queen Maud, wife of King Haakon VII of Norway, probably by Norwegian whalers who frequented this coast.

Rennesøy

In the present municipality one of Norway's oldest and best preserved monasteries, Utstein, is situated.

Research and Development Network in Norway

Participating agencies included the Regional Development Fund, the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, the Norwegian Telecommunications Administration (NTA) and the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (NTNF).

Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie

The recording was featured on the 1989 song medley "Swing the Mood" by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, which was no. 1 for five weeks on the UK charts, becoming the second best-selling single of 1989 in the UK, and also went no. 1 in these countries in 1989: Norway, Ireland, Germany, France, Austria, Australia, and Holland.

Röyksopp's Night Out

It contains live recordings from a concert in Norway, Rockefeller (Oslo) in November 2005.

Skafferhullet

The border crossing site was located on the old road between Elvenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway and Borisoglebsky in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

St. Margaret's Church, Oslo

Margaret's Church was a stone church built in the 13th century, placed in Maridalen in the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, close to the northern end of Maridalsvannet.

Sturla Berg-Johansen

In 1989, he toured in Norway with his own air guitar show, but he first got his break-through with his imitations of Leif Juster under Dan Børge Akerø's revue competition on TV 2 in 1992.

The Kavli Foundation

The Kavli Prizes are presented in cooperation with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway is Kavli's native country).

Tor Jonsson

His birthplace and childhood home was in Boverdal valley in Lom, Oppland, Norway; it is now part of the Lom District Museum.

Westermoen

Toralf Westermoen (1914–1986), pioneer for the development of high speed craft in Norway