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58 unusual facts about Oslo


1961 World Shotgun and Running Target Championships

The 1961 World Shotgun and Running Target Championships were held in Oslo, Norway.

2001–02 Canada men's national ice hockey team

It was the first Olympic gold medal for Canada in men’s ice hockey since the Edmonton Mercurys won gold at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.

Adolf Indrebø

He was a member of Oslo city council from 1917 to 1934, serving as mayor from 1929 to 1931.

Álvaro Arzú

There had been six years of negotiations since the Oslo Agreement of March 1990, and Arzú gave them a vital new impulse when he personally met the URNG in Mexico on February 26, 1996.

Another Year Gone

The single is backed with the B-side "After All It's Christmas", another seasonal track that the band premiered during a series of concerts in Oslo and Europe.

Anton Christian Bang

In 1876 he took the first doctorate in theology at the University of Oslo on the subject Om Kristi Opstandelses historiske Virkelighed (On Christ's Resurrection's Historical Reality).

He attended teacher seminar in Tromsø (1858-1960), theology studies (1862-1867) and then ministry in Gran, in Tromsø and at Gaustad asylum in Christiania.

Bids for the 1932 Winter Olympics

It saw Lake Placid, United States, be selected ahead of the US candidates Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe, Bear Mountain, Duluth, Minneapolis and Denver, and Oslo, Norway and Montreal, Canada.

Charl Van Den Berg

At a gala event held at the Pretoria State Theatre Opera House in November 2009, Charl won the Mr. Gay South Africa title, which enabled him to represent South Africa at the International Mr Gay World pageant in Oslo, Norway.

Chile–Finland relations

Initially Chile was represented in Finland through its embassies in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.

Christian Kielland

Christian Caspar Gabriel Kielland (10 November 1871, KwaZulu-Natal – 18 March 1941, Oslo) was a Norwegian gynaecologist, known as the inventor of the Kielland forceps.

Christian Sommer Kindt

His collection can be found at the Videnskabsselskabets Museum in Oslo.

Damien Marsh

This bettered his own Australian national record of 10.16 set in July 1994 is Oslo.

Dana Hammond

At age nine he began to play for his local church, the church music ministry allowed Dana to hone his skills and travel to places like New York and Oslo, Norway.

Denver Oldham

At the age of 24, Oldham went on his first European concert tour, which spanned Copenhagen, Zurich, Oslo, The Hague, and Vienna.

Dragonfly Therapeutic Retreat

Dragonfly has combined company owned operations with franchised operations - for its shops in China, and operated franchised shops in Oslo, Norway (2006) and Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2008).

Ericsson Television

Tandberg Television, originally with headquarters in Lillestrom near Oslo, Norway, was formed in 1979 when the original Tandberg company split into Tandberg, Tandberg Data, and Tandberg Television.

Eye Emma Jedi

The following fall the band did several live performances in cities across Norway, including Stavanger, Bergen and Oslo.

Frogner Manor

Frogner Manor (Frogner Hovedgård) is a former estate in today's borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway.

From the mid 17th century to the late 19th century, it was owned by wealthy officials or burghers of Christiania, but it was sold to the municipality of Kristiania in 1896 to make room for urban expansion and a new cemetery (Vestre gravlund).

Gaston Paris

Before returning home he also visited Kristiania (Oslo) to take part in a celebration of the Norwegian philosopher Marcus Jacob Monrad.

Georg Ræder

A painting by Knud Bergslien from 1874 depicting this ceremony is located at the Royal Palace in Oslo.

Gherasim Luca

From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City, and San Francisco.

Gustav Storm

Gustav Storm (18 June 1845 – 23 February 1903) was a Norwegian historian, a professor at the University of Christiania from 1877.

When Gustav was five years old, his father died, and the family subsequently moved to Christiania.

Jacques Rigaut

The movie Oslo, August 31st directed by Joachim Trier, released in 2012, is also largely based on Le Feu Follet although the narrative takes place in contemporary Norway.

Johan Siebke

Johan Siebke (17 June 1781 – 14 August 1857) was a Norwegian botanical gardener, and the founder of the Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo.

Josef Haszpra

Just after the works have been finished, Haspra travelled to Oslo, Norway with his wife and a one-year old daughter.

Joseph Smagorinsky

In 1916, with the business established, Dina, Sam, and David emigrated by going to Murmansk (Archangel) and then southward along the Norwegian coast to Christiana (now Oslo) and boarding a boat to New York where they joined Nathan.

Kaare Langlo

Langlo was a meteorologist at the Meteorological Institute in Oslo 1943–1945 and department head 1945–1952.

Kaffebrenneriet

20 coffeeshops in the capital Oslo and one near Oslo (in Asker, about 20 minutes from the city center),and a webshop, Kaffebrenneriet employs more than 200 full- and part-time workers.

Keep-it Technologies

Keep-it Technologies (formerly TimeTemp) is a spin-off technology company from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) in Ås, just outside Oslo in Norway.

La Ritournelle

It was also used as a backing track for the credits in a "Come Dine With Me" episode and it features in the soundtrack of award-winning film Oslo, August 31st by Joachim Trier.

Leland Stowe

He happened to be in Oslo on April 9, 1940 and therefore witnessed the German invasion, as well as the general confusion within the Norwegian forces, administration, and Allied Expeditionary Forces.

Liban Abdi

He spent most of his childhood in Oslo, Norway, where he attended both primary and secondary school.

Lise Stauri

Lise also studied gymnastics in Denmark, finally graduated from Elverum Teachers' Seminary in 1904, worked as a teacher in Vats, Buøy and Stavanger and finished additional teacher courses in Kristiania in 1907.

Mycron

Mycron was a pioneer manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway.

Nordal Wille

In 1893 he was given a newly established professor position at the Royal Frederick University, which also gave him responsibility over the University Botanical Garden at Tøyen.

He was a professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1893 to his death, founded the laboratory at the University Botanical Garden and co-founded the Natural History Museum.

Norwegian Armed Forces

Norwegian Defence Logistics Organization (NDLO) at Kolsås outside Oslo is responsible for engineering, procurement, investment, supply, information and communications technology.

His staff is located at Akershus Fortress in Oslo, while the Norwegian Joint Headquarters, responsible for commanding operations, is located in Bodø.

Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

On 2 June 1984, the Oidaematophorus lithodactyla larvae was found feeding on Inula salicina, in Oslo.

Old Oslo

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

Orlunda radio transmitter

The transmitter beam was later changed on the two remaining antennas to improve reception in Copenhagen and Helsinki without decreasing reception in Oslo.

Oslo-class frigate

On 5 June 2013, she was severely damaged in a test of the Norwegian-designed Naval Strike Missile system off the coast of the island Andøya.

Narvik, the last active ship of the class, has been transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten.

On March 17, 2006 at 20:10 CET, the Trondheim ran aground outside of the Lines island in Sør-Trøndelag.

She sank on the same day in Korsfjorden outside Steinneset in Austevoll county.

Paul Cushing Child

After five years in Paris, Child was reassigned to Marseilles, Bonn, and Oslo.

Rubina Rana

She became involved in local politics in Oslo, and in 1995 she was elected to serve in Oslo city council.

Sigmund Mowinckel

He was educated at the University of Oslo (1908; ThD 1916) (in those days Oslo was still officially called Kristiania), and from 1917 onwards he was a lecturer there.

Sonans Utdanning

Sonans it-akademiet (English: Sonans IT Academy) is a school in Oslo which offers a variety of I.T.-related subjects.

The Janus Man

As he attempts to discover the identity of "The Janus Man who faces both East and West", he tracks sources of information in Moscow, Lübeck, Copenhagen and Oslo to hunt down the killer of Ferguson.

Tokerud School

Tokerud skole is a school in the Tokerud Stovner borough of Oslo, Norway.

Trygve Nagell

Trygve Nagell (July 13, 1895, Oslo – January 24, 1988, Uppsala) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for his works on the Diophantine equations within number theory.

Vardø witch trials

Barbra said that Maren had accused her, encouraged by doctor's wife Anne Rhodius, who had been exiled from Oslo to northern Norway with her husband because of conflicts in Oslo, and that the doctor and his wife had pointed out the wife and daughter of one of the members of the court as witches.

Walter von Gerich

He was arrested in Kristiania 16 June 1917, but after diplomatic pressure from Germany he was set free and escorted by the police to Germany 27 June 1917, due to his role as courier for the German Emperor.

Yugoslavia at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Athletes from the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.


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.

Adolf Fonahn

Adolf Mauritz Fonahn (born June 15, 1873 in Hedrum, died 15 August 1940 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian physician, medical historian and orientalist.

Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

The agency was created on January 1, 2008 and is based in Oslo and Leikanger.

Aker University Hospital

The hospital is responsible for providing health care to 170,000 people residing in the northern part of Oslo as well as the municipalities of Ski, Oppegård, Nesodden, Frogn, Ås and Vestby.

Aldri annet enn bråk

It takes place in a working-class setting in the city of Oslo.

Alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics

At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, the six alpine skiing events were held from Thursday, February 14 to Wednesday, February 20, 1952.

Anna Spafford

Tveit, Odd Karsten, Annas hus, En beretning fra Stavanger til Jerusalem, Cappelen forlag, Oslo (2000) ISBN 82-02-18591-2

Ariane Mnouchkine

On 26 May 2009 it was pronounced at an arrangement at the Ibsen Museum in Oslo by the leader of the committee, actress Liv Ullmann, that Ariane Mnouchkine was this year's winner of the International Ibsen Award.

Audunbakkenfestivalen

Audunbakkenfestivalen is a small rock festival held in Norway, in Disenå in Sør-Odal municipality, about 18 miles from Kongsvinger and 44 miles from Oslo.

Bryce Poe II

Poe was assigned to Allied Forces Northern Europe, Oslo, Norway, in August 1952 as a fighter operations officer flying de Havilland Vampires, Gloster Meteors, F-84 Thunderjets and F-86 Sabres with the Royal Norwegian and Royal Danish air forces.

Carsten Woll

The singer and composer Carsten Woll (1885-1962) was born in Oslo, Norway.

City Star Airlines

City Star Airlines started operations on 28 March 2005 with one aircraft flying between Aberdeen, Scotland (Aberdeen Airport) and Oslo (Oslo Gardermoen Airport) in cooperation with and on the AOC of domestic airline Landsflug in Iceland.

Economic Cooperation Foundation

The ‘Architects of Oslo’, then developed the ‘BeilinAbu Mazen Understanding’, the first jointly developed detailed concept of a comprehensive Permanent Status Understanding between Israel and a Palestinian State.

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.

Eli Hagen

In November 2001 she also caused headlines when, after dropping off her husband at an official dinner at the Royal Palace in Oslo, accidentally drove her Volkswagen Passat down the steps in front of the palace, with the political press corps as shocked onlookers.

Erik Bodom

Bodom was born in Vestby, and was educated in Christiania (modern-day Oslo), but concerned himself more with drawing than his studies.

Fartein Valen

In 1924 he returned to Oslo and from 1927 to 1936 worked as a musical archivist at the University of Oslo.

Fornebu

Fornebu (local form Fornebo) is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, bordering western parts of Oslo.

Frogner

Frogner Manor (Frogner Hovedgård) is located on a former estate in an area that became part of today's borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway.

Gjøvik Line

It serves some of the northern neighborhoods of Oslo, and has a few stations in the woods of Nordmarka.

Henry Dalton

The first successful surgery on the heart itself was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen on 4 September 1895 at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, now Oslo.

Kaare Langlo

Kaare Langlo (born Oct 7, 1913 in Bergen, Norway – Oct 7, 1985 in Oslo) was a Norwegian meteorologist.

Kali Gwegwe

He is also reputed to have been the first Nigerian to bring a youth team from Europe (Holmlia Sports Club of Oslo, Norway) to participate in a local football competition in Nigeria.

Ken Friedman

From 1994 to 2009, Friedman was professor in the Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, as well as at the Design Research Center at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen from 2003 to 2009.

Knut Haukelid

Knut Haukelid (born May 17, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; died March 8, 1994 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian resistance movement soldier during World War II, most notable for participating in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage.

L. B. Hanna

On July 4, 1914 at Christiania (Oslo), they presented the people of Norway with a statue of Abraham Lincoln.

Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus

The Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (often abbreviated as LOB Corpus) is a million-word collection of British English texts which was compiled in the 1970s in collaboration between the University of Lancaster, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, to provide a British counterpart to the Brown Corpus compiled by Kucera and Francis for American English in the 1960s.

Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway

Imsen, Steinar Våre dronninger: fra Ragnhild Eriksdatter til Sonja (Oslo: 1991)

Mike Kigen

He set a personal best of 12:58.58 in the 5000 metres at the Bislett Games in Oslo and became the national champion over the distance.

Milcah Cheywa

She also took Diamond League victories in Oslo, Rome, Eugene and London, en route to capturing the overall Diamond League title in the steeplechase.

Network Norway

2008 saw the commercial launch of their GSM-900 network, which covers the greater Oslo area, as well as the cities of Stavanger and Trondheim.

Nordstrand IF

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

Norwegian Academy of Music

The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: Norges musikkhøgskole, NMH) is a music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner.

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.

Röyksopp's Night Out

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

RPM Challenge

In 2007, several well-known websites and media outlets picked up the story, and participation increased to over 2400 acts from such varied locations as Tokyo, Auckland, Montreal, Antarctica and Oslo.

SIFO

National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), a consumer affairs research institute based in Oslo, Norway

SJ U

They have only exceptionally been used for mainline haulage, most notably during the 1970s for some freight trains from Lillestrøm to Skarnes and from Oslo to Sandvika and Spikkestad.

The Flying Culinary Circus

After a few years at exclusive hotels in Singapore and Dubai his talent for sauces was discovered at the 2-star-Michelin restaurant Bagatelle in Oslo, Norway.

Thora Neels-Hansson

Thora Neels-Hansson died on December 15, 2007, in Oslo, Norway.

Thorfinn of Hamar

Eventually the King outlawed Archbishop Jon Raude, and his two chief supporters, Bishop Andres of Oslo and Bishop Thorfinn of Hamar.