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.
He was a member of Oslo city council from 1917 to 1934, serving as mayor from 1929 to 1931.
Albert Nordengen (2 May 1923 in Våler, Østfold in Norway – 18 December 2004 in Oslo) was a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party who became perhaps the most prominent, and best loved mayor in the history of the Norwegian capital.
It takes place in a working-class setting in the city of Oslo.
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, the six alpine skiing events were held from Thursday, February 14 to Wednesday, February 20, 1952.
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.
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.
Witnessing the deaths of her family members and being forced to march over 1,400 miles, during which she was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Anatolia, Mardiganian escaped to Tiflis (modern Tbilisi, Georgia), then to St. Petersburg, from where she traveled to Oslo and finally, with the help of Near East Relief, to New York.
Awdy Kulyýew (July 30, 1936, Ashgabad – April 10, 2007, Oslo) served as the first Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan.
The company started out in 1978 when B+H Shipping Group was founded in New York and Oslo.
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.
The singer and composer Carsten Woll (1885-1962) was born in Oslo, Norway.
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.
Initially Chile was represented in Finland through its embassies in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.
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.
His collection can be found at the Videnskabsselskabets Museum in Oslo.
At the age of 24, Oldham went on his first European concert tour, which spanned Copenhagen, Zurich, Oslo, The Hague, and Vienna.
The first 7 years of his life were spent in the Vågå rectory, until he began school in 1756 in Christiania.
In 1956, he emigrated to Norway and as of the 1980s, he was living in Oslo.
Frogner Manor (Frogner Hovedgård) is a former estate in today's borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway.
Before returning home he also visited Kristiania (Oslo) to take part in a celebration of the Norwegian philosopher Marcus Jacob Monrad.
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At the University of Kristiania Gaston Paris also held a lecture about the two folktale collectors, Asbjørnsen and Moe, which he believed to be, besides the Grimm Brothers, the best re-tellers of the genre.
A painting by Knud Bergslien from 1874 depicting this ceremony is located at the Royal Palace in Oslo.
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He was a driving force in the construction of Norways first railway line, the Hoved Line from Christiania to Eidsvoll, which opened in 1854.
He served as an officer of Prussian hussars (1850–1855), entered the consular service and after employment at New York (1879) and Constantinople (1880) was appointed to Marseilles (1881), and then to Christiania (1889), retiring in 1892.
When Gustav was five years old, his father died, and the family subsequently moved to Christiania.
The ship was built at Hovedøen in Christiania under the direction of English shipbuilder James Robbins and was launched in 1650.
The Hooded Crow is one of the 37 Norwegian birds depicted in the Bird Room of the Royal Palace in Oslo.
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 (17 June 1781 – 14 August 1857) was a Norwegian botanical gardener, and the founder of the Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo.
Just after the works have been finished, Haspra travelled to Oslo, Norway with his wife and a one-year old daughter.
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.
Langlo was a meteorologist at the Meteorological Institute in Oslo 1943–1945 and department head 1945–1952.
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.
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.
In fact, he was only the third youngest road champion when he took the rainbow jersey in Oslo in 1993.
Most of the investments are located in Oslo and Trondheim, though there are other localities in Norway too, in addition to some in Denmark and Sweden.
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.
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.
Later, a study at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo (1982–85) focusing on the three dimensionality work.
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.
He spent most of his childhood in Oslo, Norway, where he attended both primary and secondary school.
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.
She also took Diamond League victories in Oslo, Rome, Eugene and London, en route to capturing the overall Diamond League title in the steeplechase.
Mycron was a pioneer manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway.
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.
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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.
On 2 June 1984, the Oidaematophorus lithodactyla larvae was found feeding on Inula salicina, in Oslo.
Old Town, Oslo (in Norwegian : Gamlebyen, Oslo), a neighborhood in Oslo, Norway, where the first settlement of town was located
The transmitter beam was later changed on the two remaining antennas to improve reception in Copenhagen and Helsinki without decreasing reception in Oslo.
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.
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Narvik, the last active ship of the class, has been transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten.
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On March 17, 2006 at 20:10 CET, the Trondheim ran aground outside of the Lines island in Sør-Trøndelag.
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She sank on the same day in Korsfjorden outside Steinneset in Austevoll county.
After five years in Paris, Child was reassigned to Marseilles, Bonn, and Oslo.
The numbers start at 00 and increase with the distance from the capital city Oslo.
In September 1772, Charles was appointed commander-in-chief of the Norwegian army and he and Louise moved to Christiana.
Stranger was a long-time member of Oslo city council, most notably serving as mayor in the periods 1940–1941, 1945, 1955–1959 and 1962–1963.
In 1958 at age 21, Edwards backstopped the Whitby Dunlops, Canada's representative, to the World Hockey Championship at Oslo, Norway, posting a perfect 7–0 record with three shutouts and an 0.86 goals-against average.
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.
She became involved in local politics in Oslo, and in 1995 she was elected to serve in Oslo city council.
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.
In the 36th Annual tournament in 2011, there were teams from 12 different states within the U.S., British Columbia and Alberta in Canada, and a team from Oslo, Norway.
Sonans it-akademiet (English: Sonans IT Academy) is a school in Oslo which offers a variety of I.T.-related subjects.
Søylen Eiendom is the owner of several properties in Oslo, Tønsberg and Moss in Norway as well as in Rostock, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland.
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, he barely lost the gold medals in both the two-man and four-man events.
T-VIPS was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with a US office in Millburn, New Jersey.
Upon returning from Russia during April 1918 from Kristiania in Norway, after being barred from either traveling to the United States or returning to Russia since February 23 by the State Department, Reed's trunk of notes and materials on the revolution—which included Russian handbills, newspapers, and speeches—were seized by custom officials, who interrogated him for four hours over his activities in Russia during the previous eight months.
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 skole is a school in the Tokerud Stovner borough of Oslo, Norway.
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.
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.
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Adolf Mauritz Fonahn (born June 15, 1873 in Hedrum, died 15 August 1940 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian physician, medical historian and orientalist.
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.
Preliminary development for Anarchy Online began in 1995 at Funcom's Oslo, Norway studios.
She was born in 1955 in Oslo, Norway and is currently living in Jar.
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.
Before his departure from Oslo, a grand farewell party was held in his honour, and a group of wealthy citizens formed the charitable foundation Prinds Christian Augusts Minde.
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.
In 1924 he returned to Oslo and from 1927 to 1936 worked as a musical archivist at the University of Oslo.
Fornebu (local form Fornebo) is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, bordering western parts of Oslo.
From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City, and San Francisco.
It serves some of the northern neighborhoods of Oslo, and has a few stations in the woods of Nordmarka.
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.
He was born in Hafslo in the current Luster municipality, and his club was Oslo Østre Skytterlag.
He has appeared with many distinguished orchestras and ensembles which include the Bayerische Rundfunk, BBC Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Paris, Het Residentie den Hague, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, London Sinfonietta, Nieuw Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Modern, Oslo Sinfonietta, Schoenberg Ensemble.
Together with Tor Åge Bringsværd and other students at the University in Oslo, Jon Bing started the Aniara society, a club for science fiction fans.
Vemøy was educated at Norwegian Academy of Music (2007-2011) in Oslo, where he studied under teachers Torgrim Sollid and Eckhard Baur.
Born in 1967 in Oslo, Norway, Jorn was a medical officer in the Norwegian cavalry, before reading philosophy at the University of Oslo and economics at the University of Leeds.
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.
On July 4, 1914 at Christiania (Oslo), they presented the people of Norway with a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
The Olympic Flames for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, and the flame used in the national torch relay for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (which was later used as the flame for the 1994 Winter Paralympics), were all lit at the birthplace of Sondre Norheim, Øvrebø in Morgedal.
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 Idrettsforening is a sports club in Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway.
The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: Norges musikkhøgskole, NMH) is a music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner.
The Gold Watch was introduced in 1930, when the four players with 25 caps, (Gunnar Andersen, Per Skou, Einar Gundersen and Adolph Wold) was awarded the Gold Watch during a banquet at the Grand Hotel in Oslo.
Hansen established himselves on the Oslo jazz scene first in Tore Sandnæs Big Band (1958), Mikkel Flagstad Quintet (1959), Bjørn Jacobsen Septet (1958–60), Arild Wikstrøm Quartet (1961) and within Kjell Karlsen's various ensembles including at Moldejazz (1962), Bjørn Johansen Quartet (1962).
The Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe has a total of three priests and one hierodeacon in Norway, two of the priests residing in the Oslo area and one at Greipstad in Songdalen near Kristiansand.
Braaten is best known for his popular plays and novels depicting the life of factory workers alongside Akerselva in Oslo.
In 1996, the work to establish a financing package for new investments in public transport in Akershus and Oslo started.
Participants have first attended an Opera performance at the national opera house, then walk in a costume or carnival procession with horse-drawn carts through the historical centre of Oslo to the historical former freemasons Lodge.
he was a central part of Oslo's swing-jazz milieu, where he led his own Rowland Greenberg Swing Band (1939–41) with Arvid Gram Paulsen on sax, Lulle Kristoffersen on piano and Pete Brown on drums.
It contains live recordings from a concert in Norway, Rockefeller (Oslo) in November 2005.
National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), a consumer affairs research institute based in Oslo, Norway
Helle, Knut Under kirke og kongemakt, 1130-1350 (Oslo: 1995)
The club approached Jordal Amfi in Oslo, at the time an outdoor arena which had the only artificial ice in Norway, as well as a series of Swedish artificial rinks.
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.
Eventually the King outlawed Archbishop Jon Raude, and his two chief supporters, Bishop Andres of Oslo and Bishop Thorfinn of Hamar.
Borgli grew up in Oslo; her father is a movie producer and her aunt is the actress Pia Borgli.
But on 15 March 2010 National Television Company of Ukraine, which appointed Vasyl to represent Ukraine, decided not to send him to Oslo, because the song was not good enough.