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  Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Norwegians settled on Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and parts of the British Islands and attempted to settle at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada (it is the Vinland of The Saga of Eric the Red).
Norway is bounded for its entire length by seas of the North Atlantic Ocean: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west, and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
Nevertheless, all of the Norwegian dialects are interintelligible.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norway   (3534 words)

  
 List of Norwegians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of notable people from Norway.
Ari Behn, author, and husband of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Note that "football player" in the Norwegian context means "soccer player".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Norwegians   (153 words)

  
 Norway
Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island in the South Pacific Ocean are Norwegian dependencies.
Growing Norwegian irritation during the 19th century with having to deal with a government in Stockholm spawned the dissolution of the Norway-Sweden union in 1905, when the Norwegian government offered the throne of Norway to Danish Prince Carl.
Norway straddles the North Atlantic Ocean for its entire length, bound by three different seas: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerak[?] to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Noreg.html   (1032 words)

  
 Norway - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The nearby island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are under Norwegian sovereignty and are considered as part of Norway as a kingdom, while Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island in the South Pacific Ocean are Norwegian dependencies, which are not considered part of the kingdom.
The Norwegian royal line died out in 1387, and the country entered a long period as the weaker part of a union with Denmark.
Famous Norwegians include playwright Henrik Ibsen, explorers Roald Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen, and Thor Heyerdahl, expressionist painter Edvard Munch, romanticist composer Edvard Grieg and playwright/novelists Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset, winners of the 1903, 1920 and 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Norway   (1948 words)

  
 List of Norwegian-Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Persons with significant contributions in two fields are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy lookup.
My mother's father, my Grandpa Nelson, was a Norwegian sea captain, but when I tried to investigate those roots I didn't get very far, for he had apparently changed his name to another one that made it impossible to identify him within the rest of the population.
Knut Haukelid (Norwegian Army Officer born in the U.S. WWII hero involved in Norwegian heavy water sabotage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Norwegian-Americans   (972 words)

  
 Secular Blasphemy
Norwegian police and the foreign department worked hard all week-end to complete the list of missing Norwegians abroad (mostly Thailand) after the Tsunami disaster, and it was published on police web pages today.
It was immediately revealed that the list had numerous errors and duplicates, and the number of missing persons have fallen from 275 to 150 people.
Sweden alone has refused to make the list public, fearing that unscupulous people will burglar the homes of the missing or exploit their identities (this happened after the Estonia ferry disaster).
blogs.salon.com /0001561/2005/01/03.html   (962 words)

  
 Norwegians -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The vast majority of the religious Norwegians are nominally Lutherans, in Norway proper society is highly secularized and church-attendance low.
The Norwegians are a Scandinavian ethnic group, and the descendants of the Norse (along with the Swedes, Danes, Icelanders and Faroese).
Approximately 180,000 of these consider Norwegian to be their sole or primary ancestry, and another 180,000 are of partial Norwegian ancestry.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Norwegians   (472 words)

  
 Norwegians top list over 'one-night stands' - Aftenposten.no   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Young, sex-happy Norwegians are the quickest to hop in bed with casual conquests, according to a new survey.
Norwegians often fall for one-night stands, according to the Durex study.
Only half of all Norwegians said they used condoms during their "one-night stands," even though half of all Norwegians believe HIV and AIDS are major problems.
www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article444475.ece   (473 words)

  
 List of missing Norwegians released - Aftenposten.no   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A list of the names of those registered as missing was released by midday, but it was dramatically shorter.
The list over the missing was expected to include more than 400 known to have been in the areas hit by the tidal waves, along with another 980 believed to have been in the area.
Officials said one reason that the list over those missing had fallen so dramatically, was that Foreign Ministry staff had listed the same people several times under slightly different names.
www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article940108.ece   (451 words)

  
 Norway - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Norwegian royal line died out in 1387, coinciding with a recession following the Black Plague in 1349, which wiped out nearly half the population, Royal politics at the time resulted in several personal unions between the Nordic countries, eventually bringing the thrones of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden under the control of Queen Margrethe.
Many supporters of whaling agree that its macroeconomic importance is negligible, but hold that the livelihood of individuals and small firms depend on it and that sustainable development depends on human harvesting of all non-endangered species ([7]).
Norway's whaling today is limited to the Minke Whale, which also accounts for more than 90% of the catch in Norwegian waters since the 1920's ([8]).
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Norway   (3215 words)

  
 Heretics' almanac: Tsunami impact on Norway and Sweden
Norwegian and Swedish authorities use different criteria for the total number of people in the area, the Swedes being more inclusive (most likely).
We are entering a new phase of this terrible event, focusing on ensuring public health for affected areas, recovery and identification of bodies, resolution of fatalities, and early discussions on the long-term impact for certain areas.
Norwegian authorities are running out of excuses for their screwups - the next few days will be very telling.
vyer.typepad.com /hereticsalmanac/2005/01/tsunami_impact_.html   (740 words)

  
 Heretics' almanac: Natural disasters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It turns out people who were minding their own business at home in Norway were on the list, as well as people who were in places far away from both the Indian Ocean and Norway.
The list is expected to include close to 1400 names of people who were known to be in areas hit by the tsunami or earthquake a week ago and who haven't been heard from since.
Norwegian survivors are telling the public that the Norwegian government sucked at providing emergency assistance to them.
vyer.typepad.com /hereticsalmanac/natural_disasters   (1017 words)

  
 The Norwegian Nobel Institute- Why a Norwegian Nobel Committee?
There have been a number of suggestions: Nobel admired Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, the Norwegian patriot and leading author; the Storting was the first national legislature to vote support for the international peace movement; Nobel may have wanted to distribute the tasks related to the Nobel Prizes within the Swedish-Norwegian union.
However, the number of Norwegians on the list of laureates is not necessarily a good indicator of the influence of national considerations on committee decisions.
From a Norwegian point of view, goodwill from other nations might, especially at the beginning of the century, have been more valuable than having a large number of Norwegian laureates.
www.nobel.no /eng_com_nor.html   (322 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Norway / Norge
The list is for the scandinavian countries so please note that the language for this list is Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.
Norwegians in the 1880 census for the Dakota Territory 
Norwegians in the 1880 census for New Hampshire 
www.cyndislist.com /norway.htm   (3339 words)

  
 Immigrants to Canada - Norwegians
One of the earliest Norwegian parties to America in the nineteenth century sailed from Stavenger on July 4, 1825.
Of the over 28,460 Norwegians who came to Canada in the 1850s it is estimated that only 400 remained in Canada the majority moved on into the American west.
However, the Norwegians were not content, and after a very hard winter in 1861-2 they began to make their way to the American west.
ist.uwaterloo.ca /~marj/genealogy/norwegian.html   (692 words)

  
 Norway - Gurupedia
Svalbard and Jan Mayen are under Norwegian sovereignty and are considered by Norway as part of the kingdom, while Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island in the South Pacific Ocean are Norwegian dependencies and not considered part of the kingdom.
Norway straddles the North Atlantic Ocean for its entire length, bound by three different seas: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the
Norwegian Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
www.gurupedia.com /n/no/norway.htm   (1138 words)

  
 Norway : search word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Norwegian royal line died out in 1387, and the country entered a long period as the weaker part of a union with Denmark, since 1450 bound by treaty.
In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, Norway was forced into a personal union with Sweden, but kept her liberal constitution and independent institutions, except for the foreign service.
Main article: Demographics of Norway The Norwegian population is 4.6 million and increases by 0.4% per year (estimate July 2004).
www.searchword.org /no/norway.html   (2186 words)

  
 Blogger: Email Post to a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The boy's brother and sister survived the tragedy and have been taken back to Stockholm by their father, but Kristian and his mother are on the list of missing persons.
In neighboring Norway, police were on alert for attempts by criminals to get their names on the list of victims to obtain a new identity or commit insurance fraud.
Kjersti Oppen of the National Crime Investigation Service said the list of missing Norwegians was being checked for names with criminal records or large debts.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8578983&postID=110492264629984223   (856 words)

  
 Norskklassen - Frequently asked questions
The members of the list are mostly people trying to learn Norwegian, but there are also Norwegian teachers and Norwegians in the list.
The history of Norwegian is fascinating, but to make a long story short, there are now several spoken dialects of Norwegian in use, and Danish and Swedish could even be considered dialects of Norwegian.
Norwegians feel strongly about their dialects, but (unlike some other countries) they manage to get along with each other anyway.
frodo.bruderhof.com /norskklassen/nk-faq.htm   (1276 words)

  
 "World BASE Fatality List" by Nick Di Giovanni, BASE 194   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A major point to be taken into consideration, and one that is often missed, is the tens of thousands of successful BASE jumps that are made and that these listed events represent fatalities that have occurred over a period of time spanning 1981 to the present.
Kataya had made 2 BASE jumps prior to this incident and is originally on the BASE fatality list as details of this incident were being withheld by the parties involved.
Jo, the brother of Rick Stanley, #13 on this List, and another man are flying in a sailplane and for yet unknown reasons the sailplane crashes into a farmer's field.
hometown.aol.com /base194/myhomepage/base_fatality_list   (15447 words)

  
 Nettavisen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leaving Monaco and the Vatican out of the list, Norwegians make the most money per person in the world, though Sweden, San Marino and Liechtenstein are not too far behind.
Norway is number 21 on the list of countries with the oldest population.
Maybe all the Norwegian girls should go to the Virgin Islands where 0.83 girls are born for each boy.
pub.tv2.no /dyn-nettavisen/arkiv/?archiveSection=1706&archiveItem=268067   (651 words)

  
 IntSDSMT Archives: By Thread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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gold.sdsmt.edu /listserve/intsdsmt   (952 words)

  
 BuzzMachine: Sex, sex, sex: Durex surveys
That's 167 times a year for the f'ing frogs vs. 138 for average Americans vs. 110 for the Singaporians, at the bottom of the list.
: Norwegians are the most likely to have sex on the first date (32%).
: Norwegians also win when it comes to one-night stands: 72% vs. 70% for South Africans vs. only 20% for Taiwanites (or whatever you call them).
www.buzzmachine.com /archives/002657.html   (114 words)

  
 05/22/03: Keiko is being hunted by al-Qaida
The news that Norwegian interests in Muslim nations were now targets of al-Qaida terrorism stunned Norwegian authorities.
Norwegian special forces are still helping hunt al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan, and newspaper VG cited an "intelligence source" as saying Norwegian forces and fighter jets in Afghanistan "had clearly hit the terrorist network, directly and hard".
Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik called for Norwegians abroad to be extra observant.
www.mrcranky.com /movies/brucealmighty/12.html   (588 words)

  
 Russian language for Norwegians - directory
Norwegian schools, colleges and universities with Russian language - list from the Russian Embassy.
Språkguiden > Russian language for Norwegians - list of available dictionaries and self-study courses for Norwegians.
Among Norwegian libraries, Deichmanske bibliotek probably has the largest number of Russian titles: over 4000 (long search request).
www.russia.no /language/russian   (288 words)

  
 r.s.s Mailinglist List
It is hoped that people will use the list to talk about their team, talk about matches they've been to, ask questions, discuss wider football issues etc, but there will also be some results thrown in.
This mailing list is for general open discussion of issues in Swiss Soccer, including the National side, the National leagues, as well as lower leagues, Swiss clubs in European Cups, player transfers, etc. That is to say, anything to do with Swiss soccer.
List for discusison of results, team news, fixtures and anything else of interest to the Super White Army.
www.zeta.org.au /~algor/rssmll.html   (3926 words)

  
 Alibris: Norwegians
The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America.
Surveys the immigration of Norwegians to the New World through an examination of what they sought in America, where they settled, and what they contributed to American life and culture.
The narrative examines the mass migration of Norwegians from 1837, when Ole Nattestad became the first Norwegian settler in Wisconsin, to the late nineteenth century, when...
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