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- ...that the Swedish-Norwegian Union Jack of 1844 (pictured) became so unpopular that it was contemptuously nicknamed the Sillesalaten, after a colorful dish of pickled herring, red beets and apples?
- ...that Ruth Maier, an Austrian Jew who found refuge in Norway until her deportation and death at Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's Anne Frank"?
- ...that the trophy awarded to the first winners of Norwegian film award Amanda, at a weight of 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs), was difficult for some recipients to lift?
- ...that at the age of 102, former Labour party secretary Haakon Lie (pictured) is still an active participant in Norwegian public life?
- ...that Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane?
- ...that Knut Arild Hareide became Norwegian Minister of the Environment in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?
- ...that eight small Norwegian municipalities (pictured) were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup, in the so-called Terra Securities scandal?
- ...that Betzy Kjelsberg, a Norwegian member of the international feminist movement, founded or co-founded six women's rights associations and organizations?
- ...that the death of Eugene Ejike Obiora, a naturalized Norwegian citizen, was caused by positional asphyxiation when he was placed in a chokehold, then handcuffed on his stomach during arrest?
- ...that even though the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker (Statue pictured), he was not present himself?
- ...that the 14 remaining children of the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo, Norway were evacuated to Sweden by the Norwegian resistance movement in November 1942?
- ...that the Alfathi brand of red meat from Nortura combines the strict Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with Norwegian cuisine?
- ...that the Norwegian roller coaster Speed Monster (pictured) features a unique loop around an escalator?
- ...that the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister, Kirsten Hansteen?
- ...that the four state-owned Regional Health Authorities run all the public hospitals in Norway?
- ...that while performing the Viking ritual of Heitstrenging Harald Hairfair (pictured) swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway?
- ...that Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandson of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf?
- ...that British MP James Henderson Stewart was only one of four National Liberals to vote against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate?
- ...that Norge (pictured), an unincorporated town in James City County, Virginia was established by Norwegian-Americans in the late 19th century?
- ...that the Battle of Dombås was a German attempt during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign at using Fallschirmjägers to cut rail and road links in central Norway?
- ...that Norwegian-born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States?
- ...that identical Norwegian Lady Statues (pictured) commemorating a shipwreck are located in the sister cities of Moss, Norway and Virginia Beach, Virginia facing each other across the Atlantic Ocean?
- ...that "Nocturne" is the Eurovision Song Contest winner with the fewest words, the Norwegian language original having only 25?
- ...that Norwegian politician Harald T. Nesvik claimed to have nominated George W. Bush and Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace prize?
- ...that HNoMS Heimdal (pictured) became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for illegal fishing when she seized the British trawler Lord Roberts in 1911?
- ...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
- ...that Bamse was a St. Bernard dog that became the heroic mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces during the Second World War?
- ...that the Trygg class (pictured) was a class of three torpedo boats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy and that they were all sunk during World War II, two after having been captured by the German Kriegsmarine?
- ...that the movement to secure the rights of Sami as an indigenous people in Norway was in large part made visible by civil disobedience?
- ...that Coop NKL opened Norway's first self serve food store on October 1, 1947?
- ...that the Raven banner (pictured), a standard used by various Viking leaders including Sigurd the Stout and Harald III of Norway, was a totem believed to have the power to grant victory to its holder?
- ...that U.S. diplomat Norman Armour disguised himself as a Norwegian courier to help a Russian princess—his future wife—escape the country after the collapse of the Russian Empire?
- ...that Norway's first regional theatre, the Hålogaland Teater, used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø?
- ...that in 1944 a railway ferry on the Norwegian railway Rjukanbanen (pictured) was sunk to 430 meters depth to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
- ...that Leif J. Sverdrup was an immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?
- ...that Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times?
- ...that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania (pictured) is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
- ...that the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat?
- ...that Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?
- ...that the rococo manor house (pictured) at Damsgård, near Bergen, Norway, is one of the best preserved wooden 18th century structures in Europe?
- ...that the Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a key part of Allied efforts to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
- ...that the lowest ranks in the Norwegian military are the menig (Army), flysoldat (Air Force) and Utskrevet menig (Navy)?
- ...that Svinesund Bridge (pictured) crosses the border between Sweden and Norway?
- ...that in 1940, the USS American Legion transported a Norwegian Princess to the safety of America, along with a vital Bofors 40mm gun to be used as a mass production prototype?
- ...that Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings", the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway, was rumored to be a witch?
- ...that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem “Kubla Khan” drew inspiration from Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (pictured)?
- ...that track and field athlete Anne Bersagel was a member of Team USA Minnesota while studying full time in Oslo, Norway as a Fulbright Scholar?
- ...that the ocean liner SS Shalom accidentally rammed and bisected the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali, sinking the bow of the tanker but not the stern?
- ...that naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold (pictured) and Niels Juel are buried in in Copenhagen's Church of Holmen?
- ...that Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
- ...that Odd Nansen, son of the famed scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen, founded Nansenhjelpen to help Jewish refugees escape the German invasion of Czechoslovakia to Norway, then survived Sachsenhausen himself?
- ...that Kunstnernes Hus (pictured) is an early Functionalist structure from 1930, built by and for Norwegian artists to showcase their work?
- ...that that Kjesäter, a Swedish manor, was later the main assembly point for up to 50,000 refugees from German-occupied Norway during World War II?
- ...that the Roman Catholic prelature of Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav, one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages?
- ...that the painting Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten (pictured) by Hans Gude was sold by the Kunsthalle Bremen art museum in part because its large size — 4.76 m² (52 square feet) — made it difficult to store?
- ...that Norwegian Parliament member Kjell Bondevik was the uncle of Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik?
- ...that Knut Rød, a Norwegian police inspector who arranged the deportation of over 500 Jews to Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
- ...that Hans Gude (pictured) replaced Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
- ...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing formulae for π?
- ...that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman?
- ...that the 1901 Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boat HNoMS Sæl (pictured) was sunk by three German Schnellboots in 1940?
- ...that during a Viking funeral, human sacrifice was performed with sexual rites?
- ...that after Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
- ...that the cabinet of former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland (pictured) resigned following a 1.9% drop in the popular vote?
- ...that the Norwegian black/death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev, Grieg, Rachmaninov, and Satie?
- ...that there was an element of eroticism concerning death in Viking culture, and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?
- ... that HNoMS Honningsvåg (pictured) was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II?
- ...that sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres?
- ... that Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party?
- ... that Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament (pictured) and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party?
- ...that Norwegian politician Helge Seip was succeeded by Helge Rognlien both as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and later as leader of the Liberal Party?
- ... that Odd With, member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party, was the grandfather of 2006 Pop Idol victor Aleksander Denstad With?
- ... that the Norwegian lake Lutvann (pictured) leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
- ... that after serving three terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party, Georg Apenes took over as director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate?
- ... that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian railways is the Finse Tunnel?
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