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• from 2010, reserve teams in Norwegian association football were barred from using more than three players aged over 21?
• from 1904 to 1927, passengers travelling by rail from Stavanger to Oslo, Norway, needed to change to steam ship at Flekkefjord Station (pictured)?
• former professional footballer Charlie Sillett was one of two Royal Navy gunners killed when the Norwegian steamship SS Corvus was sunk by a torpedo launched from the German U-boat U-1018?
• from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen?
• geographer Yngvar Nielsen published a travel guide book in 1879, which played an important role in the development of tourism in Norway?
• in 1871, Lars Havstad became one of the first two deaf people to pass the final examination in secondary schools in Norway?
• in 1853, Ole Thomesen signed the contract to build the paddle steamer Skibladner, which is still in operation in Norway?
• for the year 2004, Kaare Frydenberg was the highest paid leader of a Norwegian fully state-owned company?
• for the filming of Max Manus (filming location pictured), the flag of Nazi Germany was flown atop the Norwegian parliament building for the first time in over 60 years?
• eight small Norwegian municipalities were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup, in the so-called Terra Securities scandal?
• during the inter-war period, Helge Krog was known as a member of the "radical triumvirate" in Norway, along with Øverland and Hoel?
• even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the Norwegian Parliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad, ten years earlier?
• even though the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker, he was not present himself?
• for its first two years, the Norwegian newspaper Telemarksavisa was not published out of Telemark, but from Larvik and Drammen?
• following the Grue Church fire on Pentecost 1822 in Solør, Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
• in 1948, Johan Ulrik Olsen became Norway's first Minister of Local Government?
• in 2006, Birkelunden underwent the first "conservation of a cultural environment in a city" in Norway?
• literary historian Rolf Nyboe Nettum, one of Norway's central Knut Hamsun researchers, grew up as a neighbour of polar explorer Otto Sverdrup?
• in the mid-1990s, Alf Tande-Petersen presented the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth most viewed television program episodes in Norway?
• in the film Kommandør Treholt & ninjatroppen, real-life convicted spy Arne Treholt is presented as the leader of a band of ninjas who saved Norway during the Cold War?
• one journalist described the simultaneous release of Elvira Nikolaisen's Quiet Exit and Marit Larsen's Under the Surface as the peak of a "girl war" in Norwegian music?
• one of her biographers called Agnes Mowinckel (pictured) the mare of Norwegian theatre?
• several coalition governments in Norway have operated with suicide paragraphs, meaning that the coalition will disintegrate if the question of Norway and the European Union is put on the agenda?
• only after the end of World War II was it publicly revealed that the Norwegian ships SS Irma and SS Henry had been sunk by the Royal Norwegian Navy?
• in the Treaty of Kiel, Swedish Pomerania was promised to Denmark as compensation for Norway?
• in the interwar period, the British legation in Norway complained about Victor Mogens' bias as a commentator in Norwegian radio?
• 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?
• in 2018, when the Follo Line is completed in Norway, it will reduce travel time between Oslo and Ski from 22 to 11 minutes?
• in addition to her academic career, German-Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries?
• in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe?
• in late 2008, Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad won the Brage Prize and was hired as the first in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway?
• in addition to his academic works, Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden is known as a conveyer of popular science and a former board member of Greenpeace?
• during the 1700s, businesswoman Anna Krefting operated the largest ironworks in Norway?
• during World War II, Norwegians Erik Welle-Strand, Egil Reksten, Sverre Midtskau, Einar Johansen, Haakon Sørbye and Bjørn Rørholt operated illegal radio transmitters codenamed "Skylark" for the Secret Intelligence Service?
• Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway?
• protests at the 2002 meeting of the World Bank in Oslo, Norway saw the police prepare for large riots, but turned out to be peaceful?
• Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen, who had two tenures as Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs, became a bishop after his political career?
• Smaalenenes Amtstidende was the first newspaper in Østfold county, Norway?
• Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker, a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school, took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
• actor and satirical illustrator Thoralf Klouman was among the pioneers of animated film in Norway?
• according to the 2008 public tax records, Johan H. Andresen jr. is Norway's richest man?
• Trondhjems Omnibus Aktieselskab started the first scheduled coach route in Trondheim, Norway, in 1893?
• Tove Strand, Norwegian government minister in 1986–1989 and 1990–1992, was formerly married to fellow Labour Party politician Rune Gerhardsen?
• 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?
• Sverre Mitsem wrote the column "SORRY" in Norway's Aftenposten from 1946 to 1996, the year he turned 89 years old?
• Teddy Air was the first airline to win a public service obligation in Norway?
• Thomas Christian Wyller is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway?
• Torstein Eckhoff, an authority on European Community law in Norway, opposed Norwegian membership in that institution?
• Tord Asle Gjerdalen twice rejected offers for a spot on the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team, due to time-consuming medicine studies?
• actor, director, and film critic Pål Bang-Hansen is the only Norwegian to have interviewed John Lennon?
• actors Nicolai Cleve Broch and Aksel Hennie have been referred to as "Norway's Ben Affleck and Matt Damon"?
• construction innovator Olav Selvaag started Norway's first music school?
• both the father and son Johann Friedrich and Carl von und zu Mansbach, who spent much of their life in Hesse and Denmark, also served as commanders of Fredriksten Fortress in Norway?
• controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
• demonstrations in Oslo, Norway in 2009, held by Arne Tumyr and the organization Stop the Islamisation of Norway, developed into street clashes?
• due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date SL95 trams of Oslo, Norway, were ordered until all units were in service?
• despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an enduring publishing company?
• between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions?
• author Ola Bauer wrote a novel about his involvement with the Provisional IRA, to correct what he felt was a slanted view of The Troubles in the Norwegian press?
• after Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
• after Norwegian soccer club Stord Sunnhordland FK was discontinued, the chairman of the owners called it "a club without soul"?
• after being closed in 1978, Sandefjord Airport Station reopened in 2008 with a new name to serve Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Norway?
• after being sentenced to a 14-year deportation in 1845, Norwegian Knud Bull became a pioneer in Australian landscape painting?
• at the age of 102, former Labour party secretary Haakon Lie (pictured) is still an active participant in Norwegian public life?
• as a child, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ingrid Olava taught herself to play "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music on her neighbor's piano?
• shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway, from Moss to Halden?
• since 1947, the city of Oslo has donated the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to the city of London, in gratitude for its support of Norway in WWII?
• the district Nadderud in Norway, now known for the multi-purpose stadium Nadderud stadion, once delivered limestone to Akershus Fortress in 1629 and the Royal Palace, Oslo, in 1827?
• the diaries of Claus Pavels from 1812–1822 are an important source for Norwegian cultural and biographical history?
• the development of the Oseberg oil field is one of the significant milestones in the creation of Norway's oil and gas industry?
• the early career of Mauritian-Norwegian footballer Caleb Francis was halted due to racist abuse?
• the farmland at Ramstad, Norway, was affected by the 19th-century construction of both the Drammen Line and the European route E18?
• the first airplane flight in Norwegian history was performed by Carl Cederström at Etterstad in Oslo in 1910?
• the first speeding ticket in Norway was given to a tram driver in 1894 on the Briskeby Line?
• the candid treatment of "problematic sexuality" in Lars Berg's two first novels initiated a spirited debate in Norway in the 1930s?
• the album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel's status as Norway's "king of pop"?
• the scaly hedgehog (pictured) is actually a species of brown mushroom found in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway?
• the Roa–Hønefoss Line (Jevnaker Station pictured) was built to allow the Bergen Line to both connect to Oslo, Norway, and be built with standard gauge?
• the Singsaker Line was the first part of the Trondheim Tramway, Norway, to be closed?
• the Svinesund Bridge crosses the border between Sweden and Norway?
• the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag, Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
• the T2000 stock of the Oslo T-bane, Norway, is equipped with both a pantograph and a third rail shoe so they can operate both east and west of the city center?
• the forger who wrote an extra verse to the Norwegian Christmas song Musevisa claimed to have been inspired by the Hitler Diaries?
• the four state-owned Regional Health Authorities run all the public hospitals in Norway?
• when Norwegian alpine skier Ole Kristian Furuseth won a silver medal in slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics, he had not placed this high in a major race since March 1995?
• when Henrik Ibsen's play Brand was first staged in Norway, 38 years after it was published, Egil Eide played the title role?
• when the King of Scotland told King Magnus of Norway he could have any land he could circumnavigate, Magnus had a longship (reconstruction pictured) dragged across an isthmus to East Loch Tarbert, Argyll and claimed Kintyre?
• when the Ålgård Line opened in 1924, it was the last state-owned railway in Norway to be built with narrow gauge?
• while performing the Viking ritual of Heitstrenging Harald Hairfair swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway?
• when the Gevingåsen Tunnel (pictured) opens in 2012 it will cut rail travel time north of Trondheim, Norway, by five minutes?
• the talent of Norwegian ski jumper Jon Aaraas was first discovered in kindergarten?
• the property of Sjøholmen in Bærum, Norway, started out as a farm, was suburbanized and is now, in part, an alternative school where children are taught to be mariners?
• the movement to secure the rights of Sami as an indigenous people in Norway was in large part made visible by civil disobedience?
• the manor at Austrått (pictured) harbored a pretender to the Swedish throne during the Reformation in Norway as the Protestant Lady Inger of Austrått battled the last Norwegian Catholic Archbishop?
• the northernmost extreme point of Sweden is Treriksröset (pictured), where the borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet?
• the only countries to medal at all three Nordic skiing disciplines (cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping) at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 were Germany, Norway, and the United States?
• the park Ravnedalen in Kristiansand, Norway, was constructed by Colonel Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland and his soldiers?
• the original building of Trondheim Central Station in Norway has been preserved as a cultural heritage?
• the Osvald Group, led by Asbjørn Sunde, was the dominating sabotage organisation in Norway from 1941 to 1944?
• the Norwegian National Rail Administration owns all 4,114 km (2,556 mi) of railways in Norway, but does not operate any trains?
• the Norwegian ice block expedition of 1959 (pictured) drove three tons of ice from the Polar Circle to the Equator – with no refrigeration – and lost only around 11% of the original weight?
• the Norwegian torpedo boat HNoMS Kjell (pictured) was known as "Terror of the smugglers" when she intercepted rum runners during Norway's prohibition?
• the Norwegian roller coaster Speed Monster features a unique loop around an escalator?
• the Norwegian airline Braathens' destinations included seven offshore oil fields served by Braathens Helikopter?
• the Norwegian band Superfamily consists of several academics, including lead singer Steven Wilson who holds a Ph.D in chemistry?
• the Norwegian lake Lutvann leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
• the Norwegian company Maarud was the largest snack food producer in Scandinavia in the 1970s?
• the Norwegian river Lysakerelven, an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord?
• the Norwegian long jump record for women, which Margrethe Renstrøm broke in 2009 with a 6.64 metres jump, was at the time the oldest Norwegian athletics record?
• the molybdenum mines in Knaben, Norway, were the target of a massive B-17 bombing raid in 1943?
• the Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus, Norway, was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964?
• the Norwegian black metal band Burzum is to release its first album after its founder was freed from prison on parole?
• the Norwegian black/death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev, Grieg, Rachmaninov, and Satie?
• the Norwegian high jumper Stine Kufaas set a national record in the standing high jump in 2009?
• the Norwegian communist politician Erling Folkvord (pictured) is well-known for his work as a corruption watchdog?
• the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?
• the Norwegian multi-sports club Ski does not offer the sport of skiing?
• 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?
• the United Bible Society and Norwegian Protestant Mission have provided a New Testament in the Khassonké language for the Malian commune Tomora?
• the Bjørvika Tunnel, financed through Oslo Package 1, will allow urban renewal of Bjørvika (pictured) and Sørengautstikkeren by HAV Eiendom, as part of the Fjord City in Norway?
• the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister, Kirsten Hansteen?
• the NSB Class 66 was the first Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
• the Meråker Line railway of Norway branches off from the Nordland Line at Hell?
• 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?
• the Trondheim Tramway of Norway could not sell their used Class 8 trams (pictured) because they had the unique combination of 260 cm (100 in) width and meter gauge?
• the ocean liner SS Shalom accidentally rammed and bisected the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali, sinking the bow of the tanker but not the stern?
• the Norwegian novelist and editor of Vinduet, Henrik Langeland, wrote a doctoral thesis on Marcel Proust?
• the Oslo square Eidsvolls plass has been referred to as "the National Mall of Norway"?
• the Oslo Sporveier tram company became the first company to be found guilty of homicide in Norway as a result of a 2001 fatal accident involving an SM91 tram?
• the rococo manor house at Damsgård, near Bergen, Norway, is one of the best preserved wooden 18th century structures in Europe?
• the sports field at Ringstabekk, Norway, has hosted matches in the Bandy World Championships?
• Stenkjær og Namsos Automobilselskap started Norway's first post-carrying bus route in 1908?
• Snarøya, a peninsula in Bærum, Norway, was an island until the 19th century?
• Norwegian merchant and banker Simon Karenius Høegh was also mayor of both Brevig and later Porsgrund?
• Norwegian jurist and peace activist Fredrik Heffermehl claimed that 45 percent of Nobel Peace Prize awards after 1945 are "illegal"?
• Norwegian journalist and anti-fascist Gerda Grepp was the first female reporter from Scandinavia to cover the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent?
• Norwegian poet Gunnar Reiss-Andersen is grandfather to mystery author Berit Reiss-Andersen, a former Norwegian Secretary of State?
• Norwegian politician Jacob Aall described Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. as "one of Norway's most active and skillful merchants"?
• Norwegian politician Rolf Thommessen edited the newspaper Tidens Tegn for more than twenty years, from 1917 to 1938?
• Norwegian politician Beint Bentsen was a member of four different municipal councils?
• Norwegian journalist Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn is known for her unusual name and consistent use of Nynorsk?
• Norwegian industrial company Denofa used whale oil as a basis for refinement before the use of soy became common?
• Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven's collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923 when it opened in Oslo?
• Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen is the granddaughter of Olympic gymnast Marius Eriksen, and daughter of World War II flying ace Marius Eriksen, Jr.?
• Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
• Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I?
• Norwegian historian Tore Pryser has criticised the perceived importance of Norwegian resistance members during World War II?
• Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
• Norwegian professor of bacteriology Sverre Dick Henriksen was an honorary member of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, despite having never worked in Poland?
• Norwegian railway company Ofotbanen went bankrupt due to the minority owner Autolink starting the competitor Cargolink?
• tax law specialist Øystein Thommessen became Norwegian delegate to the UNICO conference in 1945 and the Paris Peace Conference of 1946?
• Norwegian Parliament member Kjell Bondevik was the uncle of Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik?
• theologian and preacher Carl Fredrik Wisløff's 1946 book I Know in Whom I Believe was recognized in 2008 as one of Norway's most influential books of prose?
• 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?
• Akersbanerne was founded in 1917 to build suburban tramways between Kristiania and Aker, Norway?
• Aaslaug Aasland was Norway's first female head of a government ministry?
• sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres?
• Somali-Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself?
• Norwegian ship-owner Ludvig G. Braathen founded the airline Braathens SAFE in 1946 to serve his ships in the Far East with supplies and crew?
• Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love?
• Norwegian writer Gabriel Scott was named both after the country of Scotland and after Sir Walter Scott?
• Norwegian-born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States?
• ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance"?
• Norwegian Parliament member Olav Gunnar Ballo's book about the suicide of his daughter Kaja Bordevich Ballo became a bestseller in Norway?
• Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland, sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved, only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
• Norwegian television presenter Dan Børge Akerø started his career as a research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo?
• Norway's 93 km (58 mi) long Numedal Line was built to aid the construction of hydroelectric power stations?
• Norway was the last country with a territorial claim of Antarctica to not operate an all-year research station, until the 2005 opening of Troll (pictured) and Troll Airfield?
• Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times?
• Norway's first regional theatre, the Hålogaland Teater, used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø?
• Norwegian footballer Jostein Grindhaug scored the first league goal for the club FK Haugesund?
• Norwegian film critic Arne Hestenes, a one-time jury member of the Cannes Film Festival, was an honorary citizen of Cannes?
• Norwegian evangelical preacher Aril Edvardsen performed in a country music band in his youth?
• Norway's first tank was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and make-shift armour?
• musicologist Olav Gurvin co-edited the first Norwegian music encyclopedia in 1949?
• 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
• 22-year-old ski jumper Anette Sagen played the mother of 70-year-old Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten?
• television chef Ingrid Espelid Hovig is considered the "culinary mother" of Norway?
• 1993 Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh overcame voice and dress problems to make her return in the 2010 contest in Oslo, Norway?
• Henrich Krummedige's 1502 murder of Knut Alvsson ended the feud started by their fathers, Hartvig Krummedige and Alv Knutsson, as well as Knut's leadership of the rebellion against King Hans' rule over Norway?
• Prince Carl of Denmark landed at Vippetangen when he arrived in Norway to assume the throne in 1905?
• Norwegian director Nils Gaup was nominated for an Academy Award for the Sami language film The Pathfinder?
• Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?
• 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?
• Norwegian piano manufacturer Karl Hals was also active in politics for the Conservative Party?
• Norwegian ski jumper Johan Remen Evensen finished among the top three already in his fourth proper World Cup start?
• Norwegian ski jumper Daniel Forfang (pictured) retired due to body weight pressure in the sport, whose rules were earlier considered to fit Forfang "perfectly"?
• Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party?
• Norwegian Socialist politician Rolf Ketil Bjørn was nicknamed "the red millionaire" due to his background in the business sector?
• Norwegian physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark had two brothers who were Norwegian Parliament members?
• Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics?
• Norwegian football goalkeeper Jon Knudsen made his national team debut one month before turning 34?
• Norwegian geochemist Knut S. Heier was a member of the Apollo Project?
• Norwegian historian Tore Linné Eriksen has published several books about Namibia, including one on what was described as the first genocide in the twentieth century?
• Norwegian illustrator Harald Damsleth was convicted for treason in 1950, for having drawn Nazi propaganda posters during World War II?
• Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel?
• Norwegian long jumper Nils Uhlin Hansen was killed as a saboteur in World War II?
• Alfred Henningsen, three-term member of the Storting, has referred to the Norwegian Parliament as "the loony bin"?
• Amaldus Nielsen has been called Norway's first naturalist painter?
• NSB Gjøvikbanen won the first, and so far only, rail transport public service obligation tender in Norway in 2005?
• Mohammad Usman Rana, a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere?
• Leif J. Sverdrup was a 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?
• Nationaltheatret Station, which is located within the Oslo Tunnel and serves all lines of the Oslo Commuter Rail, is Norway's only underground mainline railway station?
• Nic Waal, who rescued Jewish children in Norway from the Holocaust, started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy?
• Nini Stoltenberg, the little sister of the Norwegian Prime Minister, has spoken openly about her past heroin addiction and has become an advocate for drug policy reform in Norway?
• Nikolai Schei survived an assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway?
• Laila Goody has been called "Norway's most awarded young actress"?
• Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandfather of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf?
• Kjell Fjalsett, Arnold Børud, Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft, called the first Christian supergroup in Norway?
• Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg?
• Kjesäter, a Swedish manor, was later the main assembly point for up to 50,000 refugees from German-occupied Norway during World War II?
• Klaus Sunnanå, Kristian Gleditsch and Karl Evang were among the former Mot Dag members who became involved in the first Norwegian development aid project?
• Kristiania Sporveisselskab (pictured) established the first tramway in Oslo, Norway, in 1875?
• 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?
• Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in Tinn, Norway, produced 30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
• Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway?
• Robert Millar has been credited for establishing modern marketing in Norway?
• Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel from Oslo to Bergen, Norway by 60 km (37 mi)?
• 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"?
• Sportsklubben av 1909 was the first sports club in Norway explicitly for workers?
• Skytterdalen near Sandvika, Norway, is so named because it was the site of a sport shooting field?
• Sigurd Bødtker was Norway's first full-time theatre critic?
• Ragnar Kalheim was one of the main architects behind the formation of the Socialist Electoral League in Norway?
• Peter N. Myhre was the first leader of the Youth of the Progress Party in Norway, from 1978 to 1984?
• Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
• 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?
• Ole Colbjørnsen has been called "Norway's first plan economist"?
• Ole Georg Gjøsteen—supported by his brother Johan—is considered the "father" of Norway's comprehensive school system?
• P. Chr. Andersen, a Norwegian sports journalist, official and radio commentator, also refereed football matches at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
• Olvir Hnufa, a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda, was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson?
• Jens Landmark, Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel and director of Kongsberg Weapons Factory, also served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament?
• Jens Book-Jenssen (pictured) was Norway's best-selling recording artist of the 20th century?
• Conrad Wilhelm Eger was an associate of Norwegian industrialist Sam Eyde, serving as CEO of Elkem from 1912 to 1950?
• Coast Aero Center and Norving were the first airlines with scheduled services at Geilo Airport, Dagali located in Hol, Norway?
• Charles Hoff was the first Norwegian to set a world record in a track and field event?
• Coop NKL opened Norway's first self serve food store on October 1, 1947?
• Eivind Reiten was chair of StatoilHydro, Norway's largest company, for four days?
• Gerhard Schøning's (pictured) historical research papers documented travel through Norway in 1773–1775, becoming a "minor travel classic?"
• Film & Kino, which organizes municipal-owned cinemas in Norway, also co-organizes the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund?
• Carl Bødtker was a popular radio presenter for children during the early days of Norwegian broadcasting?
• Bredtveit is one of three women's prisons in Norway?
• Anders Nordberg was elected Orienteer of the year 2007 by Norwegian sports journalists?
• Anders Beer has been credited with founding the tanning industry in Norway?
• Ann-Kristin Olsen was the first female chief of police in Norway as well as the first female Governor of Svalbard?
• Arne Sunde, Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War?
• Asbjørn Kjønstad has been referred to as the "father of the smoking ban" in Norway?
• Arvid Johanson took over as Norway's second Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1980, when Bjartmar Gjerde resigned due to high job pressure?
• Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings", the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway, was rumored to be a witch?
• Gustav A. L. Heiberg was a defender in the last impeachment case in Norway?
• Infectious Salmon Anaemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, and Scotland?
• Iceland–Norway relations date back to Norwegian colonization of Iceland in the ninth century?
• infectious salmon anemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, and Scotland?
• Ingrid Semmingsen was the first female professor of history in Norway?
• Jacob Kielland, one of the richest persons in Norway in the 1860s, was also the grandfather of novelist Alexander Kielland?
• Jørgen Mathiesen was the first Norwegian member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique?
• Hjalmar Steenstrup was selected to represent the Norwegian concentration camp prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials?
• Herman Bagger, a Danish immigrant to Norway, became a member of the Norwegian Parliament and mayor of Gjerpen and Skien?
• Harald Beyer's textbook on literary history was the most used textbook in its field at Norwegian universities from the 1950s to the mid 1990s?
• Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway's first television correspondent stationed in an African country?
• Hedda and Ingrid Berntsen became the first siblings in Norway to compete in different events at the same Olympic Games?
• Helge Skappel was among the pioneers of aviation in Norway, and together with Viggo Widerøe he wrote a book on the pioneer days?
• Henrik Mohn is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway?
• Henrik Anker Bjerregaard wrote Norway's first national anthem?
• 19th-century politician Søren Jaabæk (pictured) is the longest-serving member of parliament in the history of Norway?