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Norway
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The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land, until 1814, the kingdom included the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It also included Isle of Man until 1266, Shetland and Orkney until 1468, Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres and a population of 5,258,317. The country shares a long border with Sweden. Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. King Harald V of the Dano-German House of Glücksburg is the current King of Norway, erna Solberg became Prime Minister in 2013, replacing Jens Stoltenberg. A constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the Parliament, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, as determined by the 1814 Constitution, the kingdom is established as a merger of several petty kingdoms. By the traditional count from the year 872, the kingdom has existed continuously for 1,144 years, Norway has both administrative and political subdivisions on two levels, counties and municipalities. The Sámi people have an amount of self-determination and influence over traditional territories through the Sámi Parliament. Norway maintains close ties with the European Union and the United States, the country maintains a combination of market economy and a Nordic welfare model with universal health care and a comprehensive social security system. Norway has extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, the petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the countrys gross domestic product. On a per-capita basis, Norway is the worlds largest producer of oil, the country has the fourth-highest per capita income in the world on the World Bank and IMF lists. On the CIAs GDP per capita list which includes territories and some regions, from 2001 to 2006, and then again from 2009 to 2017, Norway had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the world. It also has the highest inequality-adjusted ranking, Norway ranks first on the World Happiness Report, the OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity and the Democracy Index. Norway has two names, Noreg in Nynorsk and Norge in Bokmål. The name Norway comes from the Old English word Norðrveg mentioned in 880, meaning way or way leading to the north. In contrasting with suðrvegar southern way for Germany, and austrvegr eastern way for the Baltic, the Anglo-Saxon of Britain also referred to the kingdom of Norway in 880 as Norðmanna land. This was the area of Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, and because of him
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1884 in Norway
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Events in the year 1884 in Norway. 28 January - The Liberal Party is founded,10 February - Jon Hol is imprisoned for his pamphlet Rifleringen. 3 April - April ministerium begins,26 June - Christian Homann Schweigaards ministerium ends. Norwegian Association for Womens Rights is founded, women in Norway are allowed to study. The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen is written
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Monarchy of Norway
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The Norwegian monarch is the monarchical head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The present monarch is King Harald V, who has reigned since 17 January 1991, succeeding his father, the heir apparent is his only son, Crown Prince Haakon. The crown prince undertakes various public functions, as does the kings wife. The crown prince also acts as regent in the kings absence, there are several other members of the Royal Family, including the kings daughter, grandchildren and siblings. Whilst the Constitution of Norway grants important executive powers to the King, formally the King appoints the government according to his own judgement, but parliamentary practice has been in place since 1884. Constitutional practice has replaced the meaning of the word King in most articles of the constitution from the king personally to the elected government. The powers vested in the monarch are significant, but are treated only as reserve powers, the King does not, by convention, have direct participation in government. He ratifies laws and royal resolutions, receives and sends envoys from and to foreign countries and he has a more tangible influence as the symbol of national unity. The annual New Years Eve speech is one occasion when the King traditionally raises negative issues, the King is also Supreme Commander of the Norwegian Armed Forces and Grand Master of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. The King has no role in the Church of Norway. The position of King of Norway has been in existence since the unification of Norway in 872. In recent years members of the Socialist Left party have proposed the abolition of the monarchy during each new session of parliament and this gives the Norwegian monarchy the unique status of being a popularly elected royal family and receiving regular formal confirmations of support from the Storting. Prior to and in the phase of the Viking Age Norway was divided into several smaller kingdoms. Harald Fairhair was the first king of Norway, the boundaries of Fairhairs kingdom were not identical to those of present-day Norway, and upon his death the kingship was shared among his sons. Some historians emphasise the actual control over the country and assert that Olaf II, alias Saint Olaf. Olaf is generally held to have been the force behind Norways final conversion to Christianity. In the 12th and 13th centuries the Norwegian kingdom was at its geographical and cultural peak, the kingdom included Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Shetland, Orkney and other smaller areas in the British Isles. The king had diplomatic relations with most of the European kingdoms and formed alliances with Scotland and Castile, large castles such as Haakons Hall and cathedrals, the foremost being Nidaros Cathedral, were built
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Oscar II of Sweden
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Oscar II was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until his dethronement in 1905. He was the third of four sons of King Oscar I, as his eldest brother Charles XV was without heirs and his brother Prince Gustaf died in 1852, it was he who succeeded his brother as king. Oscar II was king during a period when Sweden was undergoing a period of industrialization, the declining Union of Sweden and Norway was finally dissolved in 1905 and Oscar became the last Bernadotte king of Norway. He died in 1907 and was succeed as King of Sweden by his son, at his birth in Stockholm, Oscar Fredrik was created Duke of Östergötland. He entered the navy at the age of eleven, and was appointed lieutenant in July 1845. Later he studied at Uppsala University, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, on 13 December 1848, he was made an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. On 6 June 1857 he married in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany, Princess Sophia Wilhelmina, from 1859, when his father died, he was first in line to the Swedish throne after his oldest brother King Charles, who then had no male heirs. His middle brother Gustaf had died in 1852 and he succeeded his brother Charles XV / IV on 18 September 1872. At the accession he adopted as his motto Brödrafolkens väl / Broderfolkenes Vel, the political events which led up to the peaceful dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 could hardly have been attained but for the tact and patience of the king himself. He was dethroned on 7 June 1905 by the Norwegian Parliament and he declined, indeed, to permit any prince of his house to become king of Norway, but better relations between the two countries were restored before his death. He died in Stockholm on 8 December 1907 at 9,10 AM and his acute intelligence and his aloofness from the dynastic considerations affecting most European sovereigns gave the king considerable weight as an arbitrator in international questions. At the request of Great Britain, Germany and the United States in 1889 he appointed the justice of Samoa. He was the 1, 027th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain, the office of prime minister was instituted in 1876. Louis De Geer became the first head of government in Sweden to use this title, the most known and powerful first minister of the Crown during the reign of Oscar was the conservative estate owner Erik Gustaf Boström. Boström served as Prime Minister in 1891-1900 and 1902-1905 and he was trusted and respected by the king, who had much difficulty approving someone else as prime minister. Over a period of time, the king gave Boström a free hand to select his own ministers without much royal involvement and it was an arrangement that furthered the road to parliamentarism. Himself a distinguished writer and musical amateur, King Oscar proved a friend of learning. In 1858 a collection of his lyrical and narrative poems, Memorials of the Swedish Fleet, published anonymously, obtained the second prize of the Swedish Academy
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Oskar Braaten
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Oskar Braaten was a Norwegian novelist and playwright. Oskar Alexander Braaten was born in Sagene, a borough of the city of Oslo, Sagene was one of Norways oldest industrial areas dating to the mid-19th century. Oskar Braaten attended school in Sagene until he was 15 years old, in 1899, he was hired by antiquarian bookstore Bertrand Jensen, where he remained until 1910. Though born and raised in Oslo, Braaten joined the mostly rural landsmål-movement, Braaten is best known for his popular plays and novels depicting the life of factory workers alongside Akerselva in Oslo. He published seven novels between 1917 and 1925, Braaten convey a new image of the Oslo not seen before in literature. Braaten was able to provide vivid and richly nuanced images of life on the east side of Oslo during a historical period of industrialization. Criticism of injustice and inequality arises, but there is little political tendency in his literary works. He served as an advisor and theater manager at the Det Norske Teatret in Oslo from its start in 1915 until his death and he was a consultant for the theater 1915-25, served as its theater director from 1934 to 1936 and dramatic performance manager from 1937 until his death. He was editor of For Bygd og By in 1912 and co-editor of the St. Hallvard from 1933, Braaten was the chairman of the Norwegian writer association at the end of 1921/22 and again 1933. Oskar Braaten and Nanna Thorvaldsen were married in 1910, oskar and Nanna had a son Bjorn in 1912, daughter Berit in 1918. In 1921, the moved to Ullevål Hageby, a residential area in the Nordre Aker borough of Oslo
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1974 in Norway
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Events in the year 1974 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Trygve Bratteli 2 January - drilling rig Transocean 3 sinks in the North Sea,1 February – Lillehammer affair, Five Israeli Mossad agents are sentenced to prison terms for the assassination of Ahmed Bouchiki. The prison terms ranged from two and a half to five years, although all the agents were released within 22 months. 15 September - The wreck of the Danish slave ship Fredensborg,31 October - Parliament rejects a bill on abortion. Inger Lise Rypdal and Benny Borg win the 1973 Spellemannprisen in the female and male vocalist categories respectively, christiania Jazzband, Saft, Torkil Bye/Brynjar Hoff, Lillebjørn Nilsen, Bjørn Sand/Totto Osvold and Oddvar Nygaards Kvartett also receive the award. Dizzie Tunes win in the category Music for children and Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa win the Special Award
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1963 in Norway
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Events in the year 1963 in Norway. 1 July - Work begins to build Tromsø Airport 28 August – Lyngs Cabinet was appointed,25 September – Gerhardsens Fourth Cabinet was appointed. Norsk Hydro in cooperation with Harvey Aluminum starts Alnor, a plant at Karmøy to produce aluminium Municipal, the Munch Museum was opened,100 years after Edvard Munchs birth. Stein Mehren, poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment for Mot en verden av lys
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Viktor Esbensen
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Viktor Esbensen was a Norwegian mariner known for exploring the Antarctic region together with his father-in-law Carl Anton Larsen, looking to make a living from whaling. He was killed when his ship was sunk in World War II, Esbensen was born in to Peder Esbensen, and Karen. Both his parents died in 1897 after which he was adopted by the Larsen family, in 1907 in Ullern he married Elvina Larsen from Sandefjord, who was the daughter of ship-owner and whaler Carl Anton Larsen. The couple settled in Bærum, and had six children, Esbensen was educated as a first mate and shipmaster after leaving middle school. He was among the founding party of Grytviken, South Georgia along with Carl Anton Larsen. Esbensen was a manager for Compañía Argentina de Pesca, which organized the building of Grytviken, Esbensen Bay is named after him. Around the outbreak of World War II, Esbensen took over as Captain of the ship SS Bjørnvik, the ship escaped the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, having arrived in Methil on 3 April, and continued in service in and around the United Kingdom. On the morning of 27 January 1942, the ship was en route from Newport to Fowey with a cargo of patent fuel, and had joined a convoy. However, due to bad weather the ship lost its convoy in the evening the same day, the ship being hit by five bombs, she sank in half a minute. Most of its crew perished, including Esbensen and his date of death was given as 29 February. Only the first mate, a stoker and a gunner survived, history of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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1942 in Norway
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Events in the year 1942 in Norway. 12 February - Vidkun Quisling meets Adolf Hitler,13 March - Vidkun Quisling restored the so-called Jewish paragraph of the Norwegian Constitution which forbade Jews to enter or settle in Norway. This paragraph was in force until 1945, Quisling was convicted after the war on illegal amendment of the Constitution. 15 April - About 500 Norwegian teachers are sent to forced labour in Kirkenes,25 September - Allied bombers tried to bomb the Victoria Terrasse building in Oslo, which was used as the Gestapo headquarters, but missed the target and instead hit civilian targets. 6 October - Martial law is declared in Trondheim, During this time,34 Norwegians were murdered by extrajudicial execution, see the Holocaust in Norway for more. 17 September - The prime minister Vidkun Quisling reintroduces the death penalty 24 November - All Norwegian Jewish women and children are arrested,26 November -548 Norwegian Jewish men, women and children are transported on the ship SS Donau to Stettin. And from there they were taken by train to Auschwitz concentration camp. Only eight of those deported on the SS Donau survived, bull, diplomat 24 September - Leif Lund, politician 25 September – Ragnar Pedersen, illustrator, magazine editor and revue writer
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Kristian Elster (born 1881)
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Kristian Elster was a Norwegian novelist, literary historian, theatre critic and biographer, the son of Kristian Elster d. e. He made his literary début in 1907 with the story collection Fortællinger and his literary breakthrough was the novel trilogy I lære, Landeveien and Mester, published from 1911 to 1913. He wrote the two-volume literary history Illustrert norsk litteraturhistorie, published in 1923–24, works by or about Kristian Elster at Internet Archive
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1958 in Norway
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Events in the year 1958 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen 8 January - Fire breaks out in the coastal steamer MS Erling Jarl while it is docked in Bodø,22 June - Olav V is crowned as ruler of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral. Harald Sverdrup, poet and childrens writer, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for his poetry, astrid Tollefsen, poet, is awarded the Gyldendals Endowment literature prize. 4 February - Kjell Ola Dahl, writer 25 February - Eugene Ejike Obiora, died during police arrest 19 June - Siri Bjerke, politician 28 July - Peter M
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1951 in Norway
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Events in the year 1951 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen until 9 November, norsk Hydro opens a PVC plant at Herøya. Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country, gunvor Hofmo, writer and poet, is awarded the Gyldendals Endowment literature prize for the first time. Ola Viker makes his debut with the novel Gullskoen. Felix, trade unionist 21 August – Cecilie Løveid, writer,19 June – Ivar Kirkeby-Garstad, politician and Minister 4 July – Anton Berge, agronomist and politician 17 September – Jon Skeie, jurist. 6 October – Olav Kringen, newspaper editor 14 October – Anton Johnson Brandt, veterinarian 18 December – Arthur Olsen, boxer 28 December – Nils Opdahl, gymnast, lars Olai Meling, politician and Minister Gustav Smedal, jurist and irredentist activist
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1954 in Norway
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Events in the year 1954 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Oscar Torp 28 March – Bear Island accident, the plane had a crew of 8 men and one passenger. One of the crew survived the accident. 3 May - Asbjørn Sunde and Erling Nordby were convicted for treason, state-owned Årdal og Sunndal Verk begins construction on the Sunndal plant. Martin Stokken, cross country skier and athlete, is awarded the Holmenkollen medal, football Association of Norway joins UEFA
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1939 in Norway
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Events in the year 1939 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold 17 May - Sweden, Norway,1 June - Oslo Airport, Fornebu is opened. 1 June - Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik is officially opened,1 September - Norway, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland declare their neutrality. Liltved, politician 17 May - Ola B
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Niels Christian Ditleff
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Niels Christian Ditleff was a Norwegian diplomat noted for his humanitarian efforts on behalf of refugees from Nazi Germany. In spite of opposition from his own and allied governments, he initiated and led the White Buses campaign to rescue Scandinavian prisoners held in German concentration camps. He also played a role in evacuating foreign diplomats from Warsaw during the German invasion. Ditleff was born to a family in the port city of Larvik. His father, a sea captain, died when Niels was only three years old, Niels mustered as a sailor in his youth and subsequently was admitted to the Norwegian Naval Academy. He graduated with a commission as a lieutenant but resigned his commission to pursue a career in diplomacy and he was stationed in Warsaw in 1926, where he rose through the ranks and became ambassador, both to Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1930. He was also accredited to Romania from 1935 to 1937, although he had to evacuate Warsaw during the German invasion in 1939, he maintained his official role as emissary until the end of the war. He was stationed as Norways ambassador to Finland from 1945 to 1950, Ditleff never sought recognition or fame for his contributions. In addition to his career, Ditleff was also an accomplished composer, artist. In 1921, he wrote the three-act play Tahove, and another play Statsministeren and he wrote the libretto for the operetta Don Carrambo, set up at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen. In the course of his work, he also developed fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish, in addition to his working languages of Norwegian, German and he also published newspaper articles and stories, often with his own illustrations. At a time when this was unusual, he was also an avid runner, known in the city of Warsaw for his daily runs back and forth along the Vistula River. His friend Johan Borgen dubbed him the running diplomat and he and his wife died in an automobile accident. Ditleffs humanitarian contributions during World War II are related to two specific episodes, the evacuation of foreign diplomats and Jews from Warsaw, and the White Buses campaign to rescue Scandinavians held in German concentration camps. In the spring of 1939, Ditleff set up a station in Warsaw for Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia that had been sent there through the sponsorship of Nansenhjelpen. Ditleff arranged for the refugees to receive food, clothing, and transportation to Gdynia, Ditleff, acting as the doyen of the corps, tried early to contact German military authorities to arrange an orderly evacuation with a handheld radio. German airplanes tracked the transmission and strafed the car, but eventually he was able to negotiate a 4-hour cease-fire to arrange the evacuation of 1,200 individuals and they left in a convoy consisting of two trucks and sedans. Ditleff himself drove one car for 48 hours until he fell asleep behind the wheel, Ditleff had returned to Norway by the time Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Norway but was able to escape to Sweden, where he joined the Norwegian legation there
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1956 in Norway
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Events in the year 1956 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen 7 March - Several avalanches kill 21 people and causing damage in Nordland. 9 April - The Norwegian Humanist Association is founded,12 October - The Norwegian motor vehicle manufacturer Troll Plastik & Bilindustri presents the first Troll car in Telemark. Roald Aas, speed skater and Olympic gold medallist and cyclist, is awarded the Egebergs Ærespris for his achievements as both a speed skater and a cyclist
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1967 in Norway
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Events in the year 1967 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Per Borten 1 January - The Norwegian National Insurance Act was introduced,22 October – The opening of the Tjeldsund Bridge. 24 November – The voting age in Norway was set to 20 years of age, municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. The Government Pension Fund of Norway was established by the Norwegian National Insurance Act Per Hansson, journalist, hallvard Rieber-Mohn, writer and Dominican priest, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize. Astrid Tollefsen, poet, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for the poetry collection Hendelser,21 February – Marianne Aasen, politician 7 March – Helje Solberg, journalist
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Edvard Bull Sr.
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Edvard Bull was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party. He took the doctorate in 1912 and became a professor at the University of Kristiania in 1917, in addition to his academic work, he is known for his work on Norsk biografisk leksikon. His Marxist leanings inspired him to take up a political career. Situated on the wing in the 1910s, he was among the architects as the Labour Party denounced the Twenty-one Conditions in 1923. He was the deputy party leader from 1923 to 1932, and he was born in Kristiania as the son of chief physician Edvard Isak Hambro Bull and his wife Ida Marie Sofie Paludan. He was a brother of theatre director Johan Peter Bull, literary professor Francis Bull, in July 1909 he married Lucie Juliane Antonette Voss. Their son Edvard Bull, Jr. became a notable historian, Bull finished his secondary education in 1899, and studied in classical philology, geography and history at the University of Kristiania. He graduated in 1906 with the cand. mag, degree—by that time he had already published his first academic work. A study trip in Germany and France from 1906 to 1907 spurred his interest of medieval Catholicism and he planned on writing a larger work incorporating church history. He released the paper Bods- og skriftevæsenet i den norske kirke i middelalderen in 1909, studier til Norges historie in 1912. The work earned him the dr. philos and he had been employed as a research fellow at the University of Kristiania since 1910, and became a lecturer in 1913. In 1917 he succeeded the deceased Ernst Sars as a professor, although he wrote several publications on miscellaneous European history, his main contribution was on Norwegian history. His main work in the field, volume two of Det norske folks liv og historie, was published as late as 1931, the study of old agricultural societies also led him on a path of local history. In 1914 and 1918 he published the two-volume Akers historie, on the history of Aker, Bull was also known as a co-editor of the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon, the first volume of which was released by the publishing house Aschehoug in 1923. Bull was well-known at Aschehoug, having contributed to its periodical Samtiden. Long-time Samtiden editor Gerhard Gran was the second co-editor, the third was Anders Krogvig, following the early deaths of Gran and Krogvig, Einar Jansen was brought in to assist Bull. Bull was also a consultant for the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1914 to 1918, from 1927 to 1932 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association. Despite influences from Karl Lamprecht and Werner Sombart, Bull clearly drew most of his inspiration from Karl Marx historical materialism, publications in this vein include Karl Marx and Den russiske arbeider- og bonderevolution
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1947 in Norway
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Events in the year 1947 in Norway. 28 August - Kvitbjørn disaster, A flying boat of type Short Sandringham named Kvitbjørn crashes into a mountain near Lødingen in Norway, owned by Norsk Hydro between 1912 and 1918, the artificial fertilizer production at Glomfjord is leased back to Hydro by the Norwegian government. This activity is today Yara International, Hydro also buys the power plant. Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country, the Norwegian Writers for Children association is founded
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1921 in Norway
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Events in the year 1921 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII6 May - A general strike begins in Norway,17 September - the Dovre Line was opened. 18 September - Nidareid train disaster on the Trondhjem-Størenbanen railway line, six people were killed in this, the first serious passenger train accident in Norway The 1921 Parliamentary election takes place. 30 June - Gunvor Hofmo, writer and poet 10 July – Eva Kløvstad,10 October - Gunnar Thoresen, bobsledder 17 October – Edel Hætta Eriksen, schoolteacher and politician. 11 November - Trygve Olsen, politician 27 November - Aud Alvær, politician 28 November - Olav Hagen, cross country skier, Gunnar S. Dvergsdal, politician Waldemar Hansteen, architect Gjert Holsen, politician
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Marie Hamsun
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Marie Hamsun was a Norwegian actress and writer. Marie Andersen was born in Elverum, Hedmark, Norway and she was the eldest child in an affluent family. In 1897 the family moved to Christiania, where her father was involved in the property trade for twenty years until he bought the farm in Åneby in Nittedal and she attended Ragna Nielsens private school, where in 1901 she took final exams. Then she worked for three years as a governess and teacher, the Norwegian actor Society headed by Dore Lavik took her in as an actress. In the following years she toured around in Norway, until she was hired as a student at the National Theatre in 1907. In 1909, she became the wife of the noted author, Knut Hamsun, with whom she had four children, sons Tore and Arild and daughters Eleanor. She wrote two collections of poems and several childrens books, hamsuns work has been translated to several other languages, including Swedish, German, English, Latvian and Dutch. She also published two biographies about her life with Knut Hamsun, Regnbuen and Under gullregnen, marie Hamsun shared her husbands political views, and her support for the Third Reich and the German occupation forces during World War II exceeded that of her husband. She was a member of Vidkun Quislings Nazi party Nasjonal Samling, in 1947, she was sentenced to three years of hard labor for treason, but due to a general amnesty she was jailed for only 9 months
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1969 in Norway
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Events in the year 1969 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Per Borten 6 April - Railway accident occurs in Darbu,8 September - The 1969 Parliamentary election takes place. 24 December - The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea, Olav Nordrå, writer, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize. 12 November – Ragnhild Larsen, diver 25 November – Peder P
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1952 in Norway
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Events in the year 1952 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Oscar Torp 7 January –15 died in an explosion in Svalbard. 14–25 February –1952 Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, around April 4 five Norwegian seal hunting vessels went down in a storm in the West Ice. The West Ice accidents claimed 78 lives in total,24 November - Folketeatret opened in Oslo
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