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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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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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1887 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1887 in Sweden Monarch – Oscar II Prime Minister – Robert Themptander - Swedish State Railways established. - Arbetet - Old Stockholm telephone tower - Örgryte IS - First issue of the womens issue Idun,17 February – Nils Granfelt, gymnast. 16 June – Hugo Johansson, sport shooter,18 December – Algot Lönn, cyclist. 7 February – Hanna Brooman, composer, translator and educator Hedvig Willman, actress Antoinette Nording, perfume entrepreneur
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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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Prime Minister of Norway
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For a list, see List of heads of government of Norway. The Prime Minister of Norway is the leader of Norway. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Monarch, to the Storting, to their political party, and ultimately the electorate. In practice, since it is impossible for a government to stay in office against the will of the Storting. Norway has a Constitution, which was adopted on 17 May 1814, the position of Prime Minister is the result of legislation. As of 2017, the Prime Minister of Norway is Erna Solberg, unlike their counterparts in the rest of Europe, Norwegian Prime Ministers do not have the option of advising the King to dissolve the Storting and call a snap election. The Constitution requires that the Storting serve out its full four-year term, if the Prime Minister loses the confidence of the Storting, he or she must resign. As of 2015 six former Prime Ministers are alive, Odvar Nordli born 3 November 1927, kåre Willoch born 3 October 1928, served 1981–1986. Gro Harlem Brundtland born 20 April 1939, served 1981, 1986–1989, kjell Magne Bondevik born 3 September 1947, served 1997–2000 and 2001–2005. Thorbjørn Jagland born 5 November 1950, served 1996–1997, jens Stoltenberg born 16 March 1959, served 2000–2001 and 2005–2013. List of Prime Ministers of Norway Regjeringskvartalet Government Official Homepage
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Johan Sverdrup
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Johan Sverdrup was a Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party. He was the first Prime Minister of Norway after the introduction of parliamentarism, Sverdrup was Prime Minister from 1884 to 1889. He was born in Sem, close to Norways oldest city and his father was a pioneer in scientific agriculture in Norway. He finished his law studies in 1841 and his remarkable feat was his sole first climb. He worked as a lawyer in Larvik, a town on the west coast of the Oslofjord. In 1851 he was for the first time elected to the Storting, in Norway, political parties were considered inappropriate and unwanted. Sverdrup tried from his earliest days in the Storting to form a party consisting of the large group of peasants. His first attempt was named the party after the profession of the leaders of the group. It soon became evident that the times were not ripe for such a radical novelty and it is ironic that if it hadnt been for Sverdrups fervent opposition, the reform that would transform Norwegian political life from 1884 on, would have been introduced two decades earlier. The Government wanted the Ministers to meet in parliamentary sessions to further the communications between the Kings Council and those elected by the people, Sverdrup managed to prevent this reform with the support of a great number of the peasants. Such a negative policy-making will never produce great results, which Sverdrup clearly foresaw, but in parliament Jaabæk would often bow to Sverdrups more advanced political strategies, when they were not too expensive. In 1869 a political reform of the greatest importance was introduced and this definitely tipped the scale of political influence in favor of the Storting, and it is not easy to see the reasons for the Kings acceptance of this reform. The major reason was probably the growing necessity to get updated budgets, during the 60s, the views towards the ministers participation in the parliamentary sessions had changed totally. The peasants and the radicals on the hand, had drawn the obviously correct conclusion that this reform would further the influence of the elected towards the appointed ministers. The changed constitution was not sanctioned this time either, the same happened in 1876 and 1879, and now a major problem had occurred, which made Norwegian politics extremely difficult for several years. The Constitution explicitly stated that the king had a three times in law and budget matters, but there was no mention of any kind of veto concerning constitutional matters. This had definitely become Sverdrups goal, all power must be gathered in the halls of the Storting became his political program. In 1879 his party in the made a coup by promulgating the new change in the constitution
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Labour Party (Norway)
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The Labour Party, formerly the Norwegian Labour Party, is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It was formerly the senior partner of the governing Red-Green Coalition, the party is currently led by Jonas Gahr Støre. The Labour Party is officially committed to social-democratic ideals and its slogan since the 1930s has been everyone shall take part, and the party traditionally seeks a strong welfare state, funded through taxes and duties. During the first Stoltenberg government, the policies were inspired by Tony Blairs New Labour. The party has frequently described as increasingly neoliberal since the 1980s. The Labour Party profiles itself as a party that subscribes to cooperation on a national as well as international level. Its youth wing is the Workers Youth League, the party is a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance, and is an observer member of the Socialist International. The Labour Party has always been a supporter of Norways NATO membership and has supported Norwegian membership in the European Union during two referendums. Founded in 1887, the party increased in support until it became the largest party in Norway in 1927. This year also saw the consolidation of surrounding the party during the 1920s following its membership in the Comintern from 1919 to 1923. It formed its first government in 1928, and has led the government for all but 16 years since 1935, from 1945 to 1961, the party had an absolute majority in the Norwegian parliament, the only time this has ever happened in Norwegian history. The domination by the Labour Party, during the 1960s and early 1970s, was broken by competition from the left. From the end of the 1970s however, the party started to lose voters to the right, in 2001 the party achieved its worst electoral results since 1924. Between 2005 and 2013, Labour returned to power after committing to an agreement with other parties in order to form a majority government. Since losing 9 seats in the 2013 election, Labour has been in opposition, the party was founded in 1887 in Arendal and first ran in elections to the Parliament of Norway in 1894. It entered Parliament in 1904 after the 1903 election, and steadily increased its vote until 1927, the party were members of Comintern, a Communist organisation, between 1918 and 1923. From the establishment of Vort Arbeide in 1884, the party had a growing and notable organisation of newspapers, the party press system eventually resulted in Norsk Arbeiderpresse. In January 1913 the party had 24 newspapers, and 6 more newspapers were founded in 1913, the party also had the periodical Det 20de Aarhundre
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Christian Krohg
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For the politician of the same name, see Christian Krohg. Christian Krohg was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author, Krohg was the son of lawyer and statesman Georg Anton Krohg and the grandson of Christian Krohg who was a government minister. Krohg studied law at the University of Oslo and was educated in Germany at the Baden School of Art in Karlsruhe under Hans Gude, inspired by the ideas of the realists he chose motives primarily from everyday life – often its darker or socially inferior sides. Particularly well known are his pictures of prostitutes, prostitution is also the subject of his novel Albertine, which caused a scandal when first published, and was confiscated by the police. Krohg’s style made him a figure in the transition from romanticism to naturalism. Through his periodic residence at Skagen, where he arrived for the first time in 1879, he had influence on Anna and Michael Ancher. Krohg was the editor of the Bohemian journal, Impressionisten. He then became a journalist for the Oslo newspaper Verdens Gang, later he became a professor director at the The Norwegian Academy of Arts 1909-1925. He was married to artist Oda Krohg and was the father of muralist Per Lasson Krohg, there are notable paintings by Christian Krohg in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and at Skagens Museum in Denmark. Clicking on the thumbnail will give you the full image and information concerning it
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Ola Raknes
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Ola Raknes was a Norwegian psychologist, philologist and non-fiction writer. Born in Bergen, Norway, he was known as a psychoanalyst in the Reichian tradition. He has been described as someone who spent his life working with the conveying of ideas through many languages. For large portions of his life he was contributing to the public discourse in Norway. He has also credited for his contributions to strengthening and enriching the Nynorsk language. Raknes was known as a thorough philologist and a controversial therapist, internationally he was known as one of Wilhelm Reichs closest students and defenders. There were altogether 10 children of whom 7 grew up to become adults and he was married twice, in his first marriage in 1911 with Aslaug Vaa they begot the children Magli, Anne, Tora, Erik and Tor. The second marriage in 1941 with Gjertrud Bonde gave him the daughter Ada, Ola Raknes attended folkeskole on the neighbouring farm and then worked for a while on the familys farm prior to enrolling at middelskole in Volda. After that he graduated from the Hambros skole in Bergen in 1904 and he took his examen artium as private candidate at Kristiania katedralskole in 1907. During the winter of 1907–08 he joined the elephant seal-catching vessel Solglimt to the Crozet islands in the southern Indian Ocean to collect plants, a liverwort, Jamesoniella raknesii was named after him. During the summers between 1910 and 1916 he served his military draft duty, in addition he worked during this period as a hotel worker. In 1915 he took his cand. philol, linguistical-historical embedseksamen with Norwegian language as major subject and English and French as minor subjects. His major thesis was about Egill Skallagrímsson, in 1916 he was headmaster at Larvik higher school for one year. He continued these studies when, after Sorbonne, he began as lector in Norwegian at University College in London where he stayed from 1921 to 1922, in 1924 he went on to finish studies in pedagogy. Apart from this he worked as a literary translator. Raknes studied psychoanalysis at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute from 1928 to 1929, from 1929 on he had a private practice as psychoanalyst. He published some popularized essays on psychology which he collected in the book Fri vokster which was published in 1949 and this was the first book which introduced Wilhelm Reichs theories and therapeutical practice to a Norwegian audience. In May 1908 Ola Raknes, then still a student, became manager and handyman for Norskt Maalkontor, in this job which he had until 1910 he dealt with book sales and administrative chores for Det Norske Samlaget
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Lauritz Bergendahl
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Lauritz Bergendahl was a Norwegian Nordic skier who won both the nordic combined and the 50 km cross country skiing events at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1910,1912,1913,1914, and 1915. Bergendahls Holmenkollen 50 km cross country skiing victories have only been exceeded by one skier while his Holmenkollen Nordic combined victories have been matched by three others, Bergendahl earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1910 while his nephew Lars earned the honor in 1939. Lauritz Bergendahl was the first skiing star, Nordic or Alpine and he was called simply the ski king. Between 1910 and 1915, he won the 50 km race at Holmenkollen five times, born in 1888, he was nearly lost to skiing through religious revivalistm, but his other vocation was too strong. His stardom arose from the lack of heroes in the aftermath of independence. Bergendahl was probably the first sporting figure, anywhere, faut de mieux and he was the first skier to train methodically. He systematically developed both speed and stamina and he was a pioneer of tempo training. In particular, he was interested in coordination of sticks and skis and he was a pioneer in adapting the Finnish double heave on the sticks as part of an innovative tactical adjustment of technique to terrain. He was the founder of modern Nordic skiing, and the system of coaching. By trade he was a forester, like most of the early Nordic skiers, mainly because of the strength and suppleness developed in wielding axe, the first free heel toe binding to go into production was the Selmers Bergendahl binding
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Th. Valentin Aass
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Thomas Valentin Valla Aass was a Norwegian sailor and civil servant in the foreign service. He was born in Kristiania as a son of wholesaler Julius Aas, in 1923 he married lighthouse directors daughter Ingeborg Horn. He finished his education in 1905 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand. jur. From 1912 to 1915 he was a deputy to the magistrate of Fredrikstad. He competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics as a member of the Norwegian boat Taifun. He represented the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club, in 1917 he was hired in the foreign service, as a secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was promoted to acting assistant secretary in 1920, then acting consul in Barcelona in 1921 and he was promoted to vice consul in the next year. In 1930 he was moved to the Norwegian legation in Stockholm as a secretary and he also had responsibility for Kaunas, Lithuania. After a period at home as assistant secretary in the 2nd Trade Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1934 to 1940 he returned to the Norwegian legation in Stockholm as councillor of trade. The legation became of the utmost importance when Norway was dragged into the Second World War while Sweden remained neutral and he was promoted to legation councillor in 1943, and in 1946 consul-general in Gothenburg. He died in April 1961 and was buried at Ris
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Thoralf Skolem
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Thoralf Albert Skolem was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic and set theory. Although Skolems father was a school teacher, most of his extended family were farmers. Skolem attended secondary school in Kristiania, passing the university examinations in 1905. He then entered Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet to study mathematics, also taking courses in physics, chemistry, zoology, in 1913, Skolem passed the state examinations with distinction, and completed a dissertation titled Investigations on the Algebra of Logic. He also traveled with Birkeland to the Sudan to observe the zodiacal light, in 1916 he was appointed a research fellow at Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet. In 1918, he became a Docent in Mathematics and was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science, Skolem did not at first formally enroll as a Ph. D. candidate, believing that the Ph. D. was unnecessary in Norway. He later changed his mind and submitted a thesis in 1926, titled Some theorems about integral solutions to certain algebraic equations and his notional thesis advisor was Axel Thue, even though Thue had died in 1922. In 1927, he married Edith Wilhelmine Hasvold, Skolem continued to teach at Det kongelige Frederiks Universitet until 1930 when he became a Research Associate in Chr. This senior post allowed Skolem to conduct research free of administrative, in 1938, he returned to Oslo to assume the Professorship of Mathematics at the university. There he taught the courses in algebra and number theory. Skolems Ph. D. student Øystein Ore went on to a career in the USA, Skolem served as president of the Norwegian Mathematical Society, and edited the Norsk Matematisk Tidsskrift for many years. He was also the editor of Mathematica Scandinavica. After his 1957 retirement, he made trips to the United States. He remained intellectually active until his sudden and unexpected death, for more on Skolems academic life, see Fenstad. Skolem published around 180 papers on Diophantine equations, group theory, lattice theory and he mostly published in Norwegian journals with limited international circulation, so that his results were occasionally rediscovered by others. An example is the Skolem–Noether theorem, characterizing the automorphisms of simple algebras, Skolem published a proof in 1927, but Emmy Noether independently rediscovered it a few years later. Skolem was among the first to write on lattices, in 1912, he was the first to describe a free distributive lattice generated by n elements. In 1919, he showed that every lattice is distributive and, as a partial converse
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Vidkun Quisling
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Quisling first came to international prominence as a close collaborator of Fridtjof Nansen, organizing humanitarian relief during the Russian famine of 1921 in Povolzhye. He was posted as a Norwegian diplomat to the Soviet Union and he returned to Norway in 1929, and served as Minister of Defence in the governments of Peder Kolstad and Jens Hundseid, representing the Farmers Party. Although Quisling achieved some popularity after his attacks on the political left, from 1942 to 1945 he served as Minister-President, heading the Norwegian state administration jointly with the German civilian administrator Josef Terboven. His pro-Nazi puppet government, known as the Quisling regime, was dominated by ministers from Nasjonal Samling, the collaborationist government participated in Germanys genocidal Final Solution. He was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, the word quisling has since become a synonym for collaborator or traitor, reflecting the very poor light in which Quislings actions were seen, both at the time and since his death. Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was born on 18 July 1887 in Fyresdal, the elder Quisling had lectured in Grimstad in the 1870s, one of his pupils was Bang, whom he married on 28 May 1886, following a long engagement. The newly-wed couple promptly moved to Fyresdal, where Vidkun and his siblings were born. The family name derives from Quislinus, a Latinised name invented by Quislings ancestor Lauritz Ibsen Quislin, based on the village of Kvislemark in Jutland, Denmark, whence he had emigrated. Having two brothers and a sister, the young Quisling was shy and quiet but also loyal and helpful, private letters later found by historians also indicate a warm and affectionate relationship between the family members. From 1893 to 1900, his father was a chaplain for the Strømsø borough in Drammen, here, Vidkun went to school for the first time. He was bullied by students at the school for his Telemark dialect. In 1900, the moved to Skien when his father was appointed provost of the city. Academically Quisling proved talented in humanities, particularly history, and natural sciences, at this point, however, his life had no clear direction. In 1905, Quisling enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy, having received the highest entrance examination score of the 250 applicants that year. Transferring in 1906 to the Norwegian Military College, he graduated with the highest score since the inception in 1817. On 1 November 1911, he joined the army General Staff, Norway was neutral in the First World War, Quisling detested the peace movement, though the high human cost of the war did temper his views. In March 1918, he was sent to Russia as an attaché at the Norwegian legation in Petrograd, when the legation was recalled in December 1918, Quisling became the Norwegian militarys expert on Russian affairs. In September 1919, Quisling departed Norway to become an officer with the Norwegian delegation in Helsinki
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Adolph M. Christianson
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Adolph M. Christianson was an attorney and a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. Adolph Marcus Christianson was born at Brumunddal in Ringsaker, Hedmark County and he came to the United States with his parents in 1882. He spent his childhood in Polk County, Minnesota, and received his education in the Minnesota public schools. He attended the Law Department of the University of Tennessee and was admitted to the Bar in 1889 and he moved to North Dakota in 1900 and was admitted to the North Dakota Bar. Christianson opened an office in Towner, North Dakota, where he practiced until his election to the North Dakota Supreme Court and he served as a States Attorney from 1901 until 1905. Christianson served as a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court from 1915–1954 and the Chief Justice from 1918–1921, 1925–1927, 1931–1933, 1937–1939, Christianson died in office at the age of 76 after serving on the Court for 39 years and one month. His burial was at the Fairview Cemetery in Bismarck
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