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1991 in Norway
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Events in the year 1991 in Norway. Monarch – Olav V – until his death on January 17, then Harald V Prime Minister – Gro Harlem Brundtland 17 January – Olav V, municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. 5 April – Nora Mørk, handball player,25 July – Amanda Kurtović, handball player. 17 January – Olav V of Norway, King of Norway 17 January – Alf Sanengen, resistance member, chemist, research administrator 25 January – Per Gjelten, Nordic skier. 5 February – Torgeir Andersen, politician 5 February – Tora Øyna, politician 7 February – Arne Randers Heen,17 May – Lars LAbée-Lund, police
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1990 in Norway
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Events in the year 1990 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Jan P.8 April - Passenger Ferry MS Scandinavian Star catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark,159 people are killed in the event. 15 April - Miss Norway Mona Grudt is crowned Miss Universe in Los Angeles,3 November - Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the third time Brundtlands Third Cabinet was appointed. Population Census,4,247,546 inhabitants in Norway,22 February - Scott Winkler, ice hockey player 1 January - Ingvald Bjerke, boxer 2 February – Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, folk musician, fiddler
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1989 in Norway
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Events in the year 1989 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Gro Harlem Brundtland until 16 October, Jan P. Syse 30 March – The Oseberg oil field,1 June – Pope John Paul II visited Norway for the first time. This was the first time a pope has ever visited Norway,9 May - the ban on Skateboarding in Norway, which was in act since 1978, is removed. 7 July – The opening of the Atlanterhavsveien Road,8 September – A Norwegian passenger plane crashed outside Hirtshals. All the 55 on board died,11 September – The 1989 Parliamentary election takes place. 9 October – The opening of the Sami Parliament of Norway,16 October – Gro Harlem Brundtland resigns, with her cabinet, as Prime Minister of Norway for the second time. 16 October – Syses Cabinet was appointed,3 November - Torgeir Bryn becomes the first Norwegian to play in the NBA, when he played 2 minutes for the Los Angeles Clippers against Houston Rockets
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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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1993 in Norway
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Events in the year 1993 in Norway. Monarch - Harald V Prime Minister - Gro Harlem Brundtland 30 April - Norways registered partnership civil union law is passed. 1 August - Norways registered partnership civil union law comes into effect, granting same-sex couples the rights as married couples. 10 August - Black metal musician Varg Vikernes murders Euronymous, another black metal musician, Vikernes gets sentenced to 21 years in prison. 13 September – The 1993 Parliamentary election takes place, the Labour Party won a plurality of seats, and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland remained in office. 11 October - The Norwegian publisher William Nygaard was shot three times outside his home in Dagaliveien in Oslo, the assassination attempt was most likely committed by Islamic fundamentalists whom wanted to kill him for publishing the Norwegian edition of Salman Rushdies novel The Satanic Verses. Alta Museum receives the European Museum of the Year Award
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1994 in Norway
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Events in the year 1994 in Norway. 28–29 September - Torp hostage crisis, Two Swedish robbers took two officers and two pensioners as hostages at the Sandefjord Airport, Torp. The police freed the hostages and killed one of the hostage takers and it is the only incident in peace time that a Norwegian police chief has given the orders to shoot to kill. 28 November - Norway votes no to EU.8 December - The Hitra Tunnel subsea road tunnel is opened, at the time of its opening, it was the worlds deepest undersea tunnel 12–27 February – The 1994 Winter Olympics is held in Lillehammer. 1 January – Emilie Hegh Arntzen, handball player,7 April – Maria Therese Tviberg, alpine skier. 6 January – Per Palle Storm, sculptor,28 April - Olav Nordrå, writer 29 April – Kaleb Nytrøen, police officer
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1995 in Norway
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Events in the year 1995 in Norway. Monarch - Harald V Prime Minister - Gro Harlem Brundtland 1 January – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected,6 March - Brønnøysunds Avis launches the first online newspaper in Norway. Norsk Hydro merges its gas stations in Norway and Denmark with the Texaco, the service station chain is sold in 2006 to Reitangruppen. Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country,13 May – Norway wins Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song Nocturne, performed by Secret Garden. 26 February – Kjell Thorbjørn Kristensen, politician 28 February – Ragnvald Mikal Andersen, politician 4 May – Arne Arnardo,3 December – Hans Aardal, politician 7 December – Benn John Valsø, bobsledder Otto Chr. Bastiansen, physicist and chemist Peter Bastiansen, businessperson and politician Sigmund Mjelve, writer Inger Waage, industrial ceramacist
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Harald V of Norway
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Harald V is the King of Norway, having ascended the throne following the death of his father on 17 January 1991. Harald was the child and only son of Olav V of Norway. He was second in the line of succession at the time of his birth, in 1940, as a result of the German occupation during World War II, the royal family went into exile. Harald spent part of his childhood in Sweden and the United States and he returned to Norway in 1945, and subsequently studied for periods at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Military Academy, and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1957, following the death of his grandfather, Haakon VII, a keen sportsman, he represented Norway in sailing at the 1964,1968, and 1972 Olympic Games, and later became patron of World Sailing. Harald married Sonja Haraldsen in 1968, with their relationship initially being controversial due to her status as a commoner, the couple had two children, Märtha and Haakon. Harald succeeded his father as king in 1991, with Haakon becoming his heir apparent, Prince Harald was born in Skaugum and was baptized in the Royal Chapel in the Royal Palace in Oslo on 31 March 1937 by Bishop Johan Lunde. His parents already had two daughters, Princess Ragnhild and Princess Astrid, in 1940 the entire royal family had to flee Oslo because of the German invasion. It was deemed safer for the family to split up, the King and Crown Prince Olav would remain in Norway and the Crown Princess was to make her way to Sweden with the three children. The latter party reached Sweden on the night of 10 April, according to Princess Astrid and others who were present, they were admitted only after the driver threatened to ram the border gate. Another account does not describe the escape so dramatically, however, when the King and Crown Prince inquired of Swedish foreign minister Christian Günther whether they could sleep one night in Sweden without being interned, they were denied. Harald spent the days in Sälen before moving to Prince Carl Bernadottes home in Frötuna on 16 April. On 26 April the group moved to Drottningholm in Stockholm, King Gustaf V has been accounted to have had an amicable relationship with his Norwegian guests, but the topic of the war in Norway was not to be raised. However, influential Swedish politicians, including Minister of Justice Westman, wanted the Crown Princess and Prince Harald to be sent back to Norway so he could be proclaimed King by the Germans. After the King and Crown Prince had to leave Norway on 7 June they felt Sweden might not be the best place for the rest of the family, and started planning for them to go to the United States. On 17 August the Crown Princess and her left for the United States from Petsamo, Finland. One of the events he remembers from that time is standing behind Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was sworn in for his fourth term on the South Portico of the White House in 1945. Such childhood experiences are reflected in a trace of an American accent when he speaks English, Harald visited Norwegian servicemen training in the United States
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Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commission which presented the Brundtland Report on sustainable development, educated as a physician, Brundtland joined the Labour Party and entered the government in 1974 as Minister of the Environment. She became the first female Prime Minister of Norway on 4 February 1981 and she finally returned for her third term on 3 November 1990. From 1981 to 1992 she was leader of the Labour Party and she is also deputy chair of The Elders and a former Vice-President of the Socialist International. Brundtland belonged to the wing of her party and supported Norwegian membership in the European Union during the 1994 referendum. As Prime Minister Brundtland became widely known as the mother of the nation, Brundtland received the 1994 Charlemagne Prize, and has received many other awards and recognitions. Brundtland was born in Oslo in 1939, the daughter of physician and politician Gudmund Harlem, in 1963, Brundtland graduated with a medical degree, a cand. med. She took her masters degree at Harvard University in 1965, as a Master of Public Health, from 1966 to 1969, she worked as a physician at the Directorate of Health, and from 1969 she worked as a doctor in Oslos public school health service. She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1974 to 1979, Brundtland became Norways first female Prime Minister in 1981. She served as Prime Minister from February to October, Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two further, and more durable, terms. The third ministry was from 3 November 1990 to 25 October 1996, Brundtland became leader of the Labour Party in 1981 and held the office until resigning in 1992, during her third term as Prime Minister. In 1996, she resigned as Prime Minister and retired completely from Norwegian politics and her successor as both Labour Party leader in 1992 and as Prime Minister in 1996 was Thorbjørn Jagland. She developed the political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings. The Brundtland Commission also provided momentum for Agenda 21 and this culminated with the signing of the Oslo Accords. After the end of her term as PM, Brundtland was then elected Director-General of the World Health Organization in May 1998, Brundtland spearheaded the movement, now worldwide, to achieve the abolition of cigarette smoking by education, persuasion, and increased taxation. Under her leadership, the World Health Organization was one of the first major employers to make quitting smoking a condition of employment, under Brundtlands leadership, the World Health Organization was criticized for increased drug-company influence on the agency. Brundtland was recognized in 2003 by Scientific American as their Policy Leader of the Year for coordinating a rapid response to stem outbreaks of SARS. Brundtland was succeeded on 21 July 2003 by Jong-Wook Lee, in 1994, Brundtland was awarded the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen
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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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Fantoft Stave Church
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Fantoft Stave Church is a reconstructed stave church in the Fana borough of the city of Bergen, Norway. The church was built around the year 1150 at Fortun in Sogn. In the 19th century the church was threatened by demolition, as were hundreds of other churches in Norway. The church was bought by consul Fredrik Georg Gade and saved by moving it in pieces to Fantoft near Bergen in 1883, outside the church stands a stone cross from Tjora in Sola. On 6 June 1992, the church was destroyed by arson, at first, the fire was thought to have been caused by lightning or an electrical failure. He was also charged with the burning of Fantoft stave church, the judges called this an error but did not overthrow the whole case. Reconstruction of the church soon after the fire and was completed in 1997. A photograph of the burnt shell appears on the cover of the 1993 Burzum EP Aske. Vikernes, an advocate of white nationalism and Neo-völkisch movements, said that the church was burnt down as retaliation for building a church on pagan grounds
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Arson
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Arson is a crime of intentionally, deliberately and maliciously setting fire to buildings, wildland areas, abandoned homes, vehicles or other property with the intent to cause damage. It may be distinguished from other such as spontaneous combustion, accidental fires. Arson often involves fires deliberately set to the property of another or to own property in order to collect insurance compensation. A person who commits this crime is called an arsonist, more often than not, arsonists use accelerants to ignite, propel and directionalize fires. It is not required that the defendant acted intentionally or willfully for the purpose of burning a dwelling, burning – at common law charring to any part of dwelling was sufficient to satisfy this element. No significant amount of damage to the dwelling was required, any injury or damage to the structure caused by exposure to heat or flame is sufficient. Of the dwelling – dwelling refers to a place of residence, the destruction of an unoccupied building was not considered arson, since arson protected habitation, the burning of an unoccupied house did not constitute arson. Dwelling includes structures and outbuildings within the curtilage, dwellings were not limited to houses. A barn could be the subject of arson if it was occupied as a dwelling, moreover, for purposes of common law arson, possession or occupancy rather than title determines whose dwelling the structure is. Thus a tenant who sets fire to his house would not be guilty of common law arson. In many states, arson is divided into degrees, depending sometimes on the value of the property but more commonly on its use, first-degree arson – The act in which the arsonist sets fire to an occupied domain or building such as a school. Second-degree arson – The act in which the arsonist sets fire to a building such as an empty barn. Third-degree arson – The act in which the arsonist sets fire to a building or an abandoned area of space such as a field. Many statutes vary the degree of the according to the criminal intent of the accused. In the United States, the common law elements of arson are often varied in different jurisdictions, for example, the element of dwelling is no longer required in most states, and arson occurs by the burning of any real property without consent or with unlawful intent. Arson is prosecuted with attention to degree of severity in the alleged offense, first degree arson generally occurs when persons are harmed or killed in the course of the fire, while second degree arson occurs when significant destruction of property occurs. While usually a felony, arson may also be prosecuted as a misdemeanor, criminal mischief, burglary also occurs, if the arson involved a breaking and entering. A person may be sentenced to death if arson occurred as a method of homicide, as was the case in California of Raymond Lee Oyler, in New York, arson is charged in five degrees
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Early Norwegian black metal scene
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The early 1990s Norwegian black metal scene is credited with creating the modern black metal genre and produced some of the most acclaimed and influential artists in extreme metal. It attracted massive media attention when it was revealed that its members had been responsible for two murders and a wave of church burnings in Norway. The scene had an ideology and ethos and was likened to a cult and it consisted primarily of young men, many of whom gathered at the record shop Helvete in Oslo. In interviews, they voiced extreme anti-Christian and misanthropic views, presenting themselves as genuine Satanists who wanted to spread terror, hatred and they adopted pseudonyms and appeared in photographs wearing corpse paint and wielding medieval weaponry. The scene was exclusive and created boundaries around itself, incorporating only those it deemed to be true or committed, musical integrity was highly important and artists wanted black metal to remain underground and uncorrupted. In August 1993, several of its members were arrested and in May 1994 were convicted variously for arson, murder, assault, most showed no remorse for their actions. The Norwegian media covered events closely, but the reporting of the scene was often sensationalist, for example, one Norwegian TV channel interviewed a woman who claimed Satanists had sacrificed her child and killed her dog. The early Norwegian black metal scene has since been the subject of books, during the 1980s, black metal was a loose grouping of a handful of metal bands who shared Satanic lyrics, although most of the first wave bands referred to Satanism only for shock value. During 1990–1992, a number of Norwegian artists, who were influenced by those bands. The surge of interest and popularity that followed is referred to as the second wave of black metal. The Norwegian bands developed the style of their 1980s forebears as a genre of heavy metal music. Gylve Fenriz Nagell of Darkthrone has credited them with innovation in a number of interviews. He described it as being derived from Bathory and noted that those kinds of riffs became the new order for a lot of bands in the 90s. Visually, the themes of their music was complemented with corpsepaint. On 8 April 1991, Mayhem vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin committed suicide alone in a house shared by the band. Fellow musicians described Dead as odd, introverted and depressed, for performances, he made himself look like a corpse and would self-harm while singing. Dead was found with his wrists and throat slit and a wound to the head. Before calling the police, he got a camera and photographed the body, one of these photographs was later used as the cover of a bootleg live album, Dawn of the Black Hearts
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TV 2 (Norway)
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TV2 is the largest commercial television broadcaster in Norway. Its headquarters are located in Bergen, TV2 began broadcasting 5 September 1992. In 1992, TV2 A/S was admitted as full member of the European Broadcasting Union. As is common with television in Norway, most foreign-language shows are subtitled in Norwegian, since 2012, TV2 is owned by one of its co-founders, the Copenhagen-based Scandinavian media company Egmont Group. TV2 started broadcasting in high-definition on June 25,2009, initially, the channel was only available on the terrestrial RiksTV platform. The first programme broadcast in HD was Allsang på grensen, tV2 also produces original programming, including the award-winning show Gylne tider. TV2 HD is transmitted in 720p50, List of Norwegian television channels List of programmes broadcast by TV2 TV2 Nyhetene Official website Television schedule
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European Union
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The European Union is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. It has an area of 4,475,757 km2, the EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states. Within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished, a monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002, and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency. The EU operates through a system of supranational and intergovernmental decision-making. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community, the community and its successors have grown in size by the accession of new member states and in power by the addition of policy areas to its remit. While no member state has left the EU or its antecedent organisations, the Maastricht Treaty established the European Union in 1993 and introduced European citizenship. The latest major amendment to the basis of the EU. The EU as a whole is the largest economy in the world, additionally,27 out of 28 EU countries have a very high Human Development Index, according to the United Nations Development Programme. In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, through the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the EU has developed a role in external relations and defence. The union maintains permanent diplomatic missions throughout the world and represents itself at the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the G7, because of its global influence, the European Union has been described as an emerging superpower. After World War II, European integration was seen as an antidote to the nationalism which had devastated the continent. 1952 saw the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, the supporters of the Community included Alcide De Gasperi, Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, and Paul-Henri Spaak. These men and others are credited as the Founding fathers of the European Union. In 1957, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany signed the Treaty of Rome and they also signed another pact creating the European Atomic Energy Community for co-operation in developing nuclear energy. Both treaties came into force in 1958, the EEC and Euratom were created separately from the ECSC, although they shared the same courts and the Common Assembly. The EEC was headed by Walter Hallstein and Euratom was headed by Louis Armand, Euratom was to integrate sectors in nuclear energy while the EEC would develop a customs union among members. During the 1960s, tensions began to show, with France seeking to limit supranational power, Jean Rey presided over the first merged Commission. In 1973, the Communities enlarged to include Denmark, Ireland, Norway had negotiated to join at the same time, but Norwegian voters rejected membership in a referendum
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Coat of arms of Norway
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The coat of arms of Norway is a standing golden lion on a red background, bearing a golden crown and silver blade. The coat of arms is used by the King, the Parliament, and the Supreme Court, since 1905, two parallel versions exist, the original, more complex one used by the King and the simpler one used by the State. In addition, there are former and existing lands, cities, organisations, companies, unless officially granted, it is illegal to use the coat of arms. The axe tended to be depicted as a pollaxe or halberd in the modern period. The heraldic design has been adopted for the Royal Standard of Norway in 1905, the Norwegian Lion, has been a popular and embraced symbol for centuries. This popularity is, not least, visible in older folk art, Royal decree of 20 May 1927 states, The coat of arms of the Realm may be used only by the states authorities in the exercise of their official activity. The coat of arms may be used by the Royal Court, by the government and its ministries, by the parliament, by the law courts, matters of the coat of arms are treated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The state coat of arms has no achievement save the surmounting crown, the royal coat of arms is defined in the resolution of 30 December 1905. In the coat of arms of the realm, a royal crown is placed directly on top of the shield. In the royal coat of arms, the shield of the arms of the realm is on a purple lined ermine with a royal crown on top. Three sides of the shield are surrounded by the collar of the Royal Order of St. Olaf, the following coats of arms are displayed with the collar of the Order of St. Olaf. However, not all Princes and Princesses are Grand Cross holders or, for sake, members of this order at all. The design of the coat of arms is derived from that of the Sverre dynasty, Hallvard Trætteberg in 1814 suggested that Sverre, who was king between 1184 and 1202, had a lion in his coat of arms, although there is no direct attestation. Snorre Sturlason claims that a lion on a red background was used already in 1103 by King Magnus III. Gustav Storm in 1894 concluded that this is ahistorical, Storm explained that the claimed lion in King Magnuss coat of arms is unknown both in the older Saga literature and in other contemporary sources. It is possible that Snorre, who wrote under the instruction of the King, a lion is shown on the coat of arms in the seal of Earl Skule Bårdsson, dated 1225, who had relations to the royal family. Haakon Haakonson the Old had a lion in his seal, shown as lying between the feet of the seated king, a royal coat of arms with a lion is finally seen on the seal of Haakon Haakonson the Young, dated 1250. The first instance of the bearing an axe is found in a seal of Eric II
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Joshua King (footballer)
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Joshua Christian Kojo Josh King is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Bournemouth and the Norway national team. King was signed by Manchester United from Vålerenga in 2008, after loan spells with Preston North End, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hull City and Blackburn Rovers, he signed permanently with Blackburn in January 2013, before switching to Bournemouth in May 2015. Born in Oslo, to a Gambian father and a Norwegian mother and he began his career with the local club, Romsås IL, before switching to Vålerenga when he was 15. While at Vålerenga, King trained with English side Manchester United on multiple occasions and he also had trial offers from Chelsea, Sunderland and Ipswich Town, but rejected those in favour of Manchester United. King signed for Manchester United when he turned 16 in January 2008 and he played just once more in the league that season, as well as making five substitute appearances in the Blue Stars Youth Cup in May 2008. He began the season by scoring four goals in four matches as the Manchester United Under-17s won the 2008 Milk Cup. He then played in two matches at the start of the 2008–09 Premier Academy League season before an injury in October 2008 kept him out until January 2009, two games after his comeback, King scored twice in a 5–0 win over Bolton Wanderers on 31 January 2009. He then made his first start of the season for the Under-18s against Manchester City on 14 February, only to miss the next two months of the season. He returned at the start of April 2009, just in time to play in the run-in to the end of the Under-18 league season, as United finished in second place,19 points behind winners Manchester City. At the start of the 2009–10 season, King came on as a substitute for Zoran Tošić in the final of the Lancashire Senior Cup and he was given the number 41 jersey and came on as an 81st-minute substitute for goalscorer Danny Welbeck. Although King had two opportunities to add to Uniteds lead, the match finished 1–0 and United progressed to the round of the competition. He was again named as a substitute for the fourth match against Barnsley. He made his debut the day, coming on as a 70th-minute substitute for Paul Hayes in Prestons 2–0 defeat by Doncaster Rovers on the opening day of the 2010–11 season. He had earlier added an assist after running 60 yards down the wing and crossing for Paul Hayes second goal – the fourth of the match. King played in seven of Prestons first 12 league games, but suffered an injury at the end of October 2010 that ruled him out for the rest of the loan. After his return to Manchester United, King was a regular in the team, playing in 17 of the last 18 games of the season. He was also regularly on the scoresheet, particularly in the Manchester Senior Cup, in which he scored twice in an 8–0 win over Bury and three times in a 6–1 win over Rochdale. In recognition of his performances in the half of the season, King was rewarded with a new two-year contract with Manchester United
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Christian Landu Landu
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Christian Landu Landu is a Norwegian footballer currently playing for Tromsø. Landu Landu is of Congolese descent, but has represented Norway at youth international level, Landu Landu was born in Stavanger and started his career in local club Tasta, before he joined Viking in 2005. He trained with the Viking first-team for the first time in 2006, egil Østenstad described him as a talented player. He made his debut for the Viking first team as substitute in a Norwegian Premier League match on 3 August 2008, in the 2009 season he made 4 appearances for the first team, with another 12 following in the 2010 season. In November 2009 the players agent claimed he was on trial at Liverpool and he has been capped at all levels from U15 to U21 by Norway. He was born in Stavanger to parents of Congolese ancestry and his father played football in his home country, but never at top level. He was at a young age brought to football by friends and he started his career as a goalkeeper, but thought that was boring after a while. He said that he suited best to a role in an interview in 2009. As of 14 November 2016 Profile on Viking FK website
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Thomas Drage
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Thomas Drage is a Norwegian football player who plays for Falkenbergs FF as a midfielder. Drages breakout season came in 2011 and he led his team in assists, contributing 11 of them, placing him as runner-up behind Strømsgodsets Øyvind Storflor on the list of most assists in the league. Drage was also named Tromsøs player of the year, the award, Årets Isbjørn, is handed out annually by Tromsøs supporters and decided through a fan poll. Drage received 52. 2% of the votes, thanks to his fine play, Drage was rewarded with a salary increase and a new four-year contract with Tromsø at the end of the 2011 season. He won his first cap for Norway on 18 January 2012 at the 2012 Kings Cup and he came on as a substitute against Thailand, replacing Tarik Elyounoussi at half-time
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Fredrik Haugen
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Fredrik Haugen is a Norwegian footballer who plays for SK Brann as a midfielder. On 4 December 2008, a 16-year-old Haugen signed a contract with Løv-Ham. Upon the signing, Løv-Ham manager Trond Amundsen described Haugen as a central midfielder. has a very smart footballing head and he made his professional debut on 26 April 2009 as a late substitution against Sogndal. In his second appearance, Haugen, despite coming on as an 80th minute substitution, on 18 June 2009, Løv-Ham beat Start in a penalty shoot-out which finished 14-13 in the Norwegian Cup - Haugen showed calmness to score two penalties in the shoot-out. As the season progressed, he began to start with regularity, amounting thirteen starts in 2009, throughout the autumn, Haugen spent most of his time training with Brann. As of 7 April 2017 brann. no profile fotball. no profile
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Markus Henriksen
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Markus Henriksen is a Norwegian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League side Hull City. He is the son of the former Rosenborg player and manager, Henriksen moved from Trond IL to Rosenborg as a boy. He proved himself early on as an midfielder, showing traits of footballing intelligence, basic skill. Henriksen made his Rosenborg debut in a cup game against Gjøvik-Lyn on 10 May 2009 and his Tippeligaen debut came later that year when he was a late substitute for Trond Olsen against Sandefjord on 20 September 2009. Despite aggregating little over half an hour of football that season, in 2010, Henriksen became a regular fixture in the Rosenborg side under Erik Hamrén and continued to do so when Nils Arne Eggen replaced the outgoing Hamrén. He played in 28 of a possible 30 games,26 appearances as a first team starter and he scored his first professional goals against Odd Grenland on 11 April 2010 where his brace inspired Rosenborg to a 3–1 comeback. On 21 July 2010, Henriksens first goal in Europe culminated Linfield to a 2–0 loss in the Champions League second qualifying round. Scouts from Werder Bremen attended the match to watch Henriksen, but Rosenborgs sporting director, Henriksen put an end to any speculation on 6 August 2010 when he extended his contract till the end of 2013. His agent, Andreas Ekker admitted that Markus could have gone to a club by now. He went on to two more goals in Champions League qualifying that year and scored once more against Atlético Madrid in the Europa League group stages on 4 November 2010. His excellent season, in which he helped Rosenborg to a league title, was rewarded with numerous awards including NISO Young Male Player of the Year. With the sale of Anthony Annan to Schalke before the start of the 2011 season, after three games, in which Rosenborg conceded ten goals, Jan Jönsson aborted plans on making Henriksen a defensive midfielder and brought in Fredrik Winsnes to play alongside him. Henriksen returning to his favoured box-to-box role instantly saw Rosenborg win 2–0 in back-to-back games, on Issahs arrival, Henriksen told TV2 Sport, Im beginning to become more offensive and Ive brought more to each game since Issah has arrived. On 21 September of that year, the Daily Mirror reported that Aston Villa were interested in Henriksen whilst Napoli had also known to have scouted him. Henriksen furthered speculation linking him abroad in a November interview with Aftenposten, I want to try, I think Id best fit Germany, so it is my dream to play in a good team in the Bundesliga. Late on 27 January 2012, Henriksen left Rosenborgs training camp in Benidorm for Belgium to complete a €2 million move to Club Brugge, Rosenborg cited economic reasons as to why the offer was accepted. The next day, however, Henriksen confirmed on his personal Twitter account that he had turned down a move to Club Brugge by stating, turned down Brugge because of my gut feeling and the total package. For Henriksen this would be his last season at the club
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Ulrikke Eikeri
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Ulrikke Pia Eikeri is a Norwegian tennis player. Eikeri has won eight singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career, on 6 October 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 209. On 18 February 2013, she peaked at world number 188 in the doubles rankings, in 2010, Eikeri reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in girls doubles, alongside Camila Silva, and the finals of both singles and doubles at the Dunlop Orange Bowl. Playing for Norway at the Fed Cup, Eikeri has a record of 23–13. Ulrikke Eikeri at the Womens Tennis Association Ulrikke Eikeri at the International Tennis Federation Ulrikke Eikeri at the Fed Cup
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Jens Arup Seip
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He was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1952 to 1975, he specialized in political history and the history of ideas. He was married to fellow historian Anne-Lise Seip, seips use of the Norwegian language and his writing style which numerous historians have described as brilliant, and often tried emulating. Seip was included among the 16 authors of The Norwegian literary canon from 1900 to 1960, Seip received an honorary doctorate at the University of Bergen from 1975. Jens Arup Seip was born in Bolsøy, near Molde and he was a descendent of military officer and politician Andreas Martin Seip. Andreas grandson Jens Laurits Arup Seip, brother of politician Karl Seip, was the father of academic Didrik Arup Seip and politician Hans Kristian Seip, the couple lived at Høvik in Bærum, and had two children, Ingebjørg and Åsmund, both of whom are academics. He died in September 1992 in Bærum and he graduated as cand. philol. in 1931. He then worked for the National Archival Services of Norway from 1941, the same year his uncle Didrik Arup Seip was removed by the Nazi occupants from his position as rector. Jens Arup Seip completed his thesis Sættargjerden i Tunsberg og kirkens jurisdiksjon in 1942 and he worked as a lecturer in history from 1946, and was also a consultant at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1946 to 1958. From 1955 to 1966 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association, in 1952 he was promoted to the position of professor. In addition, he drifted from his specialty in medieval history to political history. Among his most important publications were Fra embedsmannsstat til ettpartistat and Utsikt over Norges historie in two volumes and he retired from the position as professor in 1975, incidentally the same year that his wife was appointed to the Institute of History. Many of his terms have entered the Norwegian historio-political lexicon
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Trond Hegna
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Trond Hegna was a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Norwegian Labour Party and the Communist Party of Norway. It was here the paper and the organization Mot Dag was founded in 1921 and he edited the paper between 1926 and 1928, remaining throughout its existence a central contributor, and was chairman for the Norwegian Students Society in 1924 and 1926. Between 1924-25 he was editor-in-chief in Rjukan Arbeiderblad, when Mot Dag became a part of the Communist Party of Norway in 1927, Hegna also became the editor for Norges Kommunistblad in a period. He left the party in 1929 along with most of the members of Mot Dag, between 1932 and 1936 he was also one of the editors of Arbeidernes Leksikon. When Mot Dag was dissolved in 1936, Hegna again became a member of the Norwegian Labour Party, between 1939 and 1940 he was the editor of Vestfold Arbeiderblad, and in 1940 he became editor of 1ste Mai in Stavanger. After the war, he became editor of 1ste Mai. He was a member of Stavanger city council from 1945 to 1955 and he was in the national board of the Labour Party between 1949 and 1953 and deputy chairman of the party group at Stortinget from 1958. Hegna also wrote books, among these books about the Soviet Union, about genealogy. In 1983 he published the autobiography Min versjon, Hegna is the grandfather of Norwegian comedian Anne-Kat Hærland
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