...that the
trophy awarded to the first winners of
Norwegian film award Amanda, at a weight of 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs), was difficult for some recipients to lift?
...that Svinøy island of
Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's
lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a
crane?
...that HNoMS Heimdal (pictured) became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for
illegal fishing when she seized the British
trawlerLord Roberts in 1911?
...that controversy has arisen over whether
Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
...that Leif J. Sverdrup was an immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a
civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long
Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?
...that Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times?
...that the painting Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten(pictured) by
Hans Gude was sold by the
Kunsthalle Bremen art museum in part because its large size — 4.76 m² (52 square feet) — made it difficult to store?
...that Knut Rød, a
Norwegian police inspector who arranged the
deportation of over 500
Jews to
Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
...that Hans Gude (pictured) replaced
Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the
Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on
aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the
magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing
formulae for
π?
...that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from
Hans Gude because she was a woman?
...that after
Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian
seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
... that the
Norwegian lake Lutvann (pictured) leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel
Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
... that
Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen (pictured) caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
...that the
NorwegianriverLysakerelven (section pictured), an
ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the
Oslofjord?
...that while his father-in-law, brother and son were national politicians, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen concentrated on entrepreneurship, establishing the railway car factory
Strømmens Værksted (factory hall pictured)?
...that only the hero
Sigurd could remove the sword that the god
Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr (pictured), which stood in King
Völsung's hall?
...that Castle Rushen (pictured) in the
Isle of Man was founded by the Norse king
Magnus III in the 13th century and used today as a museum and lawcourt?
...that Toralv Øksnevad was known as the "voice from London" during the
Second World War, when listening to foreign radio was a crime punishable by death in
Norway?
... that the Flekkefjord Line (station pictured) was built to be part of the main line from
Stavanger to
Oslo, but a change of plans made it only a
branch line?
...that in 2018, when the Follo Line (southern terminus pictured) is completed in
Norway, it will reduce travel time between
Oslo and
Ski from 22 to 11 minutes?
...that Jon Tvedt (pictured) took up competitive
mountain running in his late thirties, his career in
orienteering having peaked several years earlier?
...that the forger who wrote an extra verse to the
Norwegian Christmas song Musevisa claimed to have been inspired by the
Hitler Diaries?
...that Olav Ulleren, who in 1999 left his position as
mayor of
Tinn, Norway (administrative centre pictured) to become a
State Secretary, lost his new position after less than one year?
...that one year after delivery, six of eleven NSB Class 93 trains were out of service due to technical problems?
...that the NSB Class 66 (pictured) was the first
Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
...that having witnessed the effects of a market attack in the
2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict during a ban of international press, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert started a global
SMS campaign?
...that development of the Namsos Line (pictured) was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the
Nordland Line used another route via
Snåsa, and in 1927, when the Norwegian
Minister of Labour stopped construction?
...that the
Trondheim Tramway of
Norway could not sell their used Class 8 trams (pictured) because they had the unique combination of 260 cm (100 in) width and
meter gauge?
...that in the middle of building Fagernes Airport, Leirin, the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the
runway length?
...that the skating club Christiania Skøiteklub (club member pictured) had more than 5,000 members in 1870, when the city
Christiania had fewer than 70,000 inhabitants?
...that Norwegian
speed skaterRandi Thorvaldsen won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible?
...that when the Vika Line (pictured) opened in 1995, it was the first new street line of the
Oslo Tramway since 1939?
...that, during a television interview,
Romanian politician Elena Udrea made reference to the "President of
Norway", apparently unaware that the country is a
monarchy?
...that having suffered a
stroke in 1972,
neuroanatomistAlf Brodal published the article Self-Observations and Neuro-Anatomical Considerations After a Stroke in the journal Brain in 1973?
...that Ebba Haslund'sadolescence novelNothing Happened was virtually ignored by the press when it was first issued in
Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded as one of her most important books?
...that in 1940 the unarmed Norwegian steamship Dronning Maud was sunk (pictured) by
German aircraft while she was flying
Red Cross flags and carrying a company of medical personnel?
...that editor Ola Thommessen(caricatured as dog) left the newspaper Verdens Gang in 1910, founding Tidens Tegn, which bought Verdens Gang only thirteen years later?
...that
Lady Inger’s daughter’s scandalous behavior enabled Jens Tillufssøn Bjelke, while of lesser nobility, to marry into leading Norwegian nobility?
...that Jørgine Boomer, born and raised in a remote
valley in Norway, rose to prominence as an executive at the
Waldorf-Astoria, befriending a generation of celebrities?
...that the house where
Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten, was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944 (aftermath pictured)?
...that following the Grue Church fire on
Pentecost 1822 in
Solør,
Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
...that Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper?
...that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the
NorwegianParliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad(pictured), ten years earlier?
...that due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date SL95 trams (pictured) of
Oslo,
Norway, were ordered until all units were in service?
...that
Norwegian ship-owner Ludvig G. Braathen founded the airline
Braathens SAFE(DC-3 in 1952 pictured) in 1946 to serve his ships in the Far East with supplies and crew?
...that Otto Nielsen played an important role behind the Norwegian cultural scene, as a program editor of the radio magazine Søndagsposten for more than twenty years?
...that the first winner of the contest to design the Parliament of Norway Building was rejected because it looked too much like a church (design pictured)?
...that Bjørn Kjos(pictured), former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of
Norwegian Air Shuttle, débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
...that although the Kongsvegen glacier(pictured) has been retreating in length since 1948, its ice mass has been increasing consistently for the past 22 years?
...that
Mount Widerøe, Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe, who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
...that after the
German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, Bulletinen was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the
civil resistance?
...that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during
World War II, she started the theatre group Fri Norsk Scene, together with her husband
Halfdan Christensen(pictured)?
...that Nordahl Rolfsen's (pictured)readers for
elementary school, Læsebog for folkeskolen (published 1892–1895), became the most widely used schoolbook in Norway?
...that Peter Rosted served as chief judge at Inderøy District Court for 46 years, from 1733 to 1776?
...that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian
sound film, Den store barnedåpen from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
...that it is said that when the 10th-century
Viking leader Onlafbald invoked the power of his Norse gods
Thor(depiction pictured) and
Odin, he was miraculously killed by the spirit of the 7th-century English saint
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne?
...that in 1942, following the printing of the poem "Vi vil oss et land", an arrest order was issued on poet Per Sivle (1857–1904) (memorial stone pictured)?
...that the
North Atlantic Current moderates the climate of Svalbard(Spitsbergen pictured in October), giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperatures than those at similar latitudes in Russia and Canada?
...that
Time magazine described Aake Anker Ording, who initiated the international
fundraiserUnited Nations Appeal for Children, as "Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer"?
...that Jon Hippe, who suggested higher taxes as a way to reduce the gap between rich and poor, was appointed leader of the
Norwegian Financial Crisis Committee by the
Ministry of Finance?
...that
Pan Am and Norwegian Air Lines(flying boat pictured) planned the first
transatlantic scheduled airline service in 1936, but Pan Am backed out three weeks before the scheduled start, and instead ran a route further south?
...that the
trophy awarded to the first winners of
Norwegian film award Amanda, at a weight of 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs), was difficult for some recipients to lift?
...that Svinøy island of
Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's
lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a
crane?
...that HNoMS Heimdal (pictured) became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for
illegal fishing when she seized the British
trawlerLord Roberts in 1911?
...that controversy has arisen over whether
Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
...that Leif J. Sverdrup was an immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a
civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long
Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?
...that Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times?
...that the painting Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten(pictured) by
Hans Gude was sold by the
Kunsthalle Bremen art museum in part because its large size — 4.76 m² (52 square feet) — made it difficult to store?
...that Knut Rød, a
Norwegian police inspector who arranged the
deportation of over 500
Jews to
Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
...that Hans Gude (pictured) replaced
Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the
Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on
aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the
magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing
formulae for
π?
...that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from
Hans Gude because she was a woman?
...that after
Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian
seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
... that the
Norwegian lake Lutvann (pictured) leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel
Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
... that
Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen (pictured) caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
...that the
NorwegianriverLysakerelven (section pictured), an
ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the
Oslofjord?
...that while his father-in-law, brother and son were national politicians, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen concentrated on entrepreneurship, establishing the railway car factory
Strømmens Værksted (factory hall pictured)?
...that only the hero
Sigurd could remove the sword that the god
Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr (pictured), which stood in King
Völsung's hall?
...that Castle Rushen (pictured) in the
Isle of Man was founded by the Norse king
Magnus III in the 13th century and used today as a museum and lawcourt?
...that Toralv Øksnevad was known as the "voice from London" during the
Second World War, when listening to foreign radio was a crime punishable by death in
Norway?
... that the Flekkefjord Line (station pictured) was built to be part of the main line from
Stavanger to
Oslo, but a change of plans made it only a
branch line?
...that in 2018, when the Follo Line (southern terminus pictured) is completed in
Norway, it will reduce travel time between
Oslo and
Ski from 22 to 11 minutes?
...that Jon Tvedt (pictured) took up competitive
mountain running in his late thirties, his career in
orienteering having peaked several years earlier?
...that the forger who wrote an extra verse to the
Norwegian Christmas song Musevisa claimed to have been inspired by the
Hitler Diaries?
...that Olav Ulleren, who in 1999 left his position as
mayor of
Tinn, Norway (administrative centre pictured) to become a
State Secretary, lost his new position after less than one year?
...that one year after delivery, six of eleven NSB Class 93 trains were out of service due to technical problems?
...that the NSB Class 66 (pictured) was the first
Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
...that having witnessed the effects of a market attack in the
2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict during a ban of international press, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert started a global
SMS campaign?
...that development of the Namsos Line (pictured) was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the
Nordland Line used another route via
Snåsa, and in 1927, when the Norwegian
Minister of Labour stopped construction?
...that the
Trondheim Tramway of
Norway could not sell their used Class 8 trams (pictured) because they had the unique combination of 260 cm (100 in) width and
meter gauge?
...that in the middle of building Fagernes Airport, Leirin, the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the
runway length?
...that the skating club Christiania Skøiteklub (club member pictured) had more than 5,000 members in 1870, when the city
Christiania had fewer than 70,000 inhabitants?
...that Norwegian
speed skaterRandi Thorvaldsen won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible?
...that when the Vika Line (pictured) opened in 1995, it was the first new street line of the
Oslo Tramway since 1939?
...that, during a television interview,
Romanian politician Elena Udrea made reference to the "President of
Norway", apparently unaware that the country is a
monarchy?
...that having suffered a
stroke in 1972,
neuroanatomistAlf Brodal published the article Self-Observations and Neuro-Anatomical Considerations After a Stroke in the journal Brain in 1973?
...that Ebba Haslund'sadolescence novelNothing Happened was virtually ignored by the press when it was first issued in
Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded as one of her most important books?
...that in 1940 the unarmed Norwegian steamship Dronning Maud was sunk (pictured) by
German aircraft while she was flying
Red Cross flags and carrying a company of medical personnel?
...that editor Ola Thommessen(caricatured as dog) left the newspaper Verdens Gang in 1910, founding Tidens Tegn, which bought Verdens Gang only thirteen years later?
...that
Lady Inger’s daughter’s scandalous behavior enabled Jens Tillufssøn Bjelke, while of lesser nobility, to marry into leading Norwegian nobility?
...that Jørgine Boomer, born and raised in a remote
valley in Norway, rose to prominence as an executive at the
Waldorf-Astoria, befriending a generation of celebrities?
...that the house where
Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten, was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944 (aftermath pictured)?
...that following the Grue Church fire on
Pentecost 1822 in
Solør,
Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
...that Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper?
...that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the
NorwegianParliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad(pictured), ten years earlier?
...that due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date SL95 trams (pictured) of
Oslo,
Norway, were ordered until all units were in service?
...that
Norwegian ship-owner Ludvig G. Braathen founded the airline
Braathens SAFE(DC-3 in 1952 pictured) in 1946 to serve his ships in the Far East with supplies and crew?
...that Otto Nielsen played an important role behind the Norwegian cultural scene, as a program editor of the radio magazine Søndagsposten for more than twenty years?
...that the first winner of the contest to design the Parliament of Norway Building was rejected because it looked too much like a church (design pictured)?
...that Bjørn Kjos(pictured), former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of
Norwegian Air Shuttle, débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
...that although the Kongsvegen glacier(pictured) has been retreating in length since 1948, its ice mass has been increasing consistently for the past 22 years?
...that
Mount Widerøe, Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe, who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
...that after the
German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, Bulletinen was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the
civil resistance?
...that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during
World War II, she started the theatre group Fri Norsk Scene, together with her husband
Halfdan Christensen(pictured)?
...that Nordahl Rolfsen's (pictured)readers for
elementary school, Læsebog for folkeskolen (published 1892–1895), became the most widely used schoolbook in Norway?
...that Peter Rosted served as chief judge at Inderøy District Court for 46 years, from 1733 to 1776?
...that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian
sound film, Den store barnedåpen from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
...that it is said that when the 10th-century
Viking leader Onlafbald invoked the power of his Norse gods
Thor(depiction pictured) and
Odin, he was miraculously killed by the spirit of the 7th-century English saint
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne?
...that in 1942, following the printing of the poem "Vi vil oss et land", an arrest order was issued on poet Per Sivle (1857–1904) (memorial stone pictured)?
...that the
North Atlantic Current moderates the climate of Svalbard(Spitsbergen pictured in October), giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperatures than those at similar latitudes in Russia and Canada?
...that
Time magazine described Aake Anker Ording, who initiated the international
fundraiserUnited Nations Appeal for Children, as "Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer"?
...that Jon Hippe, who suggested higher taxes as a way to reduce the gap between rich and poor, was appointed leader of the
Norwegian Financial Crisis Committee by the
Ministry of Finance?
...that
Pan Am and Norwegian Air Lines(flying boat pictured) planned the first
transatlantic scheduled airline service in 1936, but Pan Am backed out three weeks before the scheduled start, and instead ran a route further south?