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Andebu
Andebu is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Andebu. The parish of Andebo was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
Andebu has large areas of woodland. The main villages are Andebu, Høyjord, and Kodal. The church buildings in all three villages are from the Middle Ages; the one in Høyjord is a stave church (Høyjord stave church) which was built around 1150-1200.
The Old Norse form of the name was Andabú. The meaning of the first element is unknown and the last element is bú which means "district". Prior to 1889, the name was written "Andebo".
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 12 December 1986. The arms show three silver triangles, each for one of the three villages/parishes in the municipality: Andebu, Høyjord, and Kodal. The three triangles also form a the letter A, the initial of the municipality. The colour green represents agriculture and forestry
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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean seas of the Atlantic Ocean. Alternatively, the Arctic Ocean can be seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing World Ocean.
Almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America, the Arctic Ocean is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year (and almost completely in winter). The Arctic Ocean's temperature and salinity vary seasonally as the ice cover melts and freezes; its salinity is the lowest on average of the five major oceans, due to low evaporation, heavy freshwater inflow from rivers and streams, and limited connection and outflow to surrounding oceanic waters with higher salinities. The summer shrinking of the ice has been quoted at 50%. The US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) uses satellite data to provide a daily record of Arctic sea ice cover and the rate of melting compared to an average period and specific past years.
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Arendal
Arendal (help·info) is a town and municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. Arendal belongs to the traditional region of Sørlandet.
The town of Arendal is the administrative center of the municipality and also of Aust-Agder county. Other villages in the municipality include Tromøy, Rykene, Eydehavn, Strengereid, Kongshamn, Kilsund, and Hisøy.
The offices of UNEP/GRID-Arendal are located in the town of Arendal.
The Old Norse form of the name was probably Arnardalr. The first element is the genitive case of ǫrn, 'eagle' and the last element is dalr, meaning 'valley' or 'dale'.
The coat-of-arms were granted on 7 November 1924 (based upon an older seal). The arms show a sailing ship as a symbol for the importance of fisheries and sailing to the local economy. A ship appeared on the oldest known seal of the town, dating back to the 17th century. In the late 19th and early 20th century the arms showed the ship in the upper part and a landscape with the coat of arms of Norway in the base of the shield.
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Askim
Askim (help·info) is a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Askim. Askim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
Askim is the largest population centre in Indre Østfold with 14,472 inhabitants (2008). It lies next to the longest river in Norway, Glomma, which forms the border with Spydeberg to the north and west, and Skiptvet to the south. Askim also borders Trøgstad to the northeast and Eidsberg to the southeast.
Askim produces large amounts of hydroelectricity at three dams. From upstream to downstream: Solbergfoss, Kykkelsrud, then Vamma. There was nickel mining at Kykkelsrud at the turn of the 20th century. These mines are also one of the few places where "kulenoritt" is found.
An industrial city for most of the 20th century, the main employer, Viking, shut down its rubber product manufaction in 1992. Glava is the main employer today.
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Askim farm (Old Norse: Askheimr), since the first church was built here. The first element is askr which means "ash tree" and the last element is heimr which means "home", "homestead", or "farm".
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Askøy
Askøy is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Since the opening of the Askøy Bridge leading to the mainland in Bergen in 1992, the population has increased rapidly. Its population growth is as of 2008 among the highest in Norway. Most of the population growth is due to immigration from Bergen, Nordhordland and Midhordland.
The first element is the name Askøy came from the farm Ask (Old Norse: Askr) and the last element is øy, meaning "island". The name of the farm is identical with the word askr, meaning "ash tree". Until 1918 the name was written "Askøen".
The coat-of-arms was granted on 28 September 1961. The arms are a canting showing an ash tree (aske) on an island (øy) with waves of the sea in the base of the shield.
The parish of Askøen was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Laksevåg was separated from Askøy on 1 July 1918. Most of Herdla was merged with Askøy on 1 January 1964.
Askøy is home to several sports teams. Askøy Fotballklub is an association football club, formed in 1999 by the merger of Florvåg Idrettsforening and Kleppestø Fotball. The club has a large number of teams, of which the majority are junior football teams. The men's senior team plays in the Norwegian third division as of 2008. The oldest sports club on the island is Ask Idrettslag, mainly an athletics club, founded in 1928.
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Bergen
Bergen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈbærɡən] (
listen)) is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway. As of 26 June 2012, the municipality had a population of 265,800 and Greater Bergen had a population of 391,000, making Bergen the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and area of 465 square kilometers (180 sq mi) and is located on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city center and northern neighborhoods are located on Byfjorden and the city is built around the Seven Mountains. Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are located on islands. Bergen is the administrative center of Hordaland and consists of eight boroughs—Arna, Årstad, Åsane, Bergenhus, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg and Ytrebygda.
Trading in Bergen may have started as early as the 1020s, but the city was not incorporated until 1070. It served as Norway's capital from 1217 to 1299, and from the end of the 13th century became a bureau city of the Hanseatic League. Until 1789, Bergen enjoyed exclusive rights to mediate trade between Northern Norway and abroad. The remains of the quays, Bryggen, is a World Heritage Site. The city was hit by numerous fires. The Norwegian School of Economics was founded in 1936 and the University of Bergen in 1946. From 1831 to 1972, Bergen was its own county, after which Bergen amalgamated with the surrounding municipalities.
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Bodø
Bodø (help·info) is a town and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten and it is the capital of Nordland county. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø. Other villages in Bodø include Misvær, Skjerstad, Saltstraumen, Løding, Løpsmarka, Kjerringøy, Sørvær, and Fenes.
Bodø, located just north of the Arctic Circle, is the largest urban area in Nordland county, and the second-largest in North Norway.
The village of Bodø was granted township status in 1816 and is now the capital of Nordland county. The town of Bodø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1938, a part of the municipality of Bodin (population: 559) was transferred into the town of Bodø. On 1 January 1959, another part of Bodin (population: 1,303) was transferred into Bodø.
On 1 January 1968, the municipality of Bodin was merged into the town of Bodø, doubling the population of the town. On 1 January 1984, the Tårnvika and Øygården areas (population: 22) northeast of Kjerringøy in Sørfold municipality was transferred to Bodø. On 1 January 2005, the entire municipality of Skjerstad was merged into the municipality of Bodø.
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Drammen
Drammen is an industrial city in Buskerud County, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the eastern and most populated part of Norway.
There are more than 63 000 inhabitants in the municipality, but the city is the regional capital of an area with more than 150,000 inhabitants. Drammen and the surrounding communities are growing more than ever before. The city makes good use of the river and inland waterway called Drammensfjord, both for recreation, activities and housing. No city in the country has received as many awards for environmental and urban development as Drammen: 6 national and 2 international prizes since 2003.
The Old Norse form of the city's name was Drafn, and this was originally the name of the inner part of Drammensfjord. The fjord is, however, probably named after the river Drammenselva (Norse Drǫfn), and this again is derived from drǫfn f 'wave'. The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 17 November 1960. The arms are blue with a gray/silver column on top of a foundation of rocks. A key and a sword are crossed in the middle forming an x. It is based upon the old seal dating from 1723 for Bragernes, one of the central parts of Drammen. The motto for Bragernes (in Latin) was In Fide Et Justitia Fortitudo (English: in faith and justice is strength), and the items in the seal are referring to this: key = faith, sword = justice, column on rocks = strength.
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Drøbak
Drøbak is a town and the centre of the municipality of Frogn, in Akershus county, Norway. The city is located along the Oslofjord, and has 13,358 inhabitants.
Drøbak and Frogn was a established as a parish on its own through a royal decree Sept. 8, 1823. It had been a part of Ås parish.
Drøbak was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). It was merged with Frogn January 1, 1962.
Traditionally, Drøbak was the winter harbour of Norway's capital, Oslo, since in severe winters the fjord will freeze from outside Drøbak all the way up to Oslo. It had a city status between 1842 and 1962, upon which point the municipality was merged into the rural municipality Frogn and lost its city status. The city status was regained by the municipality council on 13 February 2006. It was also decided that adjacent villages such as Heer would be included within the city.
A notable event in Drøbak's history is the World War II sinking of the German cruiser Blücher in the Drøbak narrows, on the early morning of 9 April 1940. The cruiser was transporting German soldiers and bureaucrats for the planned swift occupation of Oslo, but the sinking by the Oscarsborg fortress delayed this, and thus allowed for the evacuation of the Norwegian Royal Family, parliament, and cabinet, and for the nation's gold reserves to be denied the occupiers.
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Elverum
Elverum (help·info) is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Elverum. The municipality of Elverum was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
Elverum lies at an important crossroads, with Hamar to the west, Kongsvinger to the south, and Trysil on the Swedish border to the northeast. It is bordered on the north by Åmot municipality, in the northeast by Trysil municipality, in the southeast by Våler, and in the west by Løten.
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Elverum farm (Old Norse: Alfarheimr), since the first church was built here. The first element is the genitive case of elfr which means "river" (here the Glomma river) and the last element is heimr which means "home/homestead" or "farm".
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 9 December 1988. The arms show a gold-colored owl on a red field. This was chosen as a symbol for wisdom since there are many schools in the municipality. The owl also seems somewhat aggressive, to represent the fighting spirit of Norwegians. In 1940, when Norway was under attack from the German forces, King Haakon VII received the power from the parliament to govern the country, in its best interests while he was in Elverum.
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European route E18
European route E18 runs from Craigavon in the United Kingdom to Saint Petersburg in Russia, passing through Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It is about 1,890 km (1,174 mi) in length.
The route starts in Northern Ireland and runs from Craigavon (M1) – Belfast (M2, A8) – Larne, then to Scotland: Stranraer (A75) – Gretna (M6) – Carlisle (A69) to Newcastle. Like all European routes, it is not signposted as such in the United Kingdom.
The route continues as a motorway from Kristiansand in Norway (although scheduled ferry connection between Newcastle and Kristiansand ceased).
E18 is connected with the E39 Ferry to Denmark. The ferry runs from Kristansand to Hirtshals, takes about 3 hours and 15 minutes, and is operated by Color Line.
In Norway and Sweden the E18 runs Kristiansand – Arendal – Porsgrunn – Larvik – Sandefjord – Tønsberg – Horten – Drammen – Oslo – Ås – Askim – Karlstad (in Sweden) – Örebro – Västerås – Stockholm/Kapellskär.
The connection over the Baltic Sea from Sweden to Turku/Naantali Finland is by cruiseferries operated by Silja Line and Viking Line. It is also possible to take a direct route to Helsinki. In theory it is also possible to cross the sea via Åland and the Åboland islands by island hopping over bridges, by cable ferries and ferries along the Archipelago Ring Road, but this route is not signposted as being part of the E18.
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Finnmark
Finnmark (help·info) or Finnmárku (Northern Sami) is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland (Lapland) to the south and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.
The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt, and since 2002, has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Sami language). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.
Situated at the Northernmost part of continental Europe, where Norway swings eastward, Finnmark has always been an area where east meets west, in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in the country, is located farther east than St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
The Norse form of the name was Finnmörk. The first element is finn(ar), the Norse name for the Sámi people. The last element is mörk which means "woodland" or "borderland". In Norse times the name was referring to any places where Sámi people were living (also parts of Southern Norway).
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Gjøvik
Gjøvik (help·info) is a town and a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik.
In 1861, the village of Gjøvik in the municipality of Vardal was granted town status and was separated from Vardal to form a separate municipality. On 1 January 1964, the neighboring rural municipalities of Biri, Snertingdal, and Vardal were all merged into the municipality of Gjøvik.
The town is named after the old Gjøvik farm (Old Norse: Djúpvík) since the town is built on its ground. The first element is djúpr which means "deep" and the last element is vík which means "inlet".
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 2 September 1960. The arms show a white swan (Cygnus cygnus). The boat, Skibladner (also called "the white swan of Mjøsa") has its home harbour in Gjøvik.
The former coat-of-arms, adopted in 1922, was a linden tree, with the statement Vis et voluntas (meaning "Force and will") on the lower part of the shield. The runner up to the somewhat irrational choice of a swan was a so called "potpourri" vase, the most significant design of the glassworks that was the funding industry of the town.
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Halden
Halden (help·info) is a both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the mouth of Tista River on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden.
Evidence of early human settlements in this region of Norway have been found, particularly in the Svinesund area of the municipality where evidence of early settlements from the Nordic Bronze Age have been found. Named after a small farm Hallen (English: "rise" or "slope") first mentioned in 1629, "Halden", became the city Fredrikshald in 1665 for Frederick III of Denmark. The Gud med oss (God be with us) coat-of-arms created in 1665 shows a knight standing on a mountain, yellow on a blue background and was inspired the bravery of the citizens of the city in the Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660).
As a reference to the town's citizens burning their own houses to prevent them being taken on 4 July 1716 by the forces of King Charles XII of Sweden, Halden is one of only two cities in Norway's national anthem. In 1718, the Great Northern War ended when Karl XII was shot and killed at the Fredriksten fortress. The fortress had been erected in the 17th century as a replacement for the Bohus Fortress lost at the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658 when Bohuslän was ceded to Sweden.
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Hamar
Hamar (help·info) is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849. Vang was merged back into Hamar on 1 January 1992.
The town is located on the shores of lake Mjøsa, Norway's largest lake, and is the principal city of Hedmark county. It is bordered to the northwest by the municipality of Ringsaker, to the north by Åmot, to the east by Løten, and to the south by Stange.
The municipality (originally the town) is named after the old Hamar farm (Old Norse: Hamarr), since the medieval town was built on its ground. The name is identical with the word hamarr which means "rocky hill".
The coat-of-arms shows a Black Grouse sitting in the top of a pine tree on a white background. It was first described in the anonymous Hamarkrøniken (The Hamar Chronicle) written in 1553.
Between 500 and 1000 AD, Aker farm was one of the most important power centres in Norway, located just a few kilometres away from today's Hamar. Three coins found in Ringerike in 1895 have been dated to the time of Harald Hardråde and are inscribed Olafr a Hamri.
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Haugesund
Haugesund (help·info) is a town and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.
Haugesund was separated from Torvastad as a town and municipality of its own in 1855. The rural municipality of Skåre was merged with Haugesund on January 1, 1958. Haugesund is a small municipality, only 73 km². The population is 34,619, giving the municipality a population density of 509 people per km².
The town is situated on a strategically important sound through which ships could pass without traversing heavy seas. In the early years the coastal waters off Haugesund were a huge source of herring, and the town grew accordingly. Despite being barely a village back then, King Harald Fairhair lived at Avaldsnes, very close to the modern town of Haugesund. In the last decades, the town, like its neighbours, has been turning towards the petroleum industry, the herring being long gone.
Haugesund is the main cultural centre for its region, and is home to several festivals, the largest being the Norwegian International Film Festival and Sildajazz, an international jazz festival with approximately 70 bands and close to 200 concerts.[citation needed]
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Holmestrand
Holmestrand (help·info) is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Holmestrad. The city was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The neighboring rural municipality of Botne was merged into the municipality of Holmestrand on 1 January 1964.
The city lies by the Oslofjord and is built beside the water. It was granted city status in 1752, but had been a harbor for exporting of timber/lumber since around 1550. The city has developed inland in recent years, after the inclusion of Botne.
The Old Norse form of the name was Holmastrand. The first element is the genitive case of holmi which means "(rocky) hill" and the last element is strand which means "shore", "beach", or "strand".
The coat-of-arms is relatively modern, granted on 14 November 1898. The arms show a silver eagle holding a gold anchor in its left claw and a gold Rod of Asclepius in its right claw all on a red background. The eagle in the arms is derived from the arms of the merchant Johan Heinrich Tordenskiold, who, in 1819, donated all his fortune to build a school in Holmestrand. The eagle also gave its name to the main ship of the merchant, which is shown on the breast-shield, the White Eagle. The anchor symbolises the importance of Holmestrand as a harbour town. The snake on the Rod of Asclepius is the symbol of medicine and symbolises the former health spa in Holmestrand that existed in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Horten
Horten (help·info) is a town and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the villages of Borre, Åsgårdstrand, Skoppum, and Nykirke.
The town of Horten was separated from the municipality of Borre to become a municipality of its own in 1858. The neighboring municipalities of Borre and Horten were merged back together on 1 January 1988. The name of the new united municipality was first Borre, but after a referendum it was changed to Horten on 1 June 2002.
The local newspaper in Horten is named Gjengangeren, and covers mostly local news. It is also available online (see external links section).
Horten is about a two hour commute from Oslo.
The town is named after the old Horten farm (called "Hortan" in 1552), since it is built on its ground. The name seems to be the finite form of hort m 'bulge' (but here in a weak form, Norse *horti). Several hills and mountains in Norway have the name Horten (or Horta, femininum), and here it could be referring to the hill Brårudåsen lying in the middle of the town.
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Hønefoss
Hønefoss is a town in Buskerud county, Norway, and the center of the municipality of Ringerike. It is located 63 kilometres northwest by road from the Norwegian capital of Oslo.
In 1852, Hønefoss received town status and was separated from Norderhov. Hønefoss celebrated its 150th year of township in 2002. In 1964, Hønefoss ceased being a separate municipality and became part of Ringerike.
Hønefoss is located north of lake Tyrifjorden, where the river Begna forms the waterfall of Hønefossen, giving the town its name. Hønefoss is an industrial center of inner Østlandet, containing several factories and other industry. As of 1 January 2008, Hønefoss has 14,177 inhabitants.
The city is named after a waterfall in the Begna River. The first element is the name of the old farm Hønen (Norse *Hœnvin), the last element is foss m 'waterfall'. The name of the farm is a compound of a word *hœn- (with an unknown meaning) and vin f 'meadow'.
Hønefoss is home to several factories and other industry, with the Norske Skog Follum paper mill traditionally having had a significant impact on the town. The paper mill, one of the largest producers of newsprint in Europe, opened in 1873.
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Jessheim
Jessheim is a large village in the Ullensaker municipality in Akershus of Norway.
The name "Jessheim" is from Norse Jasseimr or Jesseímr where the first part has unknown origin, while the second part (heimr) means home. It is also possible that the first part "Jess" can mean jarl or jarls (earls). The name was originally used for the Hovin parish.
The railroad had at the initial construction of the railroad in 1854 called the stop "Trøgstad", but because of confusion with the town name Trøgstad in Østfold, the name was changed in 1897 to "Jessum". This name was used blasphemically, for example by military recruits who said they had passed through Bøn (town north of Jessheim) which sounds like "prayer" in Norwegian to Jessum, which could sound like Jesus. The priests in the area complained to the bishop who in 1900 brought the case up with the local council and suggested the form "Jessheim". The name was changed to "Jesseim". In 1920 the railroad changed the spelling to the current form, Jessheim.
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Kongsberg
Kongsberg (help·info) is a town and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is located at the southern end of the traditional region of Numedal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsberg.
The town was founded in 1624 under the name Konings Bierg by Danish-Norwegian king Christian IV as a mining community. It was granted its royal charter of trade—amounting to official township—in 1802. The municipality of Kongsberg was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Ytre Sandsvær and Øvre Sandsvær were merged into the municipality of Kongsberg on 1 January 1964.
Today, Kongsberg is perhaps best known for being the home of Norway's major defense contractor, Kongsberg Gruppen, formerly Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk. Two of its well known products were the Kongsberg Colt and the Krag-Jørgensen rifle. The latter was adopted in the late 19th century as the standard army rifle in Denmark, United States of America and Norway.
The name Konings Bierg, a modern form Kongsberg, is based on the following two elements: the genitive case of konge which means "king" (referring to king Christian IV) and berg which means "mountain".
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Kongsvinger
Kongsvinger (help·info) is a town and is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger.
A patch of land on both sides of the river Glomma with an area of approximately 5.2 square kilometres (2 sq mi) was separated from Vinger as a town named Kongsvinger by Royal Charter in 1854. The municipalities of Vinger and Brandval were merged with Kongsvinger on 1 January 1964. The new municipality of Kongsvinger briefly lost its status as a town after this amalgamation, but was later reinstated with its town status.
The first element Kongs- ("the King's") was added after the fortress was built in 1690. It was first applied only to the fortress (written as Königs Winger in old documents), then to the city that grew up around it and finally the modern municipality. The second element Vinger (Old Norse: Vingr) is an old district name which is still in use.
The coat-of-arms is from relatively modern times. They were granted on 25 June 1926. The arms show the Kongsvinger Fortress with the white line representing the Glomma river. The fortress is of historical importance to the area.
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Kristiansand
Kristiansand (help·info) (formerly Christianssand) is a city, municipality and the county capital of Vest-Agder county in Southern Norway. Kristiansand municipality is the 5th largest in Norway with a population of 82,562 as of 1 April 2011. The Kristiansand urban area, entirely located in the municipality, had a population of 67,547 on 1 January 2009, and is thus the 8th largest urban area in Norway. In addition, the Statistics Norway (no:Statistisk Sentralbyrå) counts that there are 4 other densely populated areas in the municipality: Skålevik (Flekkerøy) with a population of 2,635, Strai (Torridal) with a population of 1,332, Justvik with a population of 1,613 and Tveit with a population of 1,390 citizens (January 2009).
The city was named after its founder King Christian IV in 1641. The last element sand refers to the sandy headland the city was built on (see also Lillesand).
The name was written "Christian(s)sand" (for "Christians sand" – meaning en:[King] "Christian's Sand") until 1877 – then, according to an official spelling reform (that changed ch to k), the form was changed to "Kristianssand". (See also the names Kristiansund and Kristiania that were affected by the same reform.) The name was again changed to its present form Kristiansand in 1889.
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Kristiansund
Kristiansund [ˈkrɪstɪansʊn] (listen) (formerly "Christianssund") is a city and municipality on the western coast of Norway, in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. It was officially awarded township status in 1742, and it is still the major town for the region. The administrative center of the municipality is the city of Kristiansund. Other villages in the municipality include Kvalvåg, Rensvik, and Frei.
The municipality of Kristiansund was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1964, the island municipality of Grip (population: 104) and the Dale area on Nordlandet island (population: 963) were merged into Kristiansund. The island and municipality of Frei was merged with Kristiansund on 1 January 2008.
The city, formerly named Christianssund, is named after the Danish-Norwegian king Christian VI in 1742. The last element of the name, sund, means "strait". The old name of the town/village (originally the island Kirkelandet) was Fosna or Fosen (Old Norse: fólgsn) which means "hiding place" (here 'hidden port'). It was also often named Lille Fosen ("the small Fosen") to distinguish it from the island Storfosna ("the big Fosen") in Ørland.
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Lardal
Lardal is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Svarstad. The parish of Laurdal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The municipality is divided into the parishes of Svarstad, Styrvoll, and Hem.
The Old Norse form of the name was Lagardalr. The first element is the genitive case of lögr meaning "water" or "river" (here the Numedalslågen river). The last element is dalr which means "valley" or "dale". Prior to 1889, the name was spelled "Laurdal".
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 17 July 1992. It was designed by Arvid Steen. The arms show a golden huldra on a red background. The huldra is a part of old Scandinavian folklore. This was chosen to represent the large forested areas in Lardal that were said to be inhabited by huldra.
Hem church
Styrvoll church
Svarstad church
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Larvik
Larvik (help·info) is a town and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality of Larvik has about 41,364 inhabitants and covers 530 km².
The city of Larvik was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The city of Stavern and the rural municipalities of Brunlanes, Hedrum, and Tjølling were merged into the municipality of Larvik on 1 January 1988.
Larvik has a daily ferry connection to Hirtshals, Denmark.
The Norse form of the name must have been Lagarvík. The first element is the genitive case of lǫgr m 'water; river' (now called Numedalslågen river), the last element is vík f 'cove, wick'. The meaning is "the cove at the mouth of (Numedals)lågen". Prior to 1889, the name was written "Laurvik" or "Laurvig".
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1989. The arms are blue with a silver-colored mast with three sails to represent the maritime traditions of the municipality.
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Leirvik
Leirvik is a town and the administrative centre of Stord municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Leirvik is the regional centre of Sunnhordland, and has many public services and offices such as the regional court and Sunnhordland Museum, as well as shops and restaurants. In 2009, Leirvik had a population of 11,424, and covers an area of 8.46 square kilometres with a population density of 1,350 per square kilometre. Leirvik has approximately 65% of the total population of Stord. It is the largest urban area that is located in a municipality where Nynorsk is the preferred language form.
Confusingly, when the municipality of Stord declared township, they decided to name the town "Stord". This was to ensure that Leirvik and its surrounding areas were large and populous enough to qualify for Norwegian town status[citation needed]. Even though this is the official name, the public acceptance of this is minimal, and the name of the urban community remains "Leirvik". The name translates into 'clay bay', the word "leire" meaning "clay" and "vik" meaning "bay". The name comes from the high concentration of clay in the ground. The locals often refer to Leirvik by the name "Vikjo" rather than "Leirvik".
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Lillehammer
Lillehammer (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈlɪləˈhɑmər] (listen)) is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was 26,639 . The city centre is a late 19th century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains. Lillehammer hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and will host the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.
The municipality is named for the old timur (Old Norse: Hamarr, "rocky hill") farm, since the first church was built there. To distinguish it from the nearby town and bishopric of Hamar, it began to be called "little Hamar": Lilþlæ Hamar and Litlihamarr and finally Lillehammer.
It is also mentioned in the Old Norse sagas as Litlikaupangr ("Little Trading Place").
The coat-of-arms was granted in 1898. The arms show a birkebeiner, carrying a spear and a shield, who is skiing down a mountainside. It symbolizes the historical importance of when the Birkebeiners carried the to-be-King Haakon from Lillehammer to Rena on skis.
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Mefjord
The Mefjord (Mefjorden) is a small fjord in the municipality of Sandefjord in Vestfold, Norway. It is located between Østerøya and Vesterøya.
Coordinates: 59°05′29″N 10°16′47″E / 59.09139°N 10.27972°E / 59.09139; 10.27972
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Mo i Rana
Mo i Rana is a town and administrative centre of the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just south of the Arctic Circle and in the Helgeland region of Nordland. Some of the outlying areas of the town include the suburbs of Båsmoen and Ytteren in the north and Selfors in the east.
The town is called "Mo i Rana" to distinguish it from other places named Mo—most notably the town of Mosjøen, also in Helgeland—though locally the town is usually just called Mo. The postal address for Mo was "Mo 8600" until it was changed to "Mo i Rana 8600" in 1999.
The 13.32-square-kilometre (3,290-acre) town has a population (2011) of 18,141. The population density is 1,362 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,530 /sq mi). This makes it the largest town in Helgeland and the second largest (after Bodø) in Nordland.
The name "Mo" comes from an old farm that was situated near the modern town. The name of the farm comes from the Old Norse name Móar, which means sand or grass lowland. The name Rana probably comes from Old Norse too. Rana means quick or fast, probably because the fast water flow in the Ranfjorden outside town. The town was an old trade centre in Helgeland. Farmers have lived in the area since the Iron Age.
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Molde
Molde (help·info) is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Romsdal region. The municipality is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The town is located on the northern shore of the Romsdalsfjord on the Romsdal Peninsula.
The town of Molde is the administrative center of Møre og Romsdal county, the administrative center of the municipality of Molde, the commercial hub of Romsdal, and the headquarters of the Diocese of Møre. Other main population centers in the municipality include Hjelset, Kleive, and Nesjestranda.
Molde has a maritime, temperate climate, with cool-to-warm summers, and relatively mild winters.
It is an old settlement which emerged as a trading post in the late Middle Ages. Formal trading rights were introduced in 1614, and the city was incorporated through a royal charter in 1742. Molde was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt)
The town continued to grow throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, becoming a centre for Norwegian textile and garment industry, as well as the administrative center for the region, and a major tourist destination.
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Narvik
Narvik (help·info) is the third largest city and municipality in Nordland county, Norway by population. Narvik is located on the shores of the Narvik Fjord (Norwegian: Ofotfjord). The municipality is part of the Ofoten traditional region of North Norway, inside the arctic circle. Narvik borders the municipality of Ballangen to the southwest, Evenes to the northwest, Bardu and Gratangen in Troms county to the north, and Norrbotten County (Lapland) in Sweden to the south and east.
Narvik was separated from the municipality of Ankenes when it became a city and municipality of its own on 1 January 1902. The municipality of Ankenes was merged into Narvik on 1 January 1974.
The town is named after the old Narvik farm ("Narduigh" - 1567), since the town is built on its ground. The meaning of the first element is unknown, and the last element is vik which means "inlet".
Narvik was originally called Victoriahavn after the Queen Victoria of England, however Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria was also honoured.
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Nesoddtangen
Nesoddtangen is a village in, and the administrative centre of Nesodden in Akershus, Norway. It had 11,795[citation needed] residents in 2011; about two thirds of the municipality's population. It's located some 4 miles (7 kilometers) south west of Oslo, and passenger ferry is the most used commuting transportation. Of the working population in Nesoddtangen, more than 90% work in Oslo.
The name Nesoddtangen is a triple tautology, consisting of three parts, nes, odd (from odde) and tangen, all being synonyms signifying a small cape or promontory.
Coordinates: 59°52′N 10°39′E / 59.867°N 10.65°E / 59.867; 10.65
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Norway
Norway
i/ˈnɔrweɪ/ (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) and a population of about 5 million. It is the second least densely populated country in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; in its south Norway borders the Skagerrak Strait across from Denmark. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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Nøtterøy
Nøtterøy is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Borgheim.
The parish of Nøtterø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Two islands were later transferred from the municipality of Stokke to Nøtterøy: Håøya (in 1901) and Veierland (in 1964).
The whole municipality is made up of a small island group south of Tønsberg municipality, including the islands of Nøtterøy, Føynland, Veierland, and about 175 smaller islands. Nøtterøy includes the villages of Borgheim, Glomstein, Teie, and Torød. As 2010, 16,418 of the municipality lived within the town of Tønsberg, an urban area shared between the two municipalities.
The Old Norse form of the name was Njótarvin (Njotarin) from Njót and vin. The name of the island "Njót" and "vin" meaning pastures or farm. The name is probably derived from the verb njóta which means to "enjoy" or "benefit from" (referring to fishing or agriculture). Prior to 1918, the name was spelled "Nøtterø".
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Oslo
Oslo (English pronunciation: /ˈɒzloʊ/, OZ-loh,Norwegian pronunciation: [²ʊʃlʊ] ( listen) or [²ʊslʊ]) is the capital of and most populous city in Norway. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III, the city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 and with Sweden from 1814 to 1905 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, the city was moved closer to Akershus Castle during the reign of King Christian IV and renamed Christiania in his honour. It was established as a municipality (formannskapsdistrikt) on 1 January 1838. Following a spelling reform, it was known as Kristiania from 1877 to 1925, when its original Norwegian name was restored.
Oslo is the economic and governmental centre of Norway. The city is also a hub of Norwegian trade, banking, industry and shipping. It is an important centre for maritime industries and maritime trade in Europe. The city is home to many companies within the maritime sector, some of which are amongst the world's largest shipping companies, shipbrokers and maritime insurance brokers. Oslo is a pilot city of the Council of Europe and the European Commission intercultural cities programme.
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Sandefjord
Sandefjord (help·info) is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sandefjord. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Sandar was merged into the municipality of Sandefjord on 1 January 1968.
The name originally belonged to the fjord (now called the Sandefjordsfjord). The first element is the genitive case of the name of the parish and former municipality of Sandar.
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 9 May 1914. The Viking ship symbolizes the famous Gokstad ship, that was found near Sandefjord in 1880, one of the best preserved Vikings ships known. The whale symbolizes the fact that in the late 19th and early 20th century, Sandefjord was a main home port for whalers operating in the southern oceans.
One of the most important remains from the Viking age was found at the grave site Gokstadhaugen in Sandefjord. The Gokstad ship was excavated by Nicolay Nicolaysen and is now in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. The Viking, an exact replica of the Gokstad ship, crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Bergen to be exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago during 1893. A replica of Gokstad ship, called Gaia currently has Sandefjord as home port. Other known replicas include the Munin, (a half scale replica) located in Vancouver, BC.
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Sandefjord Museum
Sandefjordmuseene (Hvalfangstmuseet) is a museum dedicated to the Whaling Industry located in Sandefjord, Norway. It is the only specialized museum on the subject of whales and whaling in Europe.
Sandefjordmuseene was inaugurated as a donation from Consul Lars Christensen, the son of Norwegian shipyard and ship owner, Christen Christensen. Its full name is Commander Christen Christensen's Whaling Museum, also called The Sandefjord Whaling Museum . When it opened in 1917 the museum building was one of the first original museum buildings in Norway. Lars Christensen had two main goals when opening the museum; to inform the public about the Antarctic and its fauna and animal life, as it was a relatively unknown continent at the time, and to tell the story of whaling as an industry.
Since its opening, the museum has experienced some major changes including an expansion in 1981. Today, the Whaling Museum’s aim is to be a central institution in the presentation of a wide range of material connected to the history of whaling as well as the ecology and management of whales and their habitat. The museum's photo collection consists of 150,000 photographs around 30,000 of which are related to whaling. The museum is host to a host of international conferences related to marine life and to whales. Exhibits include Southern Actor, a restored whale catcher built in 1950, which is now a museum ship open to the public. The former whale ship is both a living museum and a passenger ship.
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Sandefjordsfjord
The Sandefjordsfjord (Sandefjordsfjorden) is an approximately 9 km long fjord in the municipality of Sandefjord in Vestfold, Norway. It is located to the west of Vesterøya.
Coordinates: 59°02′N 10°16′E / 59.033°N 10.267°E / 59.033; 10.267
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean (also known as the Great Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean, and the South Polar Ocean) comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60°S latitude and encircling Antarctica. It is usually regarded as the fourth-largest of the five principal oceanic divisions. This ocean zone is where cold, northward flowing waters from the Antarctic mix with warmer subantarctic waters.
Geographers disagree on the Southern Ocean's northern boundary or even its existence, with many considering the waters part of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans instead. Others regard the Antarctic Convergence, an ocean zone which fluctuates seasonally, as separating the Southern Ocean from other oceans, rather than the 60th parallel.Australian authorities regard the Southern Ocean as lying immediately south of Australia.
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has not yet ratified its 2000 definition of the ocean as being south of 60°S. Its latest published definition of oceans dates from 1953; this does not include the Southern Ocean. However, the more recent definition is used by the IHO and others.
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Stjørdalshalsen
Stjørdalshalsen (also known as Stjørdal or Halsen) is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located between the rivers Stjørdalselva and Gråelva, and their mouth into the Trondheimsfjord.
The 7.28-square-kilometre (1,800-acre) town has a population (2009) of 10,779. The population density of the town is 1,481 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,840 /sq mi). Stjørdalshalsen was granted town status in 1997. The Nordland Line runs through the town, which is served by Stjørdal Station. The junction of the European route E14 and European route E6 highways is in Stjørdalshalsen, just north of Trondheim Airport, Værnes.
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Stokke
Stokke is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stokke.
The municipality of Stokke was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Two islands were later transferred from the municipality of Stokke to the neighboring municipality of Nøtterøy: Håøya, (in 1901) and Veierland (in 1964).
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Stokke farm (Old Norse: Stokkar), since the first church was built here. The name is the plural form of stokkr which means "log". (This is probably referring to some small hills/ridges near the churchsite.)
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 13 January 1984. The arms are canting since stokker means "sticks" or "logs". The arms show three gold-colored tree trunks on a red background.
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Strömstad
Strömstad is a locality and the seat of Strömstad Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 6,288 inhabitants in 2010.
Strömstad is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city.
Originally, the province Bohuslän, where Strömstad is situated, was Norwegian territory, which was transferred to Sweden according to the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658.
At Strömstad, there was a small fishing village known as Strömmen. The town got small privileges as a merchant town (köping) shortly thereafter, which seems to have made it expand, because it is documented to have gotten a charter in 1676 by King Charles XI of Sweden, although some documents show it was already considered a city in 1672. As it was the seat for a merchant navy, the coat of arms was designed with such a ship, and has remained that way even after the use of sailing ships was discontinued in the 19th century.
The city was a seat for Sweden's warfare against the Danish-Norway, and more than once it was conquered and reconquered throughout the centuries. The warlike King Charles XII of Sweden, for instance, used it as his outpost for his campaign against Norway in 1716-1718.
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Svelvik
Svelvik (help·info) is a town and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Svelvik.
The town of Svelvik was separated from the rural municipality of Strømm to become a municipality of its own in 1845. The two municipalities were merged back together on 1 January 1964.
The Norse form of the name was Sverðvík. The first element is sverð n 'sword', the last element is vík f 'cove, wick'. A neighbouring farm has the name Sverstad (Norse Sverðstaðir). The word sverð is probably referring to the promontory ridge Ryggen ('the back') in Hurum: This ridge is lying right opposite Svelvik and Sverstad, and it is almost (like a sword) cutting the Drammensfjord in two parts.
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 4 September 1964. Svelvik is an important harbor and its economy is thus also based on the harbor. The arms show a gold-colored trident on a red background, as a symbol for the sea.
The narrow Svelvikstrømmen sound separates Svelvik from the municipality of Hurum, and the county of Buskerud. This sound is served by a ferry, which has the shortest line in Norway.
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Sweden
Sweden (i/ˈswiːdən/ SWEE-dən; Swedish: Sverige [ˈsværjɛ] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Øresund.
At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of about 9.4 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54 /sq mi) with the population mostly concentrated to the southern half of the country. About 85% of the population live in urban areas. Sweden's capital city is Stockholm, which is also the largest city.
Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, the country expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire. The empire grew to be one of the great powers of Europe in the 17th and early 18th century. Most of the conquered territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were lost during the 18th and 19th centuries. The eastern half of Sweden, present-day Finland, was lost to Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Sweden by military means forced Norway into a personal union. Since then, Sweden has been at peace, practicing "non-participation in military alliances during peacetime and neutrality during wartime". However, Sweden has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995 and is a member of the OECD.
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Tjøme
Tjøme (Norwegian pronunciation: [çœmə]) is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tjøme. The parish of Tjømø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
The Old Norse form of the name was Tjúma. The name of the island is probably very old, and the meaning is unknown. Prior to 1918, the name was spelled "Tjømø".
The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1989). The arms show three silver-colored oarlocks on a blue background.
Tjøme municipality is completely located on islands, the main island being the Tjøme island, where "Tjøme sentrum" is located, along with the shops, schools and restaurants. There are a few other central areas on the islands such as Hvasser, with active fishermen as well as the tourist industry for the bypassing travellers, with an icebar, shops, boat petrol station, and a number of places to buy food and supplies.
There are approximately 4,600 permanent residents on the island, but in the summer months this number rises to around 40,000 inhabitants, including the Norwegian Royal Family who have a summer house on the island. The reason for the extreme increase is mainly the sea sports available in the area and the remarkably good weather. Summers on Tjøme are both warm and sunny, and the beaches are filled with locals and tourists. Tjøme has been nicknamed Sommerøya (English: the summer island). Tourists mostly from the Oslo area visit this charming island.
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Tromsø
Tromsø (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtrʊmsø] (listen); Northern Sami: Romsa;Kven: Tromssa) is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.
Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population. It is the largest city and the largest urban area in Northern Norway, and the second largest city and urban area in Sápmi (following Murmansk). Most of Tromsø, including the city centre, is located on the small island of Tromsøya in the county of Troms, 350 kilometres (217 mi) inside the arctic circle. Substantial parts of the urban area are also situated on the mainland to the east, and on parts of Kvaløya - a large island to the west. Tromsøya is connected to the mainland by the Tromsø Bridge and the Tromsøysund Tunnel, and to the island of Kvaløya by the Sandnessund Bridge. The city is warmer than most other places located on the same latitude, due to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream.
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Trondheim
Trondheim (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtrɔnhæjm]), historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 176,348, it is the third most populous municipality in Norway and city in the country, although the fourth largest urban area. It is the administrative centre of Sør-Trøndelag county. Trondheim lies on the south shore of the Trondheimsfjord at the mouth of the river Nidelva. The city is dominated by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), SINTEF, St. Olavs University Hospital and other technology-oriented institutions.
The settlement was founded in 997 as a trading post, and was the capital of Norway during the Viking Age until 1217. From 1152 to 1537, the city was the seat of the Archdiocese of Nidaros; since it has remained the seat of the Diocese of Nidaros and the Nidaros Cathedral. It was incorporated in 1838. The current municipality dates from 1964, when Trondheim merged with Byneset, Leinstrand, Strinda and Tiller.
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Tønsberg
Tønsberg (help·info) is a municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around 25 km (15.53 mi) north-east of Sandefjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Tønsberg. The municipality has a population of 38,914 and covers and area of 107 km2 (41 sq mi).
Tønsberg is generally regarded as the oldest town in Norway. Tønsberg was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Sem was merged into the municipality of Tønsberg on 1 January 1988.
The Old Norse form of the name was Túnsberg. The first element is the genitive case of tún (n), meaning fenced area or garden. The last element is berg (n), meaning mountain. The name originally referred to the fortifications on Slottsfjellet. The old spelling has been retained in the name of the diocese, Tunsberg bispedømme.
The coat-of-arms is an old city seal from as far back as 1349. The seal shows Tønsberg Fortress surrounded by a ring wall on a mountain with the sea in front. There is also a longship in the water in front of the fortress. Around the seal are the words (in Latin): This is the seal of Tunsberg.
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Vennesla
Vennesla is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Vennesla was separated from Øvrebø in 1861. Øvrebø and Hægeland were merged with Vennesla again on 1 January 1964. It lies about 17 kilometres (11 mi) north of Kristiansand and it is the third-largest municipality of the county.
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Vennesla farm (Old Norse Vendilslá), since the first church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of vendill which means "small twig" (maybe used as a name of an arm of Venneslafjorden) and the last element is lá which means "swamp".
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 15 May 1971. The wavy bend in the arms symbolises the Otra river, which runs through the municipality. The trees symbolize forestry and the cogwheels symbolize industry.
Vennesla is bordered in the west by the municipalities of Marnardal and Songdalen, in the east by Birkenes and Iveland. In the northeast by Evje og Hornnes, and in the south by Kristiansand.
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Vesterøya
Vesterøya is one of two peninsulas outside Sandefjord, Norway.
Langeby
Vøra
Tangen, north side
Tangen, south side
Coordinates: 59°06′06″N 10°15′19″E / 59.10167°N 10.25528°E / 59.10167; 10.25528
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Ålesund
Ålesund (help·info) is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre, and the center of the Ålesund Region. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Art Nouveau architecture.
Ålesund town is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the principal shipping town of the Sunnmøre district. Ålesund municipality has a population of 42,982 as of 2010, while the greater Ålesund area has a population of 47,772 (this also includes most of neighboring Sula as well).
The port of Ålesund was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt) and it received town rights in 1848. On 1 January 1875, part of Borgund (population: 902) was transferred to the town of Ålesund. In 1922, another part of Borgund (population: 1,148) was transferred to the town of Ålesund. On 1 January 1968, most of the neighboring municipality of Borgund (population: 20,132) was merged into Ålesund. This merger more than doubled the population of Ålesund, for a new total population of 38,589. On 1 January 1977, the island of Sula and some small surrounding islets (population: 6,302) were separated from Ålesund to form a separate municipality.
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Østerøya
Østerøya is one of two peninsulas outside Sandefjord, Norway. It borders in west to the Mefjord and east to the Tønsbergfjord. Tønsberg tønne is located on the south end of the peninsula.
The south end of the peninsula contains public areas for outdoor activities, recreation, fishing and swimming. A preserved area with black alder swamp forest (containing ramsons, iris pseudacorus and early purple orchid) is located here.
Østerøya was fortified during World War II.
Hodet over vannet (Head Above Water), by film director Nils Gaup, was filmed in the south end of Østerøya.
Coordinates: 59°05′43″N 10°17′58″E / 59.09528°N 10.29944°E / 59.09528; 10.29944
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Anders Jahre
Anders August Jahre (28 May 1891 – 26 February 1982) was a Norwegian shipping magnate. Jahre was educated in law, and worked as a lawyer in Sandefjord from 1916 until 1928. Meanwhile he was also involved in the whaling industry, and he founded the whaling company A/S Kosmos in 1928, operating out of Sandefjord. He also established Jahres Kjemiske Fabrikker, a processor of whale blubber, as well as establishing a passenger ferry line between Oslo and Kiel.
He contributed significantly to the development of the city of Sandefjord. Among other things, he financed the building of the new town hall. He was a major philanthropist, and was honoured with The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1950 and 1962, as well as an honorary professorship at the University of Oslo in 1961. After his death, however, there was much controversy surrounding alleged tax fraud and hidden funds in overseas accounts. In 1984, the Norwegian government put forward a tax claim against the Jahre estate. A series of legal proceedings in the 2000s succeeded in returning part of the fortune to Norway from accounts on the Cayman Islands.
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Anita Hegerland
Anita Hegerland (born 3 March 1961 in Sandefjord), is a Norwegian singer famous for her childhood career in the Scandinavian and German markets and subsequent vocal contributions to amongst others Mike Oldfield's work.
Hegerland was discovered at age 8 by Fredrik Friis during a Christmas show where she was performing. Hegerland's musical career took off in 1970 with "Mitt Sommarlov" (transl: My summer holiday) in Scandinavian countries. It spent 22 weeks on Norway's singles chart, with two weeks at #1, and the song was also a #1 hit in Sweden. In 1971 she released a single with German artist Roy Black; "Schön ist es auf der Welt zu sein (It's beautiful to be in the world)" in German speaking countries. The song was recorded both with German and Norwegian vocals. It sold over 2 million copies (of which more than 1.3 million came from Germany), and spent 30 weeks on the singles chart (top peak #3) in Norway.
In total she had four different albums on the Norwegian chart as a child star. The last one was released in 1973 (when she was 12 years old). She participated in the Norwegian final (for entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1971), but did not win. She continued as a pop singer in Germany and Scandinavia for several years and then pursued an adult vocal career with greater artistic ambition (but less popular success).
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Bent Hamer
Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.
Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and documentaries. His first film, Eggs, premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it was shown in the Directors' Fortnight section. That same year, it was shown in competition at the Moscow International Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film; it also received the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival. His 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In April 2004, Bent Hamer started shooting Factotum based on the novel of the same name by US poet and writer Charles Bukowski. The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark (Mystery Train, Cold Fever), who produced the film together with Christine Walker (American Splendor). The film premiered at the Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, on 2005-04-12.
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Bjørn Ole Gleditsch
Bjørn Ole Gleditsch (born 13 January 1963) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.
Since 2003 he is the mayor of Sandefjord. Before this he served several terms in the municipal council.
Gleditsch is the richest mayor of any municipality of Norway. The grandson of Ole Gleditsch, he is an heir of the paint company Jotun. Through shareholding, he has a fortune of NOK 480 million, approximately 86.9 million U.S. dollars.
He is also a member of the board of Sandefjord Airport, Torp.
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Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad (born 16 July 1941, Sandefjord, Norway) is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into several languages. He has written nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics’ Award three times. His works have been translated into 20 languages.
His awards include the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1969, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989, for Roman 1987 and the Brage Prize in 2006 for Armand V. Solstad is among Norway's top-ranked authors of his generation. His early books were considered somewhat controversial, due to their political emphasis (leaning towards the Marxist-Leninist side of the spectrum). Dag Solstad lives in part time in Berlin and part time in Oslo.
In 16.07.41 (2002), he tells the story in the first-person narrative, of his long and frequent walks through the streets of Berlin. However, the story is at the same time a journey in pursuit of a father-son relationship.
T. Singer (1999) is a story about a 34 year old librarian leaves Oslo in search of a satisfying and anonymous life in a smaller town. He marries a single mother and at first feels contented in his invisible role as husband and stepfather. However, after two years, Singer files for divorce; she is later killed in a car accident. He returns to Oslo with his stepdaughter where they live together but lead separate lives. Singer broods and becomes very alone yet feels content in the fact that he has chosen an enigmatic lifestyle. This book contains philosophical and existential observations of someone seeking to authenticate their identity through chosen isolation rather than social integration.
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Frank Løke
Frank Løke (born February 6, 1980) is a Norwegian team handball player. He was voted into the All Star Team (as Pivot) at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship. Løke plays for the Croatian team RK Zagreb.
His younger sister Heidi Løke is also a team handball player, playing on the Norwegian national team.
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Fredrik Friis
Hans Fredrik Friis-Olsen, born 2 April 1923 in Sandefjord, Norway, died 15. mars 2008, was one of Norways first talent scouts, music manager(s) and producer(s). He was also a noted composer, lyricist and singer, producing more than 600 songs of his own. Friis was one the early pioneers in the Norwegian music business, even much underappreciated, discovering artists who would not only plague the national charts, but also seek International notoriety, at a time where Norway did not have any infrastructure, nor much plans for its music exportation. Most famous is Anita Hegerland. But Nationally, Teddy Nelson, Eivind Løberg, Gluntan and Ivar Simastuen. At the age of 83 Friis entered the British pop charts (at nr.7) with his song "It's Not That Easy", performed by British artist Lemar.
He made his recording debut in 1951.
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Henrik Hagtvedt
Henrik Hagtvedt is a Norwegian visual artist (born January 6, 1971 in Sandefjord, Norway) working predominantly with acrylics and oils, as well as with sculpture, graphics and other media. In the years following his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, his work had a rapid rise to fame and was exhibited in a number of galleries in both Europe and Asia, ranging from the Museo Montelupo in Italy to the Cultural Foundation (national gallery) in the United Arab Emirates. Although he has painted in a variety of styles, from abstract to photo-realism, Henrik Hagtvedt is most famous for a thickly textured and highly expressive style which gained him a great deal of critical acclaim and media attention early in his career. It was presumably this style that earned him the nickname “The Northern Light,” first given to him in Italy. However, little time elapsed before Hagtvedt began declining exhibitions and distancing himself from the contemporary art scene, thus virtually disappearing from both the public eye and from mainstream art institutions, almost as suddenly as he had appeared upon the scene some years earlier.
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Karin Fossum
Karin Fossum (b. 1954) is a Norwegian author of crime fiction, often referred to as the "Norwegian queen of crime".
Karin Mathisen was born on 6 November 1954 in Sandefjord in Vestfold county, Norway. She currently lives in Oslo. Fossum debuted as a poet with Kanskje i morgen, her first collection published in 1974 when she was just 20. It won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. For a time she worked in hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation of drug addicts.
She is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer series of crime novels, which have been translated into 25 languages and honoured with several awards.
She won the Glass key award for her novel Don't Look Back, which also won the Riverton Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2005 for Calling Out For You.
(also featuring Inspector Jakob Skarre):
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Lars Christensen
Lars Christensen (6 April 1884 – 10 December 1965) was a Norwegian shipowner and whaling magnate with a keen interest in the exploration of Antarctica.
Lars Christensen was born in Sandar. Born into a wealthy family, Christensen inherited his whaling fleet from his father, Christen Christensen. He started his career as a ship owner in 1906. He ventured into the whaling industry in 1909, and directed several companies, including Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted, AS Thor Dahl, AS Odd, AS Ørnen, AS Thorsholm and Bryde og Dahls Hvalfangstselskap.
Endurance, the ship that became famous after Sir Ernest Shackleton's failed Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914, was originally built for Christensen, who intended to use her for polar cruises for tourists to hunt polar bears. When this did not happen, Christensen sold the ship to Shackleton.
Christensen had a deep interest in Antarctica and its animal life. He was particularly interested in making geographical discoveries, and gave his captains wide latitude to do so. He financed several expeditions specifically devoted to the exploration of the Antarctic continent and its waters, and participated in some of these himself, even bringing his wife Ingrid with him in the 1936–1937 expedition. He was among the first to use aerial surveying with seaplanes to map the coast of East Antarctica, which he completed from the Weddell Sea to the Shackleton Ice Shelf, concentrating on Bouvetøya and the region from Enderby Land to Coats Land. From the seaplane brought on the 1936–1937 expedition, members took 2,200 oblique aerial photographs, covering 6,250 square miles (16,200 km2). Mrs. Christensen became the first woman to fly over the continent.
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Lorene Yarnell
Shields and Yarnell were an American mime team, formed in 1972, consisting of Robert Shields (born March 26, 1951) and Lorene Yarnell (March 21, 1944, Inglewood, California – July 29, 2010).
Shields was born in Los Angeles and went to Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, and at the age of 18, while working as a street mime and performing at the Hollywood Wax Museum was seen by Marcel Marceau, who offered Shields a full scholarship to his school of mime in Paris. Shields soon returned to California, working in Union Square, San Francisco.
Lorene Yarnell (also a native Angeleno) had become a tap dancer and actress in television shows including, "Shindig!" The Carol Burnett Show and off-Broadway musicals before she met Shields, in San Francisco. Yarnell later appeared as Claudine in a spectacular 1983 outdoor production of Can-Can at The Muny in St. Louis, starring Broadway's Judy Kaye, John Reardon, John Schuck, Beth Leavel and Lawrence Leritz, her dance partner, to excellent reviews.
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Marius Bakken
Marius Bakken (born March 27, 1978 in Sandefjord) is a Norwegian runner who specializes in the 5000 metres, having run distances from 800 to 10,000 metres in his early career. He represents IL Runar.
He finished ninth at the 2001 World Championships, fourteenth at the 2002 European Championships and twelfth at the 2005 World Championships. In addition he competed at the 1999 World Championships and the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004 without success. He became Norwegian champion in 1500 m in 2001, 2003 and 2004 and in 5000 m in 2003 and 2005. Following a disappointing 2006 European Championships, Bakken announced his intentions to concentrate on medicine studies in 2007.
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Nicolay Nicolaysen
Nicolay Nicolaysen ( January 14, 1817 - January 22, 1911) was a Norwegian Archaeologist and Norway's first state employed Antiquarian.
Nicolay Nicolaysen was a founding member of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, of which he was president from 1851 to 1899. He also took active part in the restoration of the Nidaros Cathedral and of the Hall of Haakon IV (Håkonshallen). He was active in the founding the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design) and was a proponent of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
In 1852, the first investigations took place of the Borre mound cemetery (Norwegian: Borrehaugene from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound) in Horten, Vestfold. Nicolaysen examined the excavations which uncovered an unusually good selection of craft work, of a form which as become known as Borre style, much of which is on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.
Excavations of the Munkeliv Abbey located at Nordnes in Bergen took place in 1857 and 1860. Many extremely well crafted structural fragments were recovered, now in the Museum of Cultural History (Kulturhistorisk Museum), part of Bergen Museum. These include the well-known marble head of Øystein Magnusson discovered by Nicolaysen, supposedly the oldest-known portrait of a Norwegian.
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Norwegian American
Norwegian Americans (Norwegian: norskamerikanere) are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and most live in the Upper Midwest. Norwegian Americans currently comprise the 10th largest American ancestry group.
Norsemen from Greenland and Iceland were the first Europeans to reach North America. Leif Ericson reached North America via Norse settlements in Greenland around the year 1000. Norse settlers from Greenland founded the settlement of L'Anse aux Meadows in Vinland, in what is now Newfoundland, Canada. These settlers failed to establish a permanent settlement.
There was a Norwegian presence in New Amsterdam (New York after 1664) in the early part of 17th century. Hans Hansen Bergen, a native of Bergen, Norway, was one of the earliest settlers of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam having immigrated in 1633. Another of the first Norwegian settlers was Albert Andriessen Bradt who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1637. Pieter Van Brugh, Mayor of Albany, New York was the grandson of Norwegian immigrants. His mother's parents were Roelof Janse (1602–1637), born in Marstrandsön, a small island situated in Båhuslen province in Norway (it was ceded to Sweden in 1658) and Anneke Jans (1605–1663), born on Flekkerøy, an island situated outside the town of Kristiansand, Vest-Agder county, Norway.
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Ole Aanderud Larsen
Ole Aanderud Larsen (December 18, 1884 – October 6, 1964) was a ship designer and businessman from Norway.
He was born in Tønsberg, and died in Sandefjord, in the county of Vestfold.
Larsen is best known for designing the Endurance, the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914. He was the first chairman and one of the founders of Jotun Group Private Ltd., a company started in Sandefjord to sell specialized paints and coatings to the shipping industry that has expanded worldwide and now sells a diverse range of paints and coatings for all kind of industries.
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Ole Christian Bach
Ole Christian Bach (31 May 1957 – 11 July 2005) was a Norwegian con artist.
In 1988, he was convicted on charges of fraud and sentenced to 4 years in prison. He was convicted again for his involvement with the theft and sale of Edvard Munch's Madonna in 1992, and sentenced to 7 months in prison.
In 2005 he was again charged with economic fraud. On 11 July 2005, he committed suicide in Sweden after a car chase with Swedish undercover police.
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Oluf Rygh
Oluf Rygh (5 September 1833 – 19 August 1899) was a noted Norwegian archeologist, philologist and historian. Oluf Rygh is recognized as one of the founders of professional archeology in Norway.
Oluf Rygh was born in Verdal. His parents were Peder Strand Rygh (1800 to 1868) and Ingeborg Marie Bentsen (1809-1878). He was the older brother of Evald Rygh and Karl Ditlev Rygh. Oluf Rygh attended the Trondhjem Cathedral School in 1850 and went to the University of Christiania to study philology, where he graduated in 1856. In 1858, while a teacher at Nissens Skole in Christiania, he was a research fellow for history. Later he was a professor of classical philology, history and Scandinavian languages.
Rygh was professor of history at the Royal Frederick University between 1866 and 1875. He was director of Oldsaksamlingen (which subsequently became the Museum of Cultural History) from 1862 and professor of Nordic archeology from 1875 - the first professor of archeology at any Scandinavian university. His led excavation of the Tune ship 1867. His work Norske Oldsaker (Norwegian Antiquities) published in 1885 is recognized for its detailed illustrations and even today is still a significant reference source.
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Theodore Theodorsen
Theodore Theodorsen (January 8, 1897 – November 5, 1978) was a Norwegian-American theoretical aerodynamicist noted for his work at NACA (the forerunner of NASA) and for his contributions to the study of turbulence.
Dr. Theodore Theodorsen was born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1897 to parents Ole Christian Theodorsen, a chief engineer in the Norwegian merchant marine, and his wife Andrea Larsen. He was the oldest of six children. At one point Theodore’s father had taken examinations for a merchant marine engineer's license. He was the only applicant who correctly answered a particularly difficult question. To his father’s surprise his then twelve year old son was also able to solve the problem.
At age sixteen, after finishing compulsory schooling, Theodorsen attended gymnasium (equivalent in the USA to senior high school-junior college) in the nearby town of Larvik. If certain grade levels were attained one would gain a scholarship to university. Norway was then far ahead of most nations in the liberalization of education. Theodorsen's grades were so outstanding that he was admitted to the leading engineering university in Norway, the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. In those days there were no dormitories; students rented rooms in private homes. Many of the professors in those days were German or English, therefore a student at the university had to be familiar with all three languages. Only in mechanical drawing was his grade less than perfect. In those days anyone who achieved perfect grades would receive the honor of an introduction to the King of Norway.
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Sandefjord 1870 - 2012
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- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
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On thin sea ice 2
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- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
apetor on facebook: www.facebook.com See also my other videos: www.youtube.com Sandefjord in Norway, end of January 2011. www.visitsandefjord.com I was skating here, in the area in the middle of the map, the ice edge was between Kvernhusskjær and Namløsholmen: kart.statkart.no Shot with Canon Legria HF s11 with wideconverter x0,7. 2 million views February 23, 2012. Filmet ved Namløs på Østerøya i Sandefjord, 27., 29. og 30. januar 2011. Passerte 1,5 mill views 25.09.11.
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apetor on facebook: www.facebook.com See also my other videos: www.youtube.com Sandefjord in Norway, end of January 2011. www.visitsandefjord.com I was skating here, in the area in the middle of the map, the ice edge was between Kvernhusskjær and Namløsholmen: kart.statkart.no Shot with Canon Legria HF s11 with wideconverter x0,7. 2 million views February 23, 2012. Filmet ved Namløs på Østerøya i Sandefjord, 27., 29. og 30. januar 2011. Passerte 1,5 mill views 25.09.11.
- published: 03 Feb 2011
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My Town Sandefjord
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- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Bilder fra Sandefjord og omegn
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Drive in Sandefjord (test Canon EOS 650D EF 40mm 1:2,8)
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Drive @ 23:00 in the evening, in dark overcast. Pictureframe 1088x1920 @ 25 fps/ Total bitrate 45422 kbps. First try with cam and the new STM pancakelens. This is just for fun.
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Drive @ 23:00 in the evening, in dark overcast. Pictureframe 1088x1920 @ 25 fps/ Total bitrate 45422 kbps. First try with cam and the new STM pancakelens. This is just for fun.
- published: 09 Jul 2012
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- author: Ronny Jahre
DJ NowWhat - Sandefjord
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Få henda opp i været for Sandefjooooord! - IKKE JEG SOM HAR LAGET SANGEN!
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Få henda opp i været for Sandefjooooord! - IKKE JEG SOM HAR LAGET SANGEN!
- published: 12 Dec 2011
- views: 13470
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Helicopter from Sandefjord to Larvik
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- Duration: 12:45
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
Taking a helicopter from Sandefjord (Torp Airport) to Larvik (Helgeroa)
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Taking a helicopter from Sandefjord (Torp Airport) to Larvik (Helgeroa)
- published: 21 May 2011
- views: 3093
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Rica Park Hotel Sandefjord
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- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
Rica Park Hotel Sandefjord is a magnificent hotel with style and venerable atmosphere.
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Rica Park Hotel Sandefjord is a magnificent hotel with style and venerable atmosphere.
- published: 16 Oct 2009
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- author: AllegroFilmNorge
Sandefjord Fotball - Mål show
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- Duration: 15:11
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Copyright ©TV2 Norge Copyright ©X-Ray Dog Music, Inc Copyright ©Tv Vestfold Copyright ©Allegro Film Copyright ©Sandefjords Blad Music 1. X-Ray Dog - The Undertaker 00:00 - 01:08 Album - Feed The Beast (2008) 2. X-Ray Dog - The Messenger (No Vox) 01:08 - 03:36 Album - X Pack (2010) 3. X-Ray Dog - The Black Prince No Vox 03:36 - 05:40 Album - Anubis (2008) 4. X-Ray Dog - Starbucks Run 05:40 - 07:43 Album - Feed The Beast (2008) 5. X-Ray Dog - The Ultimate Q (No Vox) 07:43 - 09:18 Album - X Pack (2010) 6. X-Ray Dog - Knocked Out 09:18 - 09:46 Album - X Pack (2010) 7. X-Ray Dog - Darkest Light (no fox) 09:46 - 11:51 Album - Top Dog (2008) 8. X-Ray Dog - The Chosen One No Vox 11:51 - 14:03 Album - Anubis (2008) 9. X-Ray Dog - Knocked Out 14:03 - 15:07 Album - X Pack (2010)
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Copyright ©TV2 Norge Copyright ©X-Ray Dog Music, Inc Copyright ©Tv Vestfold Copyright ©Allegro Film Copyright ©Sandefjords Blad Music 1. X-Ray Dog - The Undertaker 00:00 - 01:08 Album - Feed The Beast (2008) 2. X-Ray Dog - The Messenger (No Vox) 01:08 - 03:36 Album - X Pack (2010) 3. X-Ray Dog - The Black Prince No Vox 03:36 - 05:40 Album - Anubis (2008) 4. X-Ray Dog - Starbucks Run 05:40 - 07:43 Album - Feed The Beast (2008) 5. X-Ray Dog - The Ultimate Q (No Vox) 07:43 - 09:18 Album - X Pack (2010) 6. X-Ray Dog - Knocked Out 09:18 - 09:46 Album - X Pack (2010) 7. X-Ray Dog - Darkest Light (no fox) 09:46 - 11:51 Album - Top Dog (2008) 8. X-Ray Dog - The Chosen One No Vox 11:51 - 14:03 Album - Anubis (2008) 9. X-Ray Dog - Knocked Out 14:03 - 15:07 Album - X Pack (2010)
- published: 23 Jan 2012
- views: 3304
- author: 0d0a0n
Sandefjord Torp, Exactly 1 Year Later!!
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
I didn't realize the fact that I was driving my in-laws to Torp right on the day of my Anniversary (March 17th); that was soooo weird!! I totally screwed up on the audio...sorry!!!
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I didn't realize the fact that I was driving my in-laws to Torp right on the day of my Anniversary (March 17th); that was soooo weird!! I totally screwed up on the audio...sorry!!!
- published: 18 Mar 2012
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- author: Zemfira25
Sandefjord open 2012 | BODYFITNESS - 163
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Sandefjord open 2012 | BODYFITNESS -163
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Sandefjord - Rosenborg Highlights
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Rosenborg drew for the fifth time this season away against Sandefjord in the 10. round of the Norwegian Tippeliga 2009 19.05.09 Result: 2-2 Goals: Sandefjord: Admir Rascic, Samuel Isaksen RBK: Trond Olsen, Rade Prica
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Rosenborg drew for the fifth time this season away against Sandefjord in the 10. round of the Norwegian Tippeliga 2009 19.05.09 Result: 2-2 Goals: Sandefjord: Admir Rascic, Samuel Isaksen RBK: Trond Olsen, Rade Prica
- published: 24 May 2009
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FFK vs Sandefjord - Cupfinalen NM
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Norwegian cupfinal, Fredrikstad FK vs Sandefjord which Fredrikstad FK won!
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Norwegian cupfinal, Fredrikstad FK vs Sandefjord which Fredrikstad FK won!
- published: 13 Nov 2006
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- author: Suzec
Sandefjord Kids
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- Updated: 09 Jan 2012
Sandefjord kids. Skaters: GnorgLAx, Bian, Jimmy og rubbyy.
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Sandefjord kids. Skaters: GnorgLAx, Bian, Jimmy og rubbyy.
- published: 10 Oct 2009
- views: 5325
- author: hermanaatangen
Sandefjord bibliotek
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- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 12 Jul 2012
Sandefjord bibliotek presenterer seg.
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Sandefjord bibliotek presenterer seg.
- published: 04 Aug 2008
- views: 1704
- author: sandefjordbibliotek
Timelapse Driving From Sandefjord To Trondheim CHDK Canon Powershot A570
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- Duration: 9:33
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
8 hour trip from Sandefjord to Trondheim, approx. 600km. Shot with canon powershot a570 using the CHDK hack. Interval: 5 seconds
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8 hour trip from Sandefjord to Trondheim, approx. 600km. Shot with canon powershot a570 using the CHDK hack. Interval: 5 seconds
- published: 14 May 2008
- views: 6238
- author: rostern
Sandefjord Beach Handball, Norway, slow motion
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- Duration: 3:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Made a film for my friends who were playing at the Norwegian Beach handball Championship
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Made a film for my friends who were playing at the Norwegian Beach handball Championship
- published: 26 Oct 2009
- views: 1498
- author: jutbokk
Sliced Salmon with Sandefjord Butter | Euromaxx a la carte
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- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 16 Jul 2012
Salmon recipe from the Norwegian restaurant Frognerseteren. Serves four 1 kg salmon. Recipe: www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15968764,00.html Enjoy!
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Salmon recipe from the Norwegian restaurant Frognerseteren. Serves four 1 kg salmon. Recipe: www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15968764,00.html Enjoy!
- published: 27 May 2012
- views: 423
- author: deutschewelleenglish
Winner of Kommunekampen - Sandefjord - Torsketruten (HD).mov
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 28 Apr 2012
The winner of "folkets grand prix/Kommunekampen" - Torsketruten accompanied by the band "The Svinesunds". A contest between norwegian regions to make the best introduction of their city while performing an erlier ESC winning song. Torsketruten chose the ESC winning song of 1984, Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley and they won. About Torksetruten: yourosong.no en.wikipedia.org -
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The winner of "folkets grand prix/Kommunekampen" - Torsketruten accompanied by the band "The Svinesunds". A contest between norwegian regions to make the best introduction of their city while performing an erlier ESC winning song. Torsketruten chose the ESC winning song of 1984, Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley and they won. About Torksetruten: yourosong.no en.wikipedia.org -
- published: 21 May 2010
- views: 748
- author: KKBFILM
MC to Strømstad via Sandefjord
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- Duration: 9:42
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
MC to Strømstad via Sandefjord
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Briskeby - Joe Dallesandro (Live Sandefjord 28-July-2006)
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- Duration: 4:32
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Briskeby performing at BadeRock in Sandefjord, Norway on 28-July-2006. Great duet with Vidar Johnsen, former vocalist in Norwegian band Vamp.
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Briskeby performing at BadeRock in Sandefjord, Norway on 28-July-2006. Great duet with Vidar Johnsen, former vocalist in Norwegian band Vamp.
- published: 31 Mar 2007
- views: 6432
- author: Muldr4Scly
Ragnhild Monsen Sandefjord Exhibition 2011
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- Duration: 3:11
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
The opening of an exhibition by this leading Scandinavian textile artist in the warm and friendly town of Sandefjord, Norway
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The opening of an exhibition by this leading Scandinavian textile artist in the warm and friendly town of Sandefjord, Norway
- published: 13 Feb 2011
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- author: Ragnhild Monsen
Opening Music Academy-Sandefjord University 1/5
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- Duration: 8:15
- Updated: 13 Sep 2012
Department of Music Sandefjord University. Academy "The biological meaning in performing" ROCKAWAY STUDIO (Piacenza, Italy)
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Department of Music Sandefjord University. Academy "The biological meaning in performing" ROCKAWAY STUDIO (Piacenza, Italy)
- published: 13 May 2010
- views: 1762
- author: Playingrieg
HMKG 2009 Sandefjord del 3 Voice of the Guns
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- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Oppvisning under NM for skolekorps i Sandefjord 20. juni 2009
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Oppvisning under NM for skolekorps i Sandefjord 20. juni 2009
- published: 22 Aug 2009
- views: 1959
- author: Terje Arneng
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09 Jan 2013
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - India slammed arch-rival Pakistan on Wednesday over a fire fight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two of its soldiers were killed, and said the mutilation of one of the bodies was "inhuman". India's Defence Minister A.K. Antony waits to speak at a plenary session of the 11th International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit ... REUTERS/Tim Chong ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
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10 Jan 2013
Mexican has enacted a law that will ensure that the victims and relatives of crime are compensated with payments and social services from the state. The law, enacted by President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday, comprises the creation of a fund to pay relatives up to $70,000 in compensation for an innocent victim killed in attacks by drug gangs ... “There are thousands of people who have suffered the ravages of violence ... Share ... ....(size: 18.3Kb)
photo: AP / Jacques Brinon
10 Jan 2013
PARIS. Three Kurdish women, including one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, were "executed" at a Kurdish center in Paris, the interior minister said on Thursday. Turkey's Anadolu news agency identified one of the victims as Sakine Cansiz, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK ... He called it a "totally intolerable act." ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
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11 Jan 2013
QUETTA, Pakistan -- A series of bombings killed 115 people in Pakistan yesterday, including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said. The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest ... No group claimed responsibility for the attack.. . .....(size: 7.7Kb)
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10 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Lay then, the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind." -Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man". If alive today, Thomas Paine would recognize that the United States Government is not worthy of its citizens ... He would caution the People ... Paine would also empathize with ... In another town, Paine would identify with ... (1) Paine, Thomas....(size: 4.8Kb)
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http.//media.marketwire.com/attachments/200603/251295_LOGO.jpghttp.//at.marketwire.com/accesstracking/AccessTrackingLogServlet?PrId=973354&ProfileId=051205&sourceType=1. HAMILTON, BERMUDA -- (Marketwire) -- -- On December 17, 2012 NAT (NYSE. NAT) announced that it had acquired 100% of the shares of Scandic American Shipping Ltd. ("Scandic"), its management company since 2004 ... Following this transaction, Mr ... Mr ... Sandefjord, Norway ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
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Tweet. Get Alerts NAT Hot Sheet. Price. $9.50 --0%. Overall Analyst Rating.. NEUTRAL ( Up). Dividend Yield. 12.9%. HAMILTON, BERMUDA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/11/13 -- On December 17, 2012 NAT (NYSE. NAT) announced that it had acquired 100% of the shares of Scandic American Shipping Ltd. ("Scandic"), its management company since 2004 ... Mr. Hansson commented ... Nordic American Tankers Limited P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway Tel ... Source ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
Stockhouse
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http.//media.marketwire.com/attachments/200603/251295_LOGO.jpghttp.//at.marketwire.com/accesstracking/AccessTrackingLogServlet?PrId=970599&ProfileId=051205&sourceType=1 ... Press Release (PDF) ... Contacts.. Scandic American Shipping Ltd ... P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway. Tel ... Tel ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
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Tweet. HAMILTON, BERMUDA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/17/12 -- Following an agreement between Scandic and NAT, NAT today announced that it will acquire 100% of the shares of Scandic, its management company since 2004. When Scandic began actively managing NAT eight years ago, NAT owned three vessels. Today NAT owns 20 vessels ... Mr ... Commented Mr. Hansson ... Morgan Stanley & Co ... Nordic American Tankers Limited P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway Tel ... ....(size: 6.4Kb)
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http.//media.marketwire.com/attachments/200603/251295_LOGO.jpghttp.//at.marketwire.com/accesstracking/AccessTrackingLogServlet?PrId=966572&ProfileId=051205&sourceType=1. HAMILTON, BERMUDA -- (Marketwire) -- -- Following an agreement between Scandic and NAT, NAT today announced that it will acquire 100% of the shares of Scandic, its management company since 2004 ... Today NAT owns 20 vessels ... Mr ... P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
noodls
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(Source. Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd) Press release from Nordic American Tankers. Hamilton, Bermuda, December17, 2012. Following an agreement between Scandic and NAT, NAT today announced that it will acquire 100% of the shares of Scandic, its management company since 2004. When Scandic began actively managing NAT eight years ago, NAT owned three vessels. Today NAT owns 20 vessels ... Mr ... Hansson ... P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway. Tel....(size: 7.7Kb)
Stockhouse
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http.//media.marketwire.com/attachments/200603/251295_LOGO.jpghttp.//at.marketwire.com/accesstracking/AccessTrackingLogServlet?PrId=962667&ProfileId=051205&sourceType=1. HAMILTON, BERMUDA -- (Marketwire) -- -- Nordic American Tankers Limited (NYSE. NAT) today announced that one of its ships was detained for a short while in a US port ... Efforts continue to establish facts ... Contacts. ... Manager for. ... P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway....(size: 4.8Kb)
noodls
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NOT FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO CANADA, AUSTRALIA OR JAPAN. • The Offer Document from BASF has been approved by the Oslo Stock Exchange ... • Offer period from and including 5 December to 19 December ... Synne H ... Pronova's headquarters are located at Lysaker in Norway, while production takes place at state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities at Sandefjord in Norway and in Kalundborg, Denmark....(size: 6.2Kb)
noodls
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• Voluntary cash offer for all outstanding shares of NOK 12.50 per share, or NOK 3 760 million total consideration. • Pronova's Board of Directors has unanimously recommended that shareholders accept the offer ... Gert W ... Contact details ... Synne H ... Pronova's headquarters are located at Lysaker in Norway, while production takes place at state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities at Sandefjord in Norway and in Kalundborg, Denmark....(size: 8.8Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
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Readers share their travel advice and recommendations for holidays in Norway. The Lofoten is absolutely exquisite and the vistas simply get better and better – and better Photo. Alamy. 8.00AM GMT 17 Nov 2012 ... Watch out for speed cameras – we found on the Sandefjord-Kristiansand road that speed limits change frequently and camera signs are much smaller than at home and occur only once before the small, well-camouflaged cameras....(size: 17.5Kb)
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HAMILTON, BERMUDA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/15/12 -- Link to the complete 3Q12 dividend report.. In conjunction with today's third quarter report, Nordic American Tankers Limited (NAT) is pleased to point out that its financial position has been further strengthened by the establishment of a non-amortizing credit facility that extends to the autumn of 2017 ... The Fleet ... Nordic American Tankers Limited P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway Tel....(size: 22.5Kb)
Stockhouse
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http.//media.marketwire.com/attachments/200603/251295_LOGO.jpghttp.//at.marketwire.com/accesstracking/AccessTrackingLogServlet?PrId=954907&ProfileId=051205&sourceType=1. HAMILTON, BERMUDA -- (Marketwire) -- -- Link to the complete 3Q12 dividend report. http.//hugin.info/201/R/1658278/536612.pdf ... NAT has very low net debt per vessel ($6.4m) and the low debt policy will prevail ... The Fleet ... P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway. Tel ... ....(size: 23.0Kb)
noodls
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Press release from Nordic American Tankers. Link to the complete 3Q12 dividend report.. Hamilton, Bermuda, November 15, 2012 ... The new credit facility has been made at a time when the tanker industry is facing financial challenges. NAT is strong and the new credit facility is one more reason why NAT should be differentiated from some other tanker companies which are in deep trouble ... Cash on hand is $85m ... P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway....(size: 26.4Kb)
| Sandefjord kommune | |||
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| Coordinates: 59°8′45″N 10°13′25″E / 59.14583°N 10.22361°E / 59.14583; 10.22361Coordinates: 59°8′45″N 10°13′25″E / 59.14583°N 10.22361°E / 59.14583; 10.22361 | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Vestfold | ||
| Administrative centre | Sandefjord | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor (2004) | Bjørn Ole Gleditsch (H) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 121 km2 (47 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 119 km2 (46 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 370 in Norway | ||
| Population (2011) | |||
| • Total | 43,648 | ||
| • Rank | 16 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 338.8/km2 (877/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | 11.5 % | ||
| Demonym | Sandefjording[1] | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-0706 | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Website | www.sandefjord.kommune.no | ||
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Sandefjord (help·info) is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sandefjord. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Sandar was merged into the municipality of Sandefjord on 1 January 1968.
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General information[link]
Name[link]
The name originally belonged to the fjord (now called the Sandefjordsfjord). The first element is the genitive case of the name of the parish and former municipality of Sandar.[2]
Coat-of-arms[link]
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 9 May 1914. The Viking ship symbolizes the famous Gokstad ship, that was found near Sandefjord in 1880, one of the best preserved Vikings ships known. The whale symbolizes the fact that in the late 19th and early 20th century, Sandefjord was a main home port for whalers operating in the southern oceans.[3]
History[link]
Gokstad viking ship[link]
One of the most important remains from the Viking age was found at the grave site Gokstadhaugen in Sandefjord. The Gokstad ship was excavated by Nicolay Nicolaysen and is now in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. The Viking, an exact replica of the Gokstad ship, crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Bergen to be exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago during 1893. A replica of Gokstad ship, called Gaia currently has Sandefjord as home port. Other known replicas include the Munin, (a half scale replica) located in Vancouver, BC.
Health resort[link]
Sandefjord was formerly a famous health resort, with various kinds of baths for health improvement. Amongst these were salt water sea baths, mud and sulfur baths. Visitors included royalty, a prime minister, and some of Norway’s foremost cultural personalities. Around 50,000 people, mostly Norwegians, visited the bath from 1837 to 1939. Today the bath's building has been restored and now hosts cultural events and various activities.
Whaling and ships[link]
From 1850, a number of ships from Sandefjord were whaling and sealing in the Arctic Ocean and along the coast of Finnmark. The first whaling expedition from Sandefjord to the Antarctic Ocean was sent in 1905. Towards the end of the 1920s, Sandefjord had a fleet of 15 factory ships and more than 90 whalers. In 1954, more than 2,800 men from the district were hired as crew on the whalers, but from the mid 1950s whaling was gradually reduced. The number of southbound expeditions rapidly decreased during the 1960s, and the 1967/68 season became the last for Sandefjord. The shipping industry was gradually readjusted from whaling to other ship types during this period. The local Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted and Jotun Group Private Ltd. had major roles in this business.
Today, the memories from this important period of the city's history are kept alive through the whaling museum (Hvalfangstmuseet). This museum is the only museum in Europe specializing in whales and the history of whaling. The history of the whalers can also be explored at the Museum's Wharf with a visit aboard the whale-catcher Southern Actor.
Sandefjord also has shipping traditions from tall sailing ships and steam ships. The full rigged sailing ship Christian Radich, three-masted barquentine Endurance, whale catcher Jason and Viking ship replica Viking were a few of the many ships built by Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted.
Geography[link]
The two peninsulas called Østerøya ("Eastern Island") and Vesterøya ("Western Island") contribute to a total coastline of 146 kilometres (91 mi), and form the Sandefjordsfjord and Mefjord. The coastline offers a wide variety of sandy beaches, skerries, and islets (116 in total), along with bays and sloping rocks.
Of Sandefjord's total area, 37.7 square kilometres (14.6 sq mi) is agricultural and 36.2 square kilometres (14.0 sq mi) is forest. Neighbouring towns are Tønsberg and Larvik. A small part of Sandefjord (the Himberg farm) is lying as a exclave inside the borders of the municipality of Larvik.
Townscape[link]
Sandefjord has a good selection of restaurants and cafés. According to the renowned restaurant guide, Salt & Pepper, Sandefjord holds what is possibly Norway’s best gourmet restaurant which is located in a modern building near the harbour. Also located at the harbour, is the fishmonger well known for the excellent quality of its goods and delicacies. Sandefjord has a charming city centre, consisting of a mixture of old and modern buildings and a wide selection of shops.
The whaling monument is located at the end of the city’s main street, Jernbanealléen, in the harbour area. Nearby is a restaurant called Kokeriet, one of the relatively few places where whale meat is regularly served.
Economy[link]
Sandefjord is home to the paint producer Jotun, the brewery Grans Bryggeri, the chocolate factory Hval Sjokoladefabrikk, the engineering company Ramboll Oil & Gas, as well as three of Norway's largest online shops, Komplett.no, mpx.no, and netshop.no.
Transportation[link]
Sandefjord Airport, Torp is located in the municipality. The ferries Bohus and Color Viking connect the town to Strömstad in Sweden. Sandefjord Airport Station is part of Vestfoldbanen. European route E18 traverses the municipality.
Culture and sports[link]
The local football club, Sandefjord Fotball, plays in the Adeccoligaen (Norwegian First Division). Sandefjord handball won the men's Premier League in 2005-06. Marius Bakken is successful as a middle distance runner. Other local sports clubs include IL Runar and Sandefjord TIF.
Notable residents[link]
| Historical populations | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1845 | 749 | — |
| 1951 | 6,717 | +796.8% |
| 1960 | 6,984 | +4.0% |
| 1970 | 31,752 | +354.6% |
| 1980 | 34,758 | +9.5% |
| 1990 | 35,888 | +3.3% |
| 2000 | 39,317 | +9.6% |
| 2010 | 43,126 | +9.7% |
| Sandefjord and Sandar were merged in 1970. Source: SSB | ||
Main category: People from Sandefjord
- Hans Fredrik Friis-Olsen, talent scout, producer, music manager, composer, lyricist, musician and singer (1923-2008)
- Ole Christian Bach, investor (1957-2005)
- Arne Benoni, singer (born 1951)
- Christen Christensen, shipyard, whaling and ship owner (1845-1923)
- Lars Christensen, whaling magnate (1884-1965)
- Berit Eggers (born 1930)
- Karin Fossum, author (born 1954)
- Odd Gleditsch, Sr., co-founder of Jotun Group Private Ltd. (1895-1990)
- Henrik Hagtvedt, artist (born 1971)
- Fredrik Davidsen, snowboarder (born 1986)
- Bent Hamer, film director (born 1956)
- Anita Hegerland, singer (born 1961)
- Anders Jahre, shipping magnate (1891-1982)
- Ronnie Johnsen, footballer (born 1969)
- Ole Aanderud Larsen, co-founder Jotun Group Private Ltd., ship designer (1884-1964)
- Frank Løke, handball player (born 1980)
- Christian Theodore Pedersen, whaling captain and fur trader (1876-1969)
- Joachim Roenning, film director (born 1972)
- Espen Sandberg, film director (born 1971)
- Dag Solstad, author (born 1941)
- Theodore Theodorsen (1897-1978), Norwegian American theoretical aerodynamicist
- Lorene Yarnell dancer and mime (1944–2010)
- Audun Østby Pedersen, biologist / scholar (1986- )
Fredrik Nordahl Andersen, musician ( born 1981)
Pal Henrik-Kristiansen (1985-) Communication Researcher / Scholar
See also[link]
- List of schools in Sandefjord
- Sandefjords Blad (local newspaper)
- Skiringssal
- Larvik and Sandefjord metropolitan region
- Sang til Sandefjord
References[link]
- ^ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet. http://www.sprakrad.no/nb-no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskrivning_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn/.
- ^ Rygh, Oluf (1907). Norske gaardnavne: Jarlsberg og Larviks amt (6 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. pp. 260. http://books.google.com/books?id=3YpBAAAAIAAJ. (Norwegian)
- ^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". http://www.ngw.nl/int/nor/s/sandefjo.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
External links[link]
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- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
- Vestfold travel guide from Wikitravel
- Sandefjord travel guide from Wikitravel
- Visit Sandefjord
- Cruise Sandefjord
- Whaling Museum
- Gaia - the Viking ship copy
- Brygga 11, Geir Skeie - Brygga 11, Geir Skeie is the place to go for the ultimate seafood experience
- SMAK - Odd Ivar Solvold
- Villa Provence
- Kokeriet - restaurant serving whale meat
- Midtåsen - The beautiful former home of shipping magnate and philanthropist Anders Jahre, now owned by the Norwegian Government
- Sandefjord Public Library (Norwegian)
- The local history society "Gamle Sandefjord" - "Old Sandefjord" (Norwegian)
- A local history society dedicated to the erstwhile municipality of Sandar - Sandar Historielag i Sandefjord (Norwegian)
- A biographical dictionary over the population of the town of Sandefjord in 1801. In Norwegian only, so far (Norwegian)
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| Born | Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro III (1948-12-31) December 31, 1948 (age 63) Pensacola, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1967–present |
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Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro (born December 31, 1948), better known as Joe Dallesandro, is an American actor, and Warhol superstar. Although he never became a mainstream film star, Dallesandro is generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex symbol of gay subculture.[1]
Dallesandro starred in Flesh as a teenage street hustler. Rolling Stone magazine in 1970 declared his second starring vehicle, Trash, the "Best Film of the Year", making him a star of the youth culture, sexual revolution and subcultural New York art collective of the 1970s.
A photograph of his crotch bulge encased in a tight-fitting pair of jeans is featured on the cover of the Rolling Stones 1971 album, Sticky Fingers. It was taken by Andy Warhol.
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Early life[link]
He was born in Pensacola, Florida. His father, Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro II, was an Italian-American sailor, and his mother was 16-year-old Thelma Testman. By the time Dallesandro was five, his mother was serving five years in a Federal Penitentiary for interstate auto theft. His parents divorced soon afterward. Dallesandro and his brother, Bobby, were taken to New York with their father, who worked as an electrical engineer. Both boys were eventually placed into the Angel Guardian Home in Harlem, prior to being fostered by a couple in Brooklyn. The senior Dallesandro would visit them about once a month at their foster parents' home.
Dallesandro attended a Catholic school until second grade. He and his brother lived with the family until they ran away and were removed from the family by social services. At the age of 14 Dallesandro and his brother moved to Queens to live with their paternal grandparents. He was kicked out of school for punching the principal, who had insulted his father.
As a teenager, Dallesandro supported himself by prostitution and later nude modeling, appearing most notably in short films and magazine photos for Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild. Dallesandro also appeared in at least one gay pornography film. In a later interview, Dallesandro said: "My hustling days were more about trying to take care of myself. Having met those people kind of calmed me down. They showed me a different part of life. My attitude was that it widened my life experience... I realized later that I was looking for a father figure and someone to love me."[2] The street-wise young hustler "Ned" who appears in Martin Duberman's memoir Cures has been assumed to be Dallesandro.
Career[link]
Dallesandro met Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey in 1967 while they were shooting Four Stars, and they cast him in the film on the spot[3] . Warhol would later comment "In my movies, everyone's in love with Joe Dallesandro."
Dallesandro played a hustler in his third Warhol film, Flesh (1968), where he had several nude scenes. Flesh became a crossover hit with mainstream audiences, and Dallesandro became the most popular of the Warhol stars. New York Times film critic Vincent Canby wrote of him: "His physique is so magnificently shaped that men as well as women become disconnected at the sight of him."
As Dallesandro's underground fame began to cross over into the popular culture, he graced the cover of Rolling Stone in April 1971. He was also photographed by some of the top celebrity photographers of the time: Francesco Scavullo, Jack Robinson, Richard Avedon.
Dallesandro also appeared in Lonesome Cowboys (1968), Trash (1970), Heat (1972), a sardonic re-imagining of Sunset Boulevard with Sylvia Miles, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Andy Warhol's Dracula (both 1974) also directed by Morrissey. These last two films were shot in Europe, and, after the films were completed, Dallesandro chose not to return to the U.S. He continued to star in films made mainly in France and Italy for the rest of the decade, returning to America in the 1980s. He made several movies without Warhol and Morrissey, and is known for his portrayal of 1920s gangster Lucky Luciano in Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club. Working with manager/attorney Stann Findelle, his career enjoyed a resurgence, appearing in major motion pictures as Steven Soderbergh's The Limey, as a religious zealot in John Waters' Cry-Baby, "Sunset" with Bruce Willis and James Garner, "Critical Condition" with Richard Pryor, Guncrazy with Drew Barrymore, and with an all-star cast in Mika Kaurismäki's "L.A. Without A Map" plus TV series "Fortune Dane and multiple appearances on "Wiseguy", "Miami Vice" and "Matlock."
Dallesandro wrote and produced a documentary film called Little Joe in 2009. John Waters has praised him as "A wonderful actor who forever changed male sexuality on the screen."[4]
[edit] A Walk on the Wild Side
Dallesandro has a famous "jailhouse" style tattoo on his upper right arm that reads "Little Joe", and was portrayed as the hustler "Little Joe" in Lou Reed's hit 1972 song "Walk on the Wild Side", which was about the characters Reed knew from Warhol's studio, The Factory. During a live performance of the song in 1978, recorded on his infamous Take No Prisoners album, Reed made some scathing remarks about Dallesandro: "Little Joe was an idiot, I don't know if any of you know that..You talk with him for two minutes, you hear he has an IQ of 12...He's the only guy I know who went to Italy to be a movie star, and it is not happening...I mean, everybody is ready to go to bed with him, make him a star...He can barely tie his shoes and dress...I say, 'Joe you're getting older,' he says, 'I know, I'll make a Warhol film,' but you can't do that anymore, man!"[5] In his 2009 film Little Joe Dallesandro answers Reed's denigrating remarks.
Album covers[link]
A Warhol photograph of the large crotch bulge of Dallesandro's tight blue jeans graces the famous cover of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers. Dallesandro explained to biographer Michael Ferguson, “It was just out of a collection of junk photos that Andy pulled from. He didn't pull it out for the design or anything, it was just the first one he got that he felt was the right shape to fit what he wanted to use for the fly.”[6]
The 1980s British band The Smiths would later use a still photograph of Dallesandro from the film Flesh as the cover of their eponymous debut album.
Personal life[link]
Dallesandro, who identifies himself as bisexual,[7] has been married three times. His first wife was named Leslie (the daughter of his father's girlfriend); they had a son, Michael, circa 1968. His second wife was named Terry (Theresa), with whom he has another son, Joseph A Dallesandro Jr, born November 14, 1970; Terry divorced Joe in early 1978. He has since married again to Kim (Kimberly). He has a grandson and a granddaughter by Michael and a grandson by Joseph.
He currently manages a hotel in the heart of Hollywood, where he lives with his wife and cat Booky. He has said: "I've lived such a full life. I've had such great things. There were some hardships, but overall everything has been great."[8]
Filmography[link]
- Four Stars (1967)
- Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
- The Loves of Ondine (1968)
- Flesh (1968)
- Trash (1970)
- Heat (1972)
- The Gardener (1974)
- Flesh for Frankenstein (1974)
- Blood for Dracula (1974)
- Donna E Bello (1974)
- Il Tempo Degli Assassini (1974)
- L'Ambizioso (1975)
- Black Moon (1975)
- Calore in Provincia (1975)
- Fango Bollente (1975)
- Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus (1975)
- La Marge (1976)
- L'Ultima Volta (1976)
- Un Coure Semplice (1977)
- Sour Omicidi (1978)
- Queen Lear (1978)
- 6000 KM Di Paura (1978)
- Vacanze Per Un Massacro (1979)
- Tapage Nocturne (1979)
- Parano (1980)
- Merry-Go-Round (1981)
- The Cotton Club (1984)
- Critical Condition (1987)
- Sunset (1988)
- Double Revenge (1989)
- Hollywood Detective" (1989)
- Private War (1990)
- Cry-Baby (1990)
- Almost An Angel (1990)
- Guncrazy (1992)
- Bad Love (1992)
- Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue (1992)
- Sugar Hill (1994)
- Theodore Rex (1996)
- Pacino Is Missing (1998)
- L.A. Without a Map (1998)
- The Limey (1999)
- Citizens of Perpetual Indulgence (2000)
- 3 Stories About Evil (2008)
References[link]
- ^ Gary Morris (2010-03-31). "Bright Lights Film Journal :: Books: Little Joe, Superstar: The Films of Joe Dallesandro". Brightlightsfilm.com. http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/22/dallesandro.html. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ Interview magazine, October 1994
- ^ "Interview with Joe Dallesandro". Manner of Man Magazine. http://mannerofman.blogspot.com/2011/03/mm-interview-with-joe-dallesandro.html.
- ^ "Joe Dallesandro.com". Joe Dallesandro.com. http://joedallesandro.com/. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ "contributions". Ww21.tiki.ne.jp. 2002-05-04. http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/mails/Jared_Wolfsen.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ "Album Cover Joe". Joedallesandro.com. http://www.joedallesandro.com/album.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ "Flesh (1968) - Andy Warhol". Warholstars.org. 1970-01-15. http://www.warholstars.org/filmch/flesh.html. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
- ^ Interview magazine, October 1994
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| The Guns | |
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| Origin | Abertillery, Wales |
| Genres | Rock, Powerpop |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Website | The Guns |
| Members | |
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| Andrew Robinson Michael Leigh Gregory |
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The Guns are a four-piece rock band from South Wales. The current line-up consists of Alex Wiltshire (vocals and guitar), Adam Turner (lead guitar), Tom Coburn (bass guitar) and Chris 'Stix' Davies (drums). The band have stated that they would like to remain independent[1] and have turned down numerous record deals as a result of that. As of 2012, The Guns have released two EPs, and two albums.
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History[link]
Early years (2005 - 2007)[link]
After the once popular South Wales band When Reason Sleeps, which contained the frontman for fellow Welsh band The Blackout, Sean Smith, broke up, lead singer Alex Wiltshire set out and recruited Adam Turner on lead guitar, Tom Coburn on bass guitar, and Kob on drums. The Guns were formed, and after a small amount of gigs, they were asked by Pontypridd band Lostprophets to support them during their Liberation Transmission tour, The Guns accepted the offer and went on to play on the main stage at The Full Ponty 2007. Also, during this period The Guns had started work on their debut album With The Guns, and had released a self-titled 3 track CD available through their Myspace and at gigs.
With The Guns (2007 - 2009)[link]
After touring with Lostprophets, the band worked on With The Guns (produced by Richard Emanuel at The Lodge Productions studio), and in late 2008, shortly after completion of With The Guns, Andrew Robinson left the band and in early 2009, Michael Leigh Gregory was recruited to replace Robinson on drums. With The Guns was released on iTunes on 17 July 2009. The album was released independently by The Guns.
Fuck The Demon Outta Me (2011 - Present)[link]
The Guns began work on their follow-up album in 2008, and the band announced on their Myspace page the title of their next album, If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It. They soon began touring, playing many shows, including their first Cardiff show in over a year, and shows with The Blackout, Funeral For A Friend, Bowling For Soup and CKY. In early 2010, Michael Lee Gregory was replaced by Rhian Williams and the band's music video for "Gordon's And Lemonade" began to appear on UK music channel, Lava TV. The Guns released the single "Treacle & Pie" on iTunes on 28 June 2010, with pre-order sales getting it to #58 after just its third day of availability. On November 21 2011, The Guns released the now renamed "Fuck The Demon Outta Me" on iTunes, with 200 hand numbered physical copies made available through their bigcartel store. The first single featured on the album is "Missing Girls", a music video for which was released through the band's official website.
Media interest[link]
The Guns have attracted frequent interest from the media, including four appearances on ITV 1's The Guestlist. Music magazines Kerrang! and Rock Sound have been following The Guns' progress during records, as well as live performances, and have given positive feedback about the band. The Guns also have given interviews and received articles in newspapers including Metro and the Western Mail. It was in the Western Mail that it was reported The Guns are currently being filmed for a documentary or possibly a film which has been pitched to UK television channels Channel 4 and MTV, although no further details have been revealed.
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
- The Guns (2006)
- No No Know
- Überwoman
- Colder
- With The Guns (2009)
- It's On Like Donkey Kong
- No No Know
- You Can Eff Right Off
- Kings And Queens
- Better Off Walking
- Gordon's And Lemonade
- North Or South
- Überwoman
- Third Strike
- This Old House
- Listen Up
- A Year And Two Studios Ago
- Treacle & Pie (2010)
- Treacle & Pie
- Colder (Live)
- No No Know (Acoustic)
- Sometimes (Acoustic)
- Daughter Of A Bad Man
- All Aboard
- Treacle And Pie
- Answers
- Voodoo Boogie
- You Drive And I'll Eat This
- Missing Girls
- Moan Kill You To
- Nighty Night Creepin'
- Stranger Than You
Singles[link]
- "Gordon's And Lemonade" [taken from the album With The Guns] (2009)
- "It's On Like Donkey Kong" [taken from the album With The Guns] (2010)
- "Treacle & Pie" (2010)
- "Missing Girls" [taken from the album Fuck The Demon Outta Me] (2011)
Videos[link]
- "Gordon's And Lemonade" [taken from the album With The Guns] (2009)
- "It's On Like Donkey Kong" [taken from the album With The Guns] (2010)
- "Missing Girls" [taken from the album Fuck The Demon Outta Me] (2011)
References[link]
- ^ http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/07/22/top-20-place-for-the-guns-91466-24212397/ The Guns on WalesOnline
External links[link]
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