Vaaler's alleged invention of the paper clip became known in Norway after World War II and found its way into some encyclopedias.

Representatives of that group caught up with Gustav before he had reached Norway and convinced him to follow them back to Mora.

Bräuer suggested that Haakon follow the example of the Danish government and his brother, Christian X, which had surrendered almost immediately after the previous day's invasion, and threatened Norway with harsh conditions if it did not surrender.

Others to follow him were: John and George Shelton from Virginia in 1836, Lars Larson Bothan from Norway in 1843, brothers Ole Iverson from Vik, Norway in 1843 and Axel Iverson from Voss, Norway in 1844, Curtis Hard and Henry Crary in 1845.

The German fisheries biologist Friedrich Wilhelm Tesch, an eel expert and author of the book " The Eel " ( ISBN 0-632-06389-0 ), conducted many expeditions with high-tech instrumentation to follow eel migration, first down the Baltic, then along the coasts of Norway and England, but finally the transmitter signals were lost at the continental shelf when the batteries ran out.

This displeased the Swedish people, who were eager to follow the king on new ventures in the East to win back the kingdoms that paid tribute to his ancestors, but it was the wish of the people that the king make peace with the king of Norway and give him his daughter Ingegerd as queen.

Angered, Olaf launched an expedition to attack Denmark, but he was too impatient to wait for a fleet to assemble from all of Norway, and he set sail for the south with only 11 ships, expecting the rest to follow.

They follow that up with a 7-3 win over heavily favored Czechoslovakia, then victories over Norway, Romania and West Germany to earn a spot in the medal round.

Ohthere's method of locating Kvenland is difficult to follow, since it means that Kvenland can be understood to have been located around the northern part of either Norway, Sweden, or Finland.

Both the King and the Crown Prince had considered the possibility of remaining in Norway, but had been persuaded by the British diplomat Cecil Dormer to instead follow the government into exile.

The band reunited for one concert in 2009, but then decided to follow this up with a mini-tour of Norway consisting of five concerts in 2010.

With a few exceptions the branches follow Norway ’ s county borders.

However, following Adolf Hitler's suicide on April 30, Hitler's successor Admiral Karl Dönitz summoned Terboven and General Franz Böhme, Commander-in-Chief of German forces in Norway, to a meeting in Flensburg, where they were ordered to follow the General headquarters ' instructions.

At 21: 10 on the same day, the German High Command ordered Böhme to follow the capitulation plans, and he made a radio broadcast at 22: 00 in which he declared that German forces in Norway would obey orders.

As the Norwegian forces in mainland Norway were about to surrender, General Fleischer was ordered to follow King Haakon VII and the Cabinet Nygaardsvold into exile in the United Kingdom, having been made commander of the Norwegian army in exile on 7 June 1940.

On March 31, Christian Frederik arrested officers of the naval vessels stationed in Norway as they were preparing to follow orders to bring the ships to Denmark.

Eric's succession was one in a line of successions which did not precisely follow the laws of inheritance, but excluded one or a few undesirable heirs, leading to Norway formally becoming an elective kingdom in 1450.

The youth league, Young Communist League of Norway ( NKU ), used to follow a somewhat more independent line than the party.

McGuinn and Levy's production was to loosely follow the storyline of Peer Gynt, albeit with some modifications to transpose the story from Norway to south-west America during the mid-19th century.

Quick clay is a unique type of marine clay indigenous to the glaciated terrains of Norway, Canada, Northern Ireland, and Sweden.

In some places in Europe, notably Norway, paramedics do exist, but the role of the ' ambulance nurse ' continues to be developed, as it is felt that nurses may bring unique skills to some situations encountered by ambulance crews.

The first two chapters also give a unique explanation for how Norway came to be named as such, involving Thorri's sons Nór and Gór and their division of the land.

Indeed, after a unique spring date on 30 March 2012 in Tromsø, Norway, the band embarked on 23 June 2012 in Vienna, Austria on a 27-date tour of European summer festivals due to end on 22 September 2012 in Germersheim, Germany.

The Yukigassen competition in Vardø is unique in Norway.

The Saami of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia have their own unique culture, with ties to the neighboring cultures.

He also worked with, sponsored or helped to make attractive recordings of unique singer / songwriters from all over the world such as Pedro Aznar ( Argentina ), David Bowie ( UK ), Silje Nergaard ( Norway ), Noa ( Israel ), and Anna Maria Jopek ( Poland ).

Idol in Norway is unique in that contestants have been allowed to perform self composed songs since the first season in 2003.

After extensive travelling, Hazelius bought around 150 houses from all over the country ( as well as one structure from Telemark in Norway ) and had them shipped piece by piece to the museum, where they were rebuilt to provide a unique picture of traditional Sweden.

Formed around the talents of brothers Lars and Martin Horntveth, who also happen to be the main driving force behind the highly successful and unique Norwegian electronica / jazz / post-rock combo Jaga Jazzist, the band features musicians already well known in their native country, from such bands as Jaga Jazzist and BigBang, and singer-songwriter Thomas Dybdahl on vocals, the band is often referred to as a " supergroup " in Norway.

Presumably, the immigrants from Norway and Sweden adapted their low context Jante Law to the seemingly similar but very different Southern United States high context Polite society-forming the unique midwest culture amongst Western cultures that is called ' Minnesota Nice '.

The region was re-populated by immigrants from Southern Norway, Trøndelag, and Sweden, which could explain the unique dialect with a Swedish-like intonation.

The Telavåg Tragedy exhibition shows how and why the local community Telavåg has a unique standing in the history of the occupation of Norway.

This alteration assemblage produces a unique rock mineralogy termed a fenite after its type locality, the Fen complex in Norway.

It was unique among the camps in Norway in that it was run entirely by Norwegians under the authority of the Ministry of Police.

The Norwegian farm culture ( Norwegian: bondekultur ) was a rural movement unique in values and practices which assumed a form in Viking Age Norway, and continued with little change into the age of firearms-and in many respects even to the early 20th century.

For the last two decades, Hillcrest has had a unique partnership with the Lutheran high school Danielsen Videregående Skole ( Danielsen High School ) in Bergen, Norway.

His unique and powerful 4 octave range was the final element the band needed to break out of Norway and into the world market.

Fredrikstad fortress is unique in Norway by being the only fortress that is preserved as it was.

The spring continued with more Ett herrans liv and season five of 100 höjdare, where they expanded their search for unique people to Denmark and Norway.

Their web page includes most of Aasens ' texts numerous other examples of Nynorsk literature ( in Nettbiblioteket ), and some articles, also in English, about language history in Norway.

Another hypothesis for the origin of the term dates back to 1907, " when John Brandtjen convinced two young machinists from Oslo, Norway named Abel and Eneval Kluge to service and install presses for his fledgling printing equipment firm " ( see external link, history of the Kluge Platen Press ).

The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century ( Princeton University Press ; 2011 ); 543 pages ; Traces the history of the Scandinavian social model as it developed after the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905.

The French High Commissioner in Germany André François-Poncet replied that the admiral seemed ill-informed about history and the law, stating that North Korea had attacked South Korea, and that UN forces in Korea were fighting in response to South Korean appeals for help and under the authority of the UN Security Council, which did not correspond at all to the situation with Norway in 1940.

The history of human settlement in what is present day Norway goes back at least 11, 000 years, to the late Paleolithic.

These provide our main sources for the early history of Norway.

* Military history of Norway

* Norway — Article from the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia which details much about Norway including history.

* History of Norway — Overview to Norwegian history.

* Karsten Alnæs: A history of Norway in words and pictures ( illustrated book in coffee table format ) Gyldendal 2001 ISBN 82-05-27500-9

* Rolf Danielsen, Ståle Dyrvik, Tore Grønlie, Knut Helle, Edgar Hovland: Norway: A History from the Vikings to Our Own Times ( The most recent single volume academic history of Norway in English ) Scandinavian University Press 1995 ISBN 978-82-00-21803-6

* Fritz Hodne An economic history of Norway: 1815-1970 ( English language edition superseded by two more recent Norwegian language books ) Tapir 1975 ISBN 82-519-0134-0

The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century ( Princeton University Press ; 2011 ) 543 pages ; Traces the history of the Scandinavian social model as it developed after the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905.

* Øivind Stenersen, Ivar Libæk: The history of Norway: from the Ice age to today ISBN 82-8071-041-8

* Economic history of Norway EH. net encyclopedia article by business historian Ola Honningdal Grytten, professor at NHH

The arrival of Christianity around the year 1000 brought Norway into contact with European medieval learning, hagiography and history writing.

Peder Claussøn Friis ( 1545 — 1615 ) was also a humanist who both revived the Heimskringla by translating it into the language of the period and wrote the first natural history of Norway as well as an important topographic study of Norway.

The year 1905, when Norway was free from the union with Sweden, marks a new period in the history of Norwegian literature.

Norway also has a history of co-operation and friendship with the United Kingdom, due to their shared cultural heritage since Viking times.