A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

Selberg was born in Langesund, Norway.

On the February 20, 2011, episode of Top Gear, James May had Bovril in an urn inside a Claas Dominator combine harvester in Norway, which was converted into a snow plough.

Geological evidence suggests that at least part of the island was originally joined with present-day Scotland and Norway, now separated by millions of years of continental drift.

Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978 ; in 1978 – 1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.

The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.

It was initially established by a public consisting largely of recent immigrants from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King Harald Fairhair.

Norway's first nominative, complete census was taken in 1801, when Norway still was ruled by the Oldenburg dynasty of Denmark-Norway.

Until 1814, Danish was the official language of Norway.

This trait is common in the northernmost part of Norway, where life and culture was based on fishing more than anywhere else.

In the 1970s and 1980s, agricultural use was banned in most developed countries, beginning with Hungary in 1968 then in Norway and Sweden in 1970, Germany and the United States in 1972, but not in the United Kingdom until 1984.

This was partly the case in the Grue Church fire in Norway in 1822.

On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.

During the Danish-Norwegian personal union, Dannebrog (" Danish cloth ") was also the flag of Norway and continued to be, with slight modifications, until Norway adopted its current flag in 1821.

Onstage in Oslo, Norway, on 18 June, Bowie was hit in the eye with a lollipop thrown by a fan ; a week later he suffered chest pain while performing at the Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel, Germany.

In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, " the Modern Eye ", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.

In Norway the work of collectors such as Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was extensively used by Edvard Grieg in his Lyric Pieces for piano and in other works, which became immensely popular.

According to Flateyjarbók Grímr Kamban settled in Faroe when Harald Hårfagre was king of Norway ( 872 – 930 ).

Early in the 11th century Sigmund or Sigmundur Brestisson, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the northern, was sent from Norway, whither he had escaped, to take possession of the islands for Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway.

King Sverre of Norway was brought up in the Faroe, being stepson of a Faroese man, and relative to Roe, bishop of the islands.

Though Norway tried to halt this process it was forced to relent after the Black Death decimated its population.

Norway and Sweden were both neutral in the war.

Norway remained neutral during World War I. Norway claimed neutrality again during World War II, but was occupied by German forces from April 9, 1940 until May 8, 1945.

Norway remained neutral during World War I, but 829 Norwegian ships were sunk during the war at sea, with the loss of some 2, 000 sailors.

As World War II erupted, Norway insisted on remaining neutral.

The Norwegian resistance also smuggled people in and out of Norway during the war ( typically to Scotland via the ' Shetland Bus ', and to neutral Sweden ), and, with the SOE, managed to destroy much of the world's supply of heavy water and cripple the Vemork heavy water plant at Rjukan, thus perhaps preventing Germany from developing an atomic bomb ( Operation Gunnerside ).

The fact that Norway has no commercial interest in nuclear power ensures that Halden is viewed internationally as a neutral location.

With the birth of Infanta Leonor of Spain on 31 October 2005 to the Prince and Princess of Asturias, President Zapatero reaffirmed his government's intention to amend the Spanish constitution by introducing full and equal cognatic primogeniture, also known in French as aînesse intégrale, which is a gender neutral succession law already adopted in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Luxembourg.

Predicting correctly that Britain would make a preemptive move against neutral Norway to stop the flow of ore from Narvik, Hitler ordered an invasion to begin on 9 April 1940.

Political negotiations with neutral Sweden, under the name Operation Graffham, to obtain concessions that would be useful during an invasion of Norway were used to add credence to the masquerade.

In 1803 Britain had declared war on France, at this time Sweden had remained neutral together with the Nordic countries Denmark – Norway and Prussia.

He played an active and neutral part in the dissolution of the Union between Sweden and Norway, for which he was rewarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star by King Oscar II.

Small numbers of Hawker Hurricanes arrived from the United Kingdom, Morane-Saulnier M. S. 406s from France, Fiat G. 50s from Italy, a few dozen Curtiss Hawk 75s captured by the Germans in France and Norway then sold to Finland, when Germany began warming up its ties with Finland, and numerous Brewster B239s from the neutral USA strengthened the FiAF.

He also proposed that Norway should become carbon neutral by 2050, and called upon other rich countries to do likewise.

In analyzing the many components of World War II, if one might consider as separate individual wars, the various attacks on previously neutral countries, then one might consider the attacks against Iran and Norway to have been preemptive wars.

Though nominally a neutral nation during World War I, Norway was in the unenviable position of being dependent on the warring sides for its trade.

Finland had fought two wars against the Soviet Union, Denmark and Norway had been occupied by Germany between 1940 and 1945, and Sweden, having been a neutral state throughout the war, had still felt its effects.

Later, when the Baltic ports froze over and the Germans began shipping the iron ore from the Norwegian port of Narvik, Churchill pushed for the Royal Navy to mine the west coast of Norway to prevent the Germans travelling inside neutral territorial waters to escape Allied Contraband Control measures.

Germany and Russia had both been excluded, while Norway enjoyed much goodwill after their neutral ally policy during the war and was at the same time seen as harmless.

Franco-British plans for intervention in the Winter War | Franco-British support was offered on the condition it was given free passage through neutral country | neutral Norway and Sweden instead of taking the road from the Soviet occupied Pechengsky District | Petsamo.

Although Norway remained officially neutral in World War I, the country was unofficially allied with the Entente powers.

Irish governments have always said that allowing aircraft to use Irish soil does not constitute participation in any particular conflict and is compatible with a neutral stance, instancing the transit of German troops between Finland and Norway through neutral Swedish territory during World War II.