* 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.

About 30 fishing vessels used by Norwegian refugees were gathered and the Shetland Bus conducted covert operations, carrying intelligence agents, refugees, instructors for the resistance, and military supplies.

A number of students participated in the Norwegian resistance movement ; after a fire was set in the university auditorium, Reich Commissar Terboven ordered the university closed and the students arrested.

The American industry also produced films designed to extol the heroics of America's allies, such as Mrs. Miniver ( about a British family on the home front ), Edge of Darkness ( Norwegian resistance fighters ) and The North Star ( the Soviet Union and its Communist Party ).

** The Norwegian resistance movement in Oslo, Norway, arrests the traitor Vidkun Quisling.

** Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II ( b. 1914 )

** Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Norwegian resistance leader ( d. 2009 )

The leading Norwegian encyclopedia mentioned the role of the paper clip as a symbol of resistance in a supplementary volume in 1952, but did not yet proclaim it a Norwegian invention.

Another site elaborates this story even further: " That symbol of resistance originally honored Johann Vaaler, the Norwegian Jew who invented the paper clip ".

Norwegian resistance was led by Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Trondheim, who invited the old king Christian II back from his exile in Holland.

Olaf Engelbrektsson again tried to lead a Catholic Norwegian resistance movement but he found little support.

The Norwegian armed forces, together with allied British, French and Polish forces, kept up an organized military resistance for two months, longer than any other country invaded by Germany, except for the Soviet Union.

The Norwegian national socialist politician Vidkun Quisling attempted a coup the same day, but was met with such strong resistance from the people that Nazi Germany deposed him within a week and installed a bureaucratic administration in lieu of a government.

Norwegian resistance ( generally termed the ' Home Front '), and its military branch ( milorg ) kept many German divisions tied down in occupation duty, and Norwegian spotters contributed to the destruction of numerous German warships and installations.

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 ).

As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance to the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II.

Taking up residence at Rotherhithe in London, Haakon was an important national symbol in the Norwegian resistance.

* Norwegian resistance movement

The Norwegian resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945.

" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.

This period also saw the rise of the Norwegian romantic nationalism cultural movement, as Norwegians sought to define and express a distinct national character.

In the mid-1980s, it was revealed that Sweden aided the Norwegian resistance movement with training and equipment in a series of camps along the Norwegian border.

The Norwegian Resistance Museum, at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, gives a good account of the activities of the Norwegian resistance movement.

Following the defeat of Napoleon's troops at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 and the Treaty of Kiel of January 1814, the Crown Prince of Denmark-Norway, Christian Frederik, the resident vice-roy in Norway, founded a Norwegian independence movement.

Later he would become a missionary to the Belgian Congo and then first mission secretary of the Norwegian Pentecostal movement.

Under the increasing influence of the Haugean pietist movement among Norwegian American clergy and parishes, it joined a group originally called the Friends of Augsburg College, which subsequently became the Lutheran Free Church.

* Norwegian resistance movement

This so called radical Bokmål or Samnorsk ( Common Norwegian ) met even stiffer resistance from the Riksmål movement, culminating in the 1950s under the leadership of Arnulf Øverland.

Also, the painter Lars Hertervig and Asbjørn Kloster, leader of the Norwegian temperance movement were born in Tysvær.

German forces landed in the village of Granvin on 25 April as part of their pincer movement towards the Norwegian military camps at Voss.

The mindekirken movement in the Troms region was led by the seminary student, Johannes Andreas Johannessen Bomstad ( born at Balsfjord on 23 August 1821 ), who split from the state church at the age of 28, under the leadership of the first Norwegian mindekirken movement leader, Rev.

During the war he joined the Norwegian resistance movement against the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.

* Astrid Løken ( 1911-2008 ), Norwegian entomologist and member of the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II

In the last movement of the concerto, similarities to the halling ( a Norwegian folk dance ) and imitations of the Hardanger fiddle ( the Norwegian folk fiddle ) have been detected.

Ullmann began her acting career on the Norwegian stage in the mid 1950s.

According to Nalan Koc of the Norwegian Polar Institute this is the first time it has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972.

Freestyle skiing began in the 1930s, when Norwegian skiers began performing acrobatics during alpine and cross-country training.

In 995, rumours began to surface in Norway about a king in Ireland of Norwegian blood.

Use of the Norwegian cyclone model for frontal analysis began in the late 1910s across Europe, with its use finally spreading to the United States during World War II.

World War II began for the Royal Norwegian Navy on April 8, 1940, when the German torpedo boat Albatross attacked the guard ship KNM Pol III.

The Allies, British and French began landing on Norwegian soil within a week of the German invasion.

The first mass outbreak of civil disobedience occurred in the autumn of 1940, when students of Oslo University began to wear paper clips on their lapels to demonstrate their resistance to the German occupiers and their Norwegian collaborators.

In 1909 Anders L. Mordt began to bring in Norwegian farmers to settle the northern part of the county, centering around a rural community they named Oslo.

A different approach is taken by the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum, who, in 1998, began to argue for kitsch as a positive term used as a superstructure for figurative, non-ironic, and narrative painting.

As Norwegian democracy developed, some parts of it began to look increasingly dated.

Although Norwegian was his first language, he learned English from both neighbors and at school, which he began at the age of 5.

Work began in 1682 and it was finished in 1690 as part of a general upgrade to Norwegian fortresses.

From about 1831, traditional Norwegian music began to influence the classical scene, especially through Ole Bull, who befriended the famous traditional Hardanger fiddle player Myllarguten and through the friendship gained better understanding of traditional music.

After World War II, Norwegian music began moving in a new direction, away from the Nordic and Germanic ideals of the past, and towards a more international, especially American, British and French, style.

After Vikernes ' confinement, the Norwegian black metal scene moved to a more open and imaginative environment, and in 1995, the second wave of Norwegian black metal began.

British forces that began to be assembled to send to Finland's aid were not dispatched before the Winter War ended, and were sent to Norway ′ s aid in the Norwegian campaign, instead.

In 1928, Admiral Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrd's Flagship was The City of New York ( a Norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a ship in the vicinity of Titanic when the latter was sinking ); a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett ( named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions ); a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named " Stars And Stripes " ( now displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum ); and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia ( Byrd's birth state ).

After retiring from the boxing ring, Tangstad began a career in Norwegian television and was the CEO of the now defunct " Modern Sports & Events " ( MSE ), which was licensed to broadcast UFC pay-per-view events in Scandinavia.

Krifast was authorized by the Norwegian Parliament and construction began in October 1988.