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All-Star eights are great...bunch of top guns who are used to rowing without a rudder and providing their own power. All of them but Warren Anderson are Olympians - the Thames boat included the top six finishers from Beijing - Olaf Tufte of Norway, Ondrej Synek of the... In this article: Susan Francia, Olaf Tufte, Alan Campbell, US, Thames, and Great Britain |
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Wikipedia | June 16, 2008
1250s in England
...England, precipitating a power struggle between the two monarchs. September - Henry receives a gift of a polar bear from Norway, which he allows to swim in the Thames. Gascon leaders travel to England to put their case against Simon de...
In this article: Henry III, England, Louis IX of France, Alfonso X of Castile, Christianity, Polar bear, and Eleanor of Castile
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Riise brothers stoke up family feud
Riise brothers stoke up family feud John Arne Riise and Bjorn Helge Riise celebrate a goal for Norway (©Getty Images) There will be a family reunion on the banks of the Thames on Thursday when Fulham FC and AS Roma meet in the UEFA Europa...
In this article: John Arne Riise, Fulham, Claudio Ranieri, Rome, Bjorn Helge Riise, Mark Schwarzer, FIFA World Cup, Middlesbrough FC, and Francesco Totti
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Lionel Lukin
...of the Lifeboat after some experimentation along the French lines in 1784 with his own conversion of a Norway 'yawl' which he tested out on the river Thames, and in 1785 having received the personal encouragement of the Prince Regent ,...
In this article: Lionel Lukin, William Wouldhave, Northumberland, and Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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New Scientist - Latest Headlines | February 24, 2009
Superhuman: The secrets of the ice man
Over the past 20 years he has taken part in 17 long-distance swims, including across the English Channel, along the whole of the river Thames from Kemble to London, and a 204-kilometre, 21-day swim along Sognefjord in Norway. During...
In this article: Lewis Gordon Pugh, New Scientist, Nelson Mandela, Timothy Noakes, Climate change, Epinephrine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Eminem, and Plymouth
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Metro | July 06, 2009
Spurs and Arsenal battle City for Hangeland - Transfer Talk
...business. The Cottagers have offered Norway international Hangeland a fresh contract which doubles his wages but after seeming to be on the verge of continuing his stay on the banks of the Thames he has yet to put pen to paper. Tottenham...
In this article: John Terry, Arsenal, Mark Hughes, Fulham, Real Madrid, Michael Dawson, Luis Figo, Blackburn Rovers, and Luis Garcia
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Carlo Gatti
...near King's Cross , is now the London Canal Museum. He began importing ice from Norway from around 1860, shipping the ice from Norway, up the Thames and by canal to his ice house. He built a second ice well in around 1862, and became the...
In this article: Carlo Gatti, Ice cream, Switzerland, London, Second World War, Players' Theatre, Westminster Bridge Road, and Villiers Street
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Times Online | May 09, 2009
Absolutely fearless: the warrior head girl
...on a tropical island where she eschewed make-up and made shoes out of her bra, and her BBC travelogue to see the northern lights in Norway last year. She championed a garden bridge across the Thames as a memorial to Princess Diana, only to...
In this article: Joanna Lumley, Absolutely Fabulous, Prince Philip, Jeremy Lloyd, Winston Churchill, Sapphire and Steel, and The New Avengers
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Coastline of the North Sea
...fringing marshes, notably the Humber and the Thames. There are skerries in southern Norway formed by similar action to that which created the fjords and firths. The glaciers in these places affected the land to an even greater...
In this article: North Sea, Fjords, Stavanger, England, Denmark, Belgium, Den Helder, Netherlands, and Thames
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Three Men in a Boat
...from 'overwork' and need a holiday. A stay in the country and a sea trip are both considered, then rejected (J. describes the bad experiences had by his brother-in-law and a friend on sea trips). Eventually, the three decide on a boating...
In this article: Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, Dog, River Thames, Connie Willis, and To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Norway (pronounced: /en-us-Norway.ogg/; Norge (Bokmål), Noreg (Nynorsk) or Norga (North Sami)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty. 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. The United Kingdom and Faroe Islands lie to its west across the North Sea, Iceland and Greenland lie to its west across the Norwegian Sea, and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait.
Bouvet Island and Peter I Island are dependent territories (biland) of Norway, but not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land, a claim that has been recognised by Australia, France, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
After the Second World War, the country experienced rapid economic growth, particularly as a result of large oil deposits discovered in the early 1970s. Today it ranks amongst the wealthiest countries in the world, with the largest capital reserve per capita of any nation. In August 2009 the nation's sovereign wealth fund announced that it owned approximately 1% of all the stocks in the world, presumably referring to publicly traded stocks. Norway is the world’s seventh largest oil exporter and the petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of its GDP.
Following the ongoing financial crisis of 2007-2009, bankers have deemed the Norwegian krone to be one of the most solid currencies in the world.
- Name:
- Norway
- Conventional Long Name:
- Kingdom of Norway
- Local Name:
- Kongeriket Norge / Kongeriket Noreg
- Capital:
- Oslo
- Language:
- Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk)
- Motto:
- Royal: Alt for Norge'Alt for Noreg
- Largest City:
- Oslo
- Government type:
- Parliamentary democracy under constitutional monarchy
- Legislature:
- The Storting
- Founding Date:
- May 17, 1814
- Formations:
- Constitution
- Area:
- 148,746
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $256.523 billion
- GDP (nominal):
- $456.226 billion
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $70,643
- Time Zone:
- CET
- Currency:
- Norwegian krone
- Demonym:
- Norwegian
- Drives On:
- right
- Currency (code):
- NOK
- Country Calling Code:
- 47
- ccTLD:
- .no, .sj and .bv
- Anthem:
- Kongesangen
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