Aslak Torjusson
Aslak Torjusson (4 March 1891 – 26 April 1973) was a Norway, Norwegian educator. He was born in Rauland. He took teacher's education in Holmestrand Seminary, Holmestrand in 1912, examen artium, finished secondary education in 1918 and graduated from the University of Oslo, Royal Frederick University with the cand.philol. degree in 1923. While doing so he was a primary school teacher from 1912 to 1920 and then a teacher at Telemark Folk High School for four years. From 1927 to 1936 he was the secretary of Noregs Mållag. He was then the headmaster of Buskerud Folk High School from 1936 to 1952 and lecturer at Sagene Teachers' College from 1952 to 1961. He was also a board member of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1933 to 1947. He issued the book ''Frøydis Haavardsholm og norsk leid i dekorativ kunst'' in 1933. He did not manage to complete his standard work about Norwegian folk high schools—''Den norske folkehøgskulen. Opphav og grunnlag''—within his lif ...
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ...
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