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Haakon II Of Norway, Haakon II Sigurdsson
Haakon may refer to: Given names * Haakon (given name) * Håkon, modern Norwegian spelling of the name * Håkan, Swedish spelling of the name * Hakon, Danish spelling of the name People Norwegian royalty * Haakon I of Norway (c. 920–961), the Good * Haakon Sigurdsson, Earl of Hlaðir (c. 937–995), king of Norway in all but name * Haakon Ericsson (died c. 1029–1030), Earl of Lade and governor of Norway from 1012 to 1015 as a vassal under Danish king Knut the Great * Haakon Magnusson of Norway (1068–94) * Haakon II of Norway (died 1162), Haakon Herdebrei * Haakon III of Norway (1170s–1204), Haakon Sverreson * Haakon IV of Norway (1204–1263), the Old * Haakon V of Norway (1270–1319), Haakon V Magnusson * Haakon VI of Norway (c. 1340–1380), as ''Håkan'' also King of Sweden * Haakon VII of Norway (1872–1957) * Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway (born 1973), crown prince of Norway Other people * Håkan the Red (fl. late 11th century), Swedish ruler * Haakon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haakon (given Name)
Haakon, also spelled Håkon (in Norway), Hakon (in Denmark), Håkan (in Sweden),Oxford Dictionary of First Names Patrick Hanks, Kate Hardcastle, Flavia Hodges - 2006 "Håkon Norwegian: from the Old Norse personal name Hákon or Háukon, from hā 'horse' or 'high' + konr 'son, descendant'; borne by Haakon VII of Norway (1872–1957), and by Crown Prince Haakon Magnus (b. 1973). SWEDISH: Håkan. DANISH: Hakon, Hagen. Halfdan From an Old Norse personal name, originally a byname for ..." or Háukon or Hákon, is an older spelling of the modern Norwegian form of the Old Norwegian masculine first name ''Hákon'' meaning "High Son" from ''há'' (high, chosen) and ''konr'' (son, descendant, kin). An old English form is Hacon as in Haconby, ''Hacon's Village''. The name appears in Scottish Gaelic as Àcainn, as seen in the place-name Kyleakin, meaning 'Haakon's Narrows', being named after King Haakon IV of Norway. Haakon or Håkon was the name of several Norwegian rulers (see Norwegian roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haakon VII Of Norway
Haakon VII (; born Prince Carl of Denmark; 3 August 187221 September 1957) was the King of Norway from November 1905 until his death in September 1957. Originally a Danish prince, he was born in Copenhagen as the son of the future Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden. Prince Carl was educated at the Royal Danish Naval Academy and served in the Royal Danish Navy. After the 1905 dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway, Prince Carl was offered the Norwegian crown. Following a November plebiscite, he accepted the offer and was formally elected King of Norway by the Storting. He took the Old Norse name ''Haakon'' and ascended to the throne as Haakon VII, becoming the first independent Norwegian monarch since 1387. As king, Haakon gained much sympathy from the Norwegian people. Although the Constitution of Norway vests the King with considerable executive powers, in practice Haakon confined himself to non-partisan roles without interfering in politics, a pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haakonian Order
"Jetrel" is the 15th episode of the first season of '' Star Trek: Voyager''. Neelix has mixed feelings as he encounters a former enemy of his alien race. The story for this television episode was written by James Thomton and Scott Nimerfro, while the teleplay (aka script) was written by Jack Klein, Karen Klein, and Kenneth Biller and it was directed by Kim Friedman. It made its debut on television on May 15, 1995 on UPN. Plot Neelix is aghast when a Haakonian named Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel contacts ''Voyager'' and asks to meet him. The Haakonians fought a long, destructive war against his people, the Talaxians, fifteen years ago. Jetrel was responsible for developing the Metreon Cascade, a superweapon that killed over 300,000 people on Talax's moon Rinax, including Neelix's family. Jetrel says he has come forward to examine Talaxians like Neelix who helped evacuate survivors from Rinax, in the process exposing themselves to high concentrations of metreon isotopes that can cause a fatal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HNoMS Haakon VII (A537)
USS ''Gardiners Bay'' (AVP-39) was a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1945 to 1958 that saw service in the latter stages of World War II and in the Korean War. After her decommissioning, she was transferred to Norway, and she served in the Royal Norwegian Navy as the training ship HNoMS ''Haakon VII'' (A537) from 1958 to 1974. Construction and commissioning ''Gardiners Bay'' was launched on 2 December 1944 at Houghton, Washington, by the Lake Washington Shipyard, sponsored by Mrs. George L. Richard. She commissioned at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, on 11 February 1945. United States Navy service World War II ''Gardiners Bay'' departed Seattle, Washington, on 1 March 1945 for shakedown out of San Diego, California, which she completed on 20 April 1945. She then proceeded via Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands to tend the seaplanes of Patrol Bombing Squadron 19 ( VPB-19) in a 10-day training period, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HNoMS King Haakon VII
HNoMS ''King Haakon VII'' was a Royal Norwegian Navy escort ship during World War II, named after King Haakon VII of Norway. She was given to the RNoN by the United States on 16 September 1942, in the presence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha.Hansen 2005: 149 Handover ceremony The original intention of the US authorities had been to hand over the warship to the exiled Norwegians on 3 August 1942, on the 70th birthday of King Haakon VII. This plan could however not be carried out as Crown Princess Märtha was going spend that day with her father-in-law the King in London and the handover date was postponed. During the handover ceremony Roosevelt delivered his famous "Look to Norway" - speech. ''King Haakon VII'' was formerly part of the U.S. Navy as USS ''PC 467''. The ship was built in Neponset, Massachusetts where she was launched on 29 April 1942. Norwegian service HNoMS ''King Haakon VII'', under her first commander kapteinløytnant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haakon County, South Dakota
Haakon County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 1,872. Its county seat is Philip, South Dakota, Philip. History The county was created in 1914 and organized in 1915, and was formed from the original counties of Nowlin and most of Sterling, which had previously been absorbed by Stanley County, South Dakota, Stanley County. It is named for Haakon VII, who became king of Norway in 1905. It is the only county in South Dakota named for a non-American person and is one of only nine counties in South Dakota named for persons who did not live in South Dakota. Most of South Dakota's counties are named for early South Dakota officials or legislators, or for physical features (Fall River County, South Dakota, Fall River and Lake County, South Dakota, Lake), or are derived from Native American words (Minnehaha County, South Dakota, Minnehaha and Yankton County, South Dakota, Yankton), or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie (born July 26, 1965) is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016. He is best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. Education and career Håkon Wium Lie attended Østfold University College, West Georgia College, and MIT Media Lab, receiving an MS in Visual Studies in 1991. On February 17, 2006, he successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Oslo. His PhD thesis is background to the origins of CSS and a rationale to some of the design decisions behind it – particularly as to why some features were ''not'' included and why CSS avoids trying to become DSSSL. He has worked for, among others, the W3C, INRIA, CERN, MIT Media Lab, and Norwegian telecom research in Televerket. Web Standards While working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haakon Chevalier
Haakon Maurice Chevalier (Lakewood Township, New Jersey, September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he met at Berkeley, California in 1937. Oppenheimer's relationship with Chevalier, and Chevalier's relationship with a possible recruiter for Soviet intelligence, figured prominently in a 1954 hearing of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on Oppenheimer's security clearance. At that hearing, Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked. Early life Chevalier was born September 10, 1901 in Lakewood Township, New Jersey to French and Norwegian parents. When he was in his twenties he felt attracted by the romantic aspects of seafaring and embarked as a deckhand on one of the last commercial sailing ships, the four-masted US schooner ''Rosamond'' for a voyage to the southern ocean and Cape Town. He left a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haakon The Crazy
Haakon the Crazy (Old Norse: ''Hákon galinn'', Norwegian: ''Håkon Galen'') was a Norwegian ''jarl'' and Birkebeiner chieftain during the civil war era in Norway. Håkon Galen was born no later than the 1170s and died in 1214. His epithet "the crazy" or "the mad" can also be translated as frenzied, furious or frantic and probably refers to ferociousness in battle. Background Håkon Galen was the son of Folkvid the Lawspeaker and Cecilia Sigurdsdotter, an illegitimate daughter of king Sigurd Munn. Cecilia had been married off to Folkvid the Lawspeaker in Värmland in Sweden, by her father's enemies after he had been defeated and killed in 1155. In 1177, Sverre arrived in Norway and took over leadership of the Birkebeiner rebel faction. Sverre claimed to be an illegitimate son of king Sigurd Munn, and thus Cecilia's half-brother. Subsequently Cecilia left her husband and returned to Norway, probably taking young Håkon with her. After Sverre succeeded in winning the throne of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haakon Paulsson
Haakon may refer to: Given names * Haakon (given name) * Håkon, modern Norwegian spelling of the name * Håkan, Swedish spelling of the name * Hakon, Danish spelling of the name People Norwegian royalty * Haakon I of Norway (c. 920–961), the Good * Haakon Sigurdsson, Earl of Hlaðir (c. 937–995), king of Norway in all but name * Haakon Ericsson (died c. 1029–1030), Earl of Lade and governor of Norway from 1012 to 1015 as a vassal under Danish king Knut the Great * Haakon Magnusson of Norway (1068–94) * Haakon II of Norway (died 1162), Haakon Herdebrei * Haakon III of Norway (1170s–1204), Haakon Sverreson * Haakon IV of Norway (1204–1263), the Old * Haakon V of Norway (1270–1319), Haakon V Magnusson * Haakon VI of Norway (c. 1340–1380), as ''Håkan'' also King of Sweden * Haakon VII of Norway (1872–1957) * Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway (born 1973), crown prince of Norway Other people * Håkan the Red (fl. late 11th century), Swedish ruler * Haakon Paulsso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håkan The Red
Håkan the Red (Swedish: ''Håkan Röde'') was a king of Sweden, reigning for about half a decade in the second half of the 11th century.''Håkan Röde'' in ''Nationalencyklopedin'': There is little information on him, and it is mostly contradictory. Nothing is known about his reign."Håkan" article in '''' (1910): Swedish historian Adolf Schück has asserted that, rather than '''' being an individual king, there are indications that that may have been an |
Haakon, Crown Prince Of Norway
Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway (; Haakon Magnus; born 20 July 1973) is the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. He is the only son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Haakon represents the fourth generation of the sitting Norwegian royal family of the House of Glücksburg. He married Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby, with whom he has two children, Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus. Haakon has been a member of the Young Global Leaders network, its Foundation, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, and a philanthropist. He is a trained naval officer and, as crown prince, a top military official in the Norwegian Armed Forces. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. Family and early life Haakon was born on 20 July 1973 at The National Hospital in St Hanshaugen, Oslo, the only son and younger child of Crown Prince Harald and Crown Princess Sonj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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