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Norway (film)
Norway is a country in Northern Europe. The word may also refer to: Places Canada * Norway, Toronto a former name of a portion of the Upper Beaches neighbourhood *Norway House, Manitoba *Norway, Prince Edward Island *New Norway, Alberta United States *Norway, Illinois *Norway, Indiana *Norway, Iowa * Norway, Kansas *Norway, Maine, a New England town ** Norway (CDP), Maine, the main village in the town *Norway, Michigan *Norway, Nebraska *Norway, New York *Norway, Oregon *Norway, South Carolina *Norway, Wisconsin Other uses *Kingdom of Norway (872-1397), the old Norwegian Realm from the early to high Middle Ages *Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), a British aeronautical engineer and novelist who published under the pen name "Nevil Shute" *The SS ''France'' (1961), which sailed for much of its operational life as SS ''Norway'' * "Norway" (song), by Beach House, from the album ''Teen Dream'' *Sons of Norway, a North American fraternal organization *Norway pine, ''Pinus resinosa'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway, Oregon
Norway is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States, located between Coquille and Myrtle Point on Oregon Route 42, near the Coquille River. The locale got its name from Olaf Reed (1827-1906), who settled there in the 1870s. Olaf Reed was a Norwegian immigrant who started a partnership with Oden Nelson. They operated vessels on the Coquille River between Myrtle Point and Bandon, Oregon. Reed was a former sea captain and like his brothers Edward and Hans, he also worked as a shipbuilder. Reed and Nelson started a general store in 1873. Norway's post office was established in 1876 and as of 2003, it had been moved a few miles from its first location. Norway post office closed in 2002; the community's mail is addressed to Myrtle Point. There was also a Norway station on the Southern Pacific Coos Bay Line. In 1977, the whole community was put up for sale. At the time the two-acre townsite consisted of a store with living quarters upstairs, a café, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway (film)
Norway is a country in Northern Europe. The word may also refer to: Places Canada * Norway, Toronto a former name of a portion of the Upper Beaches neighbourhood *Norway House, Manitoba *Norway, Prince Edward Island *New Norway, Alberta United States *Norway, Illinois *Norway, Indiana *Norway, Iowa * Norway, Kansas *Norway, Maine, a New England town ** Norway (CDP), Maine, the main village in the town *Norway, Michigan *Norway, Nebraska *Norway, New York *Norway, Oregon *Norway, South Carolina *Norway, Wisconsin Other uses *Kingdom of Norway (872-1397), the old Norwegian Realm from the early to high Middle Ages *Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), a British aeronautical engineer and novelist who published under the pen name "Nevil Shute" *The SS ''France'' (1961), which sailed for much of its operational life as SS ''Norway'' * "Norway" (song), by Beach House, from the album ''Teen Dream'' *Sons of Norway, a North American fraternal organization *Norway pine, ''Pinus resinosa'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway Pavilion At Epcot
The Norway Pavilion is a Norwegian-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase, within Epcot at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, United States. Its location is between the Mexico and China pavilions. Layout The Norway Pavilion is designed to look like a Norwegian village. The village includes a detailed reproduction Stave church, with a statue of Olaf II Haraldsson out front, and the exterior of its main table-service restaurant, Restaurant Akershus, resembles its namesake in Oslo. The exhibit showcases 4 styles of Norwegian architecture: Setesdal-style, Bergen-style, Oslo-style and Ålesund-style. Much of the pavilion is taken up by interconnected shops. These shops are decorated with large wooden trolls and sell assorted Norwegian goods, including clothing, candy, and statuettes of Norse gods and trolls. The courtyard of the pavilion contains the entrance to ''Frozen Ever After''. Kringla Bakeri og Kafé is a bakery, featuring assorted Norwegian pastries, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway Spruce
''Picea abies'', the Norway spruce or European spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. It has branchlets that typically hang downwards, and the largest cones of any spruce, 9–17 cm long. It is very closely related to the Siberian spruce (''Picea obovata''), which replaces it east of the Ural Mountains, and with which it hybridizes freely. The Norway spruce has a wide distribution for it being planted for its wood, and is the species used as the main Christmas tree in several countries around the world. It was the first gymnosperm to have its genome sequenced. The Latin specific epithet ''abies'' means “like ''Abies'', Fir tree” Description Norway spruce is a large, fast-growing evergreen coniferous tree growing tall and with a trunk diameter of 1 to 1.5 m. It can grow fast when young, up to 1 m per year for the first 25 years under good conditions, but becomes slower once over tall. The shoots are orange-brown and glabrous. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway Pine
''Pinus resinosa'', known as red pine (also Norway pine in Minnesota), is a pine native to North America. Description Red pine is a coniferous evergreen tree characterized by tall, straight growth. It usually ranges from in height and in trunk diameter, exceptionally reaching tall. The crown is conical, becoming a narrow rounded dome with age. The bark is thick and gray-brown at the base of the tree, but thin, flaky and bright orange-red in the upper crown; the tree's name derives from this distinctive character. Some red color may be seen in the fissures of the bark. The species is self pruning; there tend not to be dead branches on the trees, and older trees may have very long lengths of branchless trunk below the canopy. The leaves are needle-like, dark yellow-green, in fascicles of two, long, and brittle. The leaves snap cleanly when bent; this character, stated as diagnostic for red pine in some texts, is however shared by several other pine species. The cones are sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of Norway
Sons of Norway ( no, Sønner av Norge), founded in 1895 as the Independent Order of the Sons of Norway, is a fraternal organization principally representing people of Norwegian-American, Norwegian heritage in the United States and Canada. The organization includes in its mission the promotion and preservation of the heritage and culture of Norway and other Nordic countries and to provide life insurance and other financial products to its members. The organization is classified as a non-profit 501(c)(8) fraternal beneficiary society. Currently, the Sons of Norway has nearly 400 lodges in the United States, Canada, and Norway. With over 57,000 members, the Sons of Norway is the largest Norwegian organization outside of Norway. History Establishment The Sons of Norway was founded as the Independent Order of the Sons of Norway.Alvin J. Schmidt, ''Fraternal Organizations'' Westport, CT; Greenwood Press, 1980; p. 322. The organization was founded by 18 members on January 16, 1895, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway (song)
"Norway" is a song by American dream pop band Beach House, from their third studio album, ''Teen Dream''. The song was released on January 18, 2010, with "Baby" as its B-side. The song was released as a free download on the band's site on November 17, 2009, before its commercial release. Critical reception "Norway" received very positive reviews from contemporary music critics. The song was chosen upon release as Pitchfork Media's "Best New Track". Aaron Leitko stated that, "'Norway', the lead track from ''Teen Dream'', the duo's Sub Pop debut, raises the temperature a few degrees. A percussive intro yields to an explosion of twinkling guitars and a chorus of woozy backing vocals. The core elements of Beach House's sound-- the drum machine, the thrift store keyboards-- are still present; they're just a few ticks faster. This makes a big difference. As it turns out, Beach House goes from dour to exuberant in just a few BPM." Leitko continues by saying, "Legrand, whose vocals have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS France (1961)
SS ''France'' was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962. At the time of her construction in 1960, the vessel was the longest passenger ship ever built, a record that remained unchallenged until the construction of the in 2004. ''France'' was later purchased by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) in 1979, renamed SS ''Norway'' and underwent significant modifications to refit her for Cruising (maritime), cruising duties. She was renamed SS ''Blue Lady'' and sold to be scrapped in 2005, and scrapping was completed in late 2008. Characteristics ''France'' was the French Line flagship from 1961 to 1974, combining regular five days/nights transatlantic crossings with occasional winter cruises, as well as two world circumnavigations. During her last years, to save fuel costs, crossings took six days/nights. Some, like ship historian J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevil Shute Norway
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was '"not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included '' On the Beach'' and ''A Town Like Alice''. Early life Shute was born in Somerset Road, Ealing (which was then in Middlesex), in the house described in his novel '' Trustee from the Toolroom''. He was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford; he graduated from Oxford in 1922 with a third-class degree in engineering science. Shute's father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, became head of the Post Office in Ireland before the First World War and was based at the General Post Office, Dublin in 1916 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Norway (872-1397)
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway, Wisconsin
Norway is a town in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. The census-designated place of Wind Lake, Wisconsin is in the town of Norway. The unincorporated communities of North Cape and Union Church are also located partially in the town. History Muskego Settlement, which was in the town of Norway, was one of the first Norwegian-American settlements. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.7 square miles (92.3 km2), of which, 33.7 square miles (87.3 km2) of it is land and 1.9 square miles (5.0 km2) of it (5.41%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 7,600 people, 2,641 households, and 2,160 families residing in the town. The population density was 225.4 people per square mile (87.0/km2). There were 2,775 housing units at an average density of 82.3 per square mile (31.8/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.16% White, 0.26% African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.22% Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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