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Olav Selvaag
Olav Selvaag (17 December 1912 – 14 January 2002) was a Norwegian engineer and residential contractor, known for his innovative approach to designing and building affordable housing during the later half of the twentieth century. He was largely responsible for the post–World War II economic expansion, post–World War II development of the neighborhoods Veitvet and Vestli at Groruddalen and Rykkinn at Bærum in Oslo, Norway. Biography Jens Olav Walaas Selvaag grew up in the small community of Lista in Vest-Agder, Norway. He came from a home with socially-committed parents. His father, Ole Walaas Selvaag (1870–1930), was a medical doctor who rose to prominence as a public health official at the district and county level; and was also a Parliament of Norway, member of parliament for the Liberal Party of Norway, Liberal Party. Olav's mother was Kathrine Amalie née Samuelsen (1884–1970), a home economics teacher. As a result of his father's political and professional prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanse
Vanse is a village in Farsund municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located about west of the town of Farsund and about east of the village of Vestbygd. The Farsund Airport, Lista is located just west of Vanse. The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Lista from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The old municipality was known as ''Vanse'' from 1838 until 1911. The village has a population (2015) of 2,016 which gives the village a population density of . Vanse Church is a medieval stone church, built in 1037 in the village of Vanse. A stone monument stands near the church. it is a memorial of fatalities during the Gunboat War (1807–1814). It is surrounded by authentic small cannons and a circle of stones with chain. A speech is held by this stone each year on Constitution Day, May 17. American connections Kjell Elvis also has his own star in Selvaagpark modelled on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. Media gallery Vanse trunk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupation Of Norway By Nazi Germany
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945. Throughout this period, a pro-German government named Den nasjonale regjering (English: the National Government) ruled Norway, while the Norwegian king Haakon VII and the prewar government escaped to London, where they formed a government in exile. Civil rule was effectively assumed by the ''Reichskommissariat Norwegen'' (Reich Commissariat of Norway), which acted in collaboration with the pro-German puppet government. This period of military occupation is, in Norway, referred to as the "war years", "occupation period" or simply "the war". Background Having maintained its neutrality during the First World War (1914–1918), Norwegian foreign and military policy since 1933 was largely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Oslo Region
Greater Oslo Region ("Stor-Oslo-regionen" in Norwegian) is a statistical metropolitan region surrounding the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The region includes the city of Oslo (population: 658,390), the entire county of Akershus (population: 573,326) and several municipalities in the counties of Buskerud (150,709), Oppland (8,552), Vestfold (27,695) and Østfold (102,808). It is divided into five areas: the city of Oslo (590,041), the Inner Circle of Greater Oslo (309,717), the Outer Circle of Greater Oslo (313,258), Drammen Region (150,655) and Moss Region (54,920). The total population of these 46 municipalities was 1,546,706 on 1 January 2015. There is also another definition of the Greater Oslo Region, which excludes the Moss and Drammen regions. This definition has 34 municipalities and had a population of 1,323,244 on 1 January 2015. Statistics References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party Of Norway
The Labour Party ( nb, Arbeiderpartiet; nn, Arbeidarpartiet; A/Ap; se, Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party ( no, Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum, and is led by Jonas Gahr Støre. It was the senior partner of the governing red–green coalition from 2005 to 2013, and its former leader Jens Stoltenberg served as the prime minister of Norway. The Labour Party is officially committed to social-democratic ideals. Its slogan since the 1930s has been "everyone shall take part" and the party traditionally seeks a strong welfare state, funded through taxes and duties. Since the 1980s, the party has included more of the principles of a social market economy in its policy, allowing for privatisation of state-owned assets and services and reducing income tax progressivity, following the wave of economic liberalisation during the 1980s. During the first Stolte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brynjulf Bull
Brynjulf Friis Bull (17 October 1906 – 18 June 1993) was a Norwegian lawyer, Supreme Court attorney, and Mayor of Oslo. Biography Brynjulf Bull was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was one of three sons born to Trygve Bull (1870–1958) and Sally Friis (1875–1963). Bull was the brother of historian Trygve Bull. He was brought up at Groruddalen in the district of Alna in Østre Aker. Bull attended the Fru Nielsens Latinskole and took his examen artium in 1925 at Oslo Cathedral School. He studied law and attended Oxford University in 1926–1927. He graduated with a law degree in 1930. Bull established his own legal practice in partnership with Aake Ording in Oslo during 1933. During the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was arrested from October 1942 to February 1944. After the liberation of Norway, he was a district attorney for cases of treason from 1945–1947. He became a Supreme Court advocate in 1950. Bull became a member of the Oslo City Council fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lyng
(22 August 1905 – 18 January 1978) was a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party. He was the 24th prime minister of Norway from 28 August to 25 September 1963 in a coalition government consisting of the Conservative, Centre, Christian Democratic, and Liberal parties. It was the first government in 28 years that was not headed by the Labour Party. Early life Lyng was born in Trondheim to merchant Markus Hartman Lyng (1872–1938) and Martha Maria Helberg (1885–1959), and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1927. He studied in Oslo, Copenhagen, and Heidelberg in 1931. During his student years, Lyng was active in the leftist ''Mot Dag'' student grouping, and his time in Weimar Germany in the early 1930s gave him a strong dislike of totalitarian movements as Nazism was on the rise there. Before and after World War II he worked as a lawyer and a judge. He joined the Norwegian resistance movement during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He raised the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veitvet
Veitvet is a neighborhood in the Bjerke borough of Oslo, Norway. The area borders to Linderud, Tonsenhagen and Bredtvet Bredtvet is a neighborhood in the borough of Bjerke in Oslo, Norway. The area is located on a ridge between the neighborhoods of Veitvet to the west and Kalbakken to the east. Its origin was as a farm of the same name. It is not mentioned in wr .... V''eitvet senter'' is located in the neighborhood which was Norway's first shopping mall and was Scandinavia's largest when it opened in 1958. The area is served by the Veitvet metro station. References Neighbourhoods of Oslo {{Oslo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bestum
Bestum is a neighbourhood in Ullern in Oslo, Norway. Before the residential area arose, Bestum was mainly an agricultural area. The name origins from the Middle Ages. Bestum was served by a station named "Bestun" and the tram stop Bestum, but both are now closed. The residential houses in the area are drawn in Swiss chalet style Swiss chalet style (german: Schweizerstil, no, Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditi .... References External linksBestum Vel {{coord, 59, 55, 13, N, 10, 39, 32, E, source:kolossus-nowiki, display=title Neighbourhoods of Oslo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overengineering
Overengineering (or over-engineering), is the act of designing a product or providing a solution to a problem in an elaborate or complicated manner, where a simpler solution can be demonstrated to exist with the same efficiency and effectiveness as that of the original design. Overengineering is often identified with design changes that increase a factor of safety, add functionality, or overcome perceived design flaws that most users would accept. It can be desirable when safety or performance is critical (e.g. in aerospace vehicles and luxury road vehicles), or when extremely broad functionality is required (e.g. diagnostic and medical tools, power users of products), but it is generally criticized in terms of value engineering as wasteful of resources such as materials, time and money. As a design philosophy, it is the opposite of the minimalist ethos of ''" less is more"'' (or: “''worse is better''”) and a disobedience of the KISS principle. Overengineering generally occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekeberg House
Ekeberg is a neighborhood in the city of Oslo, Norway. The Norway Cup soccer tournament takes place at Ekebergsletta every summer. "Sletta" means "the plain". The painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is painted from Utsikten ("the view"), a part of Ekeberg. In the area are a number of old Iron Age grave mounds and Bronze Age ritual sites. This establish the area of Ekeberg as one of the oldest inhabited places around Oslo. During the Middle Ages, the farm of Ekeberg belonged to Hovedøya Abbey. The area was later taken by the crown. From 1760, the farm of Ekeberg was run by an appointed owner, and his relatives owned the farm thereafter. In the area, a number of small homesteads under the main farm was erected the following century. The first suburban settlement came around 1900, and the early suburb was raised in the years prior to 1935. Many of the early houses are still present in the area. Ekeberg belonged to Oslo from 1947. In 1926 Roald Amundsen's airship ''Norge'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekeberg
Ekeberg is a neighborhood in the city of Oslo, Norway. The Norway Cup soccer tournament takes place at Ekebergsletta every summer. "Sletta" means "the plain". The painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is painted from Utsikten ("the view"), a part of Ekeberg. In the area are a number of old Iron Age grave mounds and Bronze Age ritual sites. This establish the area of Ekeberg as one of the oldest inhabited places around Oslo. During the Middle Ages, the farm of Ekeberg belonged to Hovedøya Abbey. The area was later taken by the crown. From 1760, the farm of Ekeberg was run by an appointed owner, and his relatives owned the farm thereafter. In the area, a number of small homesteads under the main farm was erected the following century. The first suburban settlement came around 1900, and the early suburb was raised in the years prior to 1935. Many of the early houses are still present in the area. Ekeberg belonged to Oslo from 1947. In 1926 Roald Amundsen's airship ''Norge'', wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
