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unusual facts about Mo, Telemark


Harald Kihle

He took part in the restoration of an ancient altarpiece which had originally belonged to a demolished stave church in Mo, which he decorated jointly with Henrik Sørensen, and afterwards was installed in Mo Church.


1994 Progress Party national convention

The 1994 national convention of the Progress Party of Norway was held from 15 April to 17 April at the hotel Bolkesjø Turisthotell in Bolkesjø, Telemark.

Aasta Hansteen

Overwhelmed by the interest in her portraits, she resigned from her craft for several years and moved to Telemark, where she developed an interest in Norwegian dialects.

Battle of Florvåg

The detour to Telemark before he later arrived in Denmark is known from two runic inscriptions that were discovered in the Vinje stave church when it was demolished in 1796, one of them having been written by Sigurd himself.

Eskil Pedersen

Born in Skien in Telemark, Pedersen has studied towards a bachelor's degree in political science, and studied courses in European and American studies at the University of Oslo.

Gvarv

The Norwegian painter Erik Werenskiold painted a number of his famous rustic landscapes, such as Telemarksjenter ("Girls from Telemark"), in the vicinity of Gvarv.

Halfdan Egedius

From the age of 15 he began painting the landscape of Telemark.

Halfdan Egedius became ill during a summer stay in Telemark in 1898, and after relapsing before Christmas, was hospitalized in Christiania, where he died in February 1899, not yet 22 years old.

Hebron Academy

The Academy's Director of Outdoor Education is a Registered Maine Guide, Wilderness First Responder, NATO certified telemark ski instructor and NWS certified weather spotter, and the program's faculty includes two Registered Maine Guides, two Wilderness First Responders, an EMT and many outdoor enthusiasts.

Herøy

Herøya, a suburb of the city of Porsgrunn in Telemark county, Norway

Horibe

Michiko Horibe (堀部美智子, born 1974), Japanese ski mountaineer and telemark skier

Johan Henrik Nebelong

His other buildings include Tollpakkhuset (customs house), Kommandantboligen (Commanders living quarters at Akershus festning), De naturhistoriske samlinger (Bergen Museum), and reconstructions on Heddal stavkirke, Telemark (1851).

Jon Anders Halvorsen

Halvorsen holds a Masterr of medicin from the University of Oslo (1996) has worked as a physician at Telemark Sentralsjukehus, Lenvik Kommune, Oslo Legevakt, Ullevål Universitetssykehus, St. Mary`s Hospital (London) and Rikshospitalet.

Kongsberg Silver Mines

Recognizing it as silver and quite valuable, he melted it and brought it to the town of Skien in Telemark county to sell it.

Liv Mildrid Gjernes

Liv Mildrid Gjernes (born 1954 in Lunde, in Telemark, Norway) is a Norwegian artist and has given name to the contemporary style of decoration, sculpture, and furniture design known as Gjernes style.

Mormonism in Norway

Knut Pedersen from Stavanger and Erik Hogan from Telemark were some of the many Norwegian members that migrated west to the Utah Territory after the death of Joseph Smith Jr. They were met in the mountains by a group heading east who had been called to open the Scandinavian Mission: Erastus Snow, the Swede John E. Forsgren, and the Dane Peter O. Hansen.

Nils Bergslien

During 1874 or 1875, he undertook a study tour in Telemark with Gerhard Munthe and 1880, he traveled with the sculptor Axel Ender (1853-1920) and the Danish poet Holger Drachmann over the Hardangervidda mountain plateau.

Operation Freshman

It was the first British airborne operation conducted using gliders, and its target was the Vemork Norsk Hydro chemical plant in Telemark county, Norway which produced heavy water for Nazi Germany.

Ødegården Verk

Tellef Dahll was known for his work in geological surveying and standing as Stortinget member for Bratsberg (now Telemark), and he was later made a knight in both the Order of St. Olav and the Order of the Polar Star.

Progress Party's Youth

After the expulsion of its entire liberal faction during the 1994 Progress Party national convention at Bolkesjø in Telemark, Ulf Leirstein became the new leader.

Randolph Edgar Haugan

Rev. Torgeir Haugan was a Lutheran minister who was from Haugan near Brunkeberg, in the Kviteseid municipality of Telemark County, Norway and had immigrated to the United States during 1883.

Skafså

Skafså is a parish in southern part of the municipality Tokke in Telemark, Norway.

Ski

It was popularized by Sondre Norheim of Morgedal in Telemark, when he demonstrated the ski and the Telemark style of skiing to the public at Christiana, Norway beginning in 1868.

Ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering is form of ski touring that variously combines the sports of Telemark, Alpine, and backcountry skiing with that of mountaineering.

In Telemark-style equipment the heel remains free so telemark turns can be executed as well as parallel.

Ski touring

At the heavier end of the Nordic skiing equipment spectrum lie Telemark skis for steep backcountry terrain or ski-area use.

Ski warfare

The most common transportation for Norwegian soldiers during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 was skis and sleds, and in Operation Gunnerside, paradropped Norwegian commandos covered a large distance using skis in order to reach and destroy a heavy water plant Vemork at Rjukan in Telemark, Norway, which was being used by the Germans as part of their nuclear research programme.

Sondre Bratland

He has performed traditional songs from Setesdal and Telemark, collected religious folk tunes and composed music to songs by poets as Olav H. Hauge and Tarjei Vesaas.

Tony Capaldi

Born in Porsgrunn, Telemark, Capaldi began his career at Birmingham City, where he came through the youth ranks as a trainee.

Vestfold Line

The Vestfold Line runs from Drammen Station to Eidanger Station, through three counties, Buskerud, Vestfold and Telemark, and nine municipalities, Drammen Sande, Holmestrand, Re, Horten, Tønsberg, Stokke, Larvik and Porsgrunn.

Víkar

The tale then tells of Víkar's successful battle at Lake Vænir (Lake Vänern) against King Sísar (Sísarr) of Kiev, of Víkar's defeat of Herthjóf's brother King Geirthjóf (Geirþjófr) of the Uplands in a war in which Geirthjóf fell in the First battel of Telemark, and how Víkar then took over not only the Uplands but also Telemark which belonged to Geirthjóf's brother Fridthjóf who was not there at the time.

Werner Werenskiold

Werenskiold made field studies in Telemark and Gudbrandsdalen in his younger days, and later focused on studies at Svalbard and of glaciers in Jotunheimen.


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