The 1961 World Shotgun and Running Target Championships were held in Oslo, Norway.
It was the first Olympic gold medal for Canada in men’s ice hockey since the Edmonton Mercurys won gold at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
Two years later, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association selected the Mercurys from among seven teams that had applied to represent Canada at the 1952 Winter Olympics held in Oslo, based on the strength of team's performance in the 1950 World Championships.
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, the six alpine skiing events were held from Thursday, February 14 to Wednesday, February 20, 1952.
There had been six years of negotiations since the Oslo Agreement of March 1990, and Arzú gave them a vital new impulse when he personally met the URNG in Mexico on February 26, 1996.
Preliminary development for Anarchy Online began in 1995 at Funcom's Oslo, Norway studios.
The single is backed with the B-side "After All It's Christmas", another seasonal track that the band premiered during a series of concerts in Oslo and Europe.
He attended teacher seminar in Tromsø (1858-1960), theology studies (1862-1867) and then ministry in Gran, in Tromsø and at Gaustad asylum in Christiania.
Witnessing the deaths of her family members and being forced to march over 1,400 miles, during which she was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Anatolia, Mardiganian escaped to Tiflis (modern Tbilisi, Georgia), then to St. Petersburg, from where she traveled to Oslo and finally, with the help of Near East Relief, to New York.
Christian Caspar Gabriel Kielland (10 November 1871, KwaZulu-Natal – 18 March 1941, Oslo) was a Norwegian gynaecologist, known as the inventor of the Kielland forceps.
His collection can be found at the Videnskabsselskabets Museum in Oslo.
City Star Airlines started operations on 28 March 2005 with one aircraft flying between Aberdeen, Scotland (Aberdeen Airport) and Oslo (Oslo Gardermoen Airport) in cooperation with and on the AOC of domestic airline Landsflug in Iceland.
At age nine he began to play for his local church, the church music ministry allowed Dana to hone his skills and travel to places like New York and Oslo, Norway.
At the age of 24, Oldham went on his first European concert tour, which spanned Copenhagen, Zurich, Oslo, The Hague, and Vienna.
This was the largest concert attendance in the stadium in Oslo.
The first 7 years of his life were spent in the Vågå rectory, until he began school in 1756 in Christiania.
In 1956, he emigrated to Norway and as of the 1980s, he was living in Oslo.
Before returning home he also visited Kristiania (Oslo) to take part in a celebration of the Norwegian philosopher Marcus Jacob Monrad.
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At the University of Kristiania Gaston Paris also held a lecture about the two folktale collectors, Asbjørnsen and Moe, which he believed to be, besides the Grimm Brothers, the best re-tellers of the genre.
Gustav Storm (18 June 1845 – 23 February 1903) was a Norwegian historian, a professor at the University of Christiania from 1877.
The ship was built at Hovedøen in Christiania under the direction of English shipbuilder James Robbins and was launched in 1650.
After living some years in Oslo and Copenhagen, the couple settled in the small coastal town of Stavern in 1923, where they built their home Hergisheim in 1927 ("Herman og Giskens Heim"; "Herman and Gisken's Home").
The movie Oslo, August 31st directed by Joachim Trier, released in 2012, is also largely based on Le Feu Follet although the narrative takes place in contemporary Norway.
In 1916, with the business established, Dina, Sam, and David emigrated by going to Murmansk (Archangel) and then southward along the Norwegian coast to Christiana (now Oslo) and boarding a boat to New York where they joined Nathan.
He is also reputed to have been the first Nigerian to bring a youth team from Europe (Holmlia Sports Club of Oslo, Norway) to participate in a local football competition in Nigeria.
In fact, he was only the third youngest road champion when he took the rainbow jersey in Oslo in 1993.
Keep-it Technologies (formerly TimeTemp) is a spin-off technology company from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) in Ås, just outside Oslo in Norway.
Most of the investments are located in Oslo and Trondheim, though there are other localities in Norway too, in addition to some in Denmark and Sweden.
After one 1/2-years away from football, in which he represented Argentina in a Showball tour around the world alongside Diego Maradona and participated in the Indoor Football World Cup in Spain, Almeyda joined Norwegian Premier League outfit of FK Lyn, in Oslo, in which he was accompanied by compatriot José Oscar Flores.
Norwegian Defence Logistics Organization (NDLO) at Kolsås outside Oslo is responsible for engineering, procurement, investment, supply, information and communications technology.
The Assembly was elected starting in Christiania in February, and was convened to forge the Norwegian Constitution ("Norges Grunnlov").
After the war the Academy was first located in Oslo, but in 1960 it was relocated to the present site in Laksevåg, Bergen.
On 2 June 1984, the Oidaematophorus lithodactyla larvae was found feeding on Inula salicina, in Oslo.
Old Town, Oslo (in Norwegian : Gamlebyen, Oslo), a neighborhood in Oslo, Norway, where the first settlement of town was located
The transmitter beam was later changed on the two remaining antennas to improve reception in Copenhagen and Helsinki without decreasing reception in Oslo.
Half of the project expenses were funded by the United States as a part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP) (a program that ran from when it was passed by the Congress in October 1949 until 1967–68).
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She sank on the same day in Korsfjorden outside Steinneset in Austevoll county.
Previously he was the Secretary-General of the Government Peace Secretariat (2006) during which time he participated in two rounds of peace negotiations with the LTTE in Geneva and led the delegation to a round organised in Oslo.
Rolf Stranger (15 January 1891 – 18 June 1990) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and Mayor of Oslo.
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Stranger was a long-time member of Oslo city council, most notably serving as mayor in the periods 1940–1941, 1945, 1955–1959 and 1962–1963.
In 1958 at age 21, Edwards backstopped the Whitby Dunlops, Canada's representative, to the World Hockey Championship at Oslo, Norway, posting a perfect 7–0 record with three shutouts and an 0.86 goals-against average.
He was educated at the University of Oslo (1908; ThD 1916) (in those days Oslo was still officially called Kristiania), and from 1917 onwards he was a lecturer there.
Sonans it-akademiet (English: Sonans IT Academy) is a school in Oslo which offers a variety of I.T.-related subjects.
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Sonans Videregående is a private upper secondary school in Norway with branches in Bergen, Drammen and Oslo.
Søylen Eiendom is the owner of several properties in Oslo, Tønsberg and Moss in Norway as well as in Rostock, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland.
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, he barely lost the gold medals in both the two-man and four-man events.
T-VIPS was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with a US office in Millburn, New Jersey.
As he attempts to discover the identity of "The Janus Man who faces both East and West", he tracks sources of information in Moscow, Lübeck, Copenhagen and Oslo to hunt down the killer of Ferguson.
Thora Neels-Hansson died on December 15, 2007, in Oslo, Norway.
Eventually the King outlawed Archbishop Jon Raude, and his two chief supporters, Bishop Andres of Oslo and Bishop Thorfinn of Hamar.
Tokerud skole is a school in the Tokerud Stovner borough of Oslo, Norway.
Barbra said that Maren had accused her, encouraged by doctor's wife Anne Rhodius, who had been exiled from Oslo to northern Norway with her husband because of conflicts in Oslo, and that the doctor and his wife had pointed out the wife and daughter of one of the members of the court as witches.
He was arrested in Kristiania 16 June 1917, but after diplomatic pressure from Germany he was set free and escorted by the police to Germany 27 June 1917, due to his role as courier for the German Emperor.
Athletes from the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
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22 July – The 2011 Norway attacks: At least 76 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet, the government center in Oslo and a massacre in the political youth camp in the island of Utøya.
Adolf Mauritz Fonahn (born June 15, 1873 in Hedrum, died 15 August 1940 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian physician, medical historian and orientalist.
It operates seven round trips a week from its hub at Ørland Airport to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, and a single, weekly round trip from Oslo to Aalborg Airport, Denmark, using a wet leased Fairchild Metro aircraft from North Flying.
The hospital is responsible for providing health care to 170,000 people residing in the northern part of Oslo as well as the municipalities of Ski, Oppegård, Nesodden, Frogn, Ås and Vestby.
Tveit, Odd Karsten, Annas hus, En beretning fra Stavanger til Jerusalem, Cappelen forlag, Oslo (2000) ISBN 82-02-18591-2
She was born in 1955 in Oslo, Norway and is currently living in Jar.
On 26 May 2009 it was pronounced at an arrangement at the Ibsen Museum in Oslo by the leader of the committee, actress Liv Ullmann, that Ariane Mnouchkine was this year's winner of the International Ibsen Award.
In January 1937 Sunde led a group of four volunteers he had personally recruited from Oslo to the headquarters of the International Brigades in Albacete, Spain.
Poe was assigned to Allied Forces Northern Europe, Oslo, Norway, in August 1952 as a fighter operations officer flying de Havilland Vampires, Gloster Meteors, F-84 Thunderjets and F-86 Sabres with the Royal Norwegian and Royal Danish air forces.
At a gala event held at the Pretoria State Theatre Opera House in November 2009, Charl won the Mr. Gay South Africa title, which enabled him to represent South Africa at the International Mr Gay World pageant in Oslo, Norway.
Eidsvolls plass ('Eidsvoll Square') is a square and park in Oslo, Norway, located west of the Parliament of Norway Building, south of Karl Johans gate and east of Studenterlunden and the National Theatre.
He had several exhibitions all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), Auschwitz Museum (Poland), the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest), and also exhibited in Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Johannesburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Budapest, Amman (Jordan) and Tokyo.
Fornebu (local form Fornebo) is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, bordering western parts of Oslo.
Andreas Bye, through his work with Noora, Jon Eberson and national bands around the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo made his mark in the burgeoning young musician in Oslo.
Frogner Manor (Frogner Hovedgård) is located on a former estate in an area that became part of today's borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway.
A painting by Knud Bergslien from 1874 depicting this ceremony is located at the Royal Palace in Oslo.
From 1967, his reading sessions took him to places like Stockholm, Oslo, Geneva, New York City, and San Francisco.
He was born in Hafslo in the current Luster municipality, and his club was Oslo Østre Skytterlag.
He has appeared with many distinguished orchestras and ensembles which include the Bayerische Rundfunk, BBC Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Paris, Het Residentie den Hague, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, London Sinfonietta, Nieuw Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Modern, Oslo Sinfonietta, Schoenberg Ensemble.
Johan Siebke (17 June 1781 – 14 August 1857) was a Norwegian botanical gardener, and the founder of the Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo.
Vemøy was educated at Norwegian Academy of Music (2007-2011) in Oslo, where he studied under teachers Torgrim Sollid and Eckhard Baur.
Born in 1967 in Oslo, Norway, Jorn was a medical officer in the Norwegian cavalry, before reading philosophy at the University of Oslo and economics at the University of Leeds.
Knut Haukelid (born May 17, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; died March 8, 1994 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian resistance movement soldier during World War II, most notable for participating in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage.
He studied clarinet at the music conservatories in Oslo, Norway and Freiburg, Germany in addition to taking private lessons in Paris.
Lise also studied gymnastics in Denmark, finally graduated from Elverum Teachers' Seminary in 1904, worked as a teacher in Vats, Buøy and Stavanger and finished additional teacher courses in Kristiania in 1907.
The Olympic Flames for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, and the flame used in the national torch relay for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (which was later used as the flame for the 1994 Winter Paralympics), were all lit at the birthplace of Sondre Norheim, Øvrebø in Morgedal.
The Gold Watch was introduced in 1930, when the four players with 25 caps, (Gunnar Andersen, Per Skou, Einar Gundersen and Adolph Wold) was awarded the Gold Watch during a banquet at the Grand Hotel in Oslo.
The Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe has a total of three priests and one hierodeacon in Norway, two of the priests residing in the Oslo area and one at Greipstad in Songdalen near Kristiansand.
Braaten is best known for his popular plays and novels depicting the life of factory workers alongside Akerselva in Oslo.
On 5 June 2013, she was severely damaged in a test of the Norwegian-designed Naval Strike Missile system off the coast of the island Andøya.
After five years in Paris, Child was reassigned to Marseilles, Bonn, and Oslo.
Paulus Church (no: Paulus kirke; really Paul's Church or St. Paul's Church) is a church which was consecrated in 1892, located in Grünerløkka in Oslo, Norway, just opposite the Birkelunden Park.
That this initiative was timely and justifiable was borne out by a series of international scholarly conferences fully or partly devoted to issues of qualimetry, e.g., in Moscow, Oslo, Varna, Yerevan, Madrid or Tallinn.
It contains live recordings from a concert in Norway, Rockefeller (Oslo) in November 2005.
In 2007, several well-known websites and media outlets picked up the story, and participation increased to over 2400 acts from such varied locations as Tokyo, Auckland, Montreal, Antarctica and Oslo.
National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), a consumer affairs research institute based in Oslo, Norway
They have only exceptionally been used for mainline haulage, most notably during the 1970s for some freight trains from Lillestrøm to Skarnes and from Oslo to Sandvika and Spikkestad.
An article published in The Cairns Post, an Australian newspaper, on 22 August 1941, reported that £15,000,000 in gold bullion — packed in 1500 crates and requiring 30 trucks — had been smuggled past German troops from Oslo to Åndalsnes, 300 miles to the north, where British warships were waiting.
Son is located at the Oslofjord, 50 kilometres south of the Norwegian capital Oslo, just north of Moss and near the border of Østfold, and is located west of the village of Hølen.
The club approached Jordal Amfi in Oslo, at the time an outdoor arena which had the only artificial ice in Norway, as well as a series of Swedish artificial rinks.
The agency dates back to 1816 when King Charles II appointed Christian Ancher Collett as a consultant to manage the royal buildings around Christiania.
After a few years at exclusive hotels in Singapore and Dubai his talent for sauces was discovered at the 2-star-Michelin restaurant Bagatelle in Oslo, Norway.
Borgli grew up in Oslo; her father is a movie producer and her aunt is the actress Pia Borgli.