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The 2008 Icelandic lorry driver protests were protests started by lorry drivers in Iceland through March−April 2008.
The enemy was on the defensive, and the American defensive outposts in the Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Bermuda) were shifting to secondary roles.
Most of Á Móti Sól's members come from, and continue to be based out of, the south Iceland region that includes the towns of Hveragerði and Selfoss, about 45 km SE of Reykjavik.
In Toronto he enlisted in the anti-Nazi struggle and was sent first to Reykjavík and later to New York City.
Artists that have had their work displayed in the Akureyri Art Museum include Icelandic artists Erró, Kjarval and Louisa Matthíasdóttir, American artist Spencer Tunick, Israeli video artist Guy Ben-Ner and French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
"Killer Boogie" and "Rúdolf" are featured again in Rokk í Reykjavík (Rock in Reykjavík), a concert compilation released in 1982 with the presence of other renowned Icelandic bands.
Production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Play Strindberg went to Belgium, Estonia and Lithuania, Sławomir Mrożek's At Sea travelled to Denmark, Iceland and Lithuania, Inga Abele's Dzelzzāle (Iron Weed) had its premiere in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Baldur Sigurðsson (born 24 April 1985) is an Icelandic footballer, former player for Norwegian Adeccoligaen club Bryne and Icelandic clubs Völsungur and Keflavík.
#"Everybody's Changing" (live) (Airwaves Festival, Reykjavík, 23 October 2004)
In this period the Bodega band also toured to Reykjavík (1978), performed at Moldejazz (1977) and at the "Festspillene i Nord-Norge" (1973).
Borgarhreppur was formerly a rural parish (hreppur) in Mýrasýsla county, west Iceland, named after the ancient farm and church estate Borg á Mýrum which was occupied by Skallagrímur Kveldúlfsson, one of Iceland's original settlers.
Changer was founded in October 1999 in Akureyri, Iceland, by drummer Kristján B. Heiðarsson, as a one-man project.
, as well as most of the Icelandic media company Norðurljós, making it the largest corporate network provider in Iceland, offering mobile and fixed telephony and high-quality data networking, with a large footprint in the residential broadband and TV market.
During the years leading up to his first solo release Daníel was heavily involved in Iceland’s contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2005.
He became a priest in 1334 with the benefice of Höskuldsstaðir á Skagaströnd and in 1343 the Archbishop of Nidaros granted him Breiðabólstaður í Vesturhópi, one of the best farms in the region, in what is now Vestur-Húnavatnssýsla, in Northern Iceland.
Eistnaflug is an indoor festival situated in Neskaupstaður, a quaint little town located on the Norðfjörður fjord on the Eastern coast of Iceland, 700km away from Reykjavik
The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is an EU-wide network of NGOs in all European Union Member States and Iceland.
The Swan has enough wing feathers standing for the eight members and territories of the Council: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The original plan was to cover all plants, including bryophytes, lichens and fungi native to crown lands of the Danish king, that is Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and Norway with its North Atlantic dependencies Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
He was raised by relatives at Leirubakki until he was twelve, worked two seasons as a fisherman and then was taken in by his married sister in Reykjavík, enabling him to attend evening school there.
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He also published histories of the Flensburg school (1932), the Eimskipafélag Íslands shipping company (1939) and the University of Iceland (1961).
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He began a career as a teacher at a primary school in the Vestmannaeyjar in winter 1926–27, taught evening school himself in Reykjavík in 1927–28, taught at the Commercial College of Iceland in 1928–29, and then taught at Reykvíking Middle School from 1928 until 1945, when he became headmaster.
H-dagurinn or Hægri dagurinn (Icelandic: H-day or Right day) on 26 May 1968 is the day that Iceland changed from left hand traffic to right hand traffic.
His best-known works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film of the same name, Höfundur Íslands (The Author of Iceland), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001, and The Hitman's Guide to House Cleaning.
Hannes Þorsteinn Sigurðsson (born 10 April 1983 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic football player.
In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Cyprus, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.
Haukur Halldórsson (The Hawk) was born 1937 in Reykjavík is an Icelandic artist and member of the Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið.
It has also been possible since autumn 2010 to travel to Tórshavn on the Faroe Islands and to Seyðisfjörður on Iceland with Smyril Line.
Hjálmar Þórarinsson (born 16 February 1986, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic footballer currently playing as a striker for Berserkir.
In 2005 a group of Danish journalists found that Thor Björgólfsson, his father Björgólfur Guðmundsson and friend Magnús Þorsteinsson all have background in Russia, where they ran beverage businesses in the 1990s before moving to Iceland.
Yngvason was assistant professor at the University of Göttingen 1973–1978, 1978–1985 research scientist at the Science Institute of the University of Iceland and 1985–1996 professor of theoretical physics at the University of Iceland.
Jón "Nonni" Stefán Sveinsson (16 November 1857, near Akureyri - 16 October 1944, Cologne) was an Icelandic children's writer and member of the Society of Jesus.
Kalli Bjarni is the self-titled debut album composed of the songs performed by the Icelandic Idol Stjörnuleit winner Kalli Bjarni.
Keyta was used instead of soap in Iceland before it was introduced there.
The founders of Landvarnarflokkurinn, who included Einar Benediktsson, Bjarni Jónsson and Jón Jensson, were the most radical fighters for Iceland's independence of that time.
The album was recorded in Valgeir Sigurdsson's Greenhouse Studios, and in a remote summer house on a mountain in Laugarvatn, Iceland.
He is currently the precinct captain for the Reykjavík fire department and has been a fireman for over 30 years.
Since 2003 seven people have held the mayor position, due to an unprecedented amount of instability in Reykjavík's municipal coalition government caused in part by the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis.
Nanna was raised in Garður, a town in southwestern Iceland where her bandmate and close school friend Brynjar Leifsson also resided.
Nepal eMission is a software from Nepal Software, Borgarnes, Iceland, used to record lectures and seminars.
A transport vessel and a whale catcher arrived on 22 December and brought a decommissioned land station from Fáskrúðsfjörður in Iceland.
Guðlaugur Pétur Pétursson (born 27 June 1959 in Akranes) is a retired Icelandic footballer who was active as a forward.
Reistu þig við, sólin er komin á loft... has been sold out in Iceland for a while and has been sold in over 5000 copies all over the world, many of them on their Sigur Rós support tour in November 2008.
The firm’s main headquarters is in Akureyri, but the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets sectors are located in Reykjavík.
Skalla-Grímr did as his father directed, and when he arrived in Iceland, he discovered the casket had come ashore in the Mýrar district, near Borg.
At the north end of Sprengisandur road, the river drops down 10 m over the waterfall Aldeyjarfoss, in the lowlands, very near Route 1 there is another waterfall, Goðafoss which is among the most famous waterfalls in Iceland.
In 2007 he participated with 2 entries : "Draumur" performed by Hreimur Örn Heimisson which did not qualify for the national final and with "Ég les í lófa þínum" performed by Eiríkur Hauksson which took first place and represented Iceland in Helsinki under the name "Valentine Lost".
In 2010 two more cafés were opened, at Austurstræti 9, Reykjavík, Iceland and at Gammel Kongevej 96 Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Valgerður Sverrisdóttir replaced Finnur Ingólfsson as Minister of Commerce and Minister of Industry.
Thor teikningar eftir Ange Zhang; Guðrun B. Guðsteinsdóttir,Íslenkaði—Seltjarnarnes Iceland: Ormstunga, 1996
Group A games will be played from April 6–12, 2014 in Asiago, Italy, and Group B will be played in Reykjavik, Iceland from April 24–30, 2014.
From May to July 1941 2/6 reassigned to the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade and deployed to garrison Reykjavík, Iceland against possible German invasion.
As an arts educator, rawlings has led creative writing workshops for Ryerson University, terminus1525.ca, Learning through the Arts, League of Canadian Poets, Ontario Arts Council's Artists in Education Program, the Toronto District School Board, Writers in Electronic Residence, the Toronto Public Library system, the State Library of Queensland (Australia), Menningarverkefnið Hlaðan (Vogar, Iceland), and Listaháskólinn Íslands (Reykjavík, Iceland).
She was a member of the U.S. delegations to the Vital Voices "Dawn of a New Millennium" Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland and to the European Preparatory session for the Beijing Plus Five Session in Geneva; led workshops in South Africa in preparation for the first-ever democratic elections in that country, and has participated in training seminars for political leaders in Eastern Europe.
In 1997–1999, she studied at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach, and Academy of Reykjavík, Iceland.
Arnthor Birgisson (born 1976) Swedish songwriter and producer born in Reykjavik, Iceland
White was first called up to represent Australia in 2000 where he joined the national senior team to compete in the 2000 IIHF World Championship Pool D tournament being held in Reykjavík, Iceland.
(Icelandic: Íslensk erfðagreining) is a biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavík, Iceland.
The latter includes a live bonus DVD, Amon Amarth Live at Grand Rokk, which features live recordings and three-camera footage of a live performance in Reykjavík, Iceland on March 5, 2004.
During this month-long journey, U-254 was ordered to spend sometime cruising off Reykjavík, Iceland, hoping to catch some stragglers from northern convoys or supply ships running to the Allied forces stationed on the island.
During fairs and festivals in Reykjavík, Iceland, members of the general public where offered to help in making of the film by tracing their own style the people from these print-outs.
Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands (Iceland Symphony Orchestra) (ISO) is an orchestra based in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Jóhanna Vala Jónsdóttir, born 1986 in Reykjavík, Iceland, won the Miss Iceland beauty contest in 2007 and represented her country in Miss World 2007, in Sanya, China.
Jóhannes Helgason (date and place of birth: June 16, 1958 in Reykjavík, Iceland), was a guitar player known by his work in the band Þeyr and currently works as a pilot for Icelandair.
Kjartan Henry Finnbogason (born 9 July 1986 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Iceland international football player currently playing for KR in Iceland.
Kristleifur Björnsson is an Icelandic visual artist born in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1973.
This record contains live recordings that were taken during a concert in Reykjavík, Iceland, in November, 1983 and was first released in 1984 under the name of Those Who Do Not with two additional songs and some minor changes.
Maritime Central Airways (MCA) Flight 315 was a non-scheduled commercial flight from London, England to Toronto, Ontario with refueling stops in Reykjavík, Iceland and Goose Bay, Newfoundland.
In 1977, the Director-General visited the Universal Congress of Esperanto in Reykjavík, Iceland and in 1985, UNESCO passed a further resolution recommending that member countries encourage the teaching of Esperanto.
Patrekur is a sport club in Reykjavík, Iceland.
After suffering ice damage en route however, she was diverted to Convoy QP 10, which was returning from Russia to Reykjavík, Iceland.
Beatkamp is a pocket record label that has its roots in Toronto, Canada as well as Reykjavík, Iceland.
Theódór Elmar "Teddy" Bjarnason (born 4 March 1987 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic footballer who currently plays as a left midfielder for Danish club Randers FC.
The Laundromat Cafe is the name of four cafés in Copenhagen, Denmark and Reykjavík, Iceland.
It was recorded in Reykjavík, Iceland and produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson, who is known for his work with the Icelandic artist Björk.
Viktor Bjarki Arnarsson (born 22 January 1983 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a football player who currently plays for Fram