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unusual facts about Sande, Vestfold


Realf Ottesen Brandt

His mother Diderikke Ottesen Brandt (1827-1885) was born in Sande parish on the Oslofjord in Norway.


Albert Brahms

Brahms was born on October 24, 1692 in Sanderahm, Sande, in what is now the Friesland district of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Battle of Nesjar

The exact location is unknown, but it is somewhere in today's Langesundfjorden intet in Frierfjord, in Brunlanes, Larvik, Vestfold county.

Beneath Your Beautiful

At Capital FM's Summertime Ball 2013, on Sunday 9 June 2013, Labrinth performed the song with The X Factor 2012 finalist Ella Henderson live, as part of his setlist, with Henderson replacing Sande.

Bjørn-Inge Larsen

From 1990 to 2000, Larsen served as the county chief physician in Buskerud, Finnmark and Vestfold.

Chalicotherium

The type specimens for Chalicotherium goldfussi were found in the Upper Miocene strata of the Dinotherien-sande beds near Eppelsheim, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany.

Coat of arms of Vestfold

The coat of arms of Vestfold alludes to the tradition of the ancient Norwegian Royal house of Yngling originated in Vestfold.

Earl Sande

Sande's fame was such that he was immortalized in a number of poems by Damon Runyon.

Frisian literature

Also the North Frisian mainland produced authors in Frisian language such as Johannes Hansen from the Bredstedt area or Moritz Momme Nissen from Enge.

Hans Mathisen

Mathisen has also written commissioned work Lysande Mørker for the reopening of Oslo Domkirke in 2010 together with Jon Fosse, and the commissioned work Timeless Tales for Vestfold Festspillene in 2009.

Jakob Sande

In 2006 on Jacob Sande's 100 years anniversary, the Faroese singer and composer Hanus G. Johansen released an album with poems by Jakob Sande, which Hanus G. had composed melodies for.

Jan Frode Nornes

He helped Strømsgodset to promotion to the Premiership, and was offered a permanent contract with the team from Drammen, but chose to return home to Vestfold, and Sandefjord.

Karrharde Frisian

Karrharde Frisian (Karrhiirderfreesch) is a dialect of the North Frisian language spoken in the municipalities of Stedesand and Enge-Sande in the German Amt of Südtondern (formerly Karrharde) in the district of Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein.

Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen

Van de Sande Bakhuyzen was born on 16 October 1988 in Amsterdam, the son of movie director Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen.

Nicolay Nicolaysen

In 1852, the first investigations took place of the Borre mound cemetery (Norwegian: Borrehaugene from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound) in Horten, Vestfold.

NSB Class 66

On 9 June 1947, the class was also taken into use from Oslo West Station (Oslo V) on the Vestfold Line, and along the Sørlandet Line to Kongsberg.

Pyrochlore

It was first described in 1826 for an occurrence in Stavern (Fredriksvärn), Larvik, Vestfold, Norway.

Read All About It

"Read All About It, Pt. III", a 2012 continuation of Green's song by Emeli Sandé

Read All About It, Pt. III

Sandé notably performed the track on 12 August 2012 as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, opening the show itself when she performed acoustically from the back seat of a car.

Sande, Vestfold

Parts of the Olsenbanden-movie Olsenbanden tar gull from 1973 was filmed in Sande, and another part in Stavern.

Sandsøya

Sandsøya, Møre og Romsdal, an island in Sande municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway

Sulu Archipelago

In June 1578, Governor General Francisco de Sande dispatched captain Esteban Rodríguez de Figueroa and the Jesuit priest Juan del Campo and the coadjutor Gaspar Gómez to Jolo, resulting in a negotiated compromise where the Sulu sultan paid a regular tribute in pearls.

Tønsberg

The site had probably been named after two Viking Era mounds, which tradition links to two sons of King Harald I, Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf, who was king in Vestfold, and his half-brother, Sigrød Haraldsson, king of Trondheim.

Vestfold

Sandefjord was formerly a headquarters for the Norwegian whaling fleet, and Horten used to be an important naval port.

European route E18 runs through the county roughly parallel to the railway.

Vestfold Hills

The Vestfold Hills are named after Vestfold, a county in Norway where Sandefjord, headquarters of the whaling industry, is located.

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.

Vollen

Vollen, Vestfold, a village in Nøtterøy municipality, Vestfold county, Norway

Walter Sande

Walter Sande (July 9, 1906 – November 22, 1971) was an American actor, notable for film and television roles, including Paul Revere in Walt Disney's Johnny Tremain.

Ynglingatal

Hägerdal (1994) doubts that Christian ideas were unknown in Scandinavia before the 11th century and he (1994:4) has pointed out that Borre and Skiringssal, in the part about the kings of Vestfold, were archaeologically important locations during the Viking Age but not later.


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