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Many participants had previously worked 40 hours a week. The trials involved 2,500 people — more than 1% of Iceland’s working population at the time — and were aimed at maintaining or ...
The number of national daily newspapers in Iceland was just five in 1950 through 1965. In the 21st century, many local and national newspapers moved entirely to online news media. [1] All print newspapers in Iceland also have online editions. This is a list of both current and defunct newspapers in Iceland:
During the 1990s, before the United Nations' Year of Family Iceland was spending roughly 18% GDP on welfare and health care. This percentage was quite low compared to other European countries. This percentage spent on both healthcare and welfare seemed looked even thinner because Iceland has more children per family than other European ...
Iceland has different legal retirement ages for public and private sector workers. Retirement benefits become available when workers reach the retirement ages of 65 for public sector workers and 67 for private sector workers. [2] Iceland’s first retirement benefits program began in 1909 as a means-tested fund for the elderly poor. [3]
From its latitude at 65 degrees north, Iceland is one of the best places in the world to see the Northern Lights, otherwise known as the Aurora Borealis. As a rule, the Northern Light belt is ...
also: People: By gender: Men: By nationality: Icelandic This category exists only as a container for other categories of Icelandic men . Articles on individual men should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The national anthem of Iceland is "Lofsöngur", composed by Matthías Jochumsson and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson. [7] The song was written in 1874, when Iceland celebrated the one thousandth anniversary of settlement on the island. It was in the form of a hymn, first published under the title A Hymn in Commemoration of Iceland's Thousand Years.
All the people listed here are or were Icelandic citizens, or writers with a strong connection to Iceland, for example by writing in the Icelandic language. [c] People listed are from a wide range of time periods, ranging from the early Viking-age chroniclers, to modern day novelists. To help sort the writers by period, they are sorted ...
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