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Norse started as a Norwegian settlement, arriving in 1845 and being swept away by the malaria epidemic in nearby Kaufman and Henderson counties in 1853. It is thought to be named for either Cleng Peerson, who started Norwegian immigration to America and suggested this area to other people, or Nicholas Hanson, a Fort Graham soldier who directed a Norwegian reconnaissance to this area.
The City of Clifton was officially designated a Cultural District by the Texas Commission on the Arts and the State of Texas on Saturday, October 22, 2011. Clifton is home to the Bosque Arts Center. Housed in a restored three-story building that was the former Main Hall of Clifton College, the organization offers a local outlet for visual and ...
A geopolitical map of Norway, exhibiting its 19 first-order subnational divisions (fylker or "counties") with Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Each of the country's regions is uniquely coloured. Norway is commonly divided into five major geographical regions (landsdeler). These regions are purely geographical and cultural, and have no administrative ...
The Søre Fagerfjord property, the last known private property in Svalbard, located between Norway and the North Pole, was put on the market in May for €300 million ($322 million).
Kylleso, born on May 9, 2003, covered the 702 miles in just under 54 days. "It's a page written in polar history," her mentor, Norwegian adventurer Lars Ebbesen, told AFP. Kylesso posted images on ...
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The civilian designation is Norway 1:50 000 and the military designation is M711. The military series includes 727 maps. The production of the map series was begun in 1952, and the series was completed for whole Norway in 1988. The maps are subject to ongoing revision, and about 60 maps are issued in new release each year.
Mære [3] is a village in Steinkjer Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along European route E6 and the Nordlandsbanen railway line, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of the town of Steinkjer. The village of Sparbu lies about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south of Mære. Mære Church is located in this village as well. [4] Mære ...