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Norwegian Wikipedia is the Norwegian-language Wikipedia. There are two Norwegian language editions of Wikipedia: one for articles written in Bokmål or Riksmål, and one for articles written in Nynorsk or Høgnorsk. There are currently 643,151 articles on the Norwegian Wikipedia edition in Bokmål/Riksmål, and 173,823 articles on the Nynorsk ...
Norwegian Settlement in the United States. Norwegian-American Historical Association. Rygg, Andreas Nilsen (1941). Norwegians in New York, 1825—1925. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Norwegian News Co. Thaler, Peter (1998). Norwegian Minds--American Dreams: Ethnic Activism among Norwegian-American Intellectuals. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
Ludwig Andreas Olsen – (1845–1886) also known as Louis Williams, United States Navy sailor; George William Rud – (1883–1916) United States Navy Chief Machinist's Mate; Thorvald A. Solberg – (1894–1964) United States Navy rear admiral, twice recipient of the Legion of Merit, and head of the Office of Naval Research.
Norwegian representatives [1] Diplomatic agrément Diplomatic accreditation Ambassador Observations List of heads of government of Norway List of presidents of the United States Term end June 1, 1889: Johan Anton Wolf Grip
Pronouns in Norwegian and American dialects are relatively similar. [1]Due to less input in Norwegian, Norwegian-Americans acquire fewer native words. This has led to more loaning and calquing from English into American Norwegian (e.g. lage leving, a literal translation of "make [a] living", rather than the native expression tjene til livets opphold) as well as the preservation of words now ...
The United States of America is a federal republic of 50 states, a federal district and 14 territories.It is located mostly in central North America.The U.S. has three land borders, two with Canada and one with Mexico, and has sea borders with Cuba, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda and Russia, and is otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the ...
Norwegian is a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse. It is the main national language of Norway and is spoken throughout the country. Norwegian is spoken natively by over 5 million people mainly in Norway, but is generally understood throughout Scandinavia and to a lesser degree other Nordic countries.