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Peter Wessel Tordenskjold (1691–1720), naval hero of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy; Arne Treholt, civil servant, alleged spy for the KGB, convicted of treason; Unni Turrettini, author, lawyer, international speaker and human connection expert; Linn Ullmann, journalist and author; Vicky Vette, adult actress & most followed Norwegian on Twitter
This is a list of Norwegian photographers Rolf Aamot (1934–) Jonas Bendiksen (1977–) Inga Breder (1855–1933) Knut Bry (1946–) Catherine ...
Many people wear bunad (traditional costumes) and most participate in or watch the Norwegian Constitution Day parade that day, consisting mostly of children, through the cities and towns. The national romanticist author Henrik Wergeland was the founder of the 17 May parade.
The Norwegian king is a former Olympian. 1956. Pictured again at Trandum Military Camp, near Oslo. The original caption reads "The 19-year-old prince is serving as a dragoon in the Norwegian Cavalry.
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Norwegian people" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Photographers whose work represents Norwegian pictorialism include Robert Collett, Aage Remfeldt, Thomas Blehr, and Waldemar Eide. Around World War I, portrait photography in Norway became more of an expressive art as a result of the work of Waldemar Eide, Dimitri Koloboff, Gunnar Theodor Sjøwall, Aage Remfeldt, Hans Johnsrud and Anders Beer ...
Norwegian Lutheran churches began to hold their services in English, and the younger generation of Norwegian Americans were encouraged to speak English rather than Norwegian. When Norway itself was liberated from Nazi Germany in 1945, relatively few Norwegian Americans under the age of 40 still spoke Norwegian as their primary language ...
Audun Endestad – Norwegian-born American cross-country skier, author, and field guide; Alf Engen (1909–1997) – Norwegian-born skier and skiing school owner/teacher; set several ski jumping world records in the 1930s; Corey Engen (1916–2006) – captain of the U.S. Nordic ski team at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland