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  2. Road Scholar - Wikipedia

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    Road Scholar is an American not-for-profit organization that provides educational travel programs primarily geared toward older adults. The organization is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. From its founding in 1975 until 2010, Road Scholar was known as Elderhostel. Road Scholar offers study tours throughout the United States and Canada ...

  3. Scandinavia House – The Nordic Center in America - Wikipedia

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    It offers a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Scandinavia House offerings include diverse exhibitions and film series, as well as concerts and other performances, readings, lectures, symposia, language courses, and children's activities.

  4. Nordic immigration to North America - Wikipedia

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    Norway, with its 1920 population pegged at 2,691,855, saw 693,450 Norwegians setting sail for American shores, constituting 32.4% of the Scandinavian influx. Denmark, home to 3,268,907 people in 1920, chipped in with 300,008 immigrants, forming 14.1% of the Scandinavian immigration to the US across that century.

  5. Norwegian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce – promotes trade and goodwill and to foster business, financial and professional interest between Norway and the United States of America; Norwegian-American Foundation – Foundation sponsoring educational and cultural initiatives based on donor advised funds and contributions

  6. ‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of ...

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    Norway's 'trillion-dollar-man' believes America's attitude towards failure is helping propel the nation ahead of its ... in 2022 the average workweek of people aged between 22 and 65 was 37.5 ...

  7. Category:Norwegian diaspora in North America - Wikipedia

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  8. American Norwegian - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Alt for Norge - Wikipedia

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    The reality show features Norwegian Americans participating in challenges relating to Norwegian history and culture, competing to win a reunion with their distant Norwegian relatives. The original Norwegian concept has also been exported to Sweden and Denmark. [citation needed] The phrase "Alt for Norge" is the royal motto of Norway. [citation ...