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Hulda Jakobsdóttir (1911–1998), Iceland's first woman mayor; Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, former prime minister, also the world's first openly gay head of government; Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson, former foreign minister, ambassador; Jón Loftsson, chieftain and politician; Jón Sigurðsson, independence leader; Katrín Jakobsdóttir, former ...
Twenty years later in 1874, Iceland was granted a constitution. Icelanders today recognize Jón's efforts as largely responsible for their economic and social resurgence. [23] Iceland gained full sovereignty and independence from Denmark in 1918 after World War I. It became the Kingdom of Iceland. The King of Denmark also served as the King of ...
Oliver Lyman Spaulding (1875–1947), U.S. Army brigadier general, 1891 graduate of Central High School, [37] lived in Washington during retirement [38] William F. Spurgin (1838–1904), U.S. Army brigadier general, live in Washington during retirement [39] [40]
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Hera Hjartardóttir, a singer-songwriter from Iceland who now lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. Bill Holm, was an American poet, essayist, memoirist, and musician. Jón Sveinbjørn Jónsson, a Norwegian poet, children's writer and translator, born in Iceland. k.d. lang, a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
These skills were brought over from Iceland. Washington still has the second highest population of Icelandic Americans among the States. By 1878, over a hundred Icelanders from the Canadian colony, New Iceland, were forced to relocate because of severe weather conditions, outbreaks of smallpox, and religious disputes. Moving south to the United ...
The idea to found a folk religious organization came about in late winter 1972 in discussions in a café in Reykjavík. The four men who would become the organization's early leaders and ideologues were Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, a farmer and a traditionalist poet, Jörmundur Ingi Hansen, a jack of all trades and a prominent person in the Reykjavík hippie movement, Dagur Þorleifsson, a ...
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