Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg apparently occurred to nobody until a year ago. Then it suddenly burgeoned in the brain of Edwin Lester, director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. He proceeded to turn out one of the most lavish and expensive ($110,000) productions the Association has ever staged. Song of Norway opened in Los Angeles last fortnight and by last week, it was looking like...
...family is just one Norwegian family. There are thousands of others like us. We don't discuss politics. Practically the whole life of Norway is aimed at doing damage to the Germans. Everything that can be done to hurt them is done...
...first "new" nation is one of the world's oldest democracies. Discovered by Irish explorers in 795 A.D. (according to De Mensura Orbis Terrae, written in 825 A.D. by Dicuil, an Irish monk), Iceland was an independent commonwealth until 1264. Then it became a Norwegian protectorate, finally (in 1387) a Danish colony. Its Althing (Parliament; literally, The Thing) is 1,014 years...
...Life. To King Haakon in London, Norwegian underground leaders addressed this appeal...
...Saude near Stavanger, Tysse east of Bergen and in the Glomfjord-each with nonferrous metal-producing facilities, have been abandoned by Nazi say-so. The reports spoke of four more such projects dropped. Estimated value: 300 to 500 million crowns ($60,000,000 to $100,000,000), furnished by Norwegian banks at the mouths of Nazi Mausers...