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...been active in Norwegian politics since 1983 when he became a member of the Finnish parliament, and has, since 1990, led Finland's Centre Party...
...miles west-northwest of the Kursk, as was the commander's "permission granted." But instead of the sounds of torpedoes being blown from launch tubes, sonar operators aboard U.S. submarines working with the Loyal heard two explosions, one short and sharp, the second an enormous, thundering boom. A Norwegian seismic institute also recorded the explosions and said the second carried the force of two tons of TNT, registering 3.5 on the Richter scale...
...quite. For crucial days, Russian officials had rejected Western offers of help, including the dispatch of U.S., French, British and Norwegian rescue equipment. Then on Wednesday, Putin ordered Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, the navy commander in chief, to accept help. The Russians promptly invited Norway and Britain to send equipment, but by then it was already a near certainty that any survivors would perish before the rescuers could reach the area. Indeed, shortly before the British team arrived on Saturday, the Northern Fleet commander said, "The critical line of survivability has been closed...
...office quickly. By midafternoon, trucks loaded with South Korean soldiers holding branches over their heads, as if those sprigs could camouflage them from enemy aircraft, were lumbering through Seoul's dusty, potholed streets. And by nightfall, evacuation of embassy families had begun. Fortuitously, a Norwegian freighter with accommodations for 12 passengers lay at anchor in the seaport of Inchon. Crammed into the ship's hold as it sailed the next morning for safety in Japan were a couple of hundred women and children, including missionary wives and others. Everything in the world that my wife and I owned--clothing, furniture...
This much had long been known from the Icelandic sagas, but until 1960 there was no proof of Leif's American sojourns. In retrospect, it is astonishing that the evidence took so long to be found. That year Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, went to Newfoundland to explore a place identified on an Icelandic map from the 1670s as "Promontorium Winlandiae," near the small fishing village of L'Anse aux Meadows, in the province's northern reaches. They were certain that it marked the location of an ancient Norse settlement...