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Norwegian For A Night: A Norsk Christmas Dinner At The Kringen Lodge
I may not be ethnically Scandinavian, but feel just as Scandinavian as most any Scandinavian. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I was adopted from South Korea by a Scandinavian family when I was a...
Posted on 12/3/12 at 8:37 AM
Lutefisk and Other Questionable Food-Like Substances
I wrote a story about a great local lutefisk supper in a mostly serious way, but I also wrote some extremely silly fake headlines for it that we obviously didn't use.* Here's the real headline: Lots ...
Posted on 10/3/12 at 2:35 PM
The Bridges of Kiel
After an hour's stop at the Lindaunis/Schlei Bridge, the next stop on the bridgehunting tour in Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark is Kiel, the city with over 300,000 inhabitants and is the capital of S...
Posted on 6/2/11 at 5:29 PM
New Music Friday: Donkeyboy
The first thing I think of when I hear the word "Donkeyboy" is that weird half-man, half-horse thing from The Chronicles Of Narnia. As a band name, it really only piques your curiosity to hear what a...
Posted on 10/1/10 at 11:58 AM
Norwegian radio journalist calls it quits -- on the air!
Ahhhh .... No one has the opportunity to quit quite like people in television and radio. Check this out... The Associated Press reports that, "A Norwegian radio journalist quit on the air after compl...
Posted on 9/11/10 at 11:04 PM
GF grad to fiddle for Norway royalty
A woman who graduated from Grand Forks Central High School three years ago is getting the opportunity to play fiddle for the king and queen of Norway.October 14, 2011
Grand Forks grad to play fiddle for Norway royalty
A woman who graduated from Grand Forks Central High School three years ago is getting the opportunity to play fiddle for the king and queen of Norway.October 13, 2011
Norwegian TV to film in Minnesota
A researcher is looking for splashes of Norwegian culture in Minnesota for an episode of a Norwegian TV series called “Uncle in America.” “The more unusual the better,” wrote Sven Storberget in an email soliciting tips on Minnesota’s Norwegian-Americans.By By Christa Lawler, Forum Communications Co. , October 12, 2011
Royal Norwegians to visit N.D.
The country that Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja will represent this week as they visit the Upper Midwest has changed substantially since Norwegian emigrants left for America in great numbers in the late 1800s. It is a different Norway from the nation Harald’s father, King Olav V, represented when he last toured “Norwegian America” in 1987, just four years before his death.By By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications Co. , October 10, 2011
N.D. residents on Norway TV
With a large percentage of Norwegians living in Minnesota and North Dakota, it’s no wonder five of the 12 contestants on a new Norway-based reality show are from the two states.By By Wendy Reuer, Forum Communications Co. , September 26, 2011
Norway’s king, queen to visit Minn.
By By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications Co. , August 15, 2011
Norway killer reconstructs shootings on island
By Bjoern H. Amland and Malin Rising, Associated Press , August 15, 2011
Norway PM to politicians: Think before you speak
OSLO, Norway — Norway's prime minister on Monday called on political leaders to show restraint in their public speech as the country emerges from mourning the 77 victims of a bombing and youth camp massacre by an anti-Muslim extremist.By By Karl Ritter, The Associated Press , August 01, 2011
Norway PM: After attacks, make country more open
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norway will never be the same after last week's bombing and mass shooting but it shouldn't change the way the suspect wants it to, the prime minister said Wednesday. He called on his country to react by more tightly embracing, rather than abandoning, the culture of tolerance that Anders Behring Breivik said he was trying to destroy.By Jim Heintz and Karl Ritter, Associated Press , July 27, 2011
Norway victims reflect diversity suspect despised
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A dreadlocked teenage musician who made it onto a television talent show. A secretary who might have survived if her bicycle hadn't been in the shop. A gentle young man whose last phone conversation with his father broke off with the words, "Dad, someone is shooting."By Karl Ritter and Louise Nordstrom, Associated Press , July 26, 2011
Duluth man living in Norway reflects on tragedy
Wesley Caple lives about a 20-minute drive from the downtown Oslo area hit by Friday’s bombing and even closer to the picturesque Norwegian island where the horrific shooting occurred later the same day. But Caple, his wife, Hilde, two children and mother in law were vacationing in Duluth when they learned of Norway’s worst act of domestic violence since World War II.By By John Myers, Forum Communications Co. , July 26, 2011
Norway rampage culprit held in isolation; thousands lay flowers around Oslo
By By Bjoern Amland, The Associated Press , July 26, 2011
Norway rampage culprit held in isolation
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The self-described perpetrator of Norway's deadly bombing and shooting rampage was ordered held in solitary confinement Monday after calmly telling a court that two other cells of collaborators stood ready to join his murderous campaign.By Bjoern Amland and Sarah DiLorenzo, Associated Press , July 25, 2011
Norway rampage culprit calm, expects life in jail
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The self-described perpetrator of the mass killings in Norway told authorities there that he expects to spend the rest of his life in prison but two other cells in his terror network could still launch attacks, officials said Monday.By Ian MacDougall and Louise Nordstrom, Associated Press , July 25, 2011
Suspect in Norway attacks describes plans in manifesto
OSLO, Norway — To Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway explosion and shootings that killed at least 93 people were a “marketing method” for his manifesto, which not only lays out his extreme nationalist philosophy but reveals his attack methods and encourages like-thinkers to do their own mass killing.By By Bjoern Amland, The Associated Press , July 25, 2011
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