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Northwest Territorial Imperative The Northwest Territorial Imperative was an idea popularized within white supremacist and white separatist groups in the United States in the 1980s, in which adherents to these groups were encouraged to relocate to a five-state region of the Northwestern United States, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The intent was to eventually declare the region an "Aryan" homeland.
Northwest Territories general election, 1891 The Northwest Territories general election of 1891 was held on November 7 1891 to elect twenty five members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It was the second general election in the Northwest Territories' history.
Northwest Territories general election, 1902 The Northwest Territories general election of 1902, occurred on May 21 1902 and was the fifth general election in the history of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories general election, 1951 The Northwest Territories General election of 1951 held on September 17 1951, was the sixth general election in the Northwest Territories, Canada, and the first since the 1902 election. The election came about after The Northwest Territories Act was amended to permit three elected members from the Mackenzie District to join the five appointed members on the Executive Council of the Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories general election, 1999 The Northwest Territories general election, 1999 took place on February 15 1999, and was the nineteenth general election in the history of the Northwest Territories, Canada. This was the first election under the new boundaries that were created when Nunavut was carved out of the Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party The Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party also known formally as the Liberal-Conservative Association prior to 1903 and the Territorial Conservative Association after 1903, was a short lived political party in the Northwest Territories, Canada. from 1897-1905.
Northwest Territories Power Corporation The Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) was established about 1988 to acquire and operate the former Northern Canada Power Commission (NCPC) assets within the Northwest Territories, which at that time also included Nunavut.
Northwest Territory The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and the Territory North West of the Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States. The Northwest Ordinance, passed by the Continental Congress on July 13, 1787, provided for the administration of the territories and set rules for admission as a state.
Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association is an association founded in Portland, Oregon in 1993. The stated goal is to create a cultural and spiritual home for Tibetans living in Oregon and southwest Washington state.
Northwest Tollway The Northwest Tollway in Illinois is a 79 mile (127 km) segment of Interstate 90 from Interstate 190 in far northwest Chicago to Illinois Route 75, one mile south of the Wisconsin state line. For 16 miles (26 km), Interstate 90 is concurrent with Interstate 39 and U.
Northwest Ungrunge Northwest Ungrunge was compiled by Jonathan Boldt not to belittle the grunge music that dominated the region during the time period but to show that the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho had more to offer.
Northwest University Northwest University is a Christian institution of higher learning located in Kirkland, Washington. It consists of the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Business, the School of Education, the School of Ministry, the Mark and Hulda Buntain School of Nursing, and the Graduate School of Psychology.
Northwest University, China Northwest University (西北大ĺ¸), located in the ancient Chinese capital city of Xi'an, is one of the nation's leading comprehensive universities. Founded in 1902, it is one of the oldest institutions of learning in Northwest China.
Northwest Writing Institute The Northwest Writing Institute is a graduate school for writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon in the United States. The current director of the institute is Kim Stafford, who is also an artist in residence.
Northwestern Bell Northwestern Bell is one of the three Bells that, after the 1984 AT&T divestiture, was managed by US West, now Qwest. States served by Northwestern Bell mirror the Southwestern Bell area, including: Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.
Northwestern College of Chiropractic Northwestern College of Chiropractic is a college of Northwestern Health Sciences University, a natural health care university located in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minn., and the fifth-largest city in Minnesota.
Northwestern Crow The Northwestern Crow (Corvus caurinus) is very similar to the more western forms of the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) but it is slightly smaller (33-41 cm in length) and has proportionately smaller feet with a slightly more slender bill. It is the calls that are significantly different and often serve to identify it.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau. All the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are uninhabited.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument is the largest Marine Protected Area in the world and was named by the American television show Good Morning America and newspaper USA Today as one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World" ABC Good Morning America "7 New Wonders" Page.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital "Northwestern Memorial Hospital" is one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, with 744 beds in Feinberg Pavilion, the Prentice Women's Hospital and the Stone Institute of Psychiatry. It is the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and a major midwest referral center.
Northwestern Michigan College Northwestern Michigan College, also known as NMC to local residents, is a community college, established in 1951, in Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Its annual enrollment is around 3,400 students.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University Northwestern Oklahoma State University, also known as NWOSU, is a university in Alva, Oklahoma, with satellite campuses in Enid and Woodward. Northwestern is a state university that graduates students on its own and feeds the more comprehensive Oklahoma state schools, University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Northwestern Ontario Regional Junior B Hockey Championship The Northwestern Ontario Regional Junior B Hockey Championship is a Canadian ice hockey series to determine the Northwestern Ontario seed of the Keystone Cup - the Western Canada Junior "B" Hockey Crown.
Northwestern Pacific Railroad The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was a regional railroad serving the Redwood Empire of Northern California. The railroad ran from the Northern Bay Area at Sausalito to Eureka, California, primarily near the U.
Northwestern Publishing House Northwestern Publishing House (NPH) is the publisher for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it produces a wide variety of materials including curriculum, periodicals, books, and worship resources, mainly for the members of the WELS.
Northwestern Region Northwestern Region is the term preferred by a number of Pangasinan residents to refer to Region 1 in the Philippines. The use of Ilocos Region to refer to the provinces in the northwest region of the Philippines, including Pangasinan, promotes the wrong notion that all the residents of Region 1 are Ilocanos.
Northwestern Salamander The Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma gracile) inhabits the northwest Pacific coast of North America. Found from southeastern Alaska on May Island, through Washington and Oregon south to the mouth of the Gulala River, Sonoma County, California.
Northwestern School Corporation Northwestern School Corporation is a public school corporation located in Howard County, Indiana. The school district serves extreme northwestern Howard County, portions of Kokomo, Indiana and extreme northern Howard County.
Northwestern State University Northwestern State University, often called NSU or Northwestern, is a public four-year university primarily situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana, with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the University of Louisiana System.
Northwestern Turnpike The Northwestern Turnpike is a historic road in Virginia (now West Virginia), important for being historically one of the major roads crossing the Appalachians, financed by the Virginia Board of Public Works in the 1830s. In modern times, west of Winchester, Virginia, US 50 follows the path of the Northwestern Turnpike into West Virginia, whose major Corridor D project follows the western section of the original Northwestern Turnpike.
Northwestern United States Northwestern United States comprises the northwestern states up to the western Great Plains regions of the United States, and consistently includes the states of Oregon and Washington, to which Idaho, Montana, Southeast Alaska, and Wyoming are sometimes added. Occasionally parts of Northern California are included in the Northwest.
Northwestern University Dance Marathon Currently in its 32nd year, The Northwestern University Dance Marathon is one of the world's largest student-run philanthropies. As one of the cornerstone traditions of the campus, Dance Marathon, or DM, brings together over 1,000 students, faculty, staff, and administrators in a thirty hour dance-a-thon.
Northwestern University Law Review The Northwestern University Law Review is a scholarly legal publication and student organization at Northwestern University School of Law. The Law Review's primary purpose is to publish a journal of broad legal scholarship.
Northwestern University School of Music Established in 1895, the Northwestern University School of Music is an undergraduate and graduate institution devoted to musical performing arts and academia, located on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Illinois, about 12 miles north of downtown Chicago. It is considered one of the top music schools in the United States, especially among non-conservatory based schools.
Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band The Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band (NUMB) is the marching band of Northwestern University. NUMB provides pre-game, halftime, and postgame field performances at all home football games while school is in session as well as performing in various pep bands and at "Wildcat Alley" before the game.
Northwestern Wildcats The Northwestern Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northwestern University, a founding member of the Big Ten Conference, and the only private university member. Northwestern has eight men's and eleven women's Division I sports teams.
Northwich Infirmary Northwich Infirmary, known as Victoria Infirmary, is a small hospital located in the town of Northwich, Cheshire, England. Along with Leighton Hospital in Crewe, it forms the Mid Cheshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust.
Northwind (comics) Northwind is a fictional character who exists in the DC Universe. The godson of original Hawkman Carter Hall, Norda Cantrell, is the son of a human male and a female member of a humanoid bird species which lived in the hidden city of Feithera in Greenland.
Northwold Northwold is a parish and village in Norfolk County, England, 4.8 km southeast of the closed Stoke Ferry station of the Great Eastern Railway, 12 km north of Brandon, and 153 km from London, on the road from Thetford to King's Lynn and on the river Wissey, in the Western division of the county, Grimshoe hundred, Thetford union and county court district, Cranwich rural deanery, Norfolk archdeaconry and Norwich diocese.
Northwood (TV series) Northwood was a Canadian drama television series which aired on the CBC from 1991 to 1994 about the lives of teenagers living in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The series was created and produced by Nick Orchard.
Northwood Halt railway station Northwood Halt is an unstaffed request stop on the Severn Valley Railway in Worcestershire, situated a little to the north of Bewdley on the outskirts of the Wyre Forest. There is a level crossing just to the south of the single platform.
Northwood Hills tube station Northwood Hills tube station is a station on the Metropolitan Line, in Zone 6. It is served by Watford trains and 'slow' Amersham and Chesham trains ('fast' trains do not stop at stations between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Moor Park).
Northwood Lake Northwood Lake is a 687-acre water body located in Rockingham and Merrimack counties in central New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Northwood and Epsom. The outlet of the lake is the Little Suncook River, flowing west to the Suncook River, a tributary of the Merrimack River.
Northwood, Logan County, Ohio Northwood is the name of a small, unincorporated crossroads village in northern Logan County, Ohio. It lies along the line between Richland Township and McArthur Township, approximately two miles south of the village of Belle Center.
Northwoods Band The Northwoods Band was created in August of 2004, after two south-eastern Minnesota bands parted ways. The members of The Northwoods Band consist of Charlie Smyrk (Drums, Percussion), Ben Assef (bass, sound production), Jake Ilika (lead guitar, vocals), and Joel Ward (rhythym guitar, lead vocals), formed from bands Dogskin Johnson and Northwoods.
Norton 360 Norton 360 is a all in one computer security and maintenance package that offers a "full circle of protection". It offers a wide range of features including - Antivirus, Antispyware, Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, Vulnerability Assessment, Anti-phishing, Website Authentication, Background Scheduling of Scans, Local Backup and Restore, Online Backup and Restore, Encryption of Backup Data, Hard Drive Defragmentation, Hard Drive Cleanup and Integrated Support.
Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art The Dodge collection is the largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art in existence. It was amassed by economics professor from the University of Maryland, Norton Dodge, from the late 1950s until the advent of Perestroika.
Norton Air Force Base Norton Air Force Base was a military installation of the United States Air Force located 58 miles east of Los Angeles, California near the City of San Bernardino in San Bernardino County. It was (since 1962) one of six Military Airlift Command strategic-airlift bases, supporting US Army and Marine Corps' airlift requirements among other functions.
Norton Anthology of English Literature The Norton Anthology of English Literature is a well-known English literary studies supplement for many undergraduate and some graduate-level students. Works included in the anthology (or other Norton Anthologies) are seen as having reached canonicity.
Norton AntiVirus Norton AntiVirus (NAV) is a product of Symantec Corporation and is one of the most widely used antivirus programs. Norton AntiVirus is sold as a standalone product and is also included as part of Norton SystemWorks.
Norton Bridge rail crash The Norton Bridge rail crash occurred on 16 October 2003 at Norton Bridge in the English county of Staffordshire. An intermodal train hauled by two Freightliner Class 86 locomotives collided with another stationary freight train, after passing a red signal.
Norton Fitzwarren rail crash (1940) The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash occurred on November 4 1940 between Taunton and Norton Fitzwarren in England, when the driver of a train misunderstood the signalling and track layout, causing him to drive the train through a set of points and off the rails. 27 people were killed.
Norton Folgate Norton Folgate is the name of a short length of street in London, connecting Bishopsgate with Shoreditch High Street on the northern edge of its financial district, the City of London. It constitutes a very small section of the A10 road, the former Roman Ermine Street.
Norton Guides The Norton Guides were a product family sold by Peter Norton Computing. The guides were written in 1985 by Warren Woodford for the x86 Assembly Language, C, BASIC, and Forth languages and made available to users via a TSR program that integrated with programming language editors on IBM PC type computers.
Norton Healthcare Norton Healthcare is Kentucky's largest healthcare system with 40 locations in and around Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1886, Norton's current major products include pediatrics; women's services; orthopedics; cardiac care; stroke care; advanced surgical services; cancer diagnosis, prevention, and treatment; and a neurospine center.
Norton Knatchbull, 8th Baron Brabourne Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, 8th Baron Brabourne (born 8 October 1947), known until 22 September 2005 as Lord Romsey, is the eldest son of the 7th Baron Brabourne and the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and a descendant of Queen Victoria. He is 466th in line for the British throne and is also heir apparent to the Earldom of Mountbatten of Burma.
Norton Personal Firewall Norton Personal Firewall is a computer firewall application produced by Symantec. It includes capabilities such as ad blocking, different rule sets for different networks, a privacy feature to prevent the unwanted disclosure of private information, and control of individual applications' Internet access.
Norton Priory Norton Priory was a priory, later an abbey, established as an Augustinian foundation near Runcorn, Cheshire, England. After the dissolution of the monastries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site.
Norton Radstock Norton Radstock is a small conurbation and large civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, England, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Bath, and the same distance north west of Frome. It has a population of 21,325 according to the 2001 census.
Norton Records Norton Records, a New York City based independent record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller, maintains a focus on primitive, retro rock'n'roll, rockabilly, garage punk, garage rock, lounge music, and R&B. In 1986, when the couple published an article about West Virginia guitarist Hasil Adkins, the response was so intense that Linna and Miller decided to form a record label to reissue his music.
Norton Rural District, Yorkshire Norton was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Malton rural sanitary district which was in the East Riding (the rest forming Malton Rural District in the North Riding).
Norton Simon Norton Winfred Simon (February 5, 1907-June 11993), in the United States was a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist based in California. A significant art collector, he is the namesake of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.
Norton Strange Townshend Norton Strange Townshend (December 25, 1815 - July 13, 1895) was a United States Representative from Ohio. Born in Clay Coton, Northamptonshire (England), in 1830 he migrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Avon, Ohio.
Norton tradition The Norton tradition is an archaeological culture that developed in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait around 1000 BC and lasted through about AD 800. The Norton people used flake-stone tools like their predecessors, the Small Arctic Tool tradition, but they were more marine-oriented and brought new technologies such as oil-burning lamps and clay vessels into use.
Norton Villiers Triumph Norton Villiers Triumph were a British motorcycle manufacturer, formed by the British Government to continue the UK motorcycling industry. Like most Government interventions into British industry, the company eventaully failed.
Norton's theorem Norton's theorem for electrical networks states that any collection of voltage sources and resistors with two terminals is electrically equivalent to an ideal current source, I, in parallel with a single resistor, R. For single-frequency AC systems the theorem can also be applied to general impedances, not just resistors.
Norton-Villiers Norton-Villiers was a British motorcycle manufacturer formed in the 1960s following the collapse of Associated Motorcycles. With the general decline of the British motorcycle industry it was combined with the remnants of BSA to form Norton-Villiers-Triumph.
Norton, Doncaster Norton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with North Yorkshire. The northern boundary of the parish is marked by the River Went, while the Great North Road forms the western boundary.
Norton, Hertfordshire Norton is a small village in Hertfordshire, one of the three original villages which were absorbed into Letchworth Garden City (the other two being Willian and Old Letchworth). Its church is dedicated to St Nicholas, and has eight light bells hung for change ringing; since the construction in the same parish of the much larger St George's church in the town, St Nicholas's has become a chapel of ease.
Nortriptyline Nortriptyline is a second generation tricyclic antidepressant marketed as the hydrochloride under the tradenames Aventyl® and Pamelor®. It is used in the treatment of depression and childhood nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting).
Nortt Nortt is a Danish one-man black / funeral doom metal band. According to the band's only member, also known as Nortt, the lyrical themes of the band mainly deal with "death, which is viewed as an inevitable and alluring phenomenon.
Norumbega Norumbega (or Norumbègue, Nurumbega, etc) was a legendary settlement in northeastern North America, inextricably connected with attempts to demonstrate Viking incursions in New England. Like Cathay, it was a semi-legendary place name used to fill a gap in existing geographical knowledge.
Norumbega Park Norumbega Park was a recreation area and amusement park located in "Auburndale-on-the-Charles" near Boston, Massachusetts. The associated Totem Pole Ballroom became a well-known dancing and entertainment venue for big bands touring during the 1940's.
Norv Turner Norval 'Norv' Eugene Turner (born May 17, 1952 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is the offensive coordinator for the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers. He has also served as head coach of the Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders, and as offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, and Miami Dolphins.
Norvergence Norvergence was a Newark, New Jersey corporation that prior to going bankrupt in July 2004, sold telecommunications services and related products to small businesses, nonprofit organizations, churches, and municipalities. It is now under invesitigation for fraud by a number of government agencies including the FTC.
Norviliškės Norviliškės is a small village in the so-called Dieveniškės appendix, Šalčininkai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located about 12 km northeast from Dieveniškės almost on the border with Belarus.
Norwalk Transit District The Norwalk Transit District is the primary provider of public transportation services in Norwalk, Connecticut and surrounding communities. The district's fixed-route bus transit system, known as WHEELS, is the primary service of the system linking Norwalk and its immediate suburbs as well as peak-hour service as far north as Danbury (with HART) and as far east as Bridgeport (with GBTA) as well as shuttles to Metro-North stations.
Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs (Metrolink station) The Norwalk/Sante Fe Springs Metrolink Station is a Metrolink rail station in the city of Norwalk, California. It is served by Metrolink's 91 Line from Los Angeles Union Staton to Riverside and Metrolink's Orange County Line running from Los Angeles Union Station to Oceanside.
Norway at the 1900 Summer Olympics Norway competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Results from Norwegian athletes are typically considered separate from those of Swedish competitors despite the Union between Sweden and Norway that existed in 1900.
Norway at the 1984 Summer Olympics Norway was represented at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles by the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. Norway returned to the Summer Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Norway at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics Norway sent a squad of 29 athletes to the 2006 European Championships in Athletics. The squad included one former medallist at an international championship, Andreas Thorkildsen, but it was long-distance runner Susanne Wigene who took Norway's first medal when she ran in to take the silver medal on the 10,000 metres, a second behind the winner, and the third best time by any Norwegian female runner.
Norway at the 2006 Winter Olympics Norway sent 74 athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. At the 2002 Winter Olympics Norway won the most gold medals, and before the Turin games, Norwegian sports officials were aiming for more than the 25 medals they won in Salt Lake City — the president of the Norges Skiforbund Sverre Seeberg was quoted saying he thought Norway would win 25 medals in the skiing events alone (alpine skiing, cross country skiing, freestyle skiing, nordic combined and ski jumping).
Norway American Football Federation The Norway American Football Federation (NoAFF) is the largest American football league in Norway, consisting of eleven teams from Norwegian cities and universities. The league is divided into two levels of competition and four age categories: Senior, Under 19, Under 16, and Under 13.
Norway Debate The Norway Debate, sometimes called the Narvik Debate, was a famous debate in the British House of Commons that took place on May 7 and May 8 1940. Ostensibly a debate over one theatre of battle, the Norwegian Campaign, the debate witnessed a massive outpouring of criticism and hostility towards the general conduct of the war and the government of Neville Chamberlain.
Norway House, Manitoba Norway House is a rural community of some 5000-6000 people some 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Lake Winnipeg, on the bank of the eastern channel of Nelson River, in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The community shares the name Norway House with the Norway House Cree Nation Indian reservation.
Norway in 1814 1814 was a pivotal year in Norwegian history. It started with Norway as a part of the Danish kingdom subject to a naval blockade, saw a constitutional convention in May that was frustrated only months later, and ended up with Norway as part of a personal union with Sweden.
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 On March 5 2005, viewers were given the chance to help decide which song should represent Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. The Norwegian Final Melodi Grand Prix was held at the Spektrum in Oslo hosted by Ivar Dyrhaug.
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Norway’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was selected in the national final, Melodi Grand Prix 2006, which comprised four semi-finals and a final. In the final, held on 4 February at the Spektrum in Oslo, the final eight songs were performed of which four moved on the super final, after a period of televoting.
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Norway will choose their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 during Melodi Grand Prix 2007, which consists of four semi-finals (January 20 (semi-final 1), January 27 (semi-final 2), February 3 (semi-final 3), February 8 (second chance round)) and a final on 10 February 2007. The first 3 semi-finals will each contain 6 songs with the top 2 songs qualifying for the final, while the 3rd and 4th placed songs will go forward to the 4th semi-final where they will have a second chance to qualify for the final.
Norway lobster The Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (also called Dublin Bay prawn or langoustine), is a slim orange-pink lobster up to 24 cm long found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea as far north as Iceland and northern Norway, and south to Portugal and the Mediterranean Sea. The tail is muscular, and is frequently eaten, often under the name "scampi".
Norway national under-21 football team The Norwegian national under-21 football team, controlled by the Norwegian Football Association, is Norway's national football team for players of 21 years of age or under at the start of a European Under-21 Football Championship campaign. The team won bronze medals in the 1998 European Under-21 Football Championship.
Norway women's national football team The Norway women's national football team represents Norway in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Norwegian Football Association, are former European, World and Olympic champions and thus one of the most successful national teams.
Norwegian and Swedish Travellers The Norwegian and Swedish Travellers are a group or branch of the Romani people (also known as Roma people, Romanies or Gypsies) in Norway and Sweden. By history and culture, they are related to similar groups of Romani people in other countries, such as the Romnichals and Sinti.
Norwegian aviation college Norwegian Aviation College is a flying school with its base at Bardufoss Air Station in Norway. SAS’s most experienced airline pilots/instructors participated in selecting the location, designing the training facilities, selecting the equipment and in the design of the training programmes and the follow-up.
Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur) is a private association that promotes RiksmĂĄl, an unofficial variant of written Norwegian. The organisation was founded in 1953 by several notable Norwegian authors and poets, among them Arnulf Ăverland, Sigurd Hoel, A.
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) was founded in 1857 to "advance science and scholarship in Norway." It is currently funded by a grant from the Norwegian government as well as private contributions.
Norwegian Air Ambulance The Norwegian Air Ambulance is an aerial ambulance service in Norway organised through the government owned limited company Luftambulansetjenesten (Air Ambulance Service). The service provides ambulance and rescue helicopter services in addition to fixed-wing air ambulance operations.
Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle () is a Norwegian low-cost airline, with headquarters at Fornebu outside the country's capital Oslo and its main base at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. Norwegian Air Shuttle is also referred to as Norwegian, which is the company's commercial brand.
Norwegian American Norwegian Americans are an ethnic group in the United States. They are the descendants of Norwegian immigrants who came to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century.
Norwegian Army The Norwegian Army (Norwegian: Hæren) is Norway's military land force. It is part of the Norwegian Defence Force along with the Royal Norwegian Navy, the Royal Norwegian Air Force and the Norwegian Home Guard.
Northwest Territories general election, 1891 The Northwest Territories general election of 1891 was held on November 7 1891 to elect twenty five members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It was the second general election in the Northwest Territories' history.
Northwest Territories general election, 1902 The Northwest Territories general election of 1902, occurred on May 21 1902 and was the fifth general election in the history of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It was held to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories general election, 1951 The Northwest Territories General election of 1951 held on September 17 1951, was the sixth general election in the Northwest Territories, Canada, and the first since the 1902 election. The election came about after The Northwest Territories Act was amended to permit three elected members from the Mackenzie District to join the five appointed members on the Executive Council of the Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories general election, 1999 The Northwest Territories general election, 1999 took place on February 15 1999, and was the nineteenth general election in the history of the Northwest Territories, Canada. This was the first election under the new boundaries that were created when Nunavut was carved out of the Northwest Territories.
Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party The Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party also known formally as the Liberal-Conservative Association prior to 1903 and the Territorial Conservative Association after 1903, was a short lived political party in the Northwest Territories, Canada. from 1897-1905.
Northwest Territories Power Corporation The Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) was established about 1988 to acquire and operate the former Northern Canada Power Commission (NCPC) assets within the Northwest Territories, which at that time also included Nunavut.
Northwest Territory The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and the Territory North West of the Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States. The Northwest Ordinance, passed by the Continental Congress on July 13, 1787, provided for the administration of the territories and set rules for admission as a state.
Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association is an association founded in Portland, Oregon in 1993. The stated goal is to create a cultural and spiritual home for Tibetans living in Oregon and southwest Washington state.
Northwest Tollway The Northwest Tollway in Illinois is a 79 mile (127 km) segment of Interstate 90 from Interstate 190 in far northwest Chicago to Illinois Route 75, one mile south of the Wisconsin state line. For 16 miles (26 km), Interstate 90 is concurrent with Interstate 39 and U.
Northwest Ungrunge Northwest Ungrunge was compiled by Jonathan Boldt not to belittle the grunge music that dominated the region during the time period but to show that the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho had more to offer.
Northwest University Northwest University is a Christian institution of higher learning located in Kirkland, Washington. It consists of the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Business, the School of Education, the School of Ministry, the Mark and Hulda Buntain School of Nursing, and the Graduate School of Psychology.
Northwest University, China Northwest University (西北大ĺ¸), located in the ancient Chinese capital city of Xi'an, is one of the nation's leading comprehensive universities. Founded in 1902, it is one of the oldest institutions of learning in Northwest China.
Northwest Writing Institute The Northwest Writing Institute is a graduate school for writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon in the United States. The current director of the institute is Kim Stafford, who is also an artist in residence.
Northwestern Bell Northwestern Bell is one of the three Bells that, after the 1984 AT&T divestiture, was managed by US West, now Qwest. States served by Northwestern Bell mirror the Southwestern Bell area, including: Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.
Northwestern College of Chiropractic Northwestern College of Chiropractic is a college of Northwestern Health Sciences University, a natural health care university located in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minn., and the fifth-largest city in Minnesota.
Northwestern Crow The Northwestern Crow (Corvus caurinus) is very similar to the more western forms of the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) but it is slightly smaller (33-41 cm in length) and has proportionately smaller feet with a slightly more slender bill. It is the calls that are significantly different and often serve to identify it.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau. All the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are uninhabited.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument is the largest Marine Protected Area in the world and was named by the American television show Good Morning America and newspaper USA Today as one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World" ABC Good Morning America "7 New Wonders" Page.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital "Northwestern Memorial Hospital" is one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, with 744 beds in Feinberg Pavilion, the Prentice Women's Hospital and the Stone Institute of Psychiatry. It is the primary teaching hospital for Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and a major midwest referral center.
Northwestern Michigan College Northwestern Michigan College, also known as NMC to local residents, is a community college, established in 1951, in Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Its annual enrollment is around 3,400 students.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University Northwestern Oklahoma State University, also known as NWOSU, is a university in Alva, Oklahoma, with satellite campuses in Enid and Woodward. Northwestern is a state university that graduates students on its own and feeds the more comprehensive Oklahoma state schools, University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Northwestern Ontario Regional Junior B Hockey Championship The Northwestern Ontario Regional Junior B Hockey Championship is a Canadian ice hockey series to determine the Northwestern Ontario seed of the Keystone Cup - the Western Canada Junior "B" Hockey Crown.
Northwestern Pacific Railroad The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was a regional railroad serving the Redwood Empire of Northern California. The railroad ran from the Northern Bay Area at Sausalito to Eureka, California, primarily near the U.
Northwestern Publishing House Northwestern Publishing House (NPH) is the publisher for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it produces a wide variety of materials including curriculum, periodicals, books, and worship resources, mainly for the members of the WELS.
Northwestern Region Northwestern Region is the term preferred by a number of Pangasinan residents to refer to Region 1 in the Philippines. The use of Ilocos Region to refer to the provinces in the northwest region of the Philippines, including Pangasinan, promotes the wrong notion that all the residents of Region 1 are Ilocanos.
Northwestern Salamander The Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma gracile) inhabits the northwest Pacific coast of North America. Found from southeastern Alaska on May Island, through Washington and Oregon south to the mouth of the Gulala River, Sonoma County, California.
Northwestern School Corporation Northwestern School Corporation is a public school corporation located in Howard County, Indiana. The school district serves extreme northwestern Howard County, portions of Kokomo, Indiana and extreme northern Howard County.
Northwestern State University Northwestern State University, often called NSU or Northwestern, is a public four-year university primarily situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana, with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the University of Louisiana System.
Northwestern Turnpike The Northwestern Turnpike is a historic road in Virginia (now West Virginia), important for being historically one of the major roads crossing the Appalachians, financed by the Virginia Board of Public Works in the 1830s. In modern times, west of Winchester, Virginia, US 50 follows the path of the Northwestern Turnpike into West Virginia, whose major Corridor D project follows the western section of the original Northwestern Turnpike.
Northwestern United States Northwestern United States comprises the northwestern states up to the western Great Plains regions of the United States, and consistently includes the states of Oregon and Washington, to which Idaho, Montana, Southeast Alaska, and Wyoming are sometimes added. Occasionally parts of Northern California are included in the Northwest.
Northwestern University Dance Marathon Currently in its 32nd year, The Northwestern University Dance Marathon is one of the world's largest student-run philanthropies. As one of the cornerstone traditions of the campus, Dance Marathon, or DM, brings together over 1,000 students, faculty, staff, and administrators in a thirty hour dance-a-thon.
Northwestern University Law Review The Northwestern University Law Review is a scholarly legal publication and student organization at Northwestern University School of Law. The Law Review's primary purpose is to publish a journal of broad legal scholarship.
Northwestern University School of Music Established in 1895, the Northwestern University School of Music is an undergraduate and graduate institution devoted to musical performing arts and academia, located on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Illinois, about 12 miles north of downtown Chicago. It is considered one of the top music schools in the United States, especially among non-conservatory based schools.
Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band The Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band (NUMB) is the marching band of Northwestern University. NUMB provides pre-game, halftime, and postgame field performances at all home football games while school is in session as well as performing in various pep bands and at "Wildcat Alley" before the game.
Northwestern Wildcats The Northwestern Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northwestern University, a founding member of the Big Ten Conference, and the only private university member. Northwestern has eight men's and eleven women's Division I sports teams.
Northwich Infirmary Northwich Infirmary, known as Victoria Infirmary, is a small hospital located in the town of Northwich, Cheshire, England. Along with Leighton Hospital in Crewe, it forms the Mid Cheshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust.
Northwind (comics) Northwind is a fictional character who exists in the DC Universe. The godson of original Hawkman Carter Hall, Norda Cantrell, is the son of a human male and a female member of a humanoid bird species which lived in the hidden city of Feithera in Greenland.
Northwold Northwold is a parish and village in Norfolk County, England, 4.8 km southeast of the closed Stoke Ferry station of the Great Eastern Railway, 12 km north of Brandon, and 153 km from London, on the road from Thetford to King's Lynn and on the river Wissey, in the Western division of the county, Grimshoe hundred, Thetford union and county court district, Cranwich rural deanery, Norfolk archdeaconry and Norwich diocese.
Northwood (TV series) Northwood was a Canadian drama television series which aired on the CBC from 1991 to 1994 about the lives of teenagers living in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The series was created and produced by Nick Orchard.
Northwood Halt railway station Northwood Halt is an unstaffed request stop on the Severn Valley Railway in Worcestershire, situated a little to the north of Bewdley on the outskirts of the Wyre Forest. There is a level crossing just to the south of the single platform.
Northwood Hills tube station Northwood Hills tube station is a station on the Metropolitan Line, in Zone 6. It is served by Watford trains and 'slow' Amersham and Chesham trains ('fast' trains do not stop at stations between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Moor Park).
Northwood Lake Northwood Lake is a 687-acre water body located in Rockingham and Merrimack counties in central New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Northwood and Epsom. The outlet of the lake is the Little Suncook River, flowing west to the Suncook River, a tributary of the Merrimack River.
Northwood, Logan County, Ohio Northwood is the name of a small, unincorporated crossroads village in northern Logan County, Ohio. It lies along the line between Richland Township and McArthur Township, approximately two miles south of the village of Belle Center.
Northwoods Band The Northwoods Band was created in August of 2004, after two south-eastern Minnesota bands parted ways. The members of The Northwoods Band consist of Charlie Smyrk (Drums, Percussion), Ben Assef (bass, sound production), Jake Ilika (lead guitar, vocals), and Joel Ward (rhythym guitar, lead vocals), formed from bands Dogskin Johnson and Northwoods.
Norton 360 Norton 360 is a all in one computer security and maintenance package that offers a "full circle of protection". It offers a wide range of features including - Antivirus, Antispyware, Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, Vulnerability Assessment, Anti-phishing, Website Authentication, Background Scheduling of Scans, Local Backup and Restore, Online Backup and Restore, Encryption of Backup Data, Hard Drive Defragmentation, Hard Drive Cleanup and Integrated Support.
Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art The Dodge collection is the largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art in existence. It was amassed by economics professor from the University of Maryland, Norton Dodge, from the late 1950s until the advent of Perestroika.
Norton Air Force Base Norton Air Force Base was a military installation of the United States Air Force located 58 miles east of Los Angeles, California near the City of San Bernardino in San Bernardino County. It was (since 1962) one of six Military Airlift Command strategic-airlift bases, supporting US Army and Marine Corps' airlift requirements among other functions.
Norton Anthology of English Literature The Norton Anthology of English Literature is a well-known English literary studies supplement for many undergraduate and some graduate-level students. Works included in the anthology (or other Norton Anthologies) are seen as having reached canonicity.
Norton AntiVirus Norton AntiVirus (NAV) is a product of Symantec Corporation and is one of the most widely used antivirus programs. Norton AntiVirus is sold as a standalone product and is also included as part of Norton SystemWorks.
Norton Bridge rail crash The Norton Bridge rail crash occurred on 16 October 2003 at Norton Bridge in the English county of Staffordshire. An intermodal train hauled by two Freightliner Class 86 locomotives collided with another stationary freight train, after passing a red signal.
Norton Fitzwarren rail crash (1940) The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash occurred on November 4 1940 between Taunton and Norton Fitzwarren in England, when the driver of a train misunderstood the signalling and track layout, causing him to drive the train through a set of points and off the rails. 27 people were killed.
Norton Folgate Norton Folgate is the name of a short length of street in London, connecting Bishopsgate with Shoreditch High Street on the northern edge of its financial district, the City of London. It constitutes a very small section of the A10 road, the former Roman Ermine Street.
Norton Guides The Norton Guides were a product family sold by Peter Norton Computing. The guides were written in 1985 by Warren Woodford for the x86 Assembly Language, C, BASIC, and Forth languages and made available to users via a TSR program that integrated with programming language editors on IBM PC type computers.
Norton Healthcare Norton Healthcare is Kentucky's largest healthcare system with 40 locations in and around Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1886, Norton's current major products include pediatrics; women's services; orthopedics; cardiac care; stroke care; advanced surgical services; cancer diagnosis, prevention, and treatment; and a neurospine center.
Norton Knatchbull, 8th Baron Brabourne Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, 8th Baron Brabourne (born 8 October 1947), known until 22 September 2005 as Lord Romsey, is the eldest son of the 7th Baron Brabourne and the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and a descendant of Queen Victoria. He is 466th in line for the British throne and is also heir apparent to the Earldom of Mountbatten of Burma.
Norton Personal Firewall Norton Personal Firewall is a computer firewall application produced by Symantec. It includes capabilities such as ad blocking, different rule sets for different networks, a privacy feature to prevent the unwanted disclosure of private information, and control of individual applications' Internet access.
Norton Priory Norton Priory was a priory, later an abbey, established as an Augustinian foundation near Runcorn, Cheshire, England. After the dissolution of the monastries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site.
Norton Radstock Norton Radstock is a small conurbation and large civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, England, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Bath, and the same distance north west of Frome. It has a population of 21,325 according to the 2001 census.
Norton Records Norton Records, a New York City based independent record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller, maintains a focus on primitive, retro rock'n'roll, rockabilly, garage punk, garage rock, lounge music, and R&B. In 1986, when the couple published an article about West Virginia guitarist Hasil Adkins, the response was so intense that Linna and Miller decided to form a record label to reissue his music.
Norton Rural District, Yorkshire Norton was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Malton rural sanitary district which was in the East Riding (the rest forming Malton Rural District in the North Riding).
Norton Simon Norton Winfred Simon (February 5, 1907-June 11993), in the United States was a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist based in California. A significant art collector, he is the namesake of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.
Norton Strange Townshend Norton Strange Townshend (December 25, 1815 - July 13, 1895) was a United States Representative from Ohio. Born in Clay Coton, Northamptonshire (England), in 1830 he migrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Avon, Ohio.
Norton tradition The Norton tradition is an archaeological culture that developed in the Western Arctic along the Alaskan shore of the Bering Strait around 1000 BC and lasted through about AD 800. The Norton people used flake-stone tools like their predecessors, the Small Arctic Tool tradition, but they were more marine-oriented and brought new technologies such as oil-burning lamps and clay vessels into use.
Norton Villiers Triumph Norton Villiers Triumph were a British motorcycle manufacturer, formed by the British Government to continue the UK motorcycling industry. Like most Government interventions into British industry, the company eventaully failed.
Norton's theorem Norton's theorem for electrical networks states that any collection of voltage sources and resistors with two terminals is electrically equivalent to an ideal current source, I, in parallel with a single resistor, R. For single-frequency AC systems the theorem can also be applied to general impedances, not just resistors.
Norton-Villiers Norton-Villiers was a British motorcycle manufacturer formed in the 1960s following the collapse of Associated Motorcycles. With the general decline of the British motorcycle industry it was combined with the remnants of BSA to form Norton-Villiers-Triumph.
Norton, Doncaster Norton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with North Yorkshire. The northern boundary of the parish is marked by the River Went, while the Great North Road forms the western boundary.
Norton, Hertfordshire Norton is a small village in Hertfordshire, one of the three original villages which were absorbed into Letchworth Garden City (the other two being Willian and Old Letchworth). Its church is dedicated to St Nicholas, and has eight light bells hung for change ringing; since the construction in the same parish of the much larger St George's church in the town, St Nicholas's has become a chapel of ease.
Nortriptyline Nortriptyline is a second generation tricyclic antidepressant marketed as the hydrochloride under the tradenames Aventyl® and Pamelor®. It is used in the treatment of depression and childhood nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting).
Nortt Nortt is a Danish one-man black / funeral doom metal band. According to the band's only member, also known as Nortt, the lyrical themes of the band mainly deal with "death, which is viewed as an inevitable and alluring phenomenon.
Norumbega Norumbega (or Norumbègue, Nurumbega, etc) was a legendary settlement in northeastern North America, inextricably connected with attempts to demonstrate Viking incursions in New England. Like Cathay, it was a semi-legendary place name used to fill a gap in existing geographical knowledge.
Norumbega Park Norumbega Park was a recreation area and amusement park located in "Auburndale-on-the-Charles" near Boston, Massachusetts. The associated Totem Pole Ballroom became a well-known dancing and entertainment venue for big bands touring during the 1940's.
Norv Turner Norval 'Norv' Eugene Turner (born May 17, 1952 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is the offensive coordinator for the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers. He has also served as head coach of the Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders, and as offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, and Miami Dolphins.
Norvergence Norvergence was a Newark, New Jersey corporation that prior to going bankrupt in July 2004, sold telecommunications services and related products to small businesses, nonprofit organizations, churches, and municipalities. It is now under invesitigation for fraud by a number of government agencies including the FTC.
Norviliškės Norviliškės is a small village in the so-called Dieveniškės appendix, Šalčininkai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located about 12 km northeast from Dieveniškės almost on the border with Belarus.
Norwalk Transit District The Norwalk Transit District is the primary provider of public transportation services in Norwalk, Connecticut and surrounding communities. The district's fixed-route bus transit system, known as WHEELS, is the primary service of the system linking Norwalk and its immediate suburbs as well as peak-hour service as far north as Danbury (with HART) and as far east as Bridgeport (with GBTA) as well as shuttles to Metro-North stations.
Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs (Metrolink station) The Norwalk/Sante Fe Springs Metrolink Station is a Metrolink rail station in the city of Norwalk, California. It is served by Metrolink's 91 Line from Los Angeles Union Staton to Riverside and Metrolink's Orange County Line running from Los Angeles Union Station to Oceanside.
Norway at the 1900 Summer Olympics Norway competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Results from Norwegian athletes are typically considered separate from those of Swedish competitors despite the Union between Sweden and Norway that existed in 1900.
Norway at the 1984 Summer Olympics Norway was represented at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles by the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. Norway returned to the Summer Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Norway at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics Norway sent a squad of 29 athletes to the 2006 European Championships in Athletics. The squad included one former medallist at an international championship, Andreas Thorkildsen, but it was long-distance runner Susanne Wigene who took Norway's first medal when she ran in to take the silver medal on the 10,000 metres, a second behind the winner, and the third best time by any Norwegian female runner.
Norway at the 2006 Winter Olympics Norway sent 74 athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. At the 2002 Winter Olympics Norway won the most gold medals, and before the Turin games, Norwegian sports officials were aiming for more than the 25 medals they won in Salt Lake City — the president of the Norges Skiforbund Sverre Seeberg was quoted saying he thought Norway would win 25 medals in the skiing events alone (alpine skiing, cross country skiing, freestyle skiing, nordic combined and ski jumping).
Norway American Football Federation The Norway American Football Federation (NoAFF) is the largest American football league in Norway, consisting of eleven teams from Norwegian cities and universities. The league is divided into two levels of competition and four age categories: Senior, Under 19, Under 16, and Under 13.
Norway Debate The Norway Debate, sometimes called the Narvik Debate, was a famous debate in the British House of Commons that took place on May 7 and May 8 1940. Ostensibly a debate over one theatre of battle, the Norwegian Campaign, the debate witnessed a massive outpouring of criticism and hostility towards the general conduct of the war and the government of Neville Chamberlain.
Norway House, Manitoba Norway House is a rural community of some 5000-6000 people some 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Lake Winnipeg, on the bank of the eastern channel of Nelson River, in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The community shares the name Norway House with the Norway House Cree Nation Indian reservation.
Norway in 1814 1814 was a pivotal year in Norwegian history. It started with Norway as a part of the Danish kingdom subject to a naval blockade, saw a constitutional convention in May that was frustrated only months later, and ended up with Norway as part of a personal union with Sweden.
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 On March 5 2005, viewers were given the chance to help decide which song should represent Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. The Norwegian Final Melodi Grand Prix was held at the Spektrum in Oslo hosted by Ivar Dyrhaug.
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Norway’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was selected in the national final, Melodi Grand Prix 2006, which comprised four semi-finals and a final. In the final, held on 4 February at the Spektrum in Oslo, the final eight songs were performed of which four moved on the super final, after a period of televoting.
Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Norway will choose their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 during Melodi Grand Prix 2007, which consists of four semi-finals (January 20 (semi-final 1), January 27 (semi-final 2), February 3 (semi-final 3), February 8 (second chance round)) and a final on 10 February 2007. The first 3 semi-finals will each contain 6 songs with the top 2 songs qualifying for the final, while the 3rd and 4th placed songs will go forward to the 4th semi-final where they will have a second chance to qualify for the final.
Norway lobster The Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (also called Dublin Bay prawn or langoustine), is a slim orange-pink lobster up to 24 cm long found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea as far north as Iceland and northern Norway, and south to Portugal and the Mediterranean Sea. The tail is muscular, and is frequently eaten, often under the name "scampi".
Norway national under-21 football team The Norwegian national under-21 football team, controlled by the Norwegian Football Association, is Norway's national football team for players of 21 years of age or under at the start of a European Under-21 Football Championship campaign. The team won bronze medals in the 1998 European Under-21 Football Championship.
Norway women's national football team The Norway women's national football team represents Norway in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Norwegian Football Association, are former European, World and Olympic champions and thus one of the most successful national teams.
Norwegian and Swedish Travellers The Norwegian and Swedish Travellers are a group or branch of the Romani people (also known as Roma people, Romanies or Gypsies) in Norway and Sweden. By history and culture, they are related to similar groups of Romani people in other countries, such as the Romnichals and Sinti.
Norwegian aviation college Norwegian Aviation College is a flying school with its base at Bardufoss Air Station in Norway. SAS’s most experienced airline pilots/instructors participated in selecting the location, designing the training facilities, selecting the equipment and in the design of the training programmes and the follow-up.
Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur) is a private association that promotes RiksmĂĄl, an unofficial variant of written Norwegian. The organisation was founded in 1953 by several notable Norwegian authors and poets, among them Arnulf Ăverland, Sigurd Hoel, A.
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) was founded in 1857 to "advance science and scholarship in Norway." It is currently funded by a grant from the Norwegian government as well as private contributions.
Norwegian Air Ambulance The Norwegian Air Ambulance is an aerial ambulance service in Norway organised through the government owned limited company Luftambulansetjenesten (Air Ambulance Service). The service provides ambulance and rescue helicopter services in addition to fixed-wing air ambulance operations.
Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle () is a Norwegian low-cost airline, with headquarters at Fornebu outside the country's capital Oslo and its main base at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. Norwegian Air Shuttle is also referred to as Norwegian, which is the company's commercial brand.
Norwegian American Norwegian Americans are an ethnic group in the United States. They are the descendants of Norwegian immigrants who came to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century.
Norwegian Army The Norwegian Army (Norwegian: Hæren) is Norway's military land force. It is part of the Norwegian Defence Force along with the Royal Norwegian Navy, the Royal Norwegian Air Force and the Norwegian Home Guard.
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