Occupying the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula in northwestern Europe, and sharing borders with Sweden, Finland, and Russia, Norway is slightly larger than the state of New Mexico, measuring 125,181 square miles (323,878 square kilo-meters)....
LOWELL - Norway skip Thomas Ulsrud stoned the United States squad led by skip Pete Fenson, scoring a pair of 3-point stones en route to an 8-5 victory over the Americans in a World Curling Championships semifinal last night at Tsongas Arena. Norway advanced...
* Odd S. Lovoll. The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today. Minneapolis: u Minnesota v, published in cooperation with the Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1998. Pp. xvi + 302. $29.95. Most scholars of Norwegian immigration and ethnicity have focused on the century...
It's a little-known twist of history: The Japanese company that made World War II's Zero fighter and today brews Kirin Beer was founded by a canny Scotsman named Thomas Blake Glover.The "Scottish Samurai" laid down a shipyard in Japan's port of Nagasaki almost 150 years...
