Explore Norway On-Line!

Have you ever been to a gathering where all the people talk about is e-mail, web pages, links and spams ? Have you wanted to travel to Norway, but felt you could not afford it? Do you forget to send letters to friend in Norway because you are out of stamps? Norway-on-line is your answer.

Norwegian Companies in USA - Swix

SWIX Sport USA Inc. Established in 1946, the SWIX name is almost synonymous with ski wax. The 50-year-old company also provides a variety of ski equipment and sportswear to complement its success in the development and sale of advanced ski waxes. Healthy and young at heart, SWIX is one of the few Norwegian companies that markets consumer products throughout the snow-covered world. Its subsidiar...

National History Day

Sunni Liv Johnson, an eighth grader at Woodward Middle School on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, studied the Norwegian Resistance during World War II for almost a year. The reason: National History Day, a national academic competition that began as a local program for about 100 youngsters in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1974.

Christmas in Norway on video

The Film Advisory Board has given its award of excellence to two new videos about Norway, "Christmas in Norway" and "Cooking Norway Style."

Norway Moves up as World's No. 2 Oil Exporter

Nature gave Norway's oil industry a Christmas present that no one would have imagined just a few years ago. By the end of 1995, Norwegian crude oil output reached an average of three million barrels per day, placing Norway second after Saudi Arabia among the world's oil exporters.

A Foreign Correspondent In The USA

For the past year Ingvild Bryn has worked in the United States as a foreign correspondent for NRK, the Norwegian National Broadcasting Coorporation.

Book Review: "The Four Winds"

This is the bittersweet and sometimes acutely funny story of Inger, a bright young Norwegian woman from the small town of Fredrikstad.

Who Can You Trust?

If you lose your wallet in Norway or Denmark, chances are good that some kindly person will return it to you. In Italy, Switzerland or eastern Germany, don't bet on it.

Tracing Your Ancestors

At some point in their lives many people starts wondering about people of the past. They long for remembered moments--for lost friends, the voice of an aunt or uncle from childhood, or even something more. They want to learn their own history, where they came from, who their grandparents were.

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