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When freedom is lost: A son’s journey through his father’s war and the road to the White Buses
Join me in exploring the World War II experience of Fredrik Dietrichson (Agent "Dave 347") as recounted by his son, ...
When fascism met its limits: street politics and antifascism in pre-war Oslo
In the interwar years, Oslo was not merely a capital city. It was a political landscape, shaped and contested street ...
Walk the talk on the roof of the Opera
Democracy and equality can be expressed in many ways. One of them is to step on cultural icons. Literally, as ...
Three artists, one explosion: the Vigelands, Munch, and the Filipstad catastrophe
How rivalry, brotherhood, and a wartime disaster linked Norway's greatest artists across half a century ...
Thor Heyerdahl and the peculiar pyramids of Güímar
On the hillside south east on Tenerife lies a little town whose fame comes from a stubborn Norwegian explorer ...
The White buses of Folke Bernadotte
They painted them white so bombers would not bomb them. And they saved thousands of lives at the end of ...
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From riches to rags: Marie Grubbe’s long way from nobility to ferryman’s wife
In 1711, the young Ludvig Holberg fled the bubonic plague in Copenhagen and ended up at a shabby inn on ...
The Kristiania crash of 1899: When Oslo’s housing boom destroyed a generation of wealth
The Kristiania crash of 1899 wiped out a generation of property wealth. In real terms, prices did not return to ...
Hovedøya: Three layers of history on Oslo’s monastery island
Monks, warships, and eight million swimmers — the island seven minutes from Oslo City Hall that keeps rewriting its own ...
Roosevelt’s most memorable moment in Oslo: The chocolate watch at Egertorget
Is it true that president Roosevelt was impressed by a Norwegian chocolate factory's marketing? Who knows. And here's what else ...
A thousand years of Oslo: From trading post to capital city
Oslo has been burned to the ground, moved by royal decree, renamed twice, and occupied by foreign forces. A thousand ...
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