Norway During World War Two - Illustrated articles, interviews and biographies from Kurt Monsen and associates, including battles and German and Allied units involved.
Norwegian History - Important dates and events, from the Nordic FAQ.
Odin: The History of Norway - Tor Dagre tells the story of what is now Norway from earliest times through the age of Vikings, medieval and modern times to Norway's place in the EU. Produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Saltdal historielag - Local history organization in Saltdal with focus on genealogy research, original names of places, World war 2, historical tours and industrial and local working life.
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) History When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger History
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott History I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic History
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) History Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) History
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents History Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) History
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton History Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton History
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett History "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman History
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw History The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell History
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen History Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land History
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt History "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns History
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston History Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi History
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler History Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset History
