Norway

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Our story begins in 1864. Diego de Landa, Bishop of Yucatán, Mexico, publishes an alphabet that can be...

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Let me begin with the question: why am I living here in cold, expensive Norway? Unlike almost all...

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This is Torbjorn Davidsen: artist, actor, protestor, Nordmann, but most of all a father. On the day that...

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I'm inside this building, the tallest wooden house in Norway, as I type this blog entry. I'm in...

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("Work"). I have been unemployed long enough to realize I don't really want a proper job and money...

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("Election 2005"). The single word in this newspaper headline, maktskifte, means "power-shift" and this announces that the reigning...

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Here's something which may or may not be unique to Norway, but I haven't experienced a system like...

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Medieval Stave Churches, so called because they are constructed with wooden staves, could once be found in various...

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As you can see, I have no photo(s) from my travels through the Norwegian province of Telemark. This...

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Up until now I've been writing about my experiences in the city of Oslo, capital of Norway. But...

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