Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016. He is best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994.
Lars Saabye Christensen is a Norwegian/Danish author.
Atle Antonsen is a Norwegian comedian and actor.
Jens Thiis was a Norwegian art historian, conservator and a prominent museum director. He was conservator at the Nordenfjeld Industrial Arts Museum in Trondheim beginning in 1895 and director of the National Gallery in Oslo from 1908 to 1941.
The Norwegian language conflict is an ongoing controversy in Norwegian culture and politics related to the written versions of Norwegian. From 1536/1537 until 1814, Danish was the standard written language of Norway due to the union of crowns with Denmark, in which time the Danish Empire was founded. As a result, the overall form of chosen modern written Norwegian and its leaning towards or away from Danish underpins controversies in anti-imperialistic nationalism, rural versus urban cultures, literary history, diglossia, spelling reform, and orthography.
Jan Erik Vold is a Norwegian lyric poet, jazz vocal reciter, translator and author. He was a core member of the so-called "Profil generation", the circle attached to the literary magazine Profil. Throughout his career as an artist, he has had the ability to reach the public, both with his poetry and his political views. He has contributed greatly to the renewal of Norwegian poetry, and created interest in lyrical poetry. Jan Erik Vold is currently living in Stockholm.
Øystein Sørensen is a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Oslo since 1996, he has published several books on the history of ideas, including Norwegian nationalism and national socialism, as well as general Norwegian World War II history.
Nils Johan Rud was a Norwegian novelist, writer of short stories, children's writer, and a magazine editor. He is particularly known for his long-term period as editor of the magazine Arbeidermagasinet / Magasinet For Alle.
David Sandved was a Norwegian architect.
Lars Borgersrud is a Norwegian military historian and government scholar. His work has largely centered on World War II in Norway.
The Pelle group was a Norwegian resistance group that conducted acts of sabotage against the German occupation of Norway in Østlandet during the autumn of 1944.
Crime in Norway is countered by Norway's law enforcement agencies.
Anne Gravingen and Bendik Romstad are a married couple of former advertising agents, now food entrepreneurs, who have worked together continuously since they studied together at Westerdals School of Communication in 1994. They were named by Aftenposten in 2005 as Norway's most creative couple.
The Alternative is a green political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock; Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal Party. Elbæk was the leader of the party until February 2020, where he stepped down and was succeeded by Fock. Currently the party is led by Franciska Rosenkilde. It collaborates with DiEM25 at the European level.
Josty er Norsk rapper som alene i sjangeren er ifra den lille bygda Øvrebø som ligger i Vennesla Kommune. Han er i dag administrator og styremedlem i Norges største facebook gruppe innen Hip Hop på "Hip Hop Norge". 2 album, 1 EP samt. over 100 uoffisielle låter er sluppet ut siden 2005. Josty har vært tidligere dommer og administrator i Audioliga fra tidligere Hip-Hop.no og er kjent som en MC med teknikk, fengende refreng og avanserende rim oppsett. Det har aldri før vært en større kulturskaper på sørlandet innen sjangeren. Med over 50 samarbeidspartnere fra Sør til Nord i Norge har Josty vært med å skapet starten av stilen til 00`tallets hip hop i Norge. Selv ser han seg selv som en "for alltid" undergrunner som skriver om akkurat det han føler for og bryr seg lite om alt annet spm måtte dukke opp kommersielt.
The 2020 Gjerdrum landslide was a quick clay landslide that occurred in the early hours of 30 December 2020 at Ask village, the administrative centre of Gjerdrum, Norway. It spanned a flow off area of 300 by 700 metres and additionally affected 9 hectares by debris flow. Several buildings were destroyed, most of them houses and apartment buildings.
Loft is a traditional two-storey wooden building preserved mostly in Norway. A loft was used for storage and sleeping, and is known since the early Middle Ages. Loft buildings dating from around 1200 are preserved in rural areas. Lofts were typically built in log technique, unlike the post and lintel construction in stave churches. Many lofts have an external corridor or balcony resting on a log corbel. The oldest non-religious wooden buildings in Norway are lofts. In addition to the stave church, Christian Norberg-Schulz regards the loft as Norway's most important contribution to history of architecture.
Resett, also known as Resett.no, is a Norwegian online newspaper, which publishes news and op-ed content. The website was launched in 2017 with Helge Lurås as editor-in-chief. Resett aims to "present cases from a different angle than established mass media, and to cover news that other media do not want to cover".
On 25 June 2022, two people were killed and twenty-one people were wounded in a mass shooting in Oslo, Norway. Police are treating the incident as an "act of Islamist terrorism". The target may been the Oslo LGBTQ pride event, which was hosted by the local branch of the Norwegian Organisation for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
