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Book Here Come the Norwegians

Download or read book Here Come the Norwegians written by Carol Hanson Schwinkendorf and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history of Andrew Anderson (1874-1963), son of Ole Anderson Skjaekkermo and Jorend Olson, who was born in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. Ole Anderson Skjaekkermo (1823-1886) was born on Skjaekkermo farm in Helgadal near Trondheim, Nord Trondelag, Norway. He married Jorend Olson in 1873 in Austin, Minnesota. Jorend had moved with her parents from Rock Prairie, Wisconsin to Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. In 1877 Ole and Jorend left Blooming Prairie for Mekinock, North Dakota. After Ole's death, Jorend married August Forsman (born August Johnson) of Värmland, Sweden. In 1889 they moved to Badger, Minnesota. Thone Gjersund (1879-1964), daughter of Olav and Aslaug Gjersund, was born in Morgedal, Telemark, Norway. She came to Minneapolis, Minn. in 1897. While visiting relatives in Mekinock, N.D. with her sister Tillie, she met Andrew Anderson. They were married 1901 in Minneapolis, Minn. Family members live in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and elsewhere.

Book Here Come the Navaho

Download or read book Here Come the Navaho written by Ruth Murray Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Frog in the Fjord

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lorelou Desjardins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-17
  • ISBN : 9788230349199
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book A Frog in the Fjord written by Lorelou Desjardins and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and humorous account of the author's first year in Norway as a foreigner. From Easter to summer holidays and Christmas, it dives deeply into Norwegian culture, language and people.

Book Here Come the Navaho

Download or read book Here Come the Navaho written by Ruth Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Here Come the Brides

Download or read book Here Come the Brides written by Audrey Bilger and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage today isn't what it used to be: for better, not for worse. As same-sex weddings are becoming more common, the classic love-story happy ending is taking on a decidedly new twist, everyone has a fresh role to play, and supporters and opponents of gay marriage alike are finding themselves in the midst of a revolution that's redefining marriage—both as a personal choice and as an institution—as we know it. In Here Come the Brides!, editors Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort gather together the voices of women taking part in-and shaping-this major historical shift. Representing a diversity of points of view in terms of race, class, ethnicity, and gender identification, this collection of essays, stories, and visual images takes a multidimensional look at how opening up the traditional order of "man and wife" to include the possibility of "wife and wife" is altering our social landscape. From wedding pictures and images of protest signs to comical anecdotes and sober philosophical analyses, Here Come the Brides! is an exploration of how the legalization of same-sex marriages has irrevocably changed the way lesbians think about their unions and their lives-and a celebration of the dream of lesbian happily-ever-afters.

Book A Hero s Journey

Download or read book A Hero s Journey written by Chris Dooley and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hero’s Journey Beyond Little Norway and Olympia Sports Camp is a compiled history of the Olympia Sports Camp in Huntsville, Ontario, through the lens of its founder and inspiration, Dave Grace, the hero of the book’s title. The hero’s journey of the title is Dave Grace’s adaptation of the writings and teaching of philosopher Joseph Campbell. The basic tenet of the Dave Grace’s hero’s journey is that heroes all go through a 12-step journey—from their own comfort zone to the unknown and all its challenges—to a new normal where the hero bestows knowledge learned on others in order to help them on their journey. Dave Grace’s foundational belief is that we are all heroes on our own path and who we become on our journey is more important than the accomplishments we achieve. A Hero’s Journey chronicles the people and places that make up the history of the camp, while also serving as an inspirational guidebook for readers to each become the hero of their own journey. This book also examines the history of the land on which the camp has been built, from its Indigenous origins to the European settlement of the 1800s, and to the use of the land by the Norwegian Air Force during World War II. The book takes readers on a journey through the various stages related to the development of the camp, first established in 1974. The book is built on a collection of stories related to mentorship, sports psychology, and community building, as well as interviews of past campers, coaches, and others with a longtime association with Olympia. With this book, author Chris Dooley honours Dave Grace and the many others who have been integral to the history of the camp and its land.

Book Here Comes the Fun

Download or read book Here Comes the Fun written by Ben Aitken and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW BOOK FROM THE MUCH-LOVED AUTHOR OF THE GRAN TOUR, A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAN AND THE MARMALADE DIARIES Food fights, fishing and French cooking - bestselling author Ben Aitken's year of actively pursuing fun Ben Aitken wasn't getting enough. He knew it and so did everyone else. He was grumpy, increasingly boring, mostly joyless. So, he joined a lawn bowls club. A week later, he doubled down on the doldrums by learning to dance like they do in Bollywood. Then - with an almost entirely reformed selfhood winking appealingly just around the corner - he started swimming in cold water and was back to square one. Despite the setbacks (and hyperventilation), it was becoming clear to him that the very pursuit of fun was a great way of not feeling naff. And so he made a vow to have as much of the f-stuff as he possibly could. Taking a liberal approach to the subject, he sought out things that he used to find fun a long time ago (i.e. food fights and wrestling); things that he'd never done before but reckoned could be fun (boozy French cooking classes, tantric sex); things whose fun-factor was less obvious and more down to earth (nostalgia, volunteering, edible gardening, watching chickens); and things that he wasn't at all sure about but were fun according to other people (gym classes, caving, TikTok). Unsurprisingly, the results were mixed, but he was undoubtedly left feeling ... better. Which left him asking, if fun is the finest medicine, why do we stop doing it?

Book Arctic Convoy PQ8

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Wadsworth
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2009-11-30
  • ISBN : 1526762293
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Arctic Convoy PQ8 written by Michael Wadsworth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Brundle took the SS Harmatris to Russia with Convoy PQ8 he was 47 years of age. Both ship and master were veterans and had already sailed in convoys across the North Atlantic and to South Africa. The 5,395 ton coal fired ship, laden with 8,000 tons of armaments originally set sail on 27 November 1941 to join convoy PQ6 but encountered a fierce storm in which a lorry broke free in the hold and started a fierce blaze below decks. Despite valiant attempts to extinguish the fire the Harmatris was forced to return to Glasgow for repair. Having discharged its cargo, examined and repaired the holds, it restowed and finally put to sea again on 26 December. She was now to join PQ8 and Brundle was elected Convoy Commodore. Two minesweepers, a cruiser and two destroyers escorted the eight merchant vessels.On 8 January the convoy left Reykjavik bound for Murmansk. Harmatris was struck by two torpedoes in No 1 hold which caused flooding. A third torpedo struck her a few hours later and the crew evacuated to HMS Speedwell in attendance. A volunteer crew reboarded and Speedwell took the wounded ship in tow. During the night the same U Boat that had struck Harmatris sunk the destroyer Matabele with the loss of all but two of her crew. A tug eventually replaced Speedwell and the entire crew now returned to their still stricken vessel. On 18 January the ships were twice attacked by low flying Heinkels. The stricken Harmatris finally berthed in Murmansk at 0800 on 20 January. Once unloaded the battered ship entered dry dock on 10 February. The damage was considerable. In a temperature of 40 degrees below zero the crew set about the repairs. It was difficult to locate engine parts and local labor was scarce.During the following months the crew continued to work on the ship, food was scarce and the port was frequently bombed by the Luftwaffe. Several ships close to Harmatris were sunk. It was 21 July when the ship finally left for Archangel. She took aboard a cargo of 3,000 tons of steel pipes and on 13 September she was instructed to join a convoy of 20 ships, QP14 for her return voyage. On 19 September the minesweeper HMS Leda, steaming close by Harmartris, was torpedoed. The convoy was under almost continuous U Boat attack and suffered six losses. As a result of his heroic efforts to preserve his ship and crew Captain Brundle was awarded the OBE and the Lloyds War Medal. He died in 1960 at the age of 66.

Book Thelma  a Norwegian Princess

Download or read book Thelma a Norwegian Princess written by Marie Corelli and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Norwegian Literature

Download or read book A History of Norwegian Literature written by Harald S. N•ss and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2.

Book Norwegian By ways

Download or read book Norwegian By ways written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Tech  New Ties

Download or read book New Tech New Ties written by Richard Ling and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion. The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is “there”; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where they are. But when we are engaged in these intimate conversations with absent friends, what happens to our relationship with the people who are actually in the same room with us? In New Tech, New Ties, Rich Ling examines how the mobile telephone affects both kinds of interactions—those mediated by mobile communication and those that are face to face. Ling finds that through the use of various social rituals the mobile telephone strengthens social ties within the circle of friends and family—sometimes at the expense of interaction with those who are physically present—and creates what he calls “bounded solidarity.” Ling argues that mobile communication helps to engender and develop social cohesion within the family and the peer group. Drawing on the work of Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, and Randall Collins, Ling shows that ritual interaction is a catalyst for the development of social bonding. From this perspective, he examines how mobile communication affects face-to-face ritual situations and how ritual is used in interaction mediated by mobile communication. He looks at the evidence, including interviews and observations from around the world, that documents the effect of mobile communication on social bonding and also examines some of the other possibly problematic issues raised by tighter social cohesion in small groups.

Book Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Norwegian Pictures  Drawn with Pen and Pencil

Download or read book Norwegian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil written by Richard Lovett and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902 1903

Download or read book The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902 1903 written by Kristian Birkeland and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evergreen Review Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barney Rosset
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-10-11
  • ISBN : 1628721901
  • Pages : 954 pages

Download or read book Evergreen Review Reader written by Barney Rosset and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection from the first ten years of the Evergreen Review gives the full flavor of the energy, savvy, excitement, and gall that characterized the magazine during the days of its publication. It also happens to bring together some of the world’s best writers in one volume, in the company of their peers. Evergreen was more than another literary magazine. Founded by Barney Rossett of Grove Press and publishing from 1957 through 1973 (it now exists as an online only magazine), it was the voice of a movement that helped to change the attitudes and prejudices of the culture at large through the language of art—and succeeded. It was always damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. Here are original short stories by Samuel Beckett and Jack Kerouac (with his “October in the Railroad Earth” predating the publication of On the Road); Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (previously published only as a pamphlet); a selection from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind; and a passage from Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book. Also included are a fantastic sample of the original and iconic magazine covers which were works of art themselves—a heavily bearded Ginsberg cavorting in a sport coat and Uncle Sam top hat in 1966—and several reprinted comic strips; notably, Michael O’Donoghue’s “The Adventure of Phoebe Zeit-geist.”

Book On the Great Atlantic Rainway

Download or read book On the Great Atlantic Rainway written by Kenneth Koch and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Great Atlantic Railway is Kenneth's Koch's inspired collection of 32 years of work. Koch, David Lehman said in The American Poetry Review, is "a masterly innovator . . . who has used his extravagant powers of wit and invention to enlarge the sphere of the poetic . . . he has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry."