norway

Rated by the Global Peace Index as the most peaceful country in 2007, Norway has a wide range of attractions, cruises, restaurants and universities to offer the study abroad student traveler.

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Very funny. Norwegian for F***.

Quoted: So many youtubers have asked me about this word; FAEN!Therefore I made this educational film..(Since I pronounced fanden wrong in danish (sorry bout that) an...

About Trampe Bicycle Lift : "Hilly cities normally have a low share of cycling. How come that Trondheim, the third largest city of Norway, has the highest share of cycling compared to all the other Norwegian cities?..There is no doubt that Trampe has inspired students as well as other people living in Trondheim to take to their bicycles. In a user survey, 41 % of the lift users claim they're using the bicycle more often due to the installation of Trampe.." (Trampe.no)

A fun/cute Norweigian commercial
...on engineers ;)

The Finno-Ugric languages form a subfamily of the Uralic languages. The majority of linguists believe that Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian, among other languages, should be included in the group. Unlike most of the other languages spoken in Europe, the Finno-Ugric languages are not part of the Indo-European family of languages. The Uralic languages also include the Samoyedic languages, and some linguists use the terms Finno-Ugric and Uralic as synonyms. Many of the smaller Finno-Ugric languages are endangered and near extinction. The term Finno-Ugric peoples is used to describe peoples speaking a Finno-Ugric language.

The Sami people (also Sámi, Saami, Lapps and Laplanders) are the indigenous people of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Their ancestral lands span across an area the size of Sweden in the Nordic countries. The Sami are one of the largest indigenous groups in Europe. Their languages are the Sami languages, which are classified as Finno-Ugric.

Samer (äldre benämning även lappar, vilket ofta uppfattas som nedsättande) är en etnisk minoritet i Norge, Sverige och Finland och på Kolahalvön i Ryssland. Det område som samer bebor brukar benämnas Sápmi (ibland Sameland). Samerna i Sverige har sedan 1993 en egen statlig institution med folkvalda (se Sametinget). ILO har förklarat samer som ursprungsbefolkning.

Quoted: Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday, saying he hoped the award would inspire "bold initiatives" to fight poverty and eradicate the root causes of terrorism.