| August 15, 2008 | - Penguin Nils Olav, the Norwegian King's Guard mascot since 1972, was knighted in front of a crowd of several hundred people and 130 guardsmen. Nils, who shat himself during the ceremony, was, read the proclamation from King Harald the Fifth, “in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood.”
| Source:
BBC
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| July 17, 2007 | - Authorities estimated that 20 tons of meat are smuggled into Oslo, Norway, each week.
| Source:
Aftenposten
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| October 18, 2006 | - An exhibit at the Oslo Natural History Museum displayed homosexual behavior among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, and whales. Radical Christian critics said organizers of the exhibition should “burn in hell.”
| Source:
Reuters via ABC News
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| June 19, 2006 | -
Norway began to build a guarded, fenced-in concrete bunker intended to store three million seeds.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 15, 2006 | - A Norwegian
hen laid an egg twice normal size, then was killed to stop her suffering.
| Source:
Aftenposten
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| May 22, 2006 | - In Norway a grevling, or badger, wrecked a man's bedroom.
| Source:
Aftenposten
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| April 5, 2006 | - A Swedish doctor in Norway was fired for using an "anal massage" technique to cure different kinds of pain, such as headaches. "I am different," explained the doctor.
| Source:
The Local
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| February 5, 2006 | - Riots erupted over newspaper cartoons, printed first in Denmark and subsequently throughout Europe, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators rallied in Syria, where they attacked the Danish and Norwegian embassies, and in Lebanon, where they set the Danish embassy on fire. "They should have respected our religion," said a Lebanese protester. Iran recalled its ambassador from Denmark, and protesters outside the United Nations in New York City chanted, "shame, shame."
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Newsday
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| May 5, 2005 | -
Norway declared striptease an art form.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 28, 2005 | -
Norway sent a woman to jail for raping a man.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 21, 2005 | -
Norwegians were shocked to see the president and his family repeatedly give the University of Texas "hook 'em, 'horns" sign, which they interpreted as a salute to Satan, during the festivities, and sign-language users pointed out that the sign means "bullshit."
| Source 1:
New York Daily News
Source 2:
AP
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| August 22, 2004 | - Edvard Munch's
The Scream
was stolen by armed robbers from a crowded museum in Oslo, Norway.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 15, 2003 | -
Keiko the killer whale died of pneumonia in a Norwegian fjord. Local officials said it was "downright sad."
| Source:
Aftenposten Nettutgaven
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| July 17, 2003 | -
Ariel Sharon, the prime minister of Israel, traveled to Norway but refused to visit Oslo.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 23, 2001 | -
Norway announced the end of its ban on exporting whale products.
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