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...that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania (pictured) is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
...that the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat?
...that Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?

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