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...that in 1935, the Hardanger Line (pictured) became the first new line of the Norwegian State Railways to open with electrification?
...that in the Orkneyinga saga, after Olvir Rosta failed to gain a portion of the Earldom of Orkney, his grandmother was burned to death?
...that author Ola Bauer wrote a novel about his involvement with the Provisional IRA, to correct what he felt was a slanted view of The Troubles in the Norwegian press?

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