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• ...that geographer Yngvar Nielsen (pictured) published a travel guide book in 1879, which played an important role in the development of tourism in Norway?
• ...that Henry Blogg's first rescue as coxwain of the Cromer Lifeboat Louisa Heartwell was that of the crew of the barque Alf?
• ...that Lars Oftedal founded several social institutions in Stavanger, Norway, including an orphanage for boys and a home for women?

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1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/May, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions 254, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions 254, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.