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Albert Balchen
Albert Balchen (22 October 1874 – 11 June 1940) was a Norwegian barrister, economist, editor and politician for the Centre Party. Biography He was born on 22 October 1874, in Vestre Aker Vestre Aker (Western Aker) is a List of boroughs of Oslo, borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. It has a population of 50,157 as of 2020. The previous Aker Municipality was merged into the city of Oslo in 1948. The borough of Vestre Aker was org ..., to Fredrik Glad Balchen (1815–1999) and Valgerda Benjamine, née Heiberg. He examen artium, finished his secondary education in 1893, graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1899 and the dr.philos. degree in economics in 1907. Following a few years as a deputy judge and junior solicitor, he settled in Oslo, Kristiania as an attorney before embarking on the doctoral thesis. His thesis concerned trade balance, and from 1908 to 1910 he chaired the economics group of the Polytechnic Society (Norway), Polytechnic Society. From 1909, he was the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
