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Fridtjof Knutsen
Fridtjof Knutsen (15 December 1894 – 4 August 1961) was a Norwegian journalist and crime novelist. He was born in Harstad, and was married to Lalli Knutsen. Their daughter Mette Newth, Mette Knutsen married Philip Newth and had the son Eirik Newth. Knutsen was a journalist in ''Dagsposten'' from 1914, ''Morgenposten'' from, ''Tidens Tegn'' from 1917 and ''Aftenposten'' from 1934. He specifically reported from court cases. Some years after his death he was also called one of "the three great criminal and police reporters in Oslo", together with Georg Svendsen and Axel Kielland. Knutsen also wrote about 30 criminal novels, many together with his wife. Many were Norwegian adaptations of books originally written by Betty Cavanna, Berkeley Gray (Edwy Searles Brooks), Carolyn Keene (several people), Helen Louise Thorndyke (several people) and Clair Blank (Clarissa Mabel Blank Moyer). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harstad
( se, Hárstták) is the second-most populated municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is mostly located on the large island of Hinnøya. The municipal center is the town of Harstad, the most populous town in Central Hålogaland, and the third-largest in all of Northern Norway. The town was incorporated in 1904. Villages in the municipality include Elgsnes, Fauskevåg, Gausvik, Grøtavær, Kasfjord, Lundenes, Nergården and Sørvika. The municipality is the 226th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Harstad is the 49th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 24,804. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 2.9% over the previous 10-year period. Geography The municipality is located on many islands in southern Troms og Finnmark county. Most of the municipality is located on the large island of Hinnøya, which is Norway's largest coastal island (three islands in the Svalbard archipelago a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwy Searles Brooks
Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 – 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. Brooks was born in Hackney, London. He is believed to have written around 40 million words. Life and work Brooks was one of four sons (there was also a daughter) of George Brooks, a Congregational minister and well-known political writer including for ''The Times''. When the family relocated to Norfolk, Brooks attended Banham Grammar School in that county. His first name was a Welsh form of "Edwin"; his second a grandmother's surname. Brooks published his first short story, "Mr Dorien's Missing £2000", in July 1907, when he was seventeen. His first major breakthrough came in 1910, when the paper ''The Gem'' gave him an assignment to publish a serial named "The Iron Island", the main character being Frank Kingston. In 1912 he wrote his first Sexton Blake stories and in 1915 started writing Nelson Lee de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Non-fiction Writers
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *The Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. *Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Harstad
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Deaths
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts. * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant Revolution, a massive revolt of followers of the Donghak movement. Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the ruling Joseon dynasty government's aid. ** At 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin dies of an accidental detonation of his own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Mackenzie Bruff
Charles Mackenzie Bruff (15 January 1887 – 17 October 1955) was a Norwegian chemist. He was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was educated at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. He was a teacher in chemistry at Oslo Handelsgymnasium from 1915 to 1947. He was a specialist in forensic chemistry Forensic chemistry is the application of chemistry and its subfield, forensic toxicology, in a legal setting. A forensic chemist can assist in the identification of unknown materials found at a crime scene. Specialists in this field have a wide ..., officially authorized as a forensic chemist in 1921 by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. He contributed to about 15,000 crime cases during his career. He published his autobiography ''De tause vitner'' (1949). Selected works * References 1887 births 1955 deaths Scientists from Oslo Chalmers University of Technology alumni Schoolteachers from Oslo Norwegian chemists Norwegian memoirists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre, the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not have an overarching storyline. Rather, a general theme serves as the motto for a loosely-related series of acts that alternate between solo performances and dance ensembles. Owing to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt even less restricted by middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarissa Mabel Blank Moyer
Clarissa Mabel Blank (August 5, 1915August 15, 1965) was an American author. She wrote the ''Beverly Gray'' mystery series and four other novels. Biography Clarissa Mabel Blank was born on August 5, 1915 in Allentown, Pennsylvania to Bessie and Edgar H. Blank. Her father worked as a loom fixer at a silk mill before finding employment at a clothing plant in Germantown, Philadelphia, Germantown; in 1920, 1930 and 1940, his occupation was listed as a "knitter"."United States Census, 1920," database with images, ''FamilySearch''Household of Edgar H Blank: accessed January 28, 2016), Allentown Ward 2, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 12A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,588."United States Census, 1930", database with images, ''FamilySearch''Household of Edgar Blank: accessed January 28, 2016), Philadelphia Ward 42, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 45A, NARA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Louise Thorndyke
Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city * Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place * Helen, Washington, an unincorporated community in Washington state, US * Helen, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Raleigh County * Helen Falls, a waterfall in Ontario, Canada * Lake Helen (other), several places called Helen Lake or Lake Helen * Helen, an ancient name of Makronisos island, Greece * The Hellenic Republic, Greece Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Helen'' (album), a 1981 Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes * ''Helen'' (2008 film), a British drama starring Annie Townsend * ''Helen'' (2009 film), an American drama film starring Ashley Judd * ''Helen'' (2017 film), an Iranian drama film * ''Helen'' (2019 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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