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Vilhelm Mejdell
Vilhelm Mejdell (17 April 1904 – 1989) was a Norwegian marketing agent and sports official. He was born in Kristiania. He was an active sportsperson in his youth, winning national championships in rowing (fours) in 1924 and 1929. He represented the club Norske Studenters RK. During World War II he was member of Milorg, and later of the Norwegian Home Guard. He was also an active pistol shooter, and served as president of the Norwegian Shooting Association from 1965 to 1968. He was an honorary member. Mejdell graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1935. In 1945 he was hired in the adversiting agency Myres Reklamebyrå Myres may refer to: * Myres S. McDougal (1906–1998), Sterling Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School * Alexander Myres (born 1996), American football cornerback * Helen Alice Myres (1911–2010), the first major child star of Amer .... He was later promoted to CEO, and remained here until his retirement. He died in 1989. References 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age, the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around the year 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 Births
Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * January 12 – The Herero Wars in German South West Africa begin. * January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski, 6 month's before the author's death. * January 23 – The Ålesund fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter. * January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics. February * February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Marketing People
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 *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 *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, Pennsylvania, USA Norsk * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Deaths
1989 was a turning point in political history with the " Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myres Reklamebyrå
Myres may refer to: * Myres S. McDougal (1906–1998), Sterling Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School * Alexander Myres (born 1996), American football cornerback * Helen Alice Myres (1911–2010), the first major child star of American silent films *John Myres Kt OBE FBA FRAI (1869–1954), British archaeologist and academic * Nowell Myres FBA FSA CBE (1902–1989), British archaeologist and Bodley's Librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford * Sandra Myres (1933–1991), American historian of the American Southwest *Thomas Myres FRIBA (1842–1926), English railway architect See also * Myres Castle, Scottish castle situated in Fife near the village of Auchtermuchty *John Scrimgeour of Myres Castle, Master of Work for royal buildings for James V and Mary, Queen of Scots * Myre (other) *Miers (other) Miers is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Sir Anthony Miers (1906–1985), Royal Navy admiral *Sir David Miers (born 1937), British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowing (sport)
Rowing, often called crew American English, in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using Oar (sport rowing), oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars (called blades in the United Kingdom) are attached to the boat using Rowlock, rowlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is divided into two disciplines: sculling and sweep rowing. In sculling, each rower (or oarsman) holds two oars, one in each hand, while in sweep rowing each rower holds one oar with both hands. There are several boat classes in which athletes may compete, ranging from single sculls, occupied by one person, to shells with eight rowers and a coxswain (rowing), coxswain, called eight (rowing), eights. There are a wide variety of course types and formats of racing, but most elite and championship level racing is conducted on calm water courses long with several lanes marked using buoys. Modern rowing as a competitive sport can be traced to the early 17th century whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Shooting Association
Norges Skytterforbund (NSF), literally Norway’s Shooter Association, is a Norwegian umbrella organization for shooting sports, and is internationally affiliated with the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse (FITASC) and Precision Pistol Competition (WA1500). NSF was founded in 1946, and is also organized under the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. See also * Nordic Shooting Region * List of shooting sports organizations Other shooting sport organizations in Norway * Det frivillige Skyttervesen * Dynamic Sports Shooting Norway * Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers * Norwegian Benchrest Shooting Association * Norwegian Black Powder Union * Norwegian Biathlon Association * Norwegian Metal Silhouette Association * Scandinavian Western Shooters Scandinavian Western Shooters (SWS), founded 1 October 1997, is the Norwegian association for cowboy action sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
