Portal:Norway/DYK/17

• ...that naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold (pictured) and Niels Juel are buried in Copenhagen's Holmen Church?
• ...that Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
• ...that Odd Nansen, son of the famed scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen, founded Nansenhjelpen to help Jewish refugees escape the German invasion of Czechoslovakia to Norway, then survived Sachsenhausen himself?

Source

1. 28 February 2008, Main Page appearance.
2. 6 March 2008, Main Page appearance.
3. 16 February 2008, Main Page appearance.