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Carl Gustav Fleischer (1883–1942), first allied general to win a major victory against the Germans in World War II (Battle of Narvik). Gunvald Tomstad (1918–1970), resistance fighter/double agent (radio operator), who helped transmit axis ship movements to the allies and was partly responsible for helping discover and sink the Bismarck .
In 1962, the family moved to Anchorage, Alaska where Einar Pedersen was stationed as a Scandinavian Airlines navigator on intercontinental flights. [3] [4] In 1963 with her husband as navigator, Ingrid Pedersen set out flying a single-engine Cessna 205 aircraft from Fairbanks, Alaska, over the geographic North Pole and continuing to Bodø ...
The explorer sent the new king, Haakon VII, news that his traversing the Northwest Passage "was a great achievement for Norway". [15] He said he hoped to do more and signed it "Your loyal subject, Roald Amundsen". [15] The crew returned to Oslo in November 1906, after almost three and a half years abroad. Gjøa was returned
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
David Grose – (1944–2004) world-renowned authority on the classification of early ancient glass from the Roman period; Robert Hanssen – spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States; George Harbo – (1870–1946) Norwegian-born American who in 1896, became the first people ever to row across an ocean. Alf ...
Roald Amundsen (1872–1928), frequently passed through Alaska in his travels; Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), whose 19th-century published history of Alaska, part of a larger series, formed an important foundation for later study of Alaskan history; Alexander Baranof (1746–1819)
Thea Christiansen Foss (8 June 1858 – 7 June 1927) was the founder of Foss Maritime, the largest tugboat company in the western United States.She was the real-life person on which the fictional character "Tugboat Annie" (originally portrayed on film in 1933 by Marie Dressler) may have been very loosely based.
People magazine, having produced a four-page story on him in 1981, followed with a three-page feature after the 1983 finish. [13] People editor John Drake wrote that Meegan was the most unknown Bio person they ever did. [14] (One photographer, Peter B. Kaplan, would go on to shoot world-famous pictures of the Statue of Liberty.)