Financial Times, The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil: “When he boarded his flight from London to Oslo, Farouk al-Kasim, a young Iraqi geologist, knew his life would never again be the same. Norway was a country about as different as it was possible to imagine from his home, the Iraqi port city of Basra. [...]
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The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil
September 1st, 2009
Tags: Farouk al-Kasim · norway · oil · Statens Pensjonsfond
Norway Reveals Doomsday Vault’s Design
February 9th, 2007
Live Science: “Designs for a doomsday vault for seeds of the world, to be carved deep into frozen rock on an island not far from the North Pole, were revealed today by the government of Norway.” Zie ook Wikipedia: Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
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June 10th, 2006
Record meteorite hit Norway – Aftenposten.no “As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.” – Nooit meer slapen. (tags: norway space meteorite) Dreams and Nightmares of the African Astronauts “Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had [...]
Tags: burkina faso · china · cloud seeding · culture · data mining · literature · marco boggio sella · meteorite · moon landing · norway · nsa · privacy · space · w.f. hermans · weather