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Olav Aukrust
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Olav Aukrust , 1883-1929, Norwegian lyric poet. Aukrust's work, which contains strong religious and nationalist sentiment, draws...
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Olav Duun
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Olav Duun , 1876-1939, Norwegian novelist. He taught in public schools until 1927. His monumental series of six novels, The People...
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Theological Anthropology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...framework for the interpretation of these. Scientific contributions claiming to have positive bearings on a religious understanding of humanity usually relate to the doctrinal content of theological anthropology. See also ; jan-olav henriksen
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Svante August Arrhenius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Stockholm, of which he became rector in 1896. During this time he courted and married Sofia Rudback. The couple had a son, Olav Vilhelm, who became a worker in soil science and agricultural botany. Three children were born of his second marriage, to...
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Norwegian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...North America. Some time before 890 Harald Fine-hair consolidated Norway under the Yngling dynasty. The martyrdom of King Olav II of this royal line on July 29, 1030, at the Battle of Stiklestad, made him Norway's patron saint, secured a national...
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Exchangeability
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...the interchangeability of errors. A proof of DeFinetti ’ s theorem along with many related results may be found in Olav Kallenberg ’ s work Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles (2005). DeFinetti ’ s theorem does...
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Norwegian literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...different themes and styles prevailed in the era after World War I. Johan Bojer , Peter Egge (1869-1959), Cora Sandel , and Olav Duun wrote novels of Norwegian life, and the Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset gained stature for her novels of ethics and religion...
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pianist in its first performance. His subsequent compositions, generally confined to short lyric forms, include the cantata Olav Trygvason (1873) and the suite of incidental dramatic music, Peer Gynt (1876). Grieg's impressionistic harmonies, and...
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Brown, Harold
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...January 1977. Raymond Garthoff , Detente and Confrontation: U.S.‐Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan , 1994. Olav Njølstad , Peacekeeper and Troublemaker: The Containment Policy of Jimmy Carter , 1995. William Burr
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Instrumental Variables Regression
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Philip Wright ’ s son Sewall. James Stock and Francesco Trebbi (2003) confirm that Philip deserves the credit. Olav Reiers ø l (1941) was the first to use the term instrumental variables when the method was “ rediscovered...
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