OSLO THIS CASUAL SCANDINAVIAN CITY REVELS IN ANTURE, ART, HISTORY AS IT CELEBRATES ITS 1,000TH YEAR

The Boston Globe | July 2, 2000| | Copyright

OSLO - In 1950, Oslo celebrated its 900th anniversary. This year, it's proudly and unabashedly celebrating its 1,000th.

It's not that Norwegians can't do the math. This skinny, underpopulated country on the west coast of Scandinavia has an excellent educational system. The reason for the rewrite of history is that researchers found some thousand-year-old records of the city's existence in time for Oslo's millennium to coincide conveniently with the year 2000.

Norway's educational system includes nine years of English, starting in the third grade, so don't be surprised if the staff in your ...

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