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Published On 9/16/2024
Form the NST Blog Menu you are able to access our Genealogy Forum
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Published On 9/14/2024
NST’s Forty-Nineth Year
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Published On 6/5/2024
Midnattsolen Systtende Mia 2024
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Published On 6/1/2024
Viking Footprints in Providential History: A Selected Anthology of Viking Adventures, with Emphasis on Family History
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Published On 4/19/2023
Voting for Althing Officers Election ended April 10. The results of the election are hereby announced:
Officers serving NST for the term 2023-2024 are:
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Published On 11/1/2022
Over the past few weeks, you have heard a lot about the intent to close of the Norwegian Consulate General in Houston. Much has been happening in the background, and we wanted to update you about this.
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Published On 4/11/2022
A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain
Smithsonian Magazine
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Published On 4/9/2022
OSLO TO BERGEN VIA
TELEMARK AND HARDANGER
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Published On 1/8/2022
NST member Morten Lamøy featured at Galveston Art League Member Show.
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Published On 7/3/2021
Two-time world champion Karsten Warholm broke a 29-year-old world record in the 400m hurdles, the longest-standing record in men’s track.

The Norwegian clocked 46.70 seconds at a Diamond League meet in Oslo on Thursday. American Kevin Young held the record of 46.78 from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
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Published On 4/20/2021
Clifton Norwegian Settlement Reporting on the history and site in Bosque County.
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Published On 4/19/2021
Amundsen is a Norwegian film, released on 15 February 2019, that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. It was directed by Espen Sandberg and was distributed in Norway by SF Studios.
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Published On 4/7/2021
About the Show
A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship of Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Sex and the City) stars as Roosevelt, opposite Swedish star Sofia Helin (The Bridge) as the beautiful Martha, who flees the Nazis with her three young children and lives under Roosevelt’s protection. The eight-part series co-stars Tobias Santelmann as Crown Prince Olav and Harriet Sansom Harris as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Published On 3/24/2021
Althing Officer Election Results 2021
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Published On 11/14/2020
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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Published On 9/27/2020
Ringness House Article in the Norwegian American Magizine.
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Published On 9/26/2020
Michael Anderson ZOOM Concert on 09/18/2020
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Published On 5/26/2020
BY JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D. * | SUNDAY, MAY 1
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Published On 5/12/2020
Syttende Mai is a celebration of Norwegian culture and coming together with family and community. In a time when in-person parades and parties are on hold, you can find ways to celebrate Syttende Mai while maintaining a safe physical distance. Here are some ideas for a home-based celebration:
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Published On 2/6/2019
The Karl & Sedsel Questad Farm –
19th Century Norwegian Rock Structures in Bosque County Texas –
A Case for Preservation –
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Published On 2/6/2019
Archaeologists in Norway using ground-penetrating radar have detected one of the largest Viking ship graves ever found. By Andrew Curry
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Published On 10/8/2019
Some lesser known history about Leif's family, friends, and their friends -- gives a bigger picture on the interrelated of Vikings who lived when Leif Eiriksson lived.
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Published On 8/28/2019
Viking chapter of the Norwegian Society of Texas would like to invite you to the 44th annual Leif Eiriksson Banquet!
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Published On 8/25/2019
The Statue of Liberty originally called Liberty Enlightening the World symbolizing liberty in the form of a woman wearing flowing robes and a spiked crown of seven spokes (symbolizing the seven oceans and the seven continents) who holds a torch aloft in her right hand and carries in her left a book of law inscribed "July 4, 1776". The broken chains, symbolizing the overthrow of tyranny, lie at her feet.
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Published On 5/9/2019
The Norwegian American
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Published On 4/13/2019
Clifton: Norwegian Capital of Texas and more...
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Published On 2/7/2019
The Scandinavian Club of Albuquerque has invited members of the Norwegian Society of Texas to attend their 2016 Julefest to be held Sunday, December 4 in Albuquerque.
Contact Lana Hills at 505-271-2159 for tickets.
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Published On 2/7/2019
Fall is here and it’s time to celebrate the Norse explorer Leif Eriksson
who is credited with being the first European to reach North America.
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