Mr Black said:
I'm sorry but what has been Norways contribution to the world lately?
Last I heard It was still just a little piss ant country where the Men are more atractive than the women
Hard to tell they both have beards you know.
Well, there is this:
Denmark/Norway. Denmark and Norway are major donors of foreign aid, contributing almost one percent of their GDP in foreign aid each year, far above the 0.23 percent average for industrial countries.
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and this:
It is 87 years since Roald Amundsen, on December 14th 1911, stood victorious at the South Pole. He had reached a goal that was the dream of many men. For the first time, human voices broke the awesome silence of the world's southernmost point.
Norway produced the following people:
Ibsen, Greig, Thor Heyerdahl, Ernest O Lawrence (who invented the cyclotron) Earl Warren (yes that Earl Warren) was the son of a Norweigian immigrant, ...and Leif Ericcson (who discovered America).
All in all not bad for a country with a tiny population!
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And finally this from the Norweigian prime minister to the Un shortly after 9/11:
As Norwegians watched television in disbelief, learning about the tragedies in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, we felt anger, outrage and fear.
Outside the American Embassy in Oslo, crowds gathered in mourning.
They left flowers, candles and notes, creating a memorial to the thousands gone. People talked softly, shook their heads, hugged each other, slowly realizing that something had changed forever.
As the first few days passed, shock gave way to sorrow, sorrow to sympathy, and sympathy to solidarity.
The sorrow over lives lost and a world gone, the sympathy for families bereaved and leaders faced with formidable tasks.
All of this gave birth to a new solidarity, a new unity, in Norway as in so many other countries.
The terrorists attacked an entire world, and as we have seen over the past twelve weeks, the entire world now fights back.
We pay tribute to the men and women of the United States military who are risking their lives in a fight for all of us.
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Oh....and if you think that Norway doesn't have more than it's fair share of gorgeous women, you are probably blind or have a really weird idea of what beauty is.
Finally have a look here:
http://www.scandinavica.com/culture/society/UNreport.htmWhere you will see that Nordic countries has been found to have the best standard of living in the world.
Not bad for a 'little piss ant country' eh, Mr Black?
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