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5 days ago · The city was renamed Oslo in 1925 and developed rapidly after World War II. In 1948 Oslo incorporated the nearby township of Aker, and in the following decades a number of satellite towns and residential areas grew up to the east and west of the city.
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3 days ago · The city reclaimed its ancient name Oslo again in 1925. In the modern era, the city has become a cosmopolitan city boosting with culture, technology, and environmental sustainability. The city has especially focused on preserving green spaces, fostering historic roots, and being a city perfectly blending the old and the new.
2 days ago · List of city name changes. This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the ...
3 days ago · Over time, as the political and social structures of Norway changed, so did the language, eventually leading to the development of what we now recognize as Norwegian. 2. Middle Norwegian (Mellomnorsk) – 1350 to 1536. After the Black Death struck Norway in 1349, killing a large portion of the population, the language began to change rapidly.
3 days ago · The name Nynorsk, the linguistic term for modern Norwegian, was chosen to contrast with Danish and emphasise the historical connection to Old Norwegian. Today, this meaning is often lost, and it is commonly mistaken as a "new" Norwegian in contrast to the "real" Norwegian Bokmål.
2 days ago · Lord Kelvin. It is believed the "PNP" in his signature stands for "Professor of Natural Philosophy". Kelvin also wrote under the pseudonym "P. Q. R." William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was an Irish mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer. [7][8] Born in Belfast, he was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow ...
4 days ago · George Lucas Renamed The Sith Homeworld "Moraband". Although the Sith homeworld was established as Korriban in Legends, in Star Wars canon, the name was changed to Moraband. It's no surprise George Lucas played with the name to give it more meaning, as Lucas was known to select planet names that conveyed very specific messages.
