Twinflower or Linnaea is the national flower of Sweden. It is named after Carl Linnaeus, the ‘father of taxonomy’ (the scientific classification of living things).Norway has two national flowers.

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The thistle features heavily in folklore, especially in Scotland. There, the thistle is the national flower and is steeped in meaning and legend. In the 1200s, Norway’s King Haakon decided he would ...

It was like looking up into the heart of a flower of glorious light whose petals ... the elders' spiritual spin on the world. In Norway I met a man at Tromsø's Auroral Observatory who bridges ...

New York rats are primarily Norway (or brown ... This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rats are our shadow selves. We live on the surface of the city ...

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century” zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of ...

From Norway's Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden ... explaining what months flowers will be in bloom for. If your favorite flower is roses, for example, the best time to visit is May ...

Explore the rich symbolism and cultural significance of brooches. Learn about the hidden messages and historical importance ...

Tributes are being paid at the crime scene in the aftermath of overnight shootings in the centre of Oslo A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist ...

Land, sea and thousands of years of history. We float from Copenhagen to Tromsø aboard Oceania Marina on the Legends of ...

HMCS Wetaskiwin was awarded battle honours “Atlantic 1941 – 1945 and Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944”.

From the northern tip along the Canadian border to the state's southern prairies, read on to discover the most fun things to do in Minnesota. Occupying 218,000 acres along northern Minnesota's ...