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• ...that in 1944 a railway ferry on the Norwegian railway's Rjukan Line (pictured) was sunk to 430 meters depth to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
• ...that Leif J. Sverdrup was an immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?
• ...that Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times?

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1. Wikipedia:Recent additions 110, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions 51, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions 50, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.