Stavanger
- proper noun
- Kristian Ohr is the compost facility project manager for Interkommunalt Vann-, Avlops, og Renovasjonsverk in Stavanger, Norway.
- Stavanger museum
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- So you remember Tessa from Stavanger and you remember my sister, right?
Examples
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None of the travelers considered here left any account of Stavanger or Christiansand.
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Guided tours can be arranged through the Stavanger tourist board: info@RegionStavanger.com; +47 51 85 92 00
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Mother, you probably think that there are a great many things to see in Stavanger, but compared to here, there is nothing.
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So you remember Tessa from Stavanger and you remember my sister, right?
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A new herring meal plant opened in Stavanger in July 1989 as part of the effort to increase production of feed.
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A plant in development in the Stavanger region will be the largest biowaste-only facility, with a capacity of 25,000 metric tons.
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I was in Stavanger, Norway, and on the tow of the Shell Brent Delta to the Brent field in the Northern North Sea. Shell spent millions and years on weather research before designing these platforms, as the zone has some of the most treacherous seas in the world.
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This form of culture was also used in Stavanger, Norway, in 1873-75 and in Canada around 1903 (Corrivault and Tremblay, 1948, cited in Scattergood, 1949b).
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In the spring of 1944, Jan Petersen received word at the Stavanger museum from Ommund Tu in Klepp that the Germans were destroying grave mounds on his property, something prohibited according to the law from 1905.
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The city of Stavanger is known for its shipbuilding industry and oil production.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stavanger probably comes from Old Norse Stafangr, made of stafr 'staff' or 'pole' and angr 'bay' or 'inlet'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture a long, narrow bay like a pole — that's why the name suits this port city by the sea.