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Look up: Rjukan

  1. Rjukan
    In World War II, Norwegian electric power station about 160 km/100 mi north of Oslo which produced `heavy water`, at that time a valuable material for conducting experiments in the development...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  2. Rjukan
    Rjukan (rēOO'kän) , town, Telemark co., S Norway, on the Rjukanfoss, one of several high waterfalls of the Måne River. Its large power stations supply electricity to saltpeter and chemical fertilizer factories. At nearby Vemork a plant for making heavy water was destroyed by Norw...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A084

  3. Rjukan
    `Rjukan` is a town and the administrative center of Tinn municipality in Telemark (Norway). It is situated in Vestfjorddalen, between Møsvatn and Tinnsjå, and got its name after Rjukanfossen ("The Smoking Waterfall") west of the town. The Tinn municipality council granted township st...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rjukan

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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