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Haakon VII

king of Norway, first He was born in 1872, a gra Christian IX. of Denmark and was called Prince Charles. He married Princess Maud, daughter of Edward VII., in 1896.

A son, Olaf, was born in 1903. On the separation of Norway and Sweden he was tendered the Norwegian throne and took the coronation oath Nov. 27, 1905.

Crowned at Trondhjem in June, 1906. an American soldier, born at Crown Point, the study of the century, one of the largest churches in a Late Gothic basilica, built in the 15th

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