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    Gunnar Kaasen (March 11, 1882 – November 27, 1960) was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin...
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    Seppala. He achieved fame when he led a team of sled dogs driven by Gunnar Kaasen on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria...
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    turned it over to Gunnar Kaasen. Kaasen was supposed to hand off the serum to Rohn at Port Safety, but Rohn had gone to sleep and Kaasen decided to keep...
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  • Kaasen is a Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gunnar Kaasen (1882–1960), Norwegian musher Knut Kaasen (born 1951), Norwegian...
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  • Togo and team recuperate. The serum is passed off to fellow musher Gunnar Kaasen who arrives back in Nome. A reporter, confusing him for being the sole...
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    mid-1920s with a number of championships to his name. On February 3, 1925, Gunnar Kaasen was the final musher in the 1925 serum run to Nome to deliver diphtheria...
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  • Swedish football player Gunnar Kaasen (1882–1960), Norwegian-American dog musher Gunnar Kangro (1913–1975), Estonian mathematician Gunnar Klettenberg (born...
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    to Nome during the 1925 diphtheria epidemic. He was driven by musher Gunnar Kaasen, who worked for Leonhard Seppala. Seppala had also bred Balto. In 1925...
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    Seppala passed the serum to Charlie Olsen, who in turn would pass it to Gunnar Kaasen and Balto. In October 1926, Seppala, Togo, and a team of dogs went on...
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  • by Seppala, while driven by Gunnar Kaasen. Although they were scheduled to hand off the serum to the final team, Kaasen decided to advance on. They eventually...
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    The sled driver of the final leg of the relay was the Norwegian-born Gunnar Kaasen; his lead sled dog was Balto. A statue of Balto by F.G. Roth stands...
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    Gunnar Kaasen...
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    geographically central location, it was chosen as the capital of Kvæanangen. Gunnar Kaasen Statistisk sentralbyrå (1 January 2017). "Urban settlements. Population...
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  • popular radio personalities in the Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s Gunnar Kaasen – (1882–1960) Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing...
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    Lindeberg (1873–1962), a gold prospector and co-founder of Nome, Alaska Gunnar Kaasen (1882–1960), Norwegian-American musher, helped the 1925 serum run to...
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  • February 1925: The final leg of the serum run to Nome began as the team of Gunnar Kaasen and lead dog Balto set out from Bluff at 10:00 p.m. into a blizzard...
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  • 1953) 27 February – Nils Selmer Hauff, bookseller (d.1963) 11 March – Gunnar Kaasen, musher, delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925, as...
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  • Sigurd Hoel, author and publishing consultant (b. 1890) 27 November – Gunnar Kaasen, musher, delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925, as...
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    Aspmyra". nrk.no (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 6 April 2022. Engen, Jørgen Kaasen. "Aspmyra Stadion" (in Norwegian). FK Bodø/Glimt. Archived from the original...
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  • November – Karl Johan Edvardsen, politician (died 1963) 14 November – Paal Kaasen, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (died 1963) 18 November – Alf Bjørnskau...
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  • Pedersen 1920 Antwerp 1919 rule details  Norway (NOR) Andreas Brecke Paal Kaasen Ingolf Rød  Belgium (BEL) Léon Huybrechts Charles Van Den Bussche John Klotz...
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    Olympic sailors by last name: K Athlete Gender Team Year Paal Kaasen  Norway (NOR) 1920 Hans Karl Gustav Kadelbach  Germany (GER) 1952 Daan Kagchelland...
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  • 1920 Antwerp details 6 Metre 1919 rule  Norway (NOR) Andreas Brecke Paal Kaasen Ingolf Rød  Belgium (BEL) Léon Huybrechts Charles Van Den Bussche John Klotz...
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    Pedersen 1920: 6 Metre 1919 rule details  Norway (NOR) Andreas Brecke Paal Kaasen Ingolf Rød  Belgium (BEL) Léon Huybrechts Charles Van Den Bussche John Klotz...
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  • Pedersen 1920: 6 Metre 1919 rule details  Norway (NOR) Andreas Brecke Paal Kaasen Ingolf Rød  Belgium (BEL) Léon Huybrechts Charles van den Bussche John Klotz...
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    Ørvig — Sailing, Men's 12 metre class (1919 rating) Andreas Brecke, Paal Kaasen and Ingolf Rød — Sailing, Men's 6 metre class (1919 rating) Carl Ringvold...
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