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Jón Gnarr

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Jón Gnarr (born 2 January 1967)This is an Icelandic name. [1]

74 relations: Althing, Ég var einu sinni nörd, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Best Party, Bjarnfreðarson, Björk, Bright Future (Iceland), Comedian, Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson, Dagvaktin, Darth Vader, Drag queen, Dyslexia, Edda Award, Einar Örn Benediktsson, European Union, Fangavaktin, Fóstbræður, Forbes, Gay pride, Gnarr, Government of China, Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, HBO, Homogenic, Iceland, Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, Icelandic name, Icelandic Naming Committee, Icelandic parliamentary election, 2017, Icelandic presidential election, 2016, Independence Party (Iceland), Independent politician, Indo-Asian News Service, Intellectual disability, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Kópavogur, Learning disability, LennonOno Grant for Peace, List of frivolous political parties, Liu Xiaobo, Mayor of Reykjavík City, Menntaskóli, Næturvaktin, Open list, Patronymic, Politician, President of Iceland, Radio, Reykjavík, ..., Reykjavík Mosque, Rice University, Samtökin '78, Santa Claus, Seltjarnarnes, Sigurjón Kjartansson, Social democracy, Social Democratic Alliance, Stöð 2, Stúdentspróf, Texas Monthly, The Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University, The Daily Telegraph, The Icelandic Dream, The New York Times, The Reykjavík Grapevine, The Sugarcubes, The Wire, Tvíhöfði, Volvo, Where to Invade Next, 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, 365 (media corporation). Expand index (24 more) »

Althing

The Alþingi (parliament (Icelandic) and anglicised as Althingi or Althing) is the national parliament of Iceland.

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Ég var einu sinni nörd

Ég var einu sinni nörd (English title: I used to be a Nerd) is a 2000 stand up comedy act of Icelandic comedian Jón Gnarr.

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Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (born 14 May 1943) is an Icelandic politician who was President of Iceland from 1996 to 2016.

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Best Party

The Best Party (Besti flokkurinn) was an Icelandic political party founded by Jón Gnarr on 16 November 2009.

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Bjarnfreðarson

Bjarnfreðarson is a 2009 Icelandic comedy film directed by Ragnar Bragason, director of the TV series trilogy consisting of Næturvaktin, Dagvaktin and Fangavaktin, to which it is a sequel.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Bright Future (Iceland)

Bright Future (Björt framtíð) is a liberal political party in Iceland that was founded in 2012.

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Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson

Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson (born 19 June 1972) M.D. is an Icelandic politician who is the Mayor of Reykjavik City.

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Dagvaktin

Dagvaktin (The Day Shift) is a sequel to the Icelandic television series Næturvaktin.

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Darth Vader

Darth Vader (birth name Anakin Skywalker) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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Drag queen

A drag queen is a person who usually dresses in hyper-feminized or gender non-conforming clothing, and often acts with exaggerated femininity and in feminine gender roles for the purpose of entertainment.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence.

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Edda Award

The Edda Award is an accolade bestowed by The Icelandic Film and Television Academy (Íslensku Kvikmynda- og Sjónvarpsverðlaunin), and is the most prominent film and television award in Iceland.

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Einar Örn Benediktsson

Einar Örn Benediktsson (born 29 October 1962), often billed as Einar Örn, is an Icelandic popular music singer, trumpet player, artist and politician best known as a former member of the Sugarcubes and a current member of Ghostigital.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fangavaktin

Fangavaktin (The Prison Shift) is the sequel to the Icelandic television series Dagvaktin and the final series in the trilogy.

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Fóstbræður

Fóstbræður (English: Fosterbrothers) was a comedy sketch show which premiered on the Icelandic Stöð 2 in October 1997.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Gay pride

Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.

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Gnarr

Gnarr is a 2010 Icelandic documentary film directed by Gaukur Úlfarsson.

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Government of China

The central government of the People's Republic of China is divided among several state organs.

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Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir

Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir (born 12 October 1966) is a former Icelandic minister, mayor and parliamentarian.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Homogenic

Homogenic is the third international solo album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in September 1997 on One Little Indian Records.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association

The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association is closely tied with the Norwegian Human-Etisk Forbund (HEF) and is a member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).

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Icelandic name

Icelandic names differ from most current Western family name systems by being patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage.

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Icelandic Naming Committee

The Icelandic Naming Committee (Mannanafnanefnd; pronounced)—also known in English as the Personal Names Committee—maintains an official register of approved Icelandic given names and governs the introduction of new given names into the culture of Iceland.

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Icelandic parliamentary election, 2017

Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 October 2017.

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Icelandic presidential election, 2016

Presidential elections took place in Iceland on 25 June 2016.

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Independence Party (Iceland)

The Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) is a liberal-conservative and Eurosceptic political party in Iceland.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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Indo-Asian News Service

Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability, and mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.

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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (born 4 October 1942) is an Icelandic politician and the former Prime Minister of Iceland.

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Kópavogur

Kópavogur is a city in Iceland which is the country's second largest municipality by population.

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Learning disability

Learning disability is a classification that includes several areas of functioning in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors.

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LennonOno Grant for Peace

The LennonOno Grant for Peace is an award presented by artist and peace activist Yoko Ono.

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List of frivolous political parties

A frivolous party or a joke party is a political party which has been created for the purposes of entertainment or political satire.

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Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China.

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Mayor of Reykjavík City

The post of Mayor of Reykjavík City (Borgarstjóri Reykjavíkurborgar) was created in 1907 and advertised in 1908.

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Menntaskóli

A Menntaskóli is an Icelandic equivalent to a gymnasium (high school), although it works differently from other countries.

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Næturvaktin

Næturvaktin (English: The Night Shift) is an Icelandic television show.

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Open list

Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected.

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Patronymic

A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (i.e., an avonymic), or an even earlier male ancestor.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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President of Iceland

The President of Iceland (Forseti Íslands) is Iceland's elected head of state.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.

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Reykjavík Mosque

The Reykjavík Mosque (Icelandic: Moskan í Reykjavík Arabic: Masjid an-nuur The Mosque of the Light) is a Sunni mosque and gathering area for Muslims in Iceland.

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Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly known as Rice University, is a private research university located on a 300-acre (121 ha) campus in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Samtökin '78

Samtökin '78 - The National Queer Organization of Iceland is an NGO dedicated to the interest and rights of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, transgender and intersex people in Iceland.

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Santa Claus

Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved ("good" or "nice") children on Christmas Eve (24 December) and the early morning hours of Christmas Day (25 December).

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Seltjarnarnes

Seltjarnarnes is an Icelandic township located within the Capital Region.

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Sigurjón Kjartansson

Sigurjón Kjartansson (born 20 September 1968) is an Icelandic writer and producer.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

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Social Democratic Alliance

The Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin jafnaðarmannaflokkur Íslands, literally The Alliance - Iceland's Social Democratic Party) is a social-democratic political party in Iceland.

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Stöð 2

Stöð 2 is an Icelandic television channel, owned and operated by 365.

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Stúdentspróf

The Stúdentspróf is an educational diploma in Iceland, which allows them to matriculate at university and take up their studies.

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Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas.

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The Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University

The Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) is an interdisciplinary research center located at Rice University whose work is focused on bringing the expertise and insights of the arts, humanities, and social sciences to bear on the urgent energy and environmental challenges facing the planet, its cultures and species.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Icelandic Dream

The Icelandic Dream (Icelandic: Íslenski draumurinn) is a 2000 Icelandic film directed by Robert Ingi Douglas.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Reykjavík Grapevine

The Reykjavík Grapevine is an English language Icelandic magazine based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík.

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The Sugarcubes

The Sugarcubes (Icelandic: Sykurmolarnir) were an Icelandic alternative rock band from Reykjavík formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992.

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The Wire

The Wire is an American crime drama television series set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Tvíhöfði

Tvíhöfði (English: Bicephalic) is an Icelandic comedy duo of Jón Gnarr and Sigurjón Kjartansson.

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Volvo

The Volvo Group (Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg.

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Where to Invade Next

Where to Invade Next is a 2015 American documentary film written and directed by Michael Moore.

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2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis

The Icelandic financial crisis was a major economic and political event in Iceland that involved the default of all three of the country's major privately owned commercial banks in late 2008, following their difficulties in refinancing their short-term debt and a run on deposits in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

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2010 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

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365 (media corporation)

365 is a mass media company in Iceland, which operates eight TV stations, five radio stations, one newspaper and a website.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jón_Gnarr

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