Karl Johans gate
Grand pedestrian boulevard running from the central station past parliament to the royal palace.
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This guide to Karl Johans gate in Oslo turns on one March evening in nineteen oh three, when the physicist Kristian Birkeland invited arms buyers, cabinet ministers and Fridtjof Nansen to watch a gun that fired without gunpowder. It follows a university professor chasing money for his research, and the engineer Sam Eyde with a problem of his own. Best heard walking west toward the university buildings and the palace.
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