On May 17, 1911, as Norway was jubilantly celebrating its Constitution Day, two Norwegian citizens were born in Flatbush, a sector of Brooklyn, New York. They were twins. The boy was Knut Haukelid. He was to become a leader of the Norwegian underground during World War II and is given major credit for blocking the Germans from producing and shipping heavy water, essential to their objective of developing the atomic bomb. His exploits were depicted in the 1965 movie, The Heroes of Telemark. T ...[Read Story]