Reidar Andreas Hirsti was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Tana, and his first language was Sami. During his childhood he experienced Norwegianization as well as the brutal scorched earth retreat by...

Rhyniognatha hirsti is the world’s oldest known insect. It emerged very early during the Early Devonian Period, around 400 million years ago, when earth’s first terrestrial ecosystems were being formed.