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  • and is now an autonomous region of the Danish state. The Faroe Islands ... had become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...
    10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024

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  • and is now an autonomous region of the Danish state. The Faroe Islands ... had become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...
    10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
  • The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark to succeed ...
    7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
  • Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige) (994/995 – November ...
    11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
  • The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of ...
    20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
  • a poor peasant family in Sortelung on the Danish island of Funen, not far ... 1916, he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen ...
    14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
  • hand she spared no pains to recover lost Danish territory. She purchased ... under such stringent conditions that the Danish crown got all the advantage ...
    12 KB (1,911 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
  • illusions developed around 1915, by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin ... 1915, in Rubin's two-volume work, the Danish-language Synsoplevede Figurer ...
    6 KB (934 words) - 20:58, 21 December 2022
  • Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...
    21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
  • units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave ... control of the island for six months. The Danish, who controlled the island ...
    22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
  • Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen ...
    13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
  • *1890 Danish Palaces *1891 Memory of Azov *1892 Diamond Trellis ... *1903 Royal Danish† *1904 No eggs known *1905 No eggs known ...
    17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
  • with Zealand and the other islands in the Danish archipelago—is typically ... Foundation, established in 1910 by the Danish-American industrialist Niels ...
    27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
  • arrival of the Vikings, in particular the Danish Great Heathen Army, upset ... Kingdom of York and Dublin rose and fell. Danish and Norwegian settlement ...
    18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
  • in the Nordic Council as a part of the Danish delegation. ... were attached to the diocese of Zealand. A Danish royal trade monopoly, their ...
    28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
  • After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ... despite the intermittent assaults of Danish raiding parties. This relative ...
    11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
  • – September 19, 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who demonstrated ... Notable also is his definition of the new Danish mile. It was 24,000 Danish ...
    15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
  • The original name for the city, from which the contemporary Danish ... quot; denotes "commerce" in Danish). It was repeatedly attacked ...
    28 KB (4,058 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
  • rune inscriptions, 54 in Norwegian and 12 in Danish. [http://skaldic ... During the period of union with Denmark, Danish replaced Norwegian. The university ...
    19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
  • ravaged. The expeditions were usually led by the Danish kings, but they were composed by warriors from all over Scandinavia, and they eventually brought ...
    9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
  • mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv ... in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen ...
    21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023

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