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  • Faith in religion can also be qualified as unconditional. A Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard characterized faith as an act beyond rational reasoning ...
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  • standard "year-month-day." And the Danish police have the speed of the police car in the units "km/t" sic (time being Danish for ...
    34 KB (5,130 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
  • captured, and or destroyed large portions of the Danish fleet in the First Battle of Copenhagen (April 2, 1801), and again in the Second Battle of Copenhagen ...
    46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
  • which would have been familiar to the later Danish composer, Carl Nielsen. For example, Alkan's first chamber concerto begins in A minor and ends ...
    11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
  • * Danish West Indies - present-day United States Virgin Islands * Dutch West Indies - present-day Netherlands Antilles and Aruba * French West ...
    13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
  • He also engineered the annexation of the Danish Virgin Islands and the Bay of Samaná, and for American control of Panama; but the Senate did ...
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  • conditions, and the method of preparation (Danish Veterinary and Food Administration ... *Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. 2007. [http://www.uk.foedevarestyrelsen ...
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  • 23, he "ran away" to Venezuela with the Danish artist Fritz Melbye, who was to be his first early influence. In 1855, Pissarro returned to ...
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  • invasion in 1066, was descended from Danish Vikings. Many of the medieval ... island off Ireland. In 865 a large army of Danish Vikings, supposedly led by ...
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  • well-tanned by the acidic environment of the Danish bogs. The Germanic culture has similarities to the characteristics of the probably Celtic Lindow ...
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  • a job as a stockbroker. In 1873, he married a Danish woman, Mette Sophie Gad. Over the next 10 years, they would have five children. ...
    13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
  • full support and agreed to release the Danish contingent of 7 Battalions ... reported that Eugène's Prussian and Danish infantry were in place—the ...
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  • Concepts between Construction and Revision" in Danish National Institute for Social Research. Copenhagen. Talcott_Parsons|57204651| ...
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  • In 1921, he was elected to membership of the Royal Danish Academy, and of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Reale Istituto Lombardo of Milan in 1922. ...
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  • #039;s Mio, min Mio in Swedish and Danish," Meta 48(1–2) (September ... #039;s Mio, min Mio in Swedish and Danish," Meta 48(1–2) (September ...
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  • working on a set of plays. The first, on the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, opened at the Royal Theater in September 1870. In Uppsala, he started ...
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  • were some of the first to embrace coeducation; Danish schools were coeducational in the eighteenth century, and Norwegian schools became coeducational ...
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  • reading the literature of Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish religious philosopher who inspired much of the existential movement. As a result of this traumatic ...
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  • The Danish Union of Press Photographers (Pressefotografforbundet) was the first national organization for newspaper photographers in the world ...
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  • including the Íslendingabók, the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus ... * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History (Volumes I-IX). Translated ...
    27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023

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