Search results for "Danish" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • departed from Sweden. As she crossed over to the Danish side of a stream, she exclaimed "free at last." Buckley 2004, 164. ...
    33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
  • Portuguese, Yiddish, Hebrew, Swedish, Danish, Estonian, Spanish (reportedly including a version of Pinafore transformed into zarzuela style) ...
    35 KB (5,291 words) - 12:23, 22 May 2024
  • crumb, morsel), cognate with Old Norse brauð, Danish brød, Old Frisian brad, Middle Dutch brot, Dutch brood, and German Brot, had replaced hlaf as ...
    36 KB (5,350 words) - 22:56, 20 November 2023
  • In the wake of the "Danish Cartoons Affair" in March 2006, which many considered to be an echo of the death threats and fatwā which ...
    35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
  • speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer, a Danish physicist, in 1676. Using a telescope, Ole observed the motions of Jupiter and one of its moons ...
    39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
  • In 1809, Constanze married Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (1761–1826). Being a fanatical admirer of Mozart, he (and, possibly, Constanze ...
    34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
  • tribute to Davis composed by the Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg. Back in the studio, You're Under Arrest (1985) included another stylistic ...
    36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
  • century. It was the existentialism of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, a contemporary of Feuerbach, and as a reaction against Hegel's ...
    43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
  • in the western and northern districts. A large Danish settlement in Racine was the only large urban presence. The great majority were Lutheran, of various ...
    35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
  • Most were of German ethnicity, with a small Danish minority. Regarding religion, 45 percent were Roman Catholic, 44 percent Protestant, and 11 percent ...
    36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
  • of the German Confederation, and which Danish nationalists wanted to incorporate ... regions for centuries. There is a Danish minority (about 50,000) in ...
    115 KB (16,736 words) - 18:20, 21 May 2024
  • candy from neighbors on Fastelavn, Danish carnival. Fastelavn evolved from the Roman Catholic tradition of celebrating in the days before Lent ...
    37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
  • manga into German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish and Dutch. Manga publishers based in the United Kingdom include Orionbooks/Gollancz and Titan ...
    39 KB (5,688 words) - 21:37, 11 January 2024
  • Meanwhile, British influence continued to expand; in 1845 the Danish colony of Tranquebar was sold to Great Britain. The company had at various ...
    38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
  • German, mosómedve in Hungarian, vaskebjørn in Danish and Norwegian, tvättbjörn in Swedish, wasbeer in Dutch, pesukarhu in Finnish, araiguma (アライグマ ...
    75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
  • It was translated into Greek, French, Dutch, Danish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Czech and seven other languages. The pamphlet states: Just as the ...
    44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
  • * Jens Nielson, Danish entrepreneur that later settled several communities in the Cedar City Historic District *Nellie Unthank – Member of the ...
    42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
  • for the first time two years earlier by the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted. Therefore, Ørsted can also be listed as the discoverer ...
    38 KB (5,676 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
  • today by RV number, the number assigned by Danish musicologist Peter Ryom in works published mostly in the 1970s, such as the "Ryom-Verzeichnis ...
    38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
  • what he saw at Thebes was Frederic Louis Norden, a Danish adventurer and artist. He was followed by Richard Pococke, who published the first modern ...
    45 KB (7,190 words) - 20:00, 27 April 2020

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