Search results for "Danish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- venues in the world. Designed by Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect, the Sydney Opera House is one of the most distinctive and famous twentieth-century ...15 KB (2,320 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- at Kiel from 1838 to 1843. Thanks to a Danish grant, he was able to visit France and Italy to study preserved classical Roman inscriptions. During ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- at Tel Shiloh began in the years 1922-1932, by a Danish expedition. The finds were placed in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. In 1980, Israel ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- A year before Emma's marriage, a Danish fleet had pillaged the Sussex ... ===The Danish Invasion=== [[Image:Viking Expansion.svg|thumb|Map showing ...42 KB (6,697 words) - 18:48, 31 December 2021
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- * Gurkemeje in Danish. * Gurkemeie in Norwegian. * Kurkuma or Japonský šafrán (literal: Japanese Safron) in Czech. * Kunyit in Indonesian ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix, in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), to Portuguese Sephardic Jewish parents, Phillip Benjamin ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- for his defense of the kingdom against the Danish Vikings. Alfred is the only ... Stone. Alfred led the army and met the Danish host at Edington. Traditionally ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- *the Danish intervention, *the Swedish intervention, and ... ===Danish intervention=== Period: 1625–1629 Peace in the Empire was ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- , brandenburg Lease territory in the Danish West Indies; 1685–1720 in USA), brandenburgische Annexion in the Danish West Indies; 1689–1693 ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- Birefringence was first described in calcite crystals by the Danish scientist Rasmus Bartholin in 1669. Since then, many birefringent crystals ...9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- Frisian peninsula of Eiderstedt, then under Danish rule. He was one of seven children. After completing his high school education in Husum, Tönnies ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- spears, and in some cases the formidable Danish axes, and were protected ... housecarls were highly-skilled with the Danish battle axe, capable of causing ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- :and Fricg [Frigg] in Danish. Turville-Petre, 189. Further evidence ... * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History (Volumes I-IX). Translated ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 07:03, 15 April 2024
- Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- was King of Greece from 1863 to 1913. Originally a Danish prince, when only 17 years old he was elected King by the Greek National Assembly, which had ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- Corso only to return on January 27, 1658, on the Danish Privateer "Glückstadt." Fort Carlsborg was seized and made part of the Danish Gold ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- The Danish School system is supported by tax-based governmental and municipal funding from day care through primary and secondary education to ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- In Gesta Danorum, Høtherus (Höðr) is a human hero of the Danish ... In Gesta Danorum, a Danish history written by Saxo Grammaticus (c ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
