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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 ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- conditions, and the method of preparation (Danish Veterinary and Food Administration ... *Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. 2007. [http://www.uk.foedevarestyrelsen ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 20:15, 17 April 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- 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 ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- well-tanned by the acidic environment of the Danish bogs. The Germanic culture has similarities to the characteristics of the probably Celtic Lindow ...13 KB (1,940 words) - 00:02, 12 January 2023
- 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 ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- Concepts between Construction and Revision" in Danish National Institute for Social Research. Copenhagen. Talcott_Parsons|57204651| ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- 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. ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- #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 ...33 KB (4,278 words) - 23:35, 30 October 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- were some of the first to embrace coeducation; Danish schools were coeducational in the eighteenth century, and Norwegian schools became coeducational ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- reading the literature of Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish religious philosopher who inspired much of the existential movement. As a result of this traumatic ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- The Danish Union of Press Photographers (Pressefotografforbundet) was the first national organization for newspaper photographers in the world ...14 KB (2,031 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- 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
- The Danish verb "fri" means "to propose." In Dutch ... :and Fricg [Frigg] in Danish. Turville-Petre, 189. However, this association ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- were sold widely in English, and in German, Danish, and Swedish versions. Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and did ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- The following excerpts from the Danish Ballad of Eline of Villenskov describes the physical aspects of trolls within Scandinavian mythology: ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- Hans Christian Andersen (1952) about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies (1959) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols. His wife, Sylvia ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
- A sturgeon caviar imitation is Danish black colored lumpsucker caviar, which is sold throughout Europe in small glass jars. It can also be found ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- Iceland and Greenland, respectively in union with Denmark and a Danish colony, were occupied by the Allies for most of the war. British forces ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- more freedom and paid lower taxes than the Danish people because the distant ... and French models, and elected the Danish crown prince Christian Fredrik ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- from the entire European continent. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was ... * Tycho Brahe – Danish astronomer * Václav Havel - playwright, dissident ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- Revues in London, and was retained by the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen as guest ballet master. He returned to the Ballets Russes when it settled ...14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- greatly from their medieval precursors. In one Danish ballad, for instance, Tristan and Iseult are made brother and sister. Other unlikely innovations ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- part of the German Confederation. When the Danish government tried to integrate ... Holstein by the Confederation, from which Danish forces withdrew. In 1864 ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- ” designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture]] ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- source populations of Anglo-Saxon and the later Danish Viking settlers, thus the survey registered both sets of chromosomes as belonging to the same ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- Women were employed in the Danish armed forces as early as 1934 with ... allowed to enlist in an all areas of the Danish armed forces, with combat ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- Thus, nationality may suffice, such that a Danish endogamist would require marriage only to other Danes. Despite the fact that many people tend ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born ... in July 1947, he abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and styles, became ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- by [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel|Schinkel's]] Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture.]] ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- of Agnes, an echo of Ordet (1954) by Danish director, Carl Theodor Dreyer, the most important influence on Bergman. ==Characteristics of Style== ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- unable to travel to his coronation, because his Danish kingdom was under threat of invasion by King Magnus I of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden and ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History (Volumes I-IX). Translated by Oliver Elton. Norroena Society, New York, 1905. Accessed online at [http://omacl ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- met with Martin Heidegger, and was urged to study Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. The discovery of Kierkegaard prompted Shestov to realize ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside Copenhagen serving some 3.5 million visitors per year. The museum buildings ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Extended middle-class Midwestern U.S. family of Danish/German extraction]] Extended family refers to the family members who extend beyond the ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 23:58, 24 March 2024
- necessity in the aftermath of the Danish invasions—church officials were concerned that because of the drop in Latin literacy no one could ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- post, the Dutch built Fort Crevecoeur, and the Danish built Christiansborg Castle. At that time, Ayaso was destroyed in a tribal war, and the ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- ===Danish attacks=== This defense, (later employed in the Danish-Prussian War of 1864 C.E ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- Festival" is held annually in the picturesque Danish town of Silkeborg. *In the US, the largest traditional jazz festival, the Sacramento ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- of Agriculture Alexander Krivoshein and the Danish-born agronomist Andrei Andreievich Køfød) tried to give as many peasants as possible a chance ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 20:10, 16 January 2024
- of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. ==Gag Cartoons and Comic Strips== Modern "gag cartoons" are found in magazines ...17 KB (2,492 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- * Danish Research Network for International Health. 1998. [http://enrecahealth.ku.dk/postgrad_dbl_en/chihaka_abs/ The agrobotany and use of the ...18 KB (2,573 words) - 17:07, 25 January 2023
- from Denmark, including over 7,000 Danish Jews, and about 30,000 Norwegians ... Swedish, a North Germanic language related and very similar to Danish ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- image was used on fund-raising materials for a Danish welfare organization. One prominent religious group that refuses to recognize Santa Claus, or ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- been assigned to retrieve Norwegian and Danish POWs in Germany. He returned ... have been following his orders to rescue Danish and Norwegian prisoners. ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- the North Sea. From 2002 through 2005, Danish and Swedish scientists studied ... of the Central Graben and in front of the Danish coast. A larger graben is ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- In 1985, the Danish composer Per Nørgård wrote the viola concerto, Remembering Child, in memory of Smith. ==Notes== ==References== ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:Kugleramme.jpg|right|200px|thumb|School abacus used in Danish elementary school. Early twentieth century.]] Around the world, abaci have ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- strait in 1648, it is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer who crossed the strait in 1728. It is believed that there was a ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- and above the Eddas, there is also the Danish Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus ... acid of the Jutland (later taken over by Danish people) peat bogs, into which ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- Alfonso VIII of Castile, in order to secure a Danish bride for crown prince Ferdinand. The mission made its way to Denmark via the south of France, and ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:37, 22 December 2022
- polarized by the temperature gradient. The Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted played a vital role in explaining and conceiving the term ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) is often called the "father of existentialism." Kierkegaard is commonly considered ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- " Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867. Supported by Johnson ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- to an area around Flensburg near the Danish border, where Dönitz's headquarters were located, along with Mürwik. Accordingly, his administration ...19 KB (2,885 words) - 18:15, 14 May 2024
- Evanston Hospital (Chicago, IL). In 1925, the Danish physician Thorvald Madsen was the first to test a whole-cell pertussis vaccine on a wide scale (Baker ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- Consumer Legislation (1934), the Friends of Danish Freedom and Democracy (1940), the Citywide Citizens' Committee on Harlem (1942), and the National ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible ...21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
- English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages," the initial printings were only in German. Polish and Danish translations soon ...44 KB (6,124 words) - 22:56, 14 September 2023
- death. More recently, cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten were criticized on the basis that they were blasphemous against Muhammad ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak); Danish: Søslaget ved Jylland / Søslaget om Skagerrak) was the largest ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- Penguin, 1976. Translated into Danish and Spanish. * Modern Tragedy, London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. New edition, without play Koba and with ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- In the 1720s, the Danish explorer Vitus Bering headquartered in the town of Okhotsk, using it as a base from which he launched two expeditions ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- Image:Nydam.8.jpg|The swastika on a comb found in the Danish bog Nydam ... Image:Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg|The swastika shape on the Danish Snoldelev ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- a head in 1013, when they besieged the city under Danish King Canute and forced English King Ethelred the Unready to flee. In a retaliatory attack, ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- moral reasons. To justify the claim, in the Danish edition of the book, Jungk printed an excerpt from a personal letter from Heisenberg. The excerpt ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- They drove to Nyköping, where they boarded a Danish ship. King Christian IV of Denmark had intended the ship to take her home to Brandenburg, but ...22 KB (3,602 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- Bishop Brynjólfur sent Codex Regius as a present to the Danish king, hence the name. For centuries it was stored in the Royal Library in Copenhagen ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- to private yachts, the Danes whisked the Danish Jews out of harm's way ... saved the lives of most of the 7,500 Danish Jews by spiriting them to ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- A week after the trial it was revealed by a Danish Social Democratic newspaper that the hotel had been demolished in 1917. Rogovin, 17. ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- er/3_Ovrige/rapporter/Phd_MHA.pdf Danish free-ranging mink populations consist mainly of farm animals: evidence from microsatellite and stable ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- In 2004, a joint Swedish-Danish research team found a very strong link between allergies in children and the phthalates (chemicals often added ...22 KB (3,374 words) - 00:41, 9 January 2023
- to the fertile Sacramento Valley. Peter Lassen, a Danish blacksmith settled in Northern California in the 1830s. In addition to guiding settlers through ...22 KB (3,291 words) - 17:48, 25 October 2022
- modal implications. Like his contemporary, the Danish composer Carl Nielsen, he studied Renaissance polyphony. Also, he made use of the inherent qualities ...20 KB (3,124 words) - 17:26, 2 April 2024
- * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History (Volumes I-IX). Translated by Oliver Elton (Norroena Society, New York, 1905). Accessed online at [http://omacl ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- H.M. al-Munshi, Tarikh Ahmad Shahi (Moscow: Idara-i-Intisharaat Danish Shob̀a Adabiyaat Khawar, 1975), p. 30. After consolidating his rule over ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- The word "gene" was coined in 1909 by Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen for the fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity ...26 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 3 August 2021
- City-state Cultures (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters ... City-state Cultures. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- ** Danish Functionalism ** Functional Discourse Grammar ** Role and reference grammar ** Systemic functional grammar * Montague grammar ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- the new mechanism had to offer. By 1915, Danish composer Carl Nielsen was demanding glissandos on timpani in his Fourth Symphony – impossible ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- books and numerous dissertations). In 1975, the Danish government awarded Arendt its Sonning Prize for Contributions to European Civilization, which ...24 KB (3,560 words) - 18:02, 23 January 2024
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority by territorial conquest or by establishing economic and political domination ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- Sir Hyde Parker who believed that the Danish fire was too strong. In a famous incident, however, Nelson claimed he could not see the signal flags ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- Guinea Pidgin gasoline is called Benzin (German, Danish, and Turkish), Benzine in Dutch, Bensin (Swedish and Norwegian), Bensiini (Finnish), Benzyna ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- modern Swedish name for the pike, gädda, the Danish "gedde", the Norwegian "gjedde" and Scottish Gaelic: geadais). The Dutch name ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 18:12, 26 February 2022
- Many New Age writers, such as the Danish author and musician Peter Kjærulff in his book, The Ringbearer's Diary, or Anodea Judith in her ...24 KB (3,564 words) - 17:25, 30 September 2021
- does not gather momentum until it comes to the Danish invasions of the late eighth century onwards. Michael Lapidge. 1999. The Blackwell Encyclopedia ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- Holstein, and Lauenburg, which the Danish king held in personal union ... 039;s population, including the Polish and Danish minorities, started with ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
- eleven official languages of the European Union: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. In ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- for foreign students: the oldest one was the Danish college, the Collegium danicum or dacicum, founded in 1257. Swedish students could, during the ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- state of Hanover to link up with the existing Danish grid. Gauss was pleased to accept and took personal charge of the survey, making measurements ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- was the species described as a sea monk to the Danish king Christian III c.1550. The Lusca of the Caribbean and Scylla in Greek mythology may also ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
