Search results for "Danish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- largest and densest concentration of the Danish population, centering on ... There is little elevation to the Danish landscape at all; the highest ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- 13, 1891. Her mother, Marie Hanson, was a Danish immigrant domestic case worker ... Larsen herself. Crane is the daughter of a Danish mother and a black father ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- There are two main types of seine nets: purse seines and Danish seines. ... Danish seine A Danish seine, also occasionally called an anchor seine ...17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 March 2024
- It is a self-governing Danish province. Though physiographically and ... in India (Tranquebar), West Africa (Danish Gold Coast), and the West ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- Aquilonis, c. 1075, after he visited the Danish king Svend Estridson, who ... for the idea was put forth in 1837 by Danish literary historian and antiquarian ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 19:05, 25 October 2022
- It was translated into English, French, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Russian. The story is based around Tsar Peter I "The ...5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
- have to be deemed competent to enter a gymnasium. Danish gymnasia are also available in an intensive two year program leading to the Højere Forberedelseseksamen ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control ... over the period 1672–1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- She married Danish-American producer Frederick Brisson on October 25, 1941. Fred was often referred to in Hollywood as "The Lizard of Roz ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 19:15, 16 December 2022
- cognate to Danish Isbjerg, Swedish Isberg, Low Saxon Iesbarg, and German Eisberg. An iceberg differs from sea ice in that an iceberg is made of ...12 KB (1,760 words) - 17:16, 10 February 2024
- Arkona Basin extends from Bornholm to the Danish isles of Falster and Zealand. Baltic Sea is the Bay of Kiel. The three Danish straits, the Great Belt, ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- his functioning mental capabilities. The Danish author Thorkild Hansen investigated ... it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888 ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- has its roots in the nineteenth century Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard ... A century before Camus, the nineteenth century Danish philosopher ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 06:46, 14 June 2023
- Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- German, brug in Dutch, brúgv in Faroese or bro in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish). ==History== The first bridges were spans made of wooden logs ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. (February 3, 1889 - March 20, 1968) was a ... had increasing connections with the young Danish film industry, which got ...19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
- #039;s Duke Richard II, to escape the Danish invasion of England. Edward ... for Norman favourites frustrated Saxon and Danish nobles alike, fuelling the ...18 KB (2,742 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- founded Serampore College in what was then a Danish colony. ... delayed until June, when Thomas found a Danish captain willing to offer ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- nyker in Old Norwegian, nykur in Icelandic, nok in Danish and finally, Neck in Swedish.Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Press, 1971) ISBN 019861117X ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- receiving the title of Master of the Danish Royal Chapel. After the dissolution of the opera troop, Keiser returned once more to Hamburg, but ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
