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- and is now an autonomous region of the Danish state. The Faroe Islands ... had become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
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- and is now an autonomous region of the Danish state. The Faroe Islands ... had become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark to succeed ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige) (994/995 – November ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- a poor peasant family in Sortelung on the Danish island of Funen, not far ... 1916, he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- hand she spared no pains to recover lost Danish territory. She purchased ... under such stringent conditions that the Danish crown got all the advantage ...12 KB (1,911 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- illusions developed around 1915, by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin ... 1915, in Rubin's two-volume work, the Danish-language Synsoplevede Figurer ...6 KB (934 words) - 20:58, 21 December 2022
- Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave ... control of the island for six months. The Danish, who controlled the island ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- *1890 Danish Palaces *1891 Memory of Azov *1892 Diamond Trellis ... *1903 Royal Danish† *1904 No eggs known *1905 No eggs known ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- with Zealand and the other islands in the Danish archipelago—is typically ... Foundation, established in 1910 by the Danish-American industrialist Niels ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- arrival of the Vikings, in particular the Danish Great Heathen Army, upset ... Kingdom of York and Dublin rose and fell. Danish and Norwegian settlement ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- in the Nordic Council as a part of the Danish delegation. ... were attached to the diocese of Zealand. A Danish royal trade monopoly, their ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ... despite the intermittent assaults of Danish raiding parties. This relative ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- – September 19, 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who demonstrated ... Notable also is his definition of the new Danish mile. It was 24,000 Danish ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- The original name for the city, from which the contemporary Danish ... quot; denotes "commerce" in Danish). It was repeatedly attacked ...28 KB (4,058 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
- rune inscriptions, 54 in Norwegian and 12 in Danish. [http://skaldic ... During the period of union with Denmark, Danish replaced Norwegian. The university ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- ravaged. The expeditions were usually led by the Danish kings, but they were composed by warriors from all over Scandinavia, and they eventually brought ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
- mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv ... in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen ...21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
- 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
- to the jeweler Gustav Fabergé and his Danish wife Charlotte Jungstedt. His mother was the daughter of a Danish painter, and his father was ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- phenomenon first described by the Danish scientist Rasmus Bartholin in 1669. == Uses == Calcite (especially as limestone) is an important building ...7 KB (1,007 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- * Common Swedish and Danish form: Asgård * Norwegian: Åsgard (also ... * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History. Translated by Oliver Elton ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- jerv, regular Swedish name järv and regular Danish name jærv. == Notes == == References == * Armitage, P. 1992. Religious ideology among the ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Dread or Angst as a philosophical term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish existential philosopher and theologian ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- the Strait are named for Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer who ... 1648. Both are named for Vitus Bering, a Danish captain who was taken into ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- merely fits the description of bugt as used in Danish. One may therefore conclude that fjord was one of the names used by Germanic tribes to describe ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- === Russian and Danish ballet === After 1850, interest in ballet began ... notably in the stagings of the Royal Danish Ballet, the Sadler's ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- model, however, was not Moliere, but the great Danish playwright Holberg, whom he read in German, and some of whose plays he had translated. ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- numeric sorting and alphabetic sorting occur in Danish and Norwegian (aa is ordered at the end of the alphabet when it is pronounced like å, and at ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
