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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
- 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
- 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
