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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A year before Emma's marriage, a Danish fleet had pillaged the Sussex ... ===The Danish Invasion=== [[Image:Viking Expansion.svg|thumb|Map showing ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * Gurkemeje in Danish. * Gurkemeie in Norwegian. * Kurkuma or Japonský šafrán (literal: Japanese Safron) in Czech. * Kunyit in Indonesian ...
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  • subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix, in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), to Portuguese Sephardic Jewish parents, Phillip Benjamin ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *the Danish intervention, *the Swedish intervention, and ... ===Danish intervention=== Period: 1625–1629 Peace in the Empire was ...
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  • , brandenburg Lease territory in the Danish West Indies; 1685–1720 in USA), brandenburgische Annexion in the Danish West Indies; 1689–1693 ...
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  • Birefringence was first described in calcite crystals by the Danish scientist Rasmus Bartholin in 1669. Since then, many birefringent crystals ...
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  • Frisian peninsula of Eiderstedt, then under Danish rule. He was one of seven children. After completing his high school education in Husum, Tönnies ...
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  • spears, and in some cases the formidable Danish axes, and were protected ... housecarls were highly-skilled with the Danish battle axe, capable of causing ...
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  • Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...
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  • :and Fricg [Frigg] in Danish. Turville-Petre, 189. Further evidence ... * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History (Volumes I-IX). Translated ...
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  • Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Corso only to return on January 27, 1658, on the Danish Privateer "Glückstadt." Fort Carlsborg was seized and made part of the Danish Gold ...
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  • The Danish School system is supported by tax-based governmental and municipal funding from day care through primary and secondary education to ...
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  • In Gesta Danorum, Høtherus (Höðr) is a human hero of the Danish ... In Gesta Danorum, a Danish history written by Saxo Grammaticus (c ...
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  • Dieterich Buxtehude (Dietrich, Diderich) (c. 1637 – May 9, 1707) was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque ...
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  • York. During this period Percy read the works of Danish existentialist writer, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and ...
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  • the River Aire, retrieving York, while the Danish army promised to depart. autonomy toward England. Then, the Danish king disembarked in person ...
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  • The pamphlet was translated also into Danish and Swedish. The Wandering Jew makes an appearance in one of the secondary plots in Matthew Lewis ...
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  • after St. Lucius had been declared patron of the Danish region of Zealand. Lucius' head is among the few relics to have survived the Reformation ...
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  • Håkon mounted a campaign against the Danish province of Halland in 1256 ... 1261 on the occasion of his wedding to the Danish princess Ingibjörg. ...
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  • family returned to Britain after the power of its Danish overlords waned, the young princess (and her surviving relatives) were soon forced to flee ...
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  • a monster named Grendel. This poem, about Danish and Swedish kings and heroes ... a historical research commission of the Danish government. Since that time ...
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  • 1944 a part of the Norwegian and later the Danish monarchies. ... famines, and epidemics, the effects of Danish control resulted in misery ...
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  • In 1985, the Howard Group of companies was acquired by the Danish Thrige Agro Group. About five years later, in December 2000, the Howard Group ...
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  • of a treaty with Denmark for the cession of the Danish West India Islands. Zimmerman, 454-5. In 1904, Hay was one of the first seven chosen for ...
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  • Coast of Ellesmere Island (Copenhagen: Danish Polar Center). ... Coast of Ellesmere Island. Copenhagen: Danish Polar Center, 2003. ISBN ...
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  • English ‘novel’ in Dutch, French, Swedish, Danish, and Romanian languages, giving it particular significance over the novella as the established ...
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  • Dutch East India Company in 1729; the first Danish ship in 1731, which was followed by a Danish Asiatic Company ship in 1734; the Swedish East India ...
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  • (1954), based on the writings of the Danish existential theologian, Søren Kierkegaard, and The Lovers (1971), based on Twenty Poems of Love ...
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  • quot;ear pincher"), French perce-oreille, Danish ørentviste, Slovak ucholak (ucho = ear, lak = scare), and Hungarian fülbemászó ("crawler ...
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  • Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Danish and Arabic. Socotra appears as Dioskouridou ("of the Dioscurides") in the Periplus ...
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  • in 1973, with British, Irish, and Danish accession to the EEC, the EFTA, and the EEC, negotiated a series of agreements that would ensure uniformity ...
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  • from Frederick V of Denmark. On his way to the Danish capital, Klopstock met in Hamburg an enthusiastic admirer of his poetry, Margareta (Meta) Möller ...
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  • and the king's wife, Anne of Denmark; the Danish Court, from which she derived, had a strong patronage tradition in intellectual matters. ...
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  • theological degrees upon authority of a Danish charter.<!-- [http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/education/mf101.pdf World Council of Churches ...
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  • Great-Grand mother of the latest Swedish and Danish Kings and Queens, as well as the last Greek Queen. The current reigning houses of Belgium, Norway ...
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  • Bernadotte of Sweden at Lübeck, near the Danish border, and began negotiations. ... Himmler wandered for several days near the Danish border, around Flensburg ...
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  • Extended middle-class Midwestern U.S. family of Danish/German extraction]] Around the world, the structures of family norms are different. Ideas ...
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  • as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel before him and the Danish Hegelians, although Kierkegaard respected the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. ...
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  • Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914), was a Danish-born American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer. He is known ...
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  • narwhal, an Arctic cetacean (Monodon monoceros), as Danish zoologist Ole Worm established in 1638.[http://www.occultopedia.com/u/unicorn.htm Unicorn] ...
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  • and stayed there for three years. He met the Danish composers J. P. E. Hartman, and Niels Gade. He also met his fellow Norwegian composer, Rikard ...
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  • Germanic Sound Shift that was first observed by the Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask. Grimm's law was the first non-trivial systematic sound ...
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  • legend of Tell in all likelihood was based on the Danish saga of Palnatoke. (A French edition of his book, written by Gottlieb Emmanuel von Haller, ...
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