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Showing posts with label Denmark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denmark. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2025

My heart beats faster

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Eighty years ago today Kim Malthe-Bruun, a brave young Dane, only 21 years of age, was executed by the Nazis for being involved with the Dan...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

What could become of me

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‘What could become of me, and what will become of me? My powerful fantasy will drive me into the insane asylum, my violent temperament will ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Incredibly fantastic

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Lili Elbe, a Danish painter and famously a transgender woman, was born 140 years ago today. She wrote an autobiographical memoir - Man into ...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Danish flight pioneer

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The Danish watchmaker Christian Hansen Ellehammer - born 150 years ago today - is not a name immediately associated with the history of avia...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Nobody to dig the graves

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‘On the 19th of May, died Erich Hansen Li, who, throughout the voyage, had been very industrious and willing, and had neither offended anyon...
Monday, May 26, 2014

How the other half lives

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Today marks the centenary of the death of Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who shocked New York society in the late 1880s with his reportage o...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Mock and real turtles

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‘The difference between an author who picks up his material everywhere but does not work it up into an organic whole and one who does that i...
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