Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greece, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, Holland, Pakistan, Panama, India...
Like their British cousins across the North Sea, the Danes believe in Queens. Above all, they honor their own Queen Margrethe (1353-1412), who united the crowns of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. "When men saw the wisdom and strength that were in this royal lady," the medieval Chronicle of Lubeck said, "wonder and fear filled their hearts...
Last week, on Denmark's Grundlovsdag (Constitution Day), King Frederik IX promised his people another Queen, another Margrethe. At Christiansborg Castle, he signed a new Constitution in which the succession-for the first time-is guaranteed to the female line, and specifically to his pert, 13-year-old daughter, Margrethe...
...Voted unanimously to grant permanent U.S. residence to Polish Flyer Franciszek Jarecki, who liberated a MIG and himself in Denmark (TIME...
...quibble with Borge's performance is his references to Denmark's recent scientific contribution. Borge's is a highly specialized humor and allusions to Copenhagen's celebrity are not within his bounds. But for Borge's symphony of comic perfection, he can certainly be forgiven this minor false note...