Word: fredericia
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Born in Fredericia, Denmark and orphaned early, Paul Haakon Longreen was adopted by Christ Nielson Panduoro, a bachelor who had made money in the embroidery business. Christ Panduoro took Paul Haakon to San Francisco, had him study dancing for his health although the boy disliked it. When they returned to Denmark the 9-year-old was put in the Royal Opera Ballet School. The "elevation" (leaps and jumps) at which he is expert today he learned in the rigorous oldtime manner, practicing in heavy harness which when it was removed made him feel more airy. In 1924 Christ Panduoro lost...
Smiling hugely, gigantic, handsome King Christian boarded his yacht, set sail through the channels and islands of his kingdom for the port of Fredericia in Jutland last week. Bitterly cold for May, it was snowing hard, but that could not chill His Majesty's verve. He was about to inaugurate Denmark's most important post-War project, the longest bridge in continental Europe, which will revolutionize the country's transport system. Traveling more comfortably, Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen, the rest of Copenhagen's diplomatic corps and some 700 other officials came down for the ceremony...
Proudly then, King Christian crossed over his bridge from Fredericia to Denmark's bucolic Middelfart...
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