Word: frederik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through Copenhagen's ornate Town Hall trooped a steady stream of sightseers last week to look at the workings of the world's most complex astronomical clock. Set in motion shortly before Christmas by Denmark's King Frederik IX, the clock is expected to run steadily for more than 1,000 years, deviating in its measurement of sidereal time by only two-fifths of a second every 300 years. If properly cared for, it will accurately calculate the position of the stars in the universe for the next 25,700 years...
...left home here for a U.S. tour with her husband. 50. The names of the royal couple: 1. Ingrid and Frederik...
...performers, go so far. But, Ebensten recalls, "A well-built man with a massive chest used to saunter along [London's] Edgeware Road in the hot summer of 1949 with his shirt open to the waist, proudly revealing a great scene of Mount Calvary." Denmark's King Frederik sports an array of Oriental dragons...
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...
...dance in Copenhagen, an alert photographer got a playtime picture of Princess Margrethe, daughter of King Frederik and Queen Ingrid and heir presumptive to the Danish throne. The princess, who will be 13 this week, claimed the prerogative of teen-age abandon, flew down the stairs two at a time, leaving her bewildered escort far behind...