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...large coat of arms. Its lions passant (walking, three paws on the ground, the right forepaw raised, the head looking forward, the tail curved over the back) and hearts are derived from the family design of the Valdemars and can be traced to the indistinct seal of King Knud IV dating back...
...night, the heat was oppressive. By day, it was impossible. Gulping salt tablets, the world's best athletes did their best to ignore the temperature and set out for glory in the 1960 Olympic Games. Grinding along in 100° heat, Denmark's Knud Enemark Jensen suddenly tumbled from his bicycle in the 100-kilometer race and died hours later of sunstroke. The death, the first in modern Olympic competition, shocked every athlete in Rome...
...public acclaim, most Danes ignored the words of Knud Lauritzen, a private shipowner, who declared that the steel plates on the Hans Hedtoft should have been welded, not riveted, because the riveting of plates on a rigid frame does not afford enough resistance to ice pressure. The criticism was passed off as the embittered words of a private operator who would rather the government chartered his ships than build...
...Freuchen, descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live, love like an Eskimo. In 1912 Freuchen and his friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike in his daring, steel-girded in his endurance, he once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved...
...Danish Parliament agreed on the text of a constitutional amendment to allow the ascension of a woman to the throne. If passed by both Parliament and popular referendum, which is likely, 12-year-old Princess Margrethe will be heiress presumptive (in the place of her uncle Prince Knud, 52-year-old brother of King Frederik), with the possibility of becoming the first Danish queen since Margrethe I (1353-1412), a precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon VI of Norway, assumed the crown of Norway when he died...