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31 unusual facts about Denmark


Benandsebastian

Benandsebastian is a visual artist duo that was formed in 2006 by Ben Clement (born in 1981 in Oxford, England) and Sebastian de la Cour (born in 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark).

Bondepartiet

Farmers' Party, a Danish political party, founded in 1934 and dissolved in 1945

Border Breakers

Border Breakers is a Danish record company.

Danish nobility

In 1709 Frederick IV of Denmark, in his capacity as King of Norway, granted the title Marquis of Lista to Hugo Octavius Accoramboni of Florence in Italy.

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During the reign of Christopher II of Denmark and the early reign of Valdemar IV of Denmark, counts of Holstein held almost all fiefs in Denmark.

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The family of Putbusch (Podebusk in Danish), originally relatives of the earliest princes of Rügen, were almost Danish in the 14th century, their most prominent member being Henning Podebusk, the powerful Lord High Justiciar of Denmark during the reigns of King Valdemar IV and the Queen Margaret of Scandinavia.

Danneskiold-Samsøe

Danneskiold-Samsøe is a Danish family of high nobility, formerly holding the island of Samsø as a fief.

De Levendes Land

De Levendes Land ("Land of the Living") is a hymn written in 1824 by the Danish theologian and priest, N. F. S. Grundtvig.

Denmark Congregational United Church of Christ

Denmark Congregational United Church of Christ is located in Denmark, Iowa, United States.

Denmark, Oregon

Denmark was the focus of a 2009 series of articles on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) about climate change that coincided with the Copenhagen Summit in the country of Denmark.

Denmark, Tennessee

Cleanth Brooks, literary critic and professor, was born in Denmark, although some accounts claim he was born in Murray, Kentucky

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Two mystery novels take place in part in a fictional version of Denmark: Such Vicious Minds: A Murder Mystery Featuring Elvis Presley by Daniel Klein; and Something Rotten by Alan Gratz.

Denmark, Western Australia

Riesling and Chardonnay were the first grapes grown on Denmark soil, soon followed by other varieties.

Feeding the Beast

It was released in October 2011 in Denmark reaching #11 on the Danish Albums Chart in its first week of release.

Ferdinand Richardt

Ferdinand Richardt, the son of Johan Joachim Richardt and Johanne Frederikke née Bohse, was born in Brede, north of Copenhagen in 1819.

Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

In Augustenburg on 4 June 1763 Frederick Albert married Louise Albertine (b. Plön, 21 July 1748 - d. Ballenstedt, 2 March 1769), daughter of Frederick Carl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön and a princess of Denmark by birth as a descendant in the male line of King Christian III.

Hollsmidt 222

The Hollsmidt 222 or HT-1 was a Danish light utility amateur aircraft, built in one unit.

Holstebro Municipality

The town, lying on both sides of Storåen ("The Large Creek"), has a population of 34,241 (2011).

Illerup Ådal

Illerup Ådal is an archeological site located near Skanderborg, Denmark.

James I. Dungan

He received an academic education at the local academy at Denmark, Iowa, and at the college at Washington, Iowa.

Jelling stone ship

The Jelling stone ship is a stone ship, the longest known to have existed, remains of which lie under the two royal barrows at Jelling, Denmark.

Jones Hope Wooten

There have been well over 18,000 performances of their comedies, entertaining millions of theatre-goers across the United States, as well as in Canada, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Mexico,the Virgin Islands, England, Taiwan, Scotland and Kenya.

Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte

Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte (20 April 1815 – 22 April 1884), or Jørgen Christian Matthias Schiødte, was a Danish entomologist.

Moss Kent Dickinson

He was born in Denmark, New York in 1822 to parents Barnabus and Lydia Dickinson.

Narrow gauge railways in Denmark

Most notably, narrow gauge railways in Denmark were built and used by De Danske Sukkerfabrikker (Danish Sugar Corporation) to transport juice from sugar beets from purpose built "juice stations" to the main sugar factories in towns such as Nakskov, Nykøbing and Assens.

Olaf Wieghorst

Olaf Wieghorst (April 30, 1899, Viborg, Denmark – April 27, 1988, California, United States) was a painter of the American West in the vein of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell.

Peter Christian Knudsen

Peter Christian Knudsen (in Danish known as P. Knudsen) (1848, Randers – 1910, Copenhagen) was the leader of the Danish Social Democratic party from 1882 to 1910.

Rebelle Records

The company, which holds the rights to all of Afzelius music is now located in Snekkersten, Denmark.

Rhynchaeites

However, leg bone fossils of a similar bird were found in the Early Eocene Fur Formation in Denmark.

The Lost Tapes: Copenhagen 1979

The Lost Tapes: Copenhagen 1979 is an album by Danish punk/metal band Brats.

Thorsvang, Danmarks Samlermuseum

Thorsvang, Danmarks Samlermuseum (Thorsvang: Denmark's Museum of Collectables) is located in the Lendemarke district of Stege on the Danish island of Møn.


2011 Bergen International Film Festival

This year the five videoes from the respective three countries was nominated by NRK P3 in Norway, SVT in Sweden and the magazine Soundvenue in Denmark.

2012 Men's Junior European Volleyball Championship

The 2012 Men's Junior European Volleyball Championship is being held in Gdynia, Poland and Randers, Denmark from August 24 to September 2, 2012.

Akhmed Zakayev

On 7 December 2002, Zakayev returned to the UK but the British authorities arrested him briefly at London Heathrow Airport; he was released on 50,000 GBP bail, which was paid by British actress Vanessa Redgrave, his friend who had travelled with him from Denmark.

Ancient See of Børglum

The ancient bishopric of Børglum, sometimes also known as the bishopric of Vendsyssel, seated latterly at Børglum in Denmark, comprised the ancient districts of Vendsyssel and Thy, which between them included the whole of the north of the Jutland peninsula beyond the Limfjord.

Astronomische Gesellschaft

In 1882, the Astronomische Gesellschaft founded the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams at Kiel, where it remained until moving to the Østervold Observatory at Copenhagen, Denmark, to be operated there by the Copenhagen University Observatory.

Baltic pipeline

Baltic Pipe, a planned gas pipeline between Denmark and Poland

Carl Frederik Sørensen

His paintings not only attracted customers in Denmark but also in the courts of St Petersburg, London and Athens.

Carsten Lund

Carsten Lund (born July 1, 1963) is a Danish-born theoretical computer scientist, currently working at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey, United States.

Chalk

Some of the highest chalk cliffs in the world occur at Jasmund National Park in Germany and at Møns Klint in Denmark - both once formed a single island.

Charlotte Amalie

Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (1650-1714), a queen-consort of Denmark and Norway

Copenhagen Air Taxi

It provide a range of services, including operating regularly scheduled flights from Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde (ICAO: EKRK) to the Danish islands of Anholt and Læsø; managing the airfield on Anholt, and is also a major air taxi operator in Denmark, operating from EKRK.

Denmark–Kazakhstan relations

Baltic Beverages Holding bought in 2002, 76% interest in the Kazakh brewery Irbis, and 45 million euros has been invested.

Easter Crisis

The Easter Crisis of 1948, when the government of Denmark feared an invasion or coup

Filur

They are best known for the hit "I Want You", which was the 4th most played Danish work outside of Denmark in 2005.

Flag of the Nordic Council

The Swan has enough wing feathers standing for the eight members and territories of the Council: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Fritz Knipschildt

After training at the Hotel and Restaurant School of Denmark, Knipschildt worked in the Mont Blanc area of France twice, and also in southern Spain.

Gösta Schwarck

In the early 1950s and throughout the decade he organised Denmarks first national beauty pageants and became the official national representation of the Miss Denmark, Miss World and Miss Europe.

Governance Initiative for Rights and Accountability in Forest Management

The Governance Initiative for Rights & Accountability in Forest Management (GIRAF) is a project executed in Ghana with funds from the European Union (EU) and its partners CARE Denmark, CIVIC Response, Friends of the Earth-Ghana and Centre for Indigenous Knowledge.

Grevensvænge figurines

The Grevensvænge hoard is a find of the late Nordic Bronze Age (roughly dating to between 800 BC and 500 BC), discovered in the late 18th century at Grevensvænge, Naestved Municipality, Zealand, Denmark.

H53

Seaplane Hangar H53, original designation of Hangar H, a listed hangar located on Magretheholm in Copenhagen, Denmark

Hanne-Vibeke Holst

Hanne-Vibeke Holst (born February 21, 1959 in Hjørring, Denmark) is a Danish author.

Hans Ussing

Hans Henrikson Ussing (30 December 1911 – 22 December 2000) was a Danish scientist, best known for having invented the Ussing chamber.

Harald Nielsen

He became involved in professionalising football in Denmark in the 1970s, and in 1977 he and later Danish Minister of Science Helge Sander planned to found a professional Danish football league.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

I. German/Dutch Corps

Due to its role as a NATO High Readiness Forces Headquarters, soldiers from other NATO member states, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom amongst others, are also stationed at Münster.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn

In early 1901 he accompanied his father on a special diplomatic mission to announce the accession of King Edward to the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Russia, Germany, and Saxony.

Kasper Risgård

Kasper Winde Risgård (born 4 January 1983 in Aalborg) is a Danish footballer who plays as a midfielder currently on a contract with the Danish Superliga club AaB.

Kira Eggers

Kira Eggers (born November 29, 1974, Kvistgaard) is a model from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Laust Jevsen Moltesen

As a result of studies in Rome in 1894 and 1895, he wrote De Avignonske Pavers Forhold til Danmark (1896), concerning the relationship between the Avignon Papacy and Denmark, for which he obtained the doctorate.

Lloyd Noel Ferguson

While affiliated with Howard University, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953 and an NSF grant in 1960 that allowed him to travel to the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark, and to ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

MS Princess Seaways

In 2002 the ship was sold to Fjord Line, renamed MS Fjord Norway for service from Denmark.

Olaf the Swede

Olof the Brash, Swedish chieftain who conquered Denmark in the late 9th century or early 10th century and founded the House of Olaf

Peter Claussen

Peter Claussen (1804-1855) was a Danish natural history collector born in Copenhagen.

Professional Further Education in Clinical Pharmacy and Public Health

The further education takes place at Pharmakon—Danish College of Pharmacy Practice in Hillerød, Denmark.

René Dif

René Dif (born 17 October 1967 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) is a Danish singer and actor, best known as the male vocalist in the Danish pop-dance group Aqua.

Revenge of the Psychotronic Man

The follow up album Shattered Dreams Parkway was released on 12" vinyl and CD in October 2012 through TNSrecords & a collective of labels including Boss Tuneage, Pumpkin, Entez Anomicos (Germany) 5FeetUnder (Denmark) and Dead Lamb (Ireland).

Richardis of Schwerin

Richardis of Schwerin, Duchess of Schleswig (d. bef. 1386), wife of Valdemar III of Denmark (Valdemar V, Duke of Schleswig) and daughter of Günzelin VI, Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg.

Robert Coe

Robert Douglas Coe (1902–1985), career diplomat and the U.S. ambassador to Denmark from 1953 to 1957

Shin Suk-ja

Shin Suk-ja (also spelled Shin Sook-ja; born 1942) is a South Korean prisoner of North Korea, imprisoned with her daughters in Yodok concentration camp after her husband Oh Kil-nam defected from North Korea to Denmark.

Soldenfeldts Stiftelse

Soldenfeldts Stiftelse is a listed property overlooking Sortedam Lake in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sorbus × intermedia

Sorbus intermedia (Swedish Whitebeam) is a species of whitebeam in southern Sweden, with scattered occurrences in easternmost Denmark (Bornholm), the far southwest of Finland), the Baltic States, and northern Poland.

Super Formation Soccer 94

Using two special codes, the player will have access to the special/hidden teams which didn't take part in the 1994 World Cup: England, Wales, Uruguay, Denmark and France.

The Laundromat Cafe

In 2010 two more cafés were opened, at Austurstræti 9, Reykjavík, Iceland and at Gammel Kongevej 96 Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Theo Wharton

Wharton was first selected for the Wales Under-17 squad for 2011 Euro qualifiers where he start 2 games against Belgium and Denmark.

Villum Foundation

Beginning in 2006, it has donated a larger proportion of its grants to social and cultural projects outside Denmark, with a special focus on Hungary, Poland and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe.