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pcwr
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Demolition of silo goes wrong way, accidentally falling on library instead in Vordingborg, Denmark
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Demolition of silo goes wrong way, accidentally falling on library instead in Vordingborg, Denmark https://uk.yahoo.com/news/demolition-silo-goes-wrong-way-063144867.html In fact it happened just 20 miles/30 km south of me ..  Immensely embarrassing - on behalf of the International Brotherhood of Danish Demolitioners I apologize the best I have learnt.  pcwr, he said he prepared this ½ year in advance … it takes time to make such a thing happen, you know Shu-Bi-Dua  .. and crushing the library - what was the idjit thinking of??  |
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The Daily Danish
Walls and fences – a continuing story In an earlier edition the The Daily Danish reported that a fence should be established along our border with Germany to keep out the boars that might invade us. Now experienced hunters claim we can forget it. The piggies will come swimming across the Flensborg Fjord, they claim. I’ll keep an eye out for them when I go there next week and try to reason with them …  - how Denmark’s obsessive registration can benefit you in the long run Research: Head injury increases the risk of dementia Young people who get a head injury have a considerably larger risk of running into dementia when they get older, new research results from the University Hospital in Aarhus shows. A head injury increases the risk of dementia by no less than 35% while a light concussion increases the risk by 17%. The study is well founded, because of this Danish obsession with registration. Data from 2,794,852 people – roughly ½ of the Danish population was used. The full article in The Lancet can be read here: So take care of your head and especially of your young ones’ heads The Police: Marriages are organized crime Really  - weren’t they always?Organized criminals help providing fake documents and arrange transport for foreign citizens to be married in Denmark so that they easier can obtain access to residency in the EU. - so sharp they are! The police.  Joe Sixpack and his wife knew all along. - That’s done everywhere. My then-husband and I were offered a what at the time seemed a premature divorce and remarriages to American citizens …. How come I didn’t go for it?  Marine archeology: Rare wreck of a nazi submarine found in Skagerrak  On May 6, 1945, as the Danes were busy celebrating the liberation, the German submarine U-3523 was sunk by a British B24 Liberator airplane in Skagerrak dropping depth charges on it. Now the wreck of the U-Boot has been discovered. U-3523 was one of the new and very advanced model XXI which could have revolutionized the submarine war, had a sufficient number been finished in due time. The wreck was found during ongoing research by Sea War Museum Jutland. Here you’ll find what they have to tell inclusive of renderings – in English.  Green energy Apple and Google will put pressure on the conversion into green energy in Denmark. These companies' two large data centers under construction here will consume energy equaling 17% of the entire Danish consumption by 2030. Goodbye to the last public phone booth If you want to call someone you flip out your cell phone. So the last land line phone boot was removed a couple of days ago in Aarhus, Denmark’s #2 city. The man says that this is really the very last one he disassembles. It has been there since 1934, but is no longer used for calling, but as a trash container. He puts up a memorial saying: Here stood Denmark’s last phone booth Born 1934 Died 2018 Space News A space lab - ASIM - constructed in Denmark with international contributions was launched from Cape Canaveral on April 2 has successfully connected to ISS sucking energy from it and is ready to go. It’s task is to observe gigantic lightning and Gamma-ray flashes powered by thunderstorms. Read all about it here – in English It better work well, because it’s not exactly what we want you to visually expect from Danish Design   |
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GeraldRube
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----------------------------------------Isak Dinesen is born Karen Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, better known by her pen name Isak Dinesen, is born in Rungsted, Denmark. Dinesen’s memoir, Out of Africa, helped demystify the Dark Continent for millions of readers. Dinesen was born to an upper-class Danish family. Her father committed suicide when Dinesen was 10, ending the happiest period of her childhood. She began writing plays and stories and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where she developed an interest in art. When her family sent her to Oxford to study English, she rebelled and went to Paris and Rome to study painting. In 1914, she married her cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, and the couple moved to what was then British East Africa (now Kenya), where they owned and operated a coffee plantation. While the unhappy marriage dissolved in 1921, Dinesen fell passionately in love with Africa and remained to manage the plantation for a decade. In Africa, she was a lively and extravagant hostess, fond of throwing lush dinner parties for her friends-parties which laid the basis for her 1949 story, Babette’s Feast, which was filmed in 1987. Drought and a crash in coffee prices forced Dinesen, penniless, back to Denmark in 1931. She began publishing short story collections with Seven Gothic Tales (1934), followed by Out of Africa in 1937, which brought her recognition and respect. She published several other story collections before her death, in 1962.  |
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Thank you for bringing Karen Blixen up, GeraldRube.
Best known for her ’Out of Africa’ I tend to prefer ’Babette’s Feast’. I saw both of the movies based on these books while living in the USA – ’Out of Africa’ in Poughkeepsie, NY. I had read that starring Meryl Streep had practised a Danish accent diligently. I don’t know if we speak that way. I hope not.  As for ’Babette’s Feast’ it was in a theatre on the Brown University campus in Provicence, RI, where they showed foreign movies. There is a scene where these deeply religious fishermen prepare their frugal øllebrød (that’s stale black bread made into a soup with dark, sweet beer) and it bubbles in the pot in a close-up. Evidently that was somewhat funnier for the American spectators than for us. Perhaps we were homesick for øllebrød.  I also had the pleasure of visiting ’Karen House’ outside of Nairobi, Kenya, where she lived and desperately tried to make a living of growing coffee. An entire neighborhood there is named ’Karen’. From her house it was easy to see the Ngong Hills which she describes so lovingly and longingly. It was from that direction the much needed big rain or just the little rain should arrive for her thirsty coffee plantation. Back in Denmark she spent many years at Rungstedlund which is now made into a museum. She is buried in the garden there.  |
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pcwr
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Aileen de Graaf is the 2018 Denmark Open Ladies' Darts Champion with a 5-3 win against Corrine Hammond!
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Wow! And it goes international
 - better than the silo - actually we did that before the same town the same success; don't tell anyone, please Is dart big with you, pcwr? I know you have those - what-do-you-call-it - discs in your pubs. Do you play it yourself? Aileen de Graaf is no typical Danish name - rather some Anglo-Saxon/Dutch cross, but she's lovely  |
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adriverhoef
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AIleen de Graaf is mentioned here telling us that she is a Dutch darts player. Did she perhaps move to Denmark? "De Graaf" is clearly and typically a Dutch name. This same Wikipedia page is also partially translated into English at some point.
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And here we have her entire CV - even her entrance music
- which you undoubtedly know, adriverhoef  It seems as if pcwr's source has mistaken her nationality. Nothing seem to hint at her moving to Denmark - although we have several Dutchmen here especially farmers who found farm prices more agreeable here, and they are very good at Danish. Have heard some of them on the radio. Impressive! |
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pcwr
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It seems as if pcwr's source has mistaken her nationality. She won the Denmark Dart's Open, didn't state that she had to be from Denmark to enter or win it.  |
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