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Steen's Residence - The history of Denmark from 100,000 BC until today. Hobbies and Ridgeback.
Rescue of the Danish Jews - Amidst the madness of war, there are moments of hope and illumination. In World War II, one such instance was the night when the Danes got truly fed up with Adolf Hitler and his Nazis - and saved their Jews.
Dansk History - From the soc.culture.nordic FAQ. Includes timeline, monarchs, and World War II.
Store Gudehov - Great Temple - Drawings in 3D of a large wooden temple for warship of Odin and Thor, in viking style
Danish Kings - and their history - Danish history from the reign of the Royal House of Oldenborg starting with the coronation of King Christian 1. in 1448 and ending with the death of King Frederik 7. in 1863.
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe History I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst History He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain History "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev History Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) History Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that History The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George History Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius History A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) History "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni History To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 History The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens History "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx History Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner History I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha History I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller History If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright History I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson History "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn History I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch History A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) History "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle History
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