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	Danish people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Det danske folk (The Danish nation) as a concept, played an important role in 19th century ethnic nationalism and refers to self-identification rather than a legal status.
		Use of the term is most often restricted to a historical context; the historic German-Danish struggle regarding the status of the Duchy of Schleswig vis-à-vis a Danish nation-state.
		The term should not be confused with the legal concept of nationality, Danske statsborgere (Danish nationals) i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danes (396 words)

	Danish people -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Danish nation is to be distinguished from the legal concept of (The status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization) nationality, Danish nationals; i.e.
		The Danish nation is a concept connected to (Click link for more info and facts about 19th century) 19th century (Click link for more info and facts about ethnic nationalism) ethnic nationalism.
		In Second World War was the Danish nationalism in opposition to the Nazism, and anti-racist because Nazism is racist.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/danish_people.htm (266 words)

	DANISH LANGUAGE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Danish is the official_language of Denmark, one of two official languages of Greenland (the other is Greenlandic), and one of two official languages of the Faeroes (the other is Faeroese).
		Danish also holds official status and is a mandatory subject in school in the former Danish colonies of Greenland and the Faroe_Islands, that now enjoy limited autonomy.
		Danish is also prone to a considerable reduction and assimilation of both consonants and vowels even in formal standard language.
	www.abait.com /Danish_language (1975 words)

	Faculty
		Danish nationalism is quiet and cultural, a sheet anchor for a tiny nation of five million people whose ancestors have been perched on some islands and a sand spit north of Germany for millennia.
		Danish cultural nationalism is a fairly recent phenomena, one attributable to late industrialization, and to the prevalence of peasant values in the homogeneous political culture that developed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		Danish nationalism runs deep, but it is not the sort of archly-patriotic and militant nationalism that tore Europe apart during the last century and a half, and that thrives in the USA today.
	www.unh.edu /cie/faculty/bolster.html (666 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Denmark apologizes for expelling WWII Jews
		Fogh Rasmussen made a formal apology on behalf of the Danish nation and the state of Denmark to those, german jews and others, who were expelled from Denmark to Germany at the beginning of the german occupation of Denmark, when he spoke at the ceremony.
		Queen Margrethe and Danish and British war veterans also took part in the flower-laying ceremony at Mindelunden park, which has more than 100 graves of Danish resistance fighters who were executed by the Germans or died in concentration camps.
		Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks at the 60-year anniversary of the liberation of Denmark at a memorial in Copenhagen, Wednesday evening, May 4, 2005.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/04/denmark_apologizes_for_expelling_wwii_jews (404 words)

	Palo Alto Review
		National consciousness and democratic consciousness nested together in the Danish national psyche.
		The role of Grundtvigism in the Danish response to the Nazis was not accidental.
		The Danish mentality was that of a free people which felt a duty to defend the freedom of its fellow citizens.
	www.accd.edu /pac/english/pareview/eggerz.htm (2273 words)

	Márton Áron
		Danish high schools didn't turn the attention of the middle classes towards the important problems of the nation and the culture which they offered was foreign from the spirit and culture of the Danish people.
		Bishop Grundtvig realised that the Danish nation was threatened by a tragic crisis.
		The school must prove to the children of the nation reduced to the state of a national minority that Christian morality is just as important in their lives as the laws of architecture in building or as the circulation of the liquids which starts from the roots and keeps alive the plant.
	www.hhrf.org /gyrke/e/ma-iskpol.html (2759 words)

	olwig on golden memory
		It grants to Danish life great moral human value at a time, when this life is lived in a highly shrivelled national space, and when Danes find themselves in the margins of a world dominated by foreign superpowers and an array of different technical, economic, cultural and social flow from foreign metropoles.
		Danish society from the middle of the nineteenth century was characterized by an economic, political and cultural growth which benefited the farmer class (the rural small holders and proletariat, on the other hand, was exploited and impoverished and many immigrated to America).
		His skeptical attitude towards the Danish government should be seen in the light of his affiliation with the daily newspaper Politiken, which was highly critical of the Danish political system at the time, and which defended the rights of the rural small holders and proletariat in Denmark.
	www.viaccess.net /~crucian/memory.htm (5786 words)

	Faroe Islands Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
		Moreover, a protocol to the treaty of accession of Denmark to the European Communities stipulates that Danish nationals residing in the Faroe Islands are not to be considered as Danish nationals within the meaning of the treaties.
		The national awakening since 1888 was first struggling for the Faroese language, thus more cultural orientated, but after 1906 more and more politically after the foundation of the political parties of the Faroe Islands.
		Today, elections are held in the municipalities, on national level for the Løgting, and inside the Kingdom of Denmark for the Folketing.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Faroe_Islands (1606 words)

	Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 99 September 1848
		The Danish nation is in commercial, industrial, political and literary matters completely dependent on Germany.
		Scandinavianism is enthusiasm for the brutal, sordid, piratical, Old Norse national traits, for that profound inner life which is unable to express its exuberant ideas and sentiments in words, but can express them only in deeds, namely, in rudeness towards women, perpetual drunkenness and the wild frenzy of the Berserker alternating with tearful sentimentality.
		The Danes, we are told, now had to oppose their nationality to the Germans and for this purpose they invented Scandinavianism.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1848/09/10a.htm (1316 words)

	A Force More Powerful: Denmark 1940 - Living With the Enemy
		To contest German dominion over Danish life, the country engages in a sudden renaissance of Danish culture and a swelling of national pride, manifesting itself in public songfests and a festival commemorating King Christian's birthday.
		Later that fall, when the Germans try to deport Danish police officials whom they believe are turning a blind eye to sabotage and disorder, Copenhagen goes on strike again, joined this time by 58 other cities and towns.
		When the Danish government refuses direct orders to prohibit public meetings or impose curfews or press censorship on its own people, Germany puts it out of business and quickly places troops at railroad stations, power plants, factories, and other key facilities.
	www.pbs.org /weta/forcemorepowerful/denmark (544 words)

	Naval warfare
		The origins of a national Danish naval fleet are to be found at the end of the 14th century, when Queen Margrethe commanded the nobility and the burghers of the Royal Boroughs to equip ships at their own expense for the defence of the realm.
		The role of the Danish nation as "watchman of the Baltic" was further emphasised by the strategic choice of Copenhagen as both the capital and the home of the fleet, situated, as it was at that time, in the middle of the Kingdom of Denmark
		At this period the Danish fleet was on the decline, but after Christian II had been finally subdued in 1523, the task of building up the fleet was begun.
	www.orlogsmuseet.dk /kroneng122.htm (2232 words)

	- Honorary Award to the Nation of Denmark - News and Press-releases - All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress
		The Highest Honorary Award of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, handed to the Nation of Denmark for the heroism and humanity showed in salvation of Jews at the times of the Second World War, was given for custody to the Prime Minister of the Kingdom Denmark Mr.
		The Head of Danish Jewish Community Jac Blum has stressed that his community is intended to provide help for brothers in Ukraine and to stand up for the ideals of European humanity and democracy together with people of Ukraine.
		This was contended by Jac Blum, the Head of Danish Jewish Community, at the Copenhagen Conference, dedicated to the problems of Jewish Community of Ukraine development, which was organized under the initiative of European Institution of Minorities' Issues.
	www.jewish.kiev.ua /eng/news_e/006_e.htm (223 words)

	Denmark.dk: Official website - Denmark - Slave descendants seek satisfaction
		ACCRA is not lobbying for a formal Danish apology for slavery.
		Danish slavery began when Christian V and the West Indian Company decided to boost Denmark's economy with spices, tobacco, cotton, rum, and sugar.
		In June, he chaired the UN Commission for Decolonisation, and later in the same month appeared in Atlanta, Georgia to address the annual congress of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, which is fighting for African-Americans to get a formal apology for the enslavement of their ancestors.
	denmark.dk /portal/page?_pageid=374,855349&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL (587 words)

	CHRISTIAN IV. - LoveToKnow Article on CHRISTIAN IV.
		of Kiel Bay, and Christian displayed a heroism which endeared him ever after to the Danish nation and made his name famous in song and story.
		Another attempt to transport Torstensson and his army to the Danish islands by a large Swedish fleet was frustrated by Christian IV.
		The Danish navy, which in 1596 consisted of but twenty-two vessels, in 1610 rose to sixty, some of them being built after Christians own designs.
	26.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHRISTIAN_IV_.htm (1483 words)

	Knud Dyby: One of the Righteous
		They were a natural part of the Danish nation, just people who happened to practice a different religion.
		He was there as a representative of a small nation that showed the world it is possible for ordinary people to stand firm against the forces of evil.
		In the face of mounting tension, the Danish government was replaced in August of 1943 with one the Germans hoped would be more manageable.
	www.rongreene.com /dyby.html (1097 words)

	Chapter Three: A Seeming Difference
		Here in the Danish model a new mode of communication has been established within which the power concept is one of fertilisation and not of domination of one by the other.
		It is democracy that made the nation and not the nation that should shape democracy.
		Thus the greatest obstacle to the making of a nation came from the scriptures and myths on which the social divisions of the people were based and legitimised.
	www.ahrchk.net /pub/mainfile.php/demo_and_hope/93 (3548 words)

	Wind power pays well for Denmark / Nation at forefront of $4 billion industry
		Danish farmers had long used windmills to power pumps, and the first electricity-generating wind turbine was installed here in the late 19th century.
		Danish companies supplied more than half the turbines now in use worldwide, making turbines one of the country's largest exports.
		And the Danish government has since stepped in with a system of price supports to encourage wind energy at home.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/23/MN194440.DTL (1059 words)

	Danish history (the s.c.nordic FAQ)
		The Danish National bank then paid from the "clearing-account", which was then supposed to be repaid by the Germans, this however never happened (the account still amounts to several milliards in 1996).
		A lot of the stories are inaccurate or untrue and tend to polish the Danish image, which in view of the Governments acts from April 9th 1940 to 29 August 1943 is deeply tarnished by a policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
		First of all, the bombing of tivoli was a "Schalburgtage" committed by Danish Nazies not but the Germans, and it happenened after august 43, were the Danish government demissioned and the "peaceful" occupation and collaboration ended.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq33.html (3509 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Schleswig
		In 1103 or 1104 a separate Danish archdiocese was erected at Lund for all these bishoprics, and, notwithstanding the protests of the Archbishop of Bremen, Schleswig was made a suffragan of Lund.
		The people, however, accepted all the measures of the Danish government very composedly, as the male line of the royal dynasty would soon be extinct and the female line was, by the Salic law of succession, not capable of succeeding in the duchies, although it could in Denmark.
		King Christian, however, in 1846 published a letter in which he declared the Danish right of succession to be also valid in the duchies, and his successor Frederick VIII (1848-63) was forced by popular assemblies at Copenhagen, soon after he came to the throne, to promise the incorporation of Schleswig into the Danish kingdom.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13542a.htm (2852 words)

	The Atheist Alliance Web Center Secular Nation Magazine
		Secular Nation is a publication of the Atheist Alliance International and is unlikely to publish articles that are inconsistent with its philosophy of positive atheism.
		Secular Nation is published quarterly and is a benefit of being an individual member of Atheist Alliance.
		Readership of Secular Nation is approximately 1,000, not including an unknown number of pass-alongs and public library placements.
	www.atheistalliance.org /secular (1613 words)

	Denmark
		The Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Bevægelse (DNSB, Danish National Socialist Movement) is an openly neo- Nazi organization with a hard-core membership of 100-200.
		Danish Jews were granted full civil rights in 1814 (the first Jewish resident in Denmark, Joachim Jew, was registered in 1592 in the northern town of Helsingør).
		The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) agreed to give Denmark a trial period in order to see how the legislation functioned in practice before reaching a decision as to whether or not it was discriminatory.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/countries/denmark/denmark.htm (5602 words)

	Australian Memories Of The Holocaust
		The Danish awards include one which was made to the King in honour of the Danish nation.
		One of the awards for Norway was a collective one for the members of the Norwegian Resistance movement, all of whom helped Jews to escape.
	www.holocaust.com.au /mm/r_righteous.htm (158 words)

	Energy for Life: The Pursuit of an Ethical Energy Policy
		Still, there are calls, even now, to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as somehow our patriotic duty, illustrating that despite the President's comment, policy remains dominated by those who view energy as a commodity--as so many of Bertrand Russell's pins.
		The answer is simple, No nation in the world has a saner or more rational policy toward energy than does Denmark.
		There are no panaceas, no quick fixes to the state's or for that matter the nation's energy conundrum.
	www.wind-works.org /articles/Ethics.html (2037 words)

	Danish
		a belonging to the Danish nation (basically Danes in Denmark and Schleswig, but not on the autonomous Faroe Islands).
		"Danish tongue" is a synonym to the Old Norse language (3rd century - 15th century), spoken in all of Scandinavia
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/da/Danish.htm (71 words)

	NATO Research Fellowships
		However, being impartial is not the same as being indifferent in relation to the basic moral and constitutional principles upon which the Danish nation is based.
		The Danish Broadcasting Corporation is an independent public institution which has an obligation to the general public to provide radio (and television) programme services comprising news coverage, general information, entertainment and art.
		The Danish Broadcasting Act is the Constitution of Danmarks Radio and of Danish media in general.
	www.nato.int /docu/fellow/94-96-04/023.htm (2949 words)

	Välisministeerium : Address by Estonian Foreign Minister Mrs Kristiina Ojuland at the Danish Institute of International Affairs
		Under the command of Danish Brigadier General Michael H. Clemmesen, the college educates officers who will ensure that the military and defence forces of the three Baltic states will be compatible with NATO forces by the next enlargement.
		At the moment, Estonia is one of the front-runners in the accession negotiations, which we hope to finish during the Danish Presidency.
		Everyone agrees, that the Danish Presidency is going to be one of the most demanding and challenging.
	www.vm.ee /eng/kat_140/1817.html?arhiiv_kuup=kuup_2002 (2225 words)

	Annex 2. Structure of ISAG , Danish Environmental Protection Agency
		Until 1994 the most recent nation-wide Danish waste figures had been those from 1985.
		Indicated by "import" or one of the 275 Danish municipalities.
		They were compiled by regional and local authorities in connection with a nation-wide waste survey.
	www.mst.dk /udgiv/publications/1999/87-7909-106-7/html/kap09_eng.htm (720 words)

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