Denmark

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Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Danish Statistical Department, 1926
1924- include also "Greenland under Danish rule."

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الصفحة 46 - clear notions of the civic community and the conditions of its welfare, an appreciation of the national character, and the ability to express one's thoughts with ease and vigour, freedom and propriety.
الصفحة 134 - Offices (Landsarkiver), situated respectively in Copenhagen, Odense, and Viborg. The Central Record Office contains all the older material up to 1559 and all the archives of the central administration. The Provincial Record Offices comprise all the local official archives.
الصفحة 43 - Kroner, and this is, besides certain still smaller fees for admission to examinations, the only fee charged for university studies. Thus practically all tuition is free, and furthermore most lectures are public and open to everybody, even those not entitled to matriculation.
الصفحة 46 - PETER MANNICHE). One of its chief objects is to bridge the gulf of estrangement and suspicion existing among the nations of the world.
الصفحة 132 - Museum contains a complete collection of the works of the famous Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, in all about 700 works of art bequeathed by the artist to his native city, Copenhagen. In the centre of the building is Thorvaldsen's tomb. Dir.
الصفحة 30 - The men of the last 8 years service form the troops of the line, while those of the previous 8 years form the Reserve. During these 16 years the conscripts must keep the enlistment authorities informed as to their addresses and may not leave the country without permission. Under war conditions the army can be brought up to a total...
الصفحة 132 - Copenhagen; f. 1807; consists of 7 divisions: The Danish Prehistoric Collection, The Danish Historical Collection, The Danish Folk Museum, The Ethnographic Collection, The Collection of Classical Antiquities, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, and The Open-air Museum at Sorgenfri: Dir.
الصفحة 134 - ... maps and pictures. Of the volumes about 4,000 are incunabula dating from before 1500, and about 35,000 are manuscripts containing a fine collection of Pali MSS. on palm leaves and a collection of old Norse MSS. Included among the last-mentioned MSS. is the only existing MS. of the Older Edda and the voluminous Flatoe Book, which contains the story of the Norse discovery of America 500 years before Columbus's. The library is the largest in Scandinavia. Chief Librarian CARL S. PETERSEN. The University...
الصفحة 60 - Danish farms are owned by the farmers themselves. According to statistics drawn up in 1919 only about 7.5 per cent were leased or tenanted. This figure has been still further reduced by a compulsory commutation of leases.
الصفحة 59 - It appears from this that the small farms are in great majority, but that by far the greater part of the agricultural area is taken up by medium sized farms with 15 — 60 ha, whereas the big farms cover only a comparatively modest portion of the area.

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