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Charles M. A. Thomsen
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Danish Historian with a love for Danish football, English churches, German Fankultur, American sports and antique mosaics.

More Methodist than methodical.
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For tredje dag kører en ny omgang protester i Iran og på tværs af landet. Denne gang med et udgangspunkt i de økonomiske forhold.

Landet har været igennem adskillige protestbevægelser de sidste mange år. Hvad bliver resultatet af denne?
Les images d'un rassemblement étudiant à l'université de technologie Khajeh Nasir Toosi, à Téhéran, aux cris de "Azadi, azadi, azadi" (liberté, liberté, liberté)
December 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Så trak Esbjerg igen til lange strå - men Trine Østergaard til VHK!

Det er da en nyhed at varme sig på
December 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Det 4. århundredes kristendom har - uberettiget (undtagen Theodosius den kassetænker) - et dårligt ry. Argumenterne fløj, men de fløj åbenlyst og i dagslys.

Det er det 8. århundredes krigeriske sekterianisme der nok har kostet os mange kilder.
I love that a common thread throughout the history of textual transmission is how often a piece will survive because someone did the equivalent of screenshotting it to hatepost on it
December 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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En kvinde i Køge blev skubbet omkuld af tre drenge på løbehjul, der stak af med hendes julegaver. Drengene, der beskrives som mørke i huden og 12-13 år, forsvandt mod Hastrupparken. Politiet søger vidner.
Drenge på løbejul stak af med julegaver
2. juledag blev en 34-årig kvinde fra Køge pludseligt skubbet omkuld af en mindre gruppe drenge, da hun var på vej væk fra sin bil. 
www.dr.dk
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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135 years ago, on the 29th of December 1890, more than 300 Lakota people were killed by the United States army in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Nineteen U.S. soldiers were awarded Medal of Honor for this massacre. Efforts to revoke these have been halted by the current American regime. #otd #history 🗃️
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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«Spørsmålet er ikke om teknologien skal formes politisk, men hvem som får gjøre det. Skal det være folkevalgte institusjoner, underlagt offentlighet og ansvar? Eller et lite lag av globale ideologidrevne oligarker?» skriver jeg i årets siste i Dagsavisen, og nyttårsforsettet bør være reformisme
Nyttårsforsett: Reformisme
Nå er det nok tut og kjør over demokratiet.
www.dagsavisen.no
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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One of my standard purchases this time of year: a Museumkaart, offering free access to most museums in 🇳🇱 .
It costs €75 but individual museum tickets can be €25 these days so it’s excellent value for money; if you like art/history then I can’t recommend it enough

www.museum.nl/nl/museumkaart
Museumkaart | Museum/nl\
Onbeperkt naar het museum met jouw Museumkaart. Bezoek meer dan 500 musea.
www.museum.nl
December 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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How Rosalyn Martin from New Zealand came to volunteer in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Through ChatGPT, she learned about one of the hospitals, where she spent five weeks helping soldiers and teaching English to children.

📹 Suspilne Ivano-Frankisvsk
December 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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According to SvD, more nice things a Nordic union would have: the world’s 9th largest economy, oil, rare earth minerals, lots of forest, gender equality, happiness, many world leading companies, self-sufficiency in electricity.

A Nordic union would only lack vitamin C.
December 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Something lovely for the weekend!

Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙

Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.

📷 National Museum of Denmark

#Archaeology
December 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The Goat is down. I repeat: the Goat is down.
December 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Havde ingen anelse om, hvem Liam Coen var
December 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
God tanke af Marie Kromann
December 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Det danske U/20-landshold i ishockey åbner deres A-VM i aften mod Finland. Kampen vises på SVT2 - når svenskernes egen kamp er færdig. #isdk #isvm #WorldJuniors #IIHFWorlds
a hockey player wearing a number 7 jersey stands on the ice
ALT: a hockey player wearing a number 7 jersey stands on the ice
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Solnedgangsvagten i Frederikssund
December 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Må julefreden være med jer alle i dag.❤️✨️

Her får I Johannes Møllehaves smykke fortolkning af julebudskabet💫
December 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Hvor ser man AFCON? Det plejer nu at være ret underholdende.
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Stay safe out on the roads. I just read that Chris Rea has died here before Christmas
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Just go ahead and say it out loud.

IT IS CORRUPTION
Paramount-owned CBS abruptly canceled a story exposing the Trump administration's brutal deportations.

The reporter called it a "political decision."

Paramount needs Trump’s backing to buy Warner Bros. — including CNN.

Is that just a coincidence?

This looks like corruption.
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Zambia stiller med Tembo på midtbanen. Alt er åbenbart ved det gamle nede i Zambia 🇿🇲 😅 #obdk
December 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Eks.

Det første billeder viser det jeg har først i toppen. De næste er mine rimeligt gennemarbejdet lister og sidste er nyligt påbegyndte lister - men alle bliver relativt ofte opdateret med nye.

Hvis jeg gerne vil opdateres om noget om Afrika, hopper jeg hen til "Afrika - KS (Kultur Samfund)
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Til folk, der er klogere end mig:

Hvad ville de mulige snublesten være i, at Grønland vendte tilbage til EF/EU?
Ville Spanien fx stå i vejen?
#Blålys
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
December 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM