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Hanson was born in Denmark in 1821 and came to America c. 1847, when he settled in Brooklyn, NY, with a photography studio in the Bowery. Ib Penick (1930–1998), a native of Denmark, was known as "the creative mind behind the resurgence of pop-up children's books in the 1960s and 1970s. [17]
Denmark and the former real union of Denmark–Norway had a colonial empire from the 17th through to the 20th centuries, large portions of which were found in the Americas. Denmark and Norway in one form or another also maintained land claims in Greenland since the 13th century, the former up through the twenty-first century.
Norway, with its 1920 population pegged at 2,691,855, saw 693,450 Norwegians setting sail for American shores, constituting 32.4% of the Scandinavian influx. Denmark, home to 3,268,907 people in 1920, chipped in with 300,008 immigrants, forming 14.1% of the Scandinavian immigration to the US across that century.
An American mother living abroad in Denmark gave people an inside look at the country’s free paediatric dentistry system inside elementary schools. ... formerly known as Twitter.
Denmark–Norway acquired the island of St. Thomas in 1671 [3] and St. Jan (now St. John) in 1718, and bought St. Croix from France in 1733. All of the islands' economies were based primarily on sugar. These islands were known as the Danish West Indies and were eventually sold to the United States in 1917 for 25 million dollars. [3]
[13] [14] Rear Admiral James H. Oliver was the first American governor of the Danish West Indies. [14] At the time of the U.S. purchase of the Danish West Indies in 1917, the colony did not include Water Island, which had been sold by Denmark to the East Asiatic Company, a private shipping company, in 1905.
Like its neighbors, Denmark is generally more expensive than the U.S. Consumer prices are 28% higher in Denmark than in the U.S., according to Numbeo, a cost-of-living data base.
Following World War II, there was an increase in interest in ethnic origins in the United States, which saw more Scandinavian Americans refer to themselves as Norwegian-American, Danish-American, etc. Remaining communities became concerned with cultural activism and preservationism.