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Fussuingoe Manor House was the home for a noble family for 4 centeries. Today the forest and the agri...
Jens GalschiøtThe Messenger (2000): 5 meter high cobber sculpture of a female messenger figure wearin...
Jens Galschiøt "In the Name of God"It is a harsh comment to the impact of the fundamentalist branch o...
Nice weather, so i made at trip to Tange lake ...
3 gravel pits laying side by side, some km from Kongensbro, heading for ViborgFor 25 years I was empl...
This is the "beach" of Tange Town!Lake Tange is an artificial lake to the old powerplant at Tange, n...
Lake tange, an artificial dam lake and the purpose was to deliver powe to the powerplant Tangeværket,...
For 25 years I was employed by the Danish State railways, and this gave me an invaluable possibili...
Archaeological excavation indicates that a church has been situated here since the Viking Age (approx...
Archaeological excavation indicates that a church has been situated here since the Viking Age (approx...
Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
Europe is presently uniting into one political and economic zone with a common currency called the Euro. The European Union originated in 1993 and is now composed of 27 member states. Its headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
Text by Steve Smith.
