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World Clock
There is a clock in a room located in a tower at Copenhagen City Hall. The room is big enough to host a full-fledged museum of a modest size, yet the clock in question is the only object there.
Edward Porper
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Silver Nose
Most exhibits of the Copenhagen Odditorium are...well, oddities - that is, objects of little to no practical significance. There is, however, at least one notable exception - a nose.
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Odditoriums
While groundbreaking technical innovations and simply great ideas often succumb to Time, there is one particular category of things that manages to slip under Time's radar.
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Hop On Hop Off
Wonderful ideas are as mortal as wonderful objects - and a revolutionary concept that has almost singlehandedly defined what tourism in the 21st century looks like, has proven to be no exception.
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Seeing with Fresh Eyes
Who would stop today even for a moment before making a phone call, turning on a TV, placing milk in the fridge or boarding a plane to travel half across the globe in several hours?
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Monarchs
When it comes to the "monarch - subjects relationships", there has historically been a lot of variety, depending on the part of the world.
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Changing of the Guard
A ceremony known as "the changing of the guards" takes place on any given day at noon sharp...
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Christiania
Many rulers had nicknames. Some were known as "Greats", others as "Conquerors" - and the "greatness" of the former almost inevitably implied the achievement associated with the latter.
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Christian X
Not every nominal leader (as in "Head of State", "Chief of Staff" and such) is a Leader. Christian X of Denmark, who reigned for 20 years in the first half of the 20th century, was.
Edward Porper