7000 Wonders

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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

Edward Porper

3 min read
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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.

Edward Porper

Edward Porper

2 min read
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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.

Edward Porper

Edward Porper

2 min read
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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.

Edward Porper

Edward Porper

4 min read
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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?

Edward Porper

Edward Porper

2 min read
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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.

Edward Porper

Edward Porper

2 min read
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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...

Edward Porper

Edward Porper

2 min read
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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.

Edward Porper

Edward Porper

2 min read
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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

Edward Porper

2 min read