| April 22, 2008 | - The Danish company Agroplast announced plans to market cheap plastic dinnerware made from pig urine.
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Cnet
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| October 19, 2007 | - The curator of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum asked the public to donate pubic crabs, claiming that their population was dwindling as a result of Brazilian waxes. ''When the bamboo forests that the Giant Panda lives in were cut down, the bear became threatened with extinction. Pubic lice,“ he explained, ”can't live without pubic hair."
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New York Times
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| October 19, 2007 | - The curator of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum asked the public to donate pubic crabs, claiming that their population was dwindling as a result of Brazilian waxes. ''When the bamboo forests that the Giant Panda lives in were cut down, the bear became threatened with extinction. Pubic lice,“ he explained, ”can't live without pubic hair."
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New York Times
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| November 19, 2006 | - A Danish
artist named Kristian von Hornsleth was giving animals to Ugandan villagers who agreed to take his name. “Africans adopting European names for gifts—that's nothing new,” said George Sabadu Hornsleth, who received a pig. “We've been doing that since colonial times. Why do you think I'm called George?”
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Yahoo! News
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| August 30, 2006 | -
Danish researchers reported that pollutants may shrink the genitals of polar bears, foxes, and whales.
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local6.com
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| May 3, 2006 | - Prince Henrik of Denmark, honorary president of the Danish Dachshund Club, told an interviewer that he enjoys eating
dogs.
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The New York Sun
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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Arab News
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Al Jazeera
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BBC News
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Channel 4
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ReviewJournal.com
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CBC News
Source 7:
Al Jazeera
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ABC News Online
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Bloomberg News
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| February 5, 2006 | - Riots erupted over newspaper cartoons, printed first in Denmark and subsequently throughout Europe, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators rallied in Syria, where they attacked the Danish and Norwegian embassies, and in Lebanon, where they set the Danish embassy on fire. "They should have respected our religion," said a Lebanese protester. Iran recalled its ambassador from Denmark, and protesters outside the United Nations in New York City chanted, "shame, shame."
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BBC News
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Newsday
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| October 15, 2005 | -
Danish soldiers in Iraq and Kosovo were being issued soothing pillows that chirp like birds.
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Reuters
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| October 15, 2005 | -
Denmark's Crown Princess Mary gave birth to a son.
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Reuters
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| September 29, 2005 | - The Danish Air Force paid a Santa 31,175 kroner after the noise from fighter jets frightened his reindeer, Rudolph, to death.
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AP
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| July 25, 2005 | -
Canada and Denmark were arguing over the claim to Hans Island, an uninhabited one-half-square-mile of land 682 miles south of the North Pole.
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CNN.com
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| May 30, 2005 | - In Denmark, a Lutheran minister who was suspended for preaching that God does not exist was allowed to return to the pulpit.
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AP
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| April 12, 2005 | - A Danish study found no link between cell phones and brain tumors.
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InformationWeek
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| March 3, 2005 | - Ninety Danish master bakers were working to improve the flavor of communion wafers.
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The Copenhagen Post
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| October 8, 2003 | - Transparency International released its annual corruption survey; Bangladesh was rated most corrupt, just beating out Nigeria and Haiti. Finland, Iceland, and Denmark were the least corrupt.
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Associated Press
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| July 10, 2003 | -
Danish troops in Iraq received a supply shipment of lawn mowers and snowplows.
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Agence France-Presse
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Medical staff at an old-folks' home in Denmark claimed that porn and prostitutes do more good than drugs in treating the elderly.
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| May 29, 2001 | - Two Danish
researchers found that the “placebo effect” was a myth, the result of wishful thinking and basic methodological errors.
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