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2 unusual facts about Aalborg University – Copenhagen


Forced

Beta Dwarf was formed by a small group of students, who moved into an unused classroom in Aalborg University – Copenhagen, in Denmark.

Nordic Game Jam

The 2013 edition of Nordic Game Jam is scheduled for January 18–20, 2013 at the Aalborg University – Copenhagen.


1728 map of Copenhagen

Gammelholm, the former site of the Royal Shipyard by then partly moved to Nyholm

Aleksei Kulbakov

His first match at this level took place 17 September 2009 CFR Cluj won 2-0 against København in Cluj-Napoca.

Alexandru Chipciu

In the autumn of 2012 Chipciu helped Steaua Bucharest qualify from the UEFA Europa League group stage, after defeating teams like VfB Stuttgart, Molde FK and FC Copenhagen.

Barry Nicholson

In season 2006/07, the club finished in third place in the league and thus qualified for the 2007-08 UEFA Cup from which the Dons qualified from their group after a 4–0 win against F.C. Copenhagen.

Birthe Wilke

When she was in her teens, she won a talent competition at the National Scala Theatre in Copenhagen, sang as soloist with Bruno Henriksen's Orchestra at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, made her first recording, and was named "Denmark's Doris Day" and recorded "Que sera sera" in 1956.

Christen Købke

In 1815 the family moved from a bakery near Hillerød to Kastellet, a military fortification area in Copenhagen, where his father was head baker.

Christof Marselis

The exact extent of his contributions remain uncertain but he worked on such buildings as the Garrison Church (1703–06), the Stable Master's House (1703–05) and Frederiksberg Palace in Copenhagen.

Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen

The French painter and illustrator Édouard Riou has depicted the church in the original French illustrated version of A Journey to the Center of the Earth, but has the spire turned the wrong way around, that is, clockwise instead of anticlockwise.

The Church of Our Saviour in Christianshavn appears in a chapter of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Church of the Holy Ghost, Copenhagen

Of these the present-day church has evolved from the south wing while the House of the Holy Ghost is the former west wing.

Embassy of France, Copenhagen

In 1769, the palace was acquired by Otto Thott, who had the facade towards modernized to the design of Nicolas-Henri Jardin in 1763–64.

Freemasons' Hall, Copenhagen

When the municipal authorities in Copenhagen sold off a strip of land along "Blegdamsvej" street, previously part of the park Fælledparken, the Danish Order of Freemasons acquired a piece of land.

Gammel Kongevej

Running roughly parallel to Frederiksberg Allé and Vesterbrogade, it extends from Vesterport station at the southern end of The Lakes and continues for some 1.8 km west to Frederiksberg City Hall Square where it continues as Smallegade.

Gemini Residence

It is located at the end of Bryggebroen, connecting Amager-side Islands Brygge to Zealand-side Vesterbro across the harbour, and close to the southern end of Havneparken.

Godthaab Church, Copenhagen

The foundation stone was set on 3 October by provost and later Bishop of Zealand, Ostenfeld.

Gunboat Sheds, Copenhagen

The Gunboat Sheds (Kanonbådsskurene) is a row of 32 black-painted wooden sheds located on the east coast of Frederiksholm, part of Holmen, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan

These include the Little Horn-Blower at City Hall Square in Copenhagen (bronze, 1899), the four granite elephants of the Elephant Gate at the Ny Carlsberg brewery in Valby (1901) and a statue of Ogier the Dane for the romantic gardens at Marienlyst House (bronze 1907).

Holmen, Copenhagen

The 32 former Gunboat Sheds today house small business mainly in the creative sector, such advertising agencies, media houses and architectural practises.

Holmen is also home to Georg Stage, a fully rigged, three-masted sailing ship which serves as a training-platform for Danish sailors.

Immanuel Church, Copenhagen

The church is built in large red brick of the type in Denmark known as Munkesten in a Romanesque Revival style inspired by Italian churches in Ravenna and Sienna.

It belongs to Københavns Valgmenighed and Vartov Valgmenighed, two Grundtvigian congregations under Church of Denmark.

Indre Østerbro

When Christian IV expanded the fortification of the inner city, he also moved the gate to near Kastellet, thus introducing the confusion that the Eastern Gate is located more northerly than the Northern Gate.

Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening

From 1870 to 1960 the club was based on the Copenhagen lakes, first at Sortedams Sø, and from 1886 at Peblinge Sø.

Mate Šestan

He has played as a forward for numerous clubs, including Swedish Hammarby IF, Danish F.C. Copenhagen, Spanish Levante UD.

Niels Christian Christensen

He was born in Sundby, but represented the club Kjøbenhavns Skytteforening.

Niels-Christian Holmstrøm

Niels-Christian Holmstrøm (born 23 February 1947) is a Danish former football player, manager, chief consultant in Team Danmark and sports director of Danish football club F.C. Copenhagen.

Odd Fellows Mansion, Copenhagen

After Berckentin's death in 1758, the Berckentin Mansion was taken over by his son-in-law, Christian Sigfred von Plessen, who also owned Glorup Manor on Funen, and had married von Berckentin's daughter Louise von Plessen née Berckentin in 1744.

Olsen Brothers

Both Jørgen and Niels Olsen participated in the musical Hair in the Cirkusbygningen in Copenhagen March 1971, and went on tour afterwards through Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Prince's Mansion, Copenhagen

Geographer and explorer Carsten Niebuhr, who had returned to Copenhagen as the only surviving member of the Danish Arabia Expedition in 1768, lived there from 1773 until 1778 when he accepted a position in the civil service of Danish Holstein.

Gerhard Christoph von Krogh, the military officer who had led the Danish troops in the Battle of Isted, was a resident from 1817 until 1853.

Royal Doulton

When the Anglican St. Alban's Church was built in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1887 with Alexandra, Princess of Wales as one of the driving forces, Doulton donated and manufactured an altarpiece, a pulpit and a font.

Serenata in vano

The serende was first performed in Copenhagen on 13 April 1915 in the smaller hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion.

Siboniso Gaxa

Gaxa attended the University of Port Elizabeth, which at that time had a football team controlled by Danish side F.C. Copenhagen.

Soldenfeldts Stiftelse

Soldenfeldts Stiftelse is a listed property overlooking Sortedam Lake in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark.

St. Clare's Monastery, Copenhagen

The monastic buildings then came into use as a mint, which after its decommissioning became known as the Old Mint, giving rise to the present day street name Gammel Mønt at the site.

St. Gertrude's Hospital, Copenhagen

Saint Gertrude was one of the patron saints of travellers and merchants.

St. John's Church, Copenhagen

Located on Blegdamsvej, between Sankt Hans Torv and the Panum Institute, St. John's remains the largest church in the Nørrebro district.

The church plays host to the student priest for University of Copenhagen's faculties of Health Sciences and Science, both located nearby.

St. Luke's Church, Copenhagen

In 1892, a temporary church was therefore consecrated in the former gym hall of a local folk high school to relieve the pressure on Frederiksberg Church and the young Harald Ostenfeld, later Bishop of Zealand, was instituted as its first pastor.

St. Peter's Church, Copenhagen

With the increasing tensions between Denmark and Germany in the middle of the 18th century, culminating in the First Schleswig War from 1848 to 1850, the church lost its special position and therefore members, prestige and financial support.

Store Bededag

Today, the city ramparts are gone and instead the tradition is to walk along Langelinie on Copenhagen's waterfront or on the fortification of Kastellet, though only few follow this tradition depending on the spring weather.

Yellow Mansion, Copenhagen

Prince Christian of Glücksborg, later to become Christian IX of Denmark, took up residence in it when he first arrived in Copenhagen.

At this stage no one knew that he was later to become Christian IX as the first Glücksburg king of Denmark.

With him, due to the prominent lives of his offspring, the fairly modest mansion became the birthplace of such European royalty as Frederick VIII of Denmark, Alexandra, Queen of the United Kingdom, George I of Greece and Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia.


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