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People fight their way through the snowstorm in Kristiansand, Norway, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Temperatures below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) continued to be recorded in the Nordic region with a 25-year-old record for January night being recorded in the Swedish Arctic as a cold spell continued to grip the Nordic region. (Tor Erik Schroder/NTB Scanpix via AP)

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Extreme cold grips Nordic countries, Russia as floods hit western Europe
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Wed,01/03/24-4:09AM , 56 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe caused flooding and at least one death.
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In this handout photo released on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark Mads Dengso Jessen holds a window glass fragment from the Viking Age, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 8, 2023. Over the past 25 years, archaeologists have found glass fragments in six excavations in southern Sweden, Denmark and northern Germany and have analyzed fragments of glass panes to reach the conclusion: Vikings had windows with glass-panes. (John Fhær Engedal Nissen/The National Museum of Denmark via AP)

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Vikings had windows, another shift away from their image as barbaric Norsemen, Danish museum says
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Thu,10/05/23-6:19AM , 193 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Vikings had windows — usually only associated with medieval churches and castles — meaning Norsemen dignitaries sat in rooms lit up by apertures with glass, Danish researchers said Thursday.
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A LEGO set made of its blocks featuring K-pop band BTS, is shown during a publicity event at a store in Seoul, South Korea, on March 2, 2023. Danish toymaker Lego said Monday Sept. 25, 2023 that an experiment to make its colorful building bricks out of recycled drinks bottles didn’t work but the world’s largest toymaker “remains committed” to its plans to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emission. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

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Toymaker Lego will stick to its quest to find sustainable materials despite failed recycle attempt
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Mon,09/25/23-4:46AM , 151 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark's Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world's largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work.
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A view of the Ocean Explorer, a Bahamas-flagged Norwegian cruise ship with 206 passengers and crew, which has run aground in northwestern Greenland is pictured on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. The 104.4-meter (343-foot) long and 18-meter (60 foot) wide Ocean Explorer ran aground on Monday in Alpefjord in the Northeast Greenland National Park. Another attempt to pull free a luxury cruise ship with 206 people that ran aground in the world’s northernmost national park has failed by using the high tide. It was the third attempt to free the MV Ocean Explorer. (SIRIUS/Joint Arctic Command via AP)

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Stranded luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer is pulled free at high tide in Greenland
By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press
Thu,09/14/23-2:48AM , 152 Reads
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer was successfully pulled free on Thursday, three days after running aground in Greenland with 206 people on board, authorities and the ship's owner said.
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