#denmark 1989

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🇩🇰 Birthe Kjær - Vi maler byen rød

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[vizreef]

Storno 940 / portable phone (Denmark, 1989)

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Crazy Town - Butterfly 2000

"Butterfly" is a song by American rap-rockband Crazy Town. The song was released in October 2000 as the third single from their debut studio album, The Gift of Game (1999). It gained mainstream popularity after being released physically on February 19, 2001. It is based on a sample of "Pretty Little Ditty" from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1989 album Mother's Milk, so band members Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith, and John Frusciante are credited as writers.

"Butterfly" peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two nonconsecutive weeks in 2001. It topped the charts in seven other countries, including Austria, Denmark, and Norway, and it peaked within the top ten on the charts of several others, including Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the UK.

Vocalist Shifty Shellshock passed away last week, on June 24th.

"Butterfly" received a total of 74,5% yes votes!

[themousefromfantasyland]

Why are people not talking about this:

In the Little Mermaid 2023 remake, they changed the setting of the story.

Despite what many believe, the original 1989 animated movie wasn't set in Denmark. Judging by the architecture of Prince Eric's castle, the animals present during Kiss the Girl, and the landscape of the land itself, the movie is set in the European Mediterranean. Disney all but confirmed this in latter years. There were actual theories about Eric's kingdom being in Italy.

In the remake, Eric's kingdom is an island heavily implied to be on the Caribbean sea.

Eric is adopted and his mother, the Queen is super alive in this, and she is black. Grimsby here is portrayed by a Pakistani-British actor, making him ambiguously brown. Carlotta was replaced by a character named Lashana, and she is portrayed by a Trinidadian actress.

The island population is super diverse, with black and brown people everywhere.

They have a tropical climate and the only trees seen are palm trees.

Instead of waltzing when they visit the kingdom, Ariel and Eric dance Caribbean music.

When Eric shows several maps to Ariel, he suspiciously cites the names of a lot of South America countries, like Venezuela and Colombia, implying that the kingdom is closer to these countries than it is to Europe. He even cites my country, Brazil, referred as the Brazilian Empire, which dates the movie from anywhere between 1822 and 1889, when Brazil was indeed an Empire.

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @angelixgutz @amalthea9 @thelittlehansy

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F-4G Phantom Wild Weasel from the 52nd TFW Spangdahlem Air Base Germany over Denmark in 1989

@perpetuaosombro via X

[morbidology]

Helle Crafts was a Danish air stewardess that had married Richard Crafts in 1979 before settling down in Newtown, Connecticut. The couple had three children and Richard had a good career as an airline pilot. However, the relationship was rocky from the very beginning with Richard cheating on Helle even before they were married.

On the 19th of November, 1986, Helle landed in New York from Germany. She and two other stewardesses drove to Newtown and pulled up outside Helle’s home. “Richard’s home,” she sighed. It was the last time anybody saw her alive.

Helle had recently just discovered that her husband had once again been having a number of affairs behind her back. She filed for divorce shortly before her disappearance and expressed fear for her life to her friends. One friend said she told them, “that if anything happened to her, we should not believe that it was an accident.”

Following her disappearance, Richard gave varying reports as to where Helle was. He originally said that she was in Denmark visiting her sick mother, but this lie soon crumbled when her mother said no such arrangement had been made and that she wasn’t sick. He then told concerned friends that she was in Florida or the Canary Islands visiting with a friend.

Just days after Helle's disappearance, Richard dismantled and redecorated their bedroom and purchased a new freezer; an odd thing to do when your wife is missing. Helle’s divorce lawyer soon got involved after finding out that Richard hadn’t even reported his wife missing.

Investigators considered something sinister had happened and zoned in on Richard who had been acting very peculiarly. The following month, they discovered that he had rented a 2700-pound wood chipper when Helle disappeared. A highway worker then came forward to reveal that he had seen Richard parked at the side of River Road with the wood chipper in tow at around 3AM a day or two after Helle disappeared.

Investigators rushed to the scene where they uncovered clumps of wood chips under layers of dead leaves. Among the wood chips, they found something much more sinister: a human thumb, a fingertip with the nail attached, strands of bleached hair, a big toe, bone fragments, lacy material from underwear, a mailing label with Helle Crafts name on it and a crowned tooth with a piece of jawbone attached.

The evidence was damning. In addition, they uncovered a submerged chainsaw covered in Helle’s DNA and a bloodstained carpet from inside the home. Richard was found guilty on the 21st of November, 1989, and sentenced to 50 years in prison. It was the first case in which somebody was convicted of murder with no body in the state of Connecticut. The 1996 movie, Fargo, was based on the case.

[royalchildreneurope]

On August 30th 2024, The Danish Royal Court announced that from September 4th 2024, His Royal Highness The Crown Prince will set out for an extended stay in East Africa. There, The Crown Prince will be involved in the daily operation of two farms, which will, among other things, include practical and administrative tasks and also give The Crown Prince insight into local nature protection. The plan is for The Crown Prince to return to Denmark in December.

In The Royal Family, there is a long tradition that the successors to the throne go on extended stays abroad during their youth and have the opportunity to develop and experience the world. Thus, His Majesty The King took part in an expedition to Mongolia in 1986 focused on the nomads and, in 1989, worked for a year at a vineyard in California. Her Majesty Queen Margrethe also went on longer trips to the East and South America in the 1960s.

It is the hope of The King and Queen and The Crown Prince that there will be an understanding that the stay abroad remains a private matter from beginning to end. For this reason, no additional details about the stay will be made public.

📷 : Queen Mary of Denmark/Det Danske Kongehus.

[nicolascageisagoth]

1989, the studio Puk in Denmark where Violator was recorded (most of the album).

Martin Gore and Alan Wilder are at work wearing their typical studio uniform

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King Diamond - A Visit From The Dead

[ace-kage-from-wetland-woods]

So in the wake of the shooting I made a list of all the shootings in Europe I could find... There is 21 of them and a total of 127 people were killed (not counting the ones from today). That's a lot isn't it? Yes, it is. But... Do you know when the first one was? 1913.

We had 21 shootings in Europe in the last 110 years and 127 dead. The list:

1913 - Germany (5 dead)

1925 - Poland (5 dead)

1947 - United Kingdom (1 dead)

1961 - Sweden (1 dead)

1967 - UK (1 dead)

1974 - Bulgaria (8)

1983 - Germany (6 dead)

1987 - UK (3)

1989 - Finland (2)

1988 - UK (0)

1994 - Denmark (3)

1996 - UK (18)

2002 - Germany (17 dead)

2003 - Germany (1)

2006 - Germany (1)

2007 - Finland (9)

2008 - Finland (11)

2009 - Germany (16)

2012 - France (8)

2022 - Germany (2)

2023 - Serbia (10)

This list doesn't include todays shootings in Prague and the shootings that weren't in schools (for example the Norway attacks of 2011 [shooting and bombing], 77 people died).

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Thomas Dam (Danish, 1915–1989), Dam Things Establishment (Denmark), Dammit troll doll, this example manufactured ca. 1963

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Per Kirkeby (Denmark, Kopenhagen, 1938 - 2018 Kopenhagen)

Edition - 5 black and white etchings, 1989/90

Untitled, 1989/90 Etching Paper size 235 x 129 cm Plate size 200 x cm

https://www.sabineknust.com/artists/per-kirkeby/5-black-and-white-etchings-198990

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Snow - Informer 1992

"Informer" is a song by Canadian reggae musician Snow, released in December 1992 as the first single from his debut album, 12 Inches of Snow (1993). "Informer" was a chart-topping hit, spending seven consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number one on the singles chart in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100. It entered the top 10 in Austria, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, where the single peaked at number two during its third week at the UK Singles Chart. Outside Europe, it reached number one in Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, and on the US Billboard Hot 100. In Snow's native Canada, "Informer" topped The Record's singles chart and was a top-10 radio hit, peaking at number nine on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart. "Informer" was awarded with a gold record in Austria and the Netherlands, a silver record in the UK, and a platinum record in Germany, New Zealand and the US. In Australia, it received a double-platinum record.

As he was growing up in Toronto, Canada, Snow had a strong interest in rock music, but in 1983 there was an influx of Jamaican immigrants to the neighbourhood and his interest turned to reggae music and he became adept at the use of the Jamaican dialect, or Jamaican Patois. He developed his own style of music, by blending dancehall and reggae with rock and pop music.

Snow served an eight-month sentence in Toronto for assault when "Informer" began getting radio and MuchMusic airplay. The song is based on a separate 1989 incident when Snow was charged with two counts of attempted murder. At the time, he was detained for a year in Toronto before the charges were reduced to aggravated assault, and he was eventually acquitted and freed.

"Informer" won a Juno Award for Best Reggae Recording in 1994. It has been recorded twice in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling reggae single in US history, as well as the highest charting reggae single in history. In Japan, Snow received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's 1994 Japan Gold Disc Award for New Artist of the Year.

In 2019, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and rapper Daddy Yankee released a new version of "Informer" as "Con Calma" together with Snow, who recorded new parts. The Spanish-language remake topped the charts of 20 countries and reached the top 10 of 10 others. In 2020, Snow won four awards Song of the Year with Daddy Yankee for "Con Calma" at Premio Lo Nuestro Awards, the Pop Music Award from SOCAN, and they won the Top Latin Song of the Year at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. "Con Calma" won big at the Latin Billboard Music Awards 2020, taking home six awards.

"Informer" received a total of 68,5% yes votes!

[pagesinmylife]

I’ve been thinking a lot about fairy tales and folk tales recently partially due to my own interest in the subject and partially due to the influx in live action remakes by Disney. And I’m torn between believing folk tales are integral parts of a culture and believing that they should be universal. These stories can be recast in different settings with different cultures in ways that cut the story from its original context. But this is part of the storytelling process in history because folk tales were past down orally for centuries and as a result, the exact same story was never told twice.

So I definitely see why changing races and cultures doesn’t matter. But I also think that European fairytales are considered the default when they are not. This allows them to be stripped of context and culture and reapplied in other settings (again- I don’t think this is inherently a bad thing. I see it as part of the larger tradition of storytelling. Stories have always changed to fit the audience who is listening). When European stories are considered the default, any non-European story is considered an outlier and is scrutinized differently. When it comes to Cinderella, similar stories appear in cultures around the world and while Europeans often depict her as blonde with blue eyes, her appearance is flexible so long as she’s seen as beautiful when she goes to the ball. Cinderella-esque stories are found in German, French, Greek, and Chinese cultures.

But Snow White feels kind of different as her story isn’t as universal and is very much rooted in the Brothers Grimm telling of a German tale. As far as I can tell, there really aren’t any Snow White stories from other cultures. Her appearance is important to the story, particularly her coloring. Skin white as snow and lips red as blood. Personally, I’d be inclined to leave the story as inherently German and preserve the appearances of the characters as they are described.

The Little Mermaid is also another story that comes to mind, as it’s roots are very firmly in Denmark and the nation seems to be pretty proud of the story. At the same time, mermaids aren’t real and Anderson wrote this story himself; he didn’t record an oral tradition the way the Brothers Grimm did. I haven’t watched the remake, but people seem to like it and while it strays from the original, the 1989 movie is also drastically different from the Anderson telling.

Now, I’m generally against the live action remakes because I think they’re unoriginal cash grabs that lack heart. It doesn’t matter to me who is cast in the role of a princess because I’m not going to watch the movie anyway. And even if I strongly disagree with a casting choice, I’m just not invested enough to bitch online. I just find it fascinating how people decide when a story can be separated from its roots and when it cannot. I’m curious to see what other people think