In two days, Queen Margrethe II will become the second monarch, and first queen, to abdicate the Danish throne. The last (and only other) time an abdication happened in Denmark was back in 1146, when ...

Europe's only ruling female monarch surpassed King Christian IV, who ruled from 1596 to 1648 CLAUS FISKER/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Queen Margrethe of Denmark reached a major milestone this month.

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Hunting and fishing is an important part of Greenlandic culture. (Photo by Mads Pihl/Visit Greenland) (CN) — “When the Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede went ashore in Greenland in 1721, it was ...