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Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an Inuit-Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen ( née Fleischer ).
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Rasmussen left the team and traveled for 16 months with two Inuit hunters by dog-sled across North America to Nome, Alaska-he tried to continue to Russia but his visa was refused.
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The Seventh Thule Expedition ( 1933 ) was meant to continue the work of the sixth, but Rasmussen contracted pneumonia after an episode of food poisoning, dying a few weeks later in Copenhagen at the age of 54.
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Although the family's status had risen, there was little or no increase in their income and they did not participate in court life at Copenhagen as they refused to meet Frederick's third wife and former mistress, Louise Rasmussen, because she had an illegitimate child by a previous lover.
King Frederick VII married the ballerina Louise Rasmussen, who was raised to the rank of " Countess Danner " in 1850.
Steen Eiler Rasmussen ( 1898 – 1990 ) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry.
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Rasmussen was a lecturer at the Academy from 1924 and became a professor in 1936.
When this edition was re-issued in 1948, Rasmussen had added two Postscripts: " For English readers only ", and " For American readers only ".
Knud Rasmussen asked his guide and friend Aua, an angakkuq ( shaman ), about Inuit religious beliefs among the Iglulingmiut ( people of Igloolik ) and was told: " We don't believe.
This lullaby was written in 1951 by the Danish poet and writer, Halfdan Rasmussen ( 1915 – 2002 ).
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Dushku was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Philip R. Dushku, an administrator and teacher in the Boston Public Schools, and Judith " Judy " ( née Rasmussen ), a political science professor.
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Rasmussen was born to a working-class family in Esbjerg in 1943.
* Jørgen Brønlund ( 1877 – 1907 ), was also a polar explorer born in Ilulissat, He grew up with Rasmussen and accompanied him, along with Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, on the Danish Literary Expedition ( 1902 – 1904 ) to examine Inuit culture.
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Rasmussen family house in Ilulissat
Born in Ilulissat, Rasmussen was the first man to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.
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Rasmussen spent his early years in Greenland among the Kalaallit ( Inuit ) where he learned from an early age to speak the language ( Kalaallisut ), hunt, drive dog sleds and live in harsh Arctic conditions.
In 1910, Rasmussen and friend Peter Freuchen established the Thule Trading Station at Cape York ( Uummannaq ), Greenland, as a trading base.
The First Thule Expedition ( 1912, Rasmussen and Freuchen ) aimed to test Robert Peary's claim that a channel divided Peary Land from Greenland.
For the next seven years Rasmussen traveled between Greenland and Denmark giving lectures and writing.
* Knud Rasmussen College, Greenland.
( Rasmussen, 1921, p. 113 ) myth is from the Inughuit | Polar Eskimo, of Smith Sound ( in northern Greenland ).
* The Knud Rasmussens house in the town of Hundested was the home of polar explorer Knud Rasmussen, who lived there between his many expeditions to Greenland.
Carl Rasmussen, a maritime artist who usually specialized in the motifs of Greenland, painted the 1881 altarpiece, depicting Christ stilling a storm.
With Count Harald Moltke and Knud Rasmussen he formed the Danish Literary expedition ( 1902-04 ) to West Greenland, and in the early stages ( 1902 ) discovered near Evigheds Fiord two ice-free mountain ranges.
" ( Henriette Rasmussen, Minister in Greenland Home Rule Government )
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