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Happy Denmark Bucks Fate of Ex-World Powers

Former conquerors quite happy with perfect welfare state

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 5, 2009 2:56 PM CDT

(Newser) – Denmark has bucked the trend of former world powers—“expand, overreach, then decay, their martial spirit dimmed, their peoples left to recount old glories and wonder at times past,” Denny Woodkin writes on Splice Today. Instead of muttering about what could have been,...   Read full story »

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