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Andersen

[ an-der-suhn ]

noun

  1. Hans Christian [hanz], 1805–75, Danish author, especially of fairy tales.


Andersen

/ ˈændəsən /

noun

  1. AndersenHans Christian18051875MDanishWRITING: fairy-tale author Hans Christian. 1805–75, Danish author of fairy tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Tin Soldier, and The Snow Queen


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If, like me, you don’t wear shoes indoors because of cultural tradition, Andersen said to “get yourself something that’s devoted to your house and that can be easily put on your feet.”

Andersen built the Aggies into a top-20 team earlier in the decade and bounced to Wisconsin after the 2012 season.

Andersen is part of a team that’s advising policymakers at the federal level and he’s offered the group’s expertise locally as well.

Andersen said he was inspired to go on Desmond’s podcast after he heard the things Victory was saying to a mass audience.

Andersen and her colleagues published their findings March 14 in the journal Chemical Senses.

Brat has also worked as an economist in the Army and for the accounting firm Arthur Andersen.

So popular is Andersen in China that next year a $13-million theme park based on his fairytales will open in Shanghai.

“Women are warming up to getting used to doing something like this and using our services,” Andersen adds.

And if the women go out too much, it could hurt their reputation, says Amy Andersen of Linx Dating.

Arthur Andersen ultimately prevailed in the Supreme Court, after losing in the lower courts.

There never was a stranger history than this of young Andersen's.

Hans Christian Andersen once wrote a story about the tailors who made a suit for a King out of a magic cloth.

At Copenhagen, Hans Andersen, young as he was, forsook the world of fantasy and entered the world of fact.

Hans Andersen's father dying when the boy was still young, the mother married again, and Hans was left even more to himself.

Here, given a sensitive, imaginative nature, we have material enough to build up much of the genius of Hans Christian Andersen.

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AnderlechtAndersen, Hans Christian