The Most Interesting Man In The World? Maybe it is Peter Freuchen, below with his wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn (1947).
Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist.
He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question.
His third wife, Dagmar Freuchen, was a teacher, artist, editor, expert on world cuisine, and a top fashion illustrator.
They were the ultimate Power-Couple.
Today I participated in World Trade Organization webinar on ’Trading Goods in the Digital Era: Improving Import, Export and Transit Procedures’.
The meeting gathered +290 WTO Member policy makers from all around the world.
In a panel, I presented what we in A.P. Moller – Maersk are doing on trade compliance, end-to-end digitalization & exchange of data with Governent agencies.
The panel was moderated in a perfect way by Roy Santana from WTO. I shared the panel with an excellent group of experts like Amy Morgan from Altana, Louise Wiggett from GTS & Sandra Fischer from DHL.
Great event, thank you to WTO for arranging this timely webinar.
Congratulations to Norway on 17 May, the national day and an official public holiday observed on 17 May each year.
Among Norwegians, the day is referred to as Syttende mai (“Seventeenth of May”) or Nasjonaldagen (“National Day”).
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