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<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;">On August 4, 1875, theDanish writer Hans Christian Andersen died</p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">The name Hans Christian Andersen is definitely not unfamiliar to you.The stories of "The Ugly Duckling", "The Daughter of theSea" and "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" that we heard when we werechildren were all written by Hans Christian Andersen.</p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">Andersen's life as a child was very difficult. His father was ashoemaker and his mother was a maid. As a child, Andersen studied at a freecharity school and worked as an apprentice. Influenced by his fathe...