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Amersfoort
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amersfoort , city (1994 pop. 110,117), Utrecht prov., central Netherlands. It is a transportation and manufacturing center. Points...
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Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and the president of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (1948-1951). On Aug. 12, 1966, he died in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Further Reading The Gedenkboek F. A. Vening Meinesz (1957), honoring Vening Meinesz on his seventieth...
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Piet Mondrian
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...which had widespread influence on modern painting, architecture, and design. Piet Mondrian was born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort. His father, a schoolteacher, wished Piet to become a teacher, and he earned his diploma for teaching. But in 1892 he...
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Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...William the Silent. Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was born on Sept. 14, 1547, in the province of Utrecht, in the small city of Amersfoort, into a family of very minor nobility. At the age of 16 he began the study of law in an attorney's office at The Hague...
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The Netherlands
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Haarlem, Leiden, Maastricht, Eindhoven, Groningen, Nijmegen Other Cities: Alkmaar, Amersfoort, Apeldoorn, Arnhem, Breda, Bussum, Delft, Dordrecht, Enschede, Gouda, s'Hertogenbosch, Kinderdijk, Schiedam...
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Oldenbarneveldt, Johan Van (1547–1619)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Dutch statesman who laid the foundations of the Dutch Republic. Johan van Oldenbarneveldt was born into a patrician family at Amersfoort in the province of Utrecht in 1547. His father was a difficult man who never took the family place on the town council and...
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Utrecht
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...500 sq mi (1,290 sq km), central Netherlands, bounded by the IJsselmeer in the north. Utrecht (the capital) and Amersfoort are the chief cities. It largely comprises low-lying land and is drained by the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River. The...
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Brooklyn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hall. By 1664, six towns had been established: Breuckelen (later anglicized to Brooklyn), Bushwick, Flatbush, Nieuw Amersfoort (Flatlands), Gravesend, and New Utrecht. Kings county was established in 1683; the Brooklyn Ferry area was incorporated...
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Veduta (View Painting)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...as Gaspare Vanvitelli, settled in the 1670s, and produced his first views, in gouache and oil, in the 1680s. Born at Amersfoort in Holland, Vanvitelli shows a Dutch sensitivity to light, meticulous technique, and delicacy in the treatment of detail...
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