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Pierre Soulé
Pierre Soulé , 1801-70, American political leader and diplomat, b. Castillon, France. A lawyer, he was imprisoned for republican activities against the conservative Bourbons, but he escaped and fled (1825) to the United States. He ultimately became a citizen of New Orleans and a power in the ... Read more
James Ensor Ensor, Baron
James Ensor Ensor, Baron , 1860-1949, Belgian painter and etcher. Ensor's imagery reflected one of the most bizarre and powerful visions of his era. He left his native Ostend to study painting (1877-80) at the Académie de Bruxelles. In Brussels he became one of the original members of "Les ... Read more
Michel de Ghelderode
Michel de Ghelderode , 1898-1962, Belgian dramatist. He wrote in French and is noted for his colorful and avant-garde plays. He lived in obscurity until 1949, when he gained prominence with the production of Fastes d'enfer (1929). His vast output reveals his use of many sources; Barabbas (1928),... Read more
William Learned Marcy
William Learned Marcy 1786-1857, American politician, b. Southbridge, Mass. He settled in Troy, N.Y., where he practiced law and, after serving in the War of 1812, held local offices. A Democrat and a partisan of Martin Van Buren , Marcy entered the political group known as the Albany Regency , o... Read more
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce 1804-69, 14th President of the United States (1853-57), b. Hillsboro, N.H., grad. Bowdoin College, 1824. Admitted to the bar in 1827, he entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, like his father, Benjamin Pierce, who was twice elected governor of New Hampshire (1827, 1829). He serv... Read more
James Buchanan
James Buchanan 1791-1868, 15th President of the United States (1857-61), b. near Mercersburg, Pa., grad. Dickinson College, 1809. Early Career Buchanan studied law at Lancaster, Pa., and in practice there gained a considerable reputation for his wide learning and brilliant oratory. Thus p... Read more
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis 1808-89, American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy, b. Fairview, near Elkton, Ky. His birthday was June 3. Early Life Davis's parents moved to Mississippi when he was a boy. He was given a classical education at Transylvania Univ. and was appointed to West ... Read more
World War I
World War I 1914-18, also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers. It was the largest war the world had yet seen. Causes World War I was immediately precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a ... Read more
Cuba
Cuba , officially Republic of Cuba, republic (2005 est. pop. 11,347,000), 42,804 sq mi (110,860 sq km), consisting of the island of Cuba and numerous adjacent islands, in the Caribbean Sea. Havana is the capital and largest city. Land and People Cuba is the largest and westernmost of the... Read more
slavery
slavery institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services. Slavery has been found among many groups of low material culture, as in the Malay Peninsula and among some Native Americans; it also has o... Read more

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Ostend Manifesto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ostend Manifesto document drawn up in Oct., 1854, at Ostend, Belgium, by James Buchanan , American minister to Great...three diplomats in Europe, all proslavery Democrats, at Ostend. The resulting manifesto strongly suggested that the...
Ostend
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ostend see Oostende , Belgium.
James Ensor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...fantastic personal visions. I was born at Ostend, on Friday, April 13, 1860, the day...Ensor painted the landscape surrounding Ostend— small houses isolated in vast...After 3 years of study Ensor returned to Ostend to the attic studio above his parents...
Mason, John Young
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...of three U.S. ministers to sign the Ostend Manifesto, a written proposal to buy...xE9; , U.S. minister to Spain, in Ostend, Belgium, to discuss the issue of Cuban...were pro-slavery — signed the Ostend Manifesto, a secret document proclaiming...
Pierre Soulé
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Soulé met with the American ministers to England and to France at Ostend, Belgium, and at Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia, and drew up the so-called Ostend Manifesto. The document, justifying vigorous action for the annexation...
James Ensor Ensor, Baron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...bizarre and powerful visions of his era. He left his native Ostend to study painting (1877-80) at the Académie de...In 1929, Ensor was made a baron by King Albert. His home in Ostend became a museum after his death. His early style of painting...
Isabel Clara Eugenia and Albert of Habsburg (Isabel Clara Eugenia, 1566–1633; Albert of Habsburg, 1559–1621)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...yet with Isabel's encouragement in 1601 he laid siege to Ostend, the remaining rebel stronghold in Flanders. He also achieved...by Madrid, Albert gave him command of the army. In 1604, Ostend surrendered. In the same years Albert, in collaboration with...
Netherlands, Southern
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...taken the town of Tournai, most of Flemish Flanders (save for Ostend), and most of Limburg, Brabant (including Brussels, Antwerp...persisted. The archdukes' general, Ambrogio Spinola, conquered Ostend (1604), and privateers sailing from Dunkirk menaced Dutch...
James Buchanan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...President Franklin Pierce. While on this mission, in order to win Southern support for his nomination in 1856 he helped draft the Ostend Manifesto, which called for United States acquisition of Cuba, by force of arms if necessary. Returning to the United States...
William Learned Marcy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...satisfy the more expansionist-minded Democrats, Marcy sought the acquisition of Cuba through negotiations with Spain. But the Ostend Manifesto of 1854, circulated by the American ministers to France, Spain, and England, which maintained that "by every...

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Ostend Manifesto
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History OSTEND MANIFESTO OSTEND MANIFESTO. Southern desires to expand slave territory led to this...place to discuss further U.S. attempts to acquire Cuba. They met in Ostend, Belgium, and crafted the so-called Ostend Manifesto. It said...
Spilliaert, Léon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Belgian painter and draughtsman, born at Ostend, the son of a perfume dealer. He was...completely uninfluenced by the work of Ensor , Ostend's most famous artist). His work combines...works is Dizziness (Museum of Fine Arts, Ostend, 1908), a scene of nightmarish intensity...
Ensor, James
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Ensor, James ( b Ostend, 13 Apr. 1860; d Ostend, 19 Nov. 1949). Belgian painter and etcher (his father...a few brief trips abroad, he rarely left his home town of Ostend, where his parents kept a souvenir shop. His early works...
Storck, Henri
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Henri Nationality: Belgian. Born: Ostend, 5 September 1907. Family: Married...8mm, 1927; organized cine-club in Ostend, made first "reportages," 1928; assistant...1927–28 amateur films on Ostend 1929–30 Pour vos beaux yeux...
Permeke, Constant
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Permeke, Constant ( b Antwerp, 31 July 1886; d Ostend, 4 Jan. 1952). Belgian painter and sculptor, one of the...He returned to Belgium in 1919 and lived in Antwerp and Ostend before building his own house and studio at Jabbeke, near...
Beneden, Edouard Van
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...had organized a modest laboratory on the Belgian seacoast at Ostend, and there Edouard had the opportunity to collect and study many specimens of fauna, particularly from Thornton Bank, near Ostend. His main interests at that time were directed toward the animal...
Vienna, treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Theresa's succession to the Habsburg dominions under the pragmatic sanction, while the Emperor Charles VI agreed to wind up the Ostend Company, a competitor to the East India Company . But when Maria Theresa was attacked in 1740, British assistance was far...
Passchendaele, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Passchendaele, battle of, 1917. The British army tried to advance from Ypres in southern Belgium towards the Belgian ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge for several reasons. Haig believed that he could win the war in 1917. The navy supported him because they wanted...
Langren, Michael Florent van
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...particuli è re du … Banc de Mardijick … , which ran to two editions. His work on the harborport of Ostend is set forth in Profytelijcken middel om … de Zee-Haven van Oostende te verbeteren (Burssels, 1650), in Briefve...
Western Front
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Western Front The line of fighting in WORLD WAR I that stretched from the Vosges mountains through Amiens in France to Ostend in Belgium. Fighting in World War I began in August 1914 when German forces, adopting the Schlieffen Plan to fight on...

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`The Queen of the Beaches'.(Ostend)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Ostend the British, from the 1890s to the 1930s...France and what became Belgium in 1830. Ostend was one of the most important European resorts...expertise were present from the beginning of Ostend's transformation from garrison town and...
You don't have to be mad to be Belgian - but it helps This year, the town that most people just drive through celebrates its famous son, the painter James Ensor, in some style. Sarah Barrell hit Ostend and had a ball
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/11/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...his death, the painter's hometown, Ostend, is hosting "Ensor Year" - a series...intriguingly titled Dead Rat Ball. Granted, Ostend is not one of Belgium's major Flemish...aesthete's beaten track - in shabby Ostend. This Belgian port town, smack in the...
Travel Europe: First resort for the famous This summer, Ostend is in celebratory mood - so for once, why not visit it instead of just driving through?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/5/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...of it," wrote one British visitor to Ostend in 1793. The English who flocked to this...travellers are equally reluctant to linger in Ostend, eschewing the unknown pleasures of the...Ghent or Brussels. But there's more to Ostend than tourists think. This year marks...
Ostend and Bruges; live it! holiday hotspots.(Features)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 8/16/2008; 420 words ; Ostend & Bruges Christmas Markets, December...short break based in the seaside resort of Ostend where the annual Winterijs - Christmas market...The second day is spent at leisure in Ostend to explore the Christmas Market, situated...
The Arts: An odd man in Ostend James Ensor was a merciless depicter of Belgian society in his youth, yet he died a Baron. Martin Gayford examines his strange, split life
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/31/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...born", he informed the world, "at Ostend, on April 13, 1860, on a Friday, the...background, met his mother on holiday at Ostend. His mother was the daughter of a Flemish...which he loathed, and on his return to Ostend in 1880 set up a studio in the attic of...
READERS HOLIDAYS: OSTEND & BRUGES CHRISTMAS MARKETS; 12 December, 4 days, departures from local area by coach, from pounds 189.95.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 9/6/2008; 437 words ; ...short break based in the seaside resort of Ostend where the annual "Winterijs", Christmas...Christmas markets of Valkenburg and Bruges. Ostend Christmas market is situated in the main...accommodation at a good class hotel located in the Ostend area, B&B basis, day at leisure...
Ostend doing well.(EUROPE)(Ostend-Bruges International)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Airports International; 5/1/2005; 619 words ; Ostend-Bruges International's objectives for 2005 are a continuation of the positive...existing need and stimulate the development of a new airport business zone. Ostend's Managing Director Gino Vanspauwen said: "Our aim is an increase in flights...
Ostend air crash victims get compensation
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/25/2006; 333 words ; Ostend air crash victims get compensation BRUSSELS...Xinhua) -- The victims of the July 1997 Ostend Air Show disaster have now got compensation...Bruges held the Flemish Region, who runs the Ostend Airport, legally responsible for the accident...
Party all the way to Bruges and Ostend; READER HOLIDAYS.(Competitions/Offers)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 8/9/2000; 455 words ; VISIT Bruges and Ostend on this Christmas shopping party cruise...of terrific shopping opportunities in Ostend, sample the superb Belgian cuisine and...MS Florentina. One night berthed in Ostend and one night berthed in Bruges. Continental...
WIN: ... a trip to Ostend with visits to Brussels, Amsterdam and Bruges; HARRY SHAW CITY CRUISER.(Competitions/Offers)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 1/21/2004; 632 words ; ...four-night break for two people to Ostend and the three cities of Brussels, Amsterdam...Bruges, worth pounds 199.95 each. Ostend is famous for its long stretch of sandy...depart on September 6, and will travel to Ostend in Belgium where four nights bed and continental...