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Zwolle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Zwolle , city (1994 pop. 99,139), capital of Overijssel prov., N central Netherlands, on the Zwartewater River. It is an administrative...
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Johann Wessel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the Common Life, among whom he had his early instruction at Zwolle, although he rejected their narrowness of view. From c.1470...were spent in Holland, partly in Groningen, partly near Zwolle, in the midst of friends and pupils. His writings belong to...
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Thomas à Kempis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...their ideals. When he was 19, he entered the monastery of Mount St. Agnes, which the Brothers had recently started near Zwolle in Holland and which was then being administered by his older brother John. He spent the rest of his long life behind the walls...
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Gerard Ter Borch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Gerard Ter Borch (1617-1681) is noted for small portraits and genre scenes of great refinement. Gerard Ter Borch was born in Zwolle. His first teacher was his father, Gerard Ter Borch the Elder, who in his youth had spent some years in Rome and returned...
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Latin School
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...occurred when a new curriculum was introduced by headmaster Joan Cele (d. 1417) in the flourishing Dutch Hanseatic towns of Zwolle and Deventer. Instead of rewarding individual progress, it distinguished between eight group levels of achievement, called...
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Thomas à Kempis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...He joined the Augustinian canons (1399) and was ordained a priest (c.1413). His convent was Mt. St. Agnes, near Zwolle, in the Netherlands. Thomas worked principally at copying and writing. A number of his treatises on the monastic life and...
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The Netherlands
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...Arnhem, Breda, Bussum, Delft, Dordrecht, Enschede, Gouda, s'Hertogenbosch, Kinderdijk, Schiedam, Tilburg, Zaanstad, Zwolle EDITOR'S NOTE This chapter was adapted from the Department of State Post Report 2000 for The Netherlands. Supplemental material...
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American Isolates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Coe Clan, Black Coes) Louisiana: Natchitoches Mulattoes, Rapides Indians, Red Bones, Sabines, St. Landry Mulattoes, Zwolle-Ebard People Maryland: Guineas, Lumbee Indians, Melungeons, Wesorts (Brandywine) Mississippi: Creoles New Jersey...
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Overijssel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...c,1,500 sq mi (3,885 sq km), E central Netherlands, between the IJsselmeer in the west and Germany in the east. Zwolle is the capital; other cities include Almelo , Deventer , Enschede , Kampen , and Zutphen . The province is drained by the IJssel...
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IJssel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...IJssel is connected to the Rhine and carries about one tenth of the Rhine's water. The river, which is canalized in places, passes through an industrial and truck-farming region. Deventer , Zutphen , and Zwolle are the chief cities.
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