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Fort Amsterdam
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Fort Amsterdam a fortification that was first built by the Dutch in 1625, in what is now lower Manhattan. Settlers had been instructed to build in an area favorable to long-term settlement and cultivation. The original design called for a pentagonal building, surrounded by a moat 54 feet (16 meters) wide and 8 feet (2.4 meters) deep, with a circumference of over 1,000 feet (305 meters). The site of the original fort is roughly that of the area between present-day Pearl, Broad, Beaver, and Whitehall Streets in lower Manhattan. The site proved difficult to defend, particularly after the English became determined to make the Dutch colony their own. When
Peter Stuyvesant surrendered to the English in 1664, the fort was renamed Fort James, in honor of the proprietor, James, Duke of York.
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 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Amsterdam: Europe's gay mecca.(excerpted from 'Damron Amsterdam')(includes related travel information on Amsterdam)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 8/18/1998; 700+ words
; ...The gay and lesbian capital of Europe, Amsterdam has a long history of tolerance. At...a time before water filters. It was Amsterdam that opened its doors to the Sephardic...brought with them another building block of Amsterdam's prosperity: the diamond industry...
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AMSTERDAM STATES ITS CASE RAMS WIN TITLE ON LATE KICK.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/27/1995; 700+ words
; ...ARSENAULT Staff writer SYRACUSE The Amsterdam High players all said they were...goal with five seconds left to give Amsterdam an 11-8 decision over Lake Shore of Section VI for the Class B title. Amsterdam coach Frank Derrico wasn't speechless...
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AMSTERDAM FACES MEDICAL DILEMMA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/24/1996; 700+ words
; Byline: HOLLY TAYLOR Staff writer Amsterdam For a decade, two hospitals argued over...sign should direct patients north to Amsterdam Memorial Hospital or west to St. Mary...like many places across New York, Amsterdam, faces the possibility of losing that...
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Amsterdam and William III. (Dutch history)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Louis XIM. But his relationship with Amsterdam's burghers was far from smooth, as...Carr, the resident English Consul in Amsterdam wrote to William Blaythwayt about the...saw the changes in the attitudes of the Amsterdam regents which resulted in William III...
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How Amsterdam became the industry's "talent trap'; Liberal attitude, relative affordability among the reasons shops flock to city.
Magazine article from: Advertising Age; 6/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...cities: London, Barcelona, Paris and Amsterdam. Their visit to the latter in late 2008...and other multinational businesses to Amsterdam in recent years. A charmingly bohemian...advantages of moving our business to Amsterdam.'' From there, Mr. Lavoie and Taxi...
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Amsterdam. (Travel)
Magazine article from: Europe; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; Amsterdam is one of those rare cities where the...pottery that floats on water. While Amsterdam is no longer the world's counterculture...made it the San Francisco of Europe. Amsterdam's famed laid-back atmosphere is partly...
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Amsterdam on the run: Four ways to explore _ with a leisurely feel.(The Seattle Times)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; AMSTERDAM, Holland _ Almost everyone who visits Amsterdam seems to be on the way to somewhere else. The Dutch city...visitors busy for a week or more. As a short-timer in Amsterdam during a recent trip to Europe, I found myself with two...
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LAYOVERS: ; Amsterdam on the run; Three ways to explore - with a leisurely feel
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 2/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; AMSTERDAM, Holland - Almost everyone who visits Amsterdam seems to be on the way to somewhere else. The Dutch city...visitors busy for a week or more. As a short-timer in Amsterdam during a recent trip to Europe, I found myself with two...
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Painting Amsterdam with brush of equities
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/31/1986; ; 700+ words
; To most Americans, Amsterdam is a city of canals and art masterpieces...determined to change that. If the Amsterdam Stock Exchange has not built household...said the pedigree does not bind the Amsterdam exchange to historical methods...
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AMSTERDAM YOUNG BUT STILL RUGGED.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/8/1996; 700+ words
; ...still alive. It just was sleeping. Amsterdam High captured the state Class B football...University at Albany assistant. But a young Amsterdam team went head-on with a vaunted Troy...Class AA this season. But Saturday was Amsterdam's day. ``I didn't know what to...
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Amsterdam
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank N.V.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
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Anomalous Cognition Section, University of Amsterdam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Anomalous Cognition Section, University of Amsterdam The Anomalous Cognition Section of the faculty of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam is a research structure that emerged...Bierman, a member of both the faculty at Amsterdam and at the University of Utrecht, which...
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New Amsterdam
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
NEW AMSTERDAM NEW AMSTERDAM. In 1625, officials of the Dutch West India Company, a commercial confederation, founded New Amsterdam, which became New York City, in New Netherland, later New York...
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Amsterdam Assembly
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Amsterdam Assembly (1948). The Assembly of Church leaders in Amsterdam which formally constituted the ‘ World Council of Churches ’.
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