He had no amorous feelings toward Mary and sought the marriage for its political and strategic gains ; Philip's aide Ruy Gómez de Silva wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, " the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but in order to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and to preserve the Low Countries.

Some Surrealists, such as Benjamin Péret, Mary Low, and Juan Breá, aligned with forms of left communism.

Benjamin Péret, Mary Low and Juan Breá joined the POUM during the Spanish Civil War.

* February 10 – Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the Great Privilege, by which the Flemish cities recover all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the dukes of Burgundy, in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state.

When Mary of Burgundy, granddaughter of Philip the Good married Maximilian I, the Low Countries became Habsburg territory.

The death of Charles the Bold ( 1477 ) and the marriage of his daughter Mary to the archduke Maximilian of Austria proved fatal to the independence of the Low Countries by bringing them increasingly under the sway of the Habsburg dynasty.

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

* Video of a Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary offered as a Missa Cantata, or sung Low Mass, at the Roman Catholic Priory of St. Pius X in Warsaw, Poland.

Mary of Burgundy ( 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482 ) ruled the Burgundian territories in Low Countries and was suo jure Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 until her death.

As the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast, and vastly wealthy, Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477., and was accordingly often referred to as " Mary the Rich ".

As the only child of Charles the Bold, Mary was heiress presumptive to a vast and wealthy domain, made up of the Duchy of Burgundy, the Free County of Burgundy, and the majority of the Low Countries, and her hand was eagerly sought by a number of princes.

The King was anxious that Mary should marry his son Charles and thus secure the inheritance of the Low Countries for his heirs, by force of arms if necessary.

Colby was the first all-male college in New England to accept female students, the first of whom was Mary Caffrey Low -- valedictorian of the Class of 1875.

One of the buildings is named after the first woman to attend, Mary Caffrey Low, who was the valedictorian of the Class of 1875.

Mary Low contains the Colby Outing Club and the Mary Low Coffee House for student performances, Roberts houses student offices for the Colby Echo and the radio station WMHB.

In Paris he married Mary Alsop King, an American author born in New York City to Charles King an American academic, politician, newspaper editor and the ninth president of Columbia College ( now Columbia University ) and his second wife, Henrietta Liston Low.

There are three Anglican churches: the Parish Church of St Mary Magadalene is a traditional Anglican church prominent on Church Brow on a limestone knoll ; St James ' Church has recently been refurbished and is home to a lively all-age congregation ; St Paul's is in the area of town known as Low Moor.

View from Low Town towards High Town and St Mary Magdalene's

Frederick's son and heir, the future Emperor Maximilian I, started to use the title, but apparently only after the death of his wife Mary of Burgundy ( d. 1482 ) as the title never appears in documents of joint Maximilian and Mary rule in the Low Countries ( where Maximilian is still titled Duke of Austria ).

Fuller served as one of the co-founders of the Sigma Kappa sorority, along with Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Louise Helen Coburn.

The term Coast Range is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington to the California-Mexico border ; and only the ranges west of Puget Sound, the Willamette valley, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys or ' California Central Valley ' ( thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges ), and the Mojave ( High ) and Sonoran ( Low ) Deserts.

In 1539 he accompanied Licenciado Pedro Giron to the Low Countries where he met, among other luminaries, Juan Luis Vives.

* Low Island ( Washington ), one of the San Juan Islands

Lower Egypt was represented by the Low Red Crown Deshret, and its symbols were the papyrus and the bee.

* Low Red Moon ( 2003 ), " So Runs the World Away ", " The Dead and the Moonstruck " ( both in To Charles Fort, With Love, 2005 ), and Daughter of Hounds ( 2007 ) by Caitlín R. Kiernan.

Among Seth Low's alumni were Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach and noted science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote of how he ended up at Seth Low.

Codeine pioneered the slowcore and sadcore subgenres of indie rock, but with a more experimental attitude than other bands in the genre, such as Low, Idaho and Red House Painters.

Kozelek, who acted as record producer on every album released by his bands Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon as well as his solo releases, produced the debut album by friend and Low singer-guitarist Alan Sparhawk, in Sparhawk's side-project Retribution Gospel Choir.

The fantasy writer and paleontologist Caitlín R. Kiernan has used Red Mountain, particularly the area west of U. S. Route 31 and the Red Mountain cut, as the setting for four of her novels – Silk ( 1998 ), Threshold ( 2001 ), Low Red Moon ( 2003 ), and, to a much lesser extent, Murder of Angels ( 2004 ).

Low Westwood lies just off the A694, and is on the ' Red kite ' ( 45 / 46 ) Go North East bus route which runs from Consett to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

The soundtrack uses songs by Donnette Thayer and Steve Kilbey ( HEX ), Lisa Germano, The Cocteau Twins, Dolly Parton, Low, Mark Kozelek, Glen Campbell, The Magnetic Fields, Iron and Wine, The Chocolate Watch Band, Mavis Staples, Red House Painters, Marianne Faithfull and many more.

* 2011: Foo Fighters, Incubus, Arcade Fire, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, My Chemical Romance, Clueso, The Hives, Suede, Kasabian, The Subways, Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly, Elbow, The Wombats, Jimmy Eat World, Sublime with Rome, Two Door Cinema Club, Boysetsfire, Monster Magnet, The Kills, Lykke Li, Selig, Kashmir, Glasvegas, Band of Horses, The Sounds, Bright Eyes, Sum 41, All Time Low, Klaxons, Eels, Sick of It All, Parkway Drive, William Fitzsimmons, Blood Red Shoes, Jupiter Jones, I Blame Coco, Irie Révoltés, Young Rebel Set, I Am Kloot, Friendly Fires, Darwin Deez, Comeback Kid, Converge, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Portugal.

Another famous abjuration was brought about by the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe of July 26, 1581, the formal Declaration of Independence of the Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.

Map of the Low Countries during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

* 1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe ( Act of Abjuration ): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.

Thus, the issue of the inheritance of the Spanish kingdoms — which included not only Spain, but also dominions in Italy, the Low Countries, the Philippines and the Americas — became contentious.

England and France, exhausted by the conflict, signed the Treaty of The Hague ( 1698 ), also known as the First Partition Treaty, in which they agreed to recognize Joseph Ferdinand as heir to the Spanish throne but divided the Spanish territories in Italy and the Low Countries between the French and Austrian dynasties.

* November 4 – Eighty Years ' War: In the Low Countries, mutinous Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp ( after three days, the city is nearly destroyed ).

The French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish names for the Netherlands, les Pays-Bas, i Paesi Bassi, Países Baixos and los Países Bajos ( literally translated " the Low Countries "), are based on this historical context.

The town became one of the richest burghs in the country, doing trade with France, the Low Countries and Baltic Countries for goods such as Spanish silk and French wine.

Perth also carried out an extensive trade with France, The Low Countries and the Baltic Countries with luxury goods being brought back in return, such as Spanish silk and French pottery and wine.

England's entry into the war later that year led to the French capture of Calais, and French armies plundered Spanish possessions in the Low Countries.

* Mexico: 40, 000 Mennonite Low German-speakers ; 22 % of mennonites also speaks Standard German, 30 % speaks Spanish, 5 % speaks English and 5 % speaks Russian as second language.

In the Eighty Years ' War, the northern provinces of the original Low Countries won their independence from their former Spanish Habsburg rulers and formed The Netherlands, a Protestant state.

The Spanish army had marched through the Stelvio Pass trying to open a new " Spanish Road ", and take their Commander to his Governorship of the Spanish Low Countries.

The 16th century proved to be disastrous for the city as the Spanish rulers ruthlessly repressed any desire for autonomy in the Low Countries, both political and religious.

The battle was an important propaganda victory for Mazarin and Enghien, the future " Great Condé " and represented a weakening of the besieged Spanish Low Countries.

In 1493 the town became part of the Low Countries and under Spanish dominion for more than 170 years.

Low produced numerous cartoons about the Austrian Civil War, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the 1936 Summer Olympics, the Spanish Civil War, and other events of the interwar period.

During the 16th century, Tournai was a bulwark of Calvinism, but eventually it was conquered by the Spanish governor of the Low Countries, the Duke of Parma, following a prolonged siege in 1581.

Pirenne's argument that the long Spanish rule in the Low Countries had little continuing cultural impact has likewise fallen, in the face of new as research since 1970 in the fields of cultural, military, economic, and political history.