Aelbert Cuyp was born in Dordrecht on October 20, 1620, and also died there on November 15, 1691.

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

By the late 1940s the ' Type 10 ' was ready to be handed over to Philips ' subsidiary Johan de Witt in Dordrecht to be productionised and incorporated into a generator set as originally planned.

In earlier centuries, Dordrecht was a major trade port, well known to British merchants, and was called Dort in English.

Around 1120 the first reference to Dordrecht was made by a remark that count Dirk IV was murdered 1049 near " Thuredrech ".

Dordrecht was granted city rights by William I, Count of Holland, in 1220, making it the oldest city in the present province of South Holland.

Dordrecht was made even more important when it was given staple right in 1299.

In 1253 a Latin school was founded in Dordrecht.

This secret meeting, called by the city of Dordrecht, was a rebellious act since only King Philip II or his stadtholder, at that time the Duke of Alva, were allowed to call a meeting of the states.

The Union of Dordrecht was held in an Augustinian monastery, nowadays simply called het Hof (" the Court ").

From 1780 to 1787, Dordrecht was home to the Patriots faction which intended to remove the hereditary Stadtholder position held by the House of Orange-Nassau.

The Japanese battleship Kaiyō Maru was launched at Dordrecht in 1865.

Much of the finer work was produced in Delft, but simple everyday tin-glazed pottery was made in places such as Gouda, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Dordrecht.

The Synod of Dort ( also known as the Synod of Dordt or the Synod of Dordrecht ) was a National Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618 – 1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy initiated by the rise of Arminianism.

Dort was a contemporary English term for the town of Dordrecht ( and it remains the local colloquial pronunciation ).

Oudewater took place in the First Free Statescouncil in Dordrecht on July 19, 1572, Oudewater was one of the twelve cities taking part in the first free convention of the States-General in Dordrecht.

Another important aspect in the schism was a conference held at Ohnenheim, Alsace, by several Swiss Brethren ministers and elders in 1660, in which they formally adopted the Dordrecht Confession of Faith that had been drawn up by Dutch Mennonites.

While in the Netherlands he changed his address frequently, living among other places in Dordrecht ( 1628 ), Franeker ( 1629 ), Amsterdam ( 1629 – 30 ), Leiden ( 1630 ), Amsterdam ( 1630 – 32 ), Deventer ( 1632 – 34 ), Amsterdam ( 1634 – 35 ), Utrecht ( 1635 – 36 ), Leiden ( 1636 ), Egmond ( 1636 – 38 ), Santpoort ( 1638 – 1640 ), Leiden ( 1640 – 41 ), Endegeest ( a castle near Oegstgeest ) ( 1641 – 43 ), and finally for an extended time in Egmond-Binnen ( 1643 – 49 ).

He was the son of Johannes ( Jan ) Vos, a Protestant from the Netherlands, who fled from persecution into the Electorate of the Palatinate and briefly became pastor in the village near Heidelberg where Gerardus ( the Latinized form of Gerrit ) was born, before friction with the strict Lutherans of the Palatinate caused him to settle the following year at the University of Leiden as student of theology, and finally became pastor at Dordrecht, where he died in 1585.

The club just missed promotion to the Eredivisie in 1991, but was finally admitted when Dordrecht ' 90 surprisingly merged with neighbouring Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging ( SVV ) of Schiedam.

* Four towns of the county of Holland ( Dordrecht, Haarlem, Leiden and Alkmaar ) and two of the county of Zeeland ( Middelburg and Zierikzee ) accept for the first time to collectively secure a loan by their sovereign, Floris V. This system gives important securities to the lenders and allows the ruler to access the same low interest rates as the cities ’ governments.

* from the island of Dordrecht on the southeast by the Oude Maas

Godson, Atmospheric Thermodynamics, published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1973, 222 pages

The municipality covers the entire Dordrecht Island, also often called Het Eiland van Dordt ( the Island of Dordt ), bordered by the rivers Oude Maas, Beneden Merwede, Nieuwe Merwede, Hollands Diep, and Dordtsche Kil.

Dordrecht is informally called Dordt by its inhabitants.

View of Dordrecht, by Aelbert Cuyp.

Dordrecht around 1565, by Jacob van DeventerIn 1572, four years into the Dutch Revolt, representatives of all the cities of Holland, with the exception of Amsterdam, as well as the Watergeuzen, represented by William II de la Marck, gathered in Dordrecht to hold the Eerste Vrije Statenvergadering (" First Assembly of the Free States "), also known as the Unie van Dordrecht (" Union of Dordrecht ").

* Józef Maria Bocheński 1960 Précis of Mathematical Logic, translated from the French and German editions by Otto Bird, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, South Holland.

Synod of Dordrecht ( 1729 ), by Bernard Picart.

At the Afsluitdijk, the Grebbeberg, Rotterdam and Dordrecht the Dutch Army offered strong resistance.

It was a relief when they finally came.

He was finally found in the Bates Hole region of Natrona County, two counties away.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

Mama knew that she was out of mourning when she finally wore bright colors.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

It was like finally getting into one's own nightmares to punish one's dreams.

And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.

It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.

but the letter went on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been miserable at his refusal, and finally he had relented -- and now how happy she was, how expectant!!

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

The captain was remarking that it was a nice day for a picnic when finally one of the shovels struck an object.

Mr. Gorboduc was finally in command of his mind again.

One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.