It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter.

This population was mixed, of Portuguese and local islanders descent and Larantuqueiros, Topasses ( people that wear heats ) or, as Dutch knew them, the ' Black Portuguese ' ( Swarte Portugueezen ).

The Dutch geographer Olfert Dapper knew of it in the 17th century.

Having been the Director of the Dutch West India Company, and the predecessor of then-Director William Kieft, Minuit knew the status of the lands on either side of the Delaware River at that time.

Director Willem Kieft objected to the landing of the Swedes, but Minuit ignored him, since he knew that the Dutch were militarily impotent at the moment.

He claimed to have as an ancestor Peter Van Vliet, a Dutch painter who knew Rembrandt.

He even entertained a peace treaty proposed by Botha and the other Boer leaders that would have maintained the sovereignty of the South African Republican and the Orange Free State while requiring them to sign a perpetual treaty of alliance with the UK and grant major concessions to the UK such as equal rights for English with Dutch in their countries, voting rights for Uitlanders, and a customs and railway union with the Cape Colony and Natal, although he knew the government in the UK would reject the offer.

" From the Scriptures he knew that unlawful vows may be lawfully broken ; hence he married, and removed to Wittenberg in Saxony, for the improvement of learning ; and he there learned the Dutch language, and received the charge of a congregation, which he faithfully executed for many years.

In Paris, at Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard he became acquainted with Belle van Zuylen, a 26-year older Dutch woman and writer, who knew his uncle well through their correspondance.

While Dutch propaganda tried to paint the battle as a Dutch victory or a " glorious defeat " and the populace publicly rejoiced at the heroism shown, Admiral Tromp and the other flag officers knew better, all coming home in an extremely dark mood.

) Minuit and his partners further knew that the Dutch view of colonies held that actual occupation was necessary to secure legal claim.

Busbecq's information is problematic in a number of ways: his informants were not unimpeachable ( one was a Greek speaker who knew Crimean Gothic as a second language, the other a Goth who had abandoned his native language in favour of Greek ); there is the possibility that Busbecq's transcription was influenced by his own language ( a Flemish dialect of Dutch ); there are undoubted misprints in the printed text, which is the only source.

The Dutch and French called these people Quiripi ( also spelled Quiripey ), and the English knew them as Quinnipiac ( also Quinnipiack, Quillipiac ).

Romilly and Vandy knew each other from their Colditz time where Vandy was the Dutch escape officer.

The Dutch now knew the Nazi occupation would not be over soon.

Desiderius Erasmus, the great Dutch humanist, even prepared a Greek edition of Aristotle, and eventually those teaching philosophy in the universities had to at least pretend that they knew Greek.

Admiral Helfrich worked tirelessly to establish co-operation with the Allied navies in the area since he knew that the Dutch could not hope to protect the Dutch East Indies by themselves.

For many years, no one knew where his body was finally laid to rest, although it was long believed that he was buried in a Dutch Reformed churchyard in Belleville, New Jersey.

He also used He Chengtian's interpolation method for approximating irrational number with fraction in his astronomy and mathematical works, he obtained as a good fraction approximate for pi ; Yoshio Mikami commented that neither the Greeks, nor the Hindus nor Arabs knew about this fraction approximation to pi, not until the Dutch mathematician Adrian Anthoniszoom rediscovered it in 1585, " the Chinese had therefore been possessed of this the most extraordinary of all fractional values over a whole millennium earlier than Europe " Along with his son, Zu Geng, Zu Chongzhi used the Cavalieri Method to find an accurate solution for calculating the volume of the sphere.

According to the Dutch, they used a local person who knew something of the church as a priest, though they did not think he practiced the religion in its usual form.

Early in the morning the English beat their drums and sounded their trumpets and the Dutch knew hostilities would soon begin.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.

Even as he said it, Greg knew they had found the enemy.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

Just as he knew that she had stopped loving him.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

He had a purring voice and poker player's immobility of features which somehow conveyed the feeling that he knew where all the bodies were buried.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

Meltzer knew why I had come for him.

Both knew that when trains stopped at Texan crossroads bored soldiers would sometimes enter to ask the passengers if they had any reading material to spare, even a newspaper.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

`` I thought I knew more than my education had taught me, '' notes the narrator, `` because I had encountered the militant mobs of a political or religious faith ''.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

He had bought a little piece of property down along the coast of the hard country of Calabria that he knew so well.

He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..

Now, everyone knows -- or knew in the week of December 10 -- that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy.