He was also active as deacon and elder of the Reformed Church, and a member of the high court of Holland.

When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1716 ( he was in Holland before in 1697 to instruct himself in maritime affairs ), he also took lessons from Boerhaave.

Show creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland also wrote a book about the show in 1987, entitled EastEnders: The Inside Story ( ISBN 978-0-563-20601-9 ), telling the story of how the show made it to screen.

Hook of Holland ( Dutch: Image: Ltspkr. pngHoek van Holland ,-literally " Corner of Holland "), also known as the Hook ( De Hoek ), is a town in the western Netherlands.

Under the same pseudonym he also published fiction, such as Holland ( 1924 ) and a pederastic novel of the Berlin boy-bars, Der Puppenjunge ( The Hustler ) ( 1926 ).

Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.

Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, René Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.

Jack Holland also sees evidence of misogyny in the Old Testament story of the Fall of Man from the Book of Genesis.

They landed and decided to name the island " Prins Maurits van Nassaueiland ", after Prince Maurits ( Latin version: Mauritius ) of the House of Nassau, the stadtholder of Holland, but also after the main vessel of the fleet which was called " Mauritius ".

and " Chase Away " by Brett Holland and William R. Rice have also been added.

Whitehead also opened a factory at St Tropez in 1890 which exported torpedoes to Brazil, Holland, Turkey and Greece.

Later Flora's fiancé Charles Holland and his seafaring uncle Admiral Bell along with his assistant, the extremely humorous Jack Pringle, also take residence with the Bannerworths.

Holland also co-founded the CCC's hacker magazine Datenschleuder in 1984, which praised the possibilities of global information networks and powerful computers, and included detailed wiring diagrams for building your own modems cheaply.

* 1287 – December 14 – A fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake in Holland collapses during a heavy storm, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

Albert himself descended from Béla IV of Hungary through his daughter Ilona whose descendant was a princess of Brieg who became Albert's ancestress the countess of Hainaut and Holland, and from a younger sister of Queen Elisabeth of Bohemia, thus descending from both Constances of Hungary, and also from King Géza II of Hungary through his daughter Elisabeth who married Bedrich of Czech, their daughter being an ancestress of Albert's maternal Bavarian line.

Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 / 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, served as Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323 and as Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, became also Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340 and Count of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1345.

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Some to the north of Holland, the lumbering community of Manistee also went up in flames in what became known as The Great Michigan Fire.

The Port Authority also operates Hudson River crossings, including the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, and George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey with Manhattan, and three crossings that connect New Jersey with Staten Island.

Many artists in the 17th century in Holland opted to specialise, and Hals also appears to have been a pure portrait specialist.

Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden ) is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland.

* William II, 1228 – 1256, count of Holland, later also king of Germany.

Since then the reunited Rhine and Meuse waters reach the North Sea either at this site or, during times of lower discharges of the Rhine, at Hoek van Holland.

Monden van de Maas and Zuiderzee were reunited as the province of " Holland ".

Even though the province had been reunited, the two areas were still being treated differently in some ways and the idea of dividing Holland remained alive.

The original trio of Galley, Hughes, and Holland reunited for a short time in late 1975.

However, after another campaign dealing with several injuries, he left and returned to Holland, playing his final two years at PSV Eindhoven ( in his second, he won the league, and was also reunited with Ajax, Barça and national team mate Patrick Kluivert, although the two rarely ever played ).

After the camp guards abandoned their posts he was picked up by American troops, and ultimately reunited with his father, in Holland.

He thus broke allegiance with Philip and assembled a broad coalition including Emperor Otto IV, King John I of England, Duke Henry I of Brabant, Count William I of Holland, Duke Theobald I of Lorraine, and Duke Henry III of Limburg.

Dutch-Bandanese relations were mutually resentful from the outset, with Holland ’ s first merchants complaining of Bandanese reneging on agreed deliveries and price, and cheating on quantity and quality.

In 1810, the Kingdom of Holland was a vassel of Napoleonic France and hence in conflict with England.

After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.

By then Delft was one of the leading cities of Holland and it was equipped with the necessary city walls to serve as a headquarters.

In some cases, bassists supplement their performing and teaching income with other related music jobs, such as working as a bass repairer ( luthier ); as a contractor who hires musicians for orchestras or big bands, composing music ( e. g., Dave Holland ), songwriting, conducting ( e. g., David Currie ) or acting as a bandleader ( e. g., Charles Mingus ).

Chris Morgan and Brian Holland, both with drug offense histories, had abruptly departed for Oceanside, California, four days after the bodies were discovered.

Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.

But she wisely withdrew ( and was replaced with the much younger Holland Taylor ) after one preview performance, citing " artistic differences ", and the show went on to open and close on the same night, becoming known as one of the most legendary flops in Broadway history.

4 of his films were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film award at Academy Awards with 5 other Polish directors receiving one nomination each: Roman Polański, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Hoffman, Jerzy Antczak and Agnieszka Holland.

JaJaJa toured Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland with her a large graffiti canvas as a backdrop.

From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable, associated with the British architects Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, George Dance the Younger, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.

The Dutch Republic, particularly Holland and Zeeland, became a veritable Dutch empire, a maritime power with a commercial, imperial and colonial reach that extended to Asia, Africa and the Americas – but not without slavery and colonial oppression.

A pro-French Batavian Republic was established ( 1795 – 1806 ), and with the consolidation of French power under Napoleon gradually turned into a French satellite state, culminating in the Kingdom of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) and later simply an imperial province.

Now in its 27th year, the event is moving from its established country of France to Holland, calling this year's event the ' Hayling to Holland Charity Cycle Ride ' with 130 riders and support crew.

The ferry terminal is operated by Stena Line with the passenger terminal and access for passenger cars being next to Hoek van Holland Haven Station and the freight entrance being to the east of the town.

There has been a ferry service to eastern England operating from Hoek van Holland since 1893 with only the two World Wars interrupting the service.

A local ferry operated by RET links Hook of Holland with the Maasvlakte part of the Port of Rotterdam.

He started to organise and participate in lecture tours with other members of the international avant-garde, such as Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann and Tristan Tzara, touring Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Germany with provocative evening recitals and lectures.

Bismarck manipulated public opinion, resulting in the denial of sale to France and the continued suzerainty of Holland, a member of the customs union with close ties to Prussia.

The Australian leg spinner Bob Holland employed a back spinning ball that he simply pushed backwards with the heel of his palm.