But there was terror in the thirties when the Nazis were on the loose and in those days Low struck like lightning.

that was a nightmarish situation and Low was in his element.

Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

Low inflation was maintained around 2. 6 % annually.

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.

In the remainder of the war in the Low Countries he held high commands, and was present at the Battle of Fleurus.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Marlborough could not attack Dillingen because of a lack of siege guns – he was unable to bring any from the Low Countries, and Baden had failed to supply any despite assurances to the contrary.

Again an Expeditionary Force was sent to France, only to be hastily evacuated as the German forces swept through the Low Countries and across France in 1940.

A cultivar ' Walker's Low ' was named perennial of the year for 2007 by the Perennial Plant Association.

Eventually titled Temple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records.

Largely self-taught, he was greatly influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Low Country masters.

Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence.

In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

Low German was spoken throughout northern Germany and, though linguistically as separate from High German ( Hochdeutsch ) as from Dutch and English, is considered " German ", hence also its name.

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.

This was the first book of Masses by a native composer: in the Italian states of his day, most composers of sacred music were from the Low Countries, France, Portugal, or Spain.

His ministry expanded and he undertook tours of North America and the Low Countries, between which he was imprisoned for over a year.

Low sea-levels meant that Britain was still attached to the continent for much of this earliest period of history, and varying temperatures over tens of thousands of years meant that it was not always inhabited at all.

Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxony or Thuringia.

In the Low Countries, an ottavino was commonly paired with an 8 ' virginals, encased in a small cubby under the soundboard of the larger instrument.

Low Arab Sunni turnout threatened the legitimacy of the election, which was as low as 2 % in Anbar province.

IJscolf, a game resembling Colf with the added element of an ice-covered surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age.

Lowry was born in Low Moor, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in a Cornish family.

Pope Adrian VI was born in the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in the Low Countries, and he was the last non-Italian Pope until Pope John Paul II, 455 years later, and is, together with Pope Marcellus II, one of only two modern popes to retain his baptismal name after election.

Philippa was born in Valenciennes, county of Hainaut, in the Low Countries, a daughter of William I, Count of Hainaut, nicknamed the Good, and Joan of Valois, the granddaughter of Philip III of France.

She was born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England, and she died at Mechelen in the Low Countries.

Most Ditmarsians born before 1960 still consider Low German their mother tongue.

Low was born in and educated in New Zealand.

The son of chemist David Brown Low and Jane Caroline Flanagan, David Low was born in Dunedin on 7 April 1891, and attended primary school there.

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.

Low birth-weight children born to smoking mothers have a lower infant mortality rate than the low birth weight children of non-smokers.

Juliette Gordon Low ( born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon in Savannah, Georgia, October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927 ) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912.

Roe was born at Low Leyton near Wanstead in Essex, the son of Sir Robert Rowe of Gloucestershire and Cranford, Middlesex, and his wife Elinor Jermy, daughter of Robert Jermy of Worstead, Norfolk.

* Oliver Low ( born 1970 ) in Hemel Hempstead a poet, software engineer, composer, games designer and author.

* December 22 – Solon Earl Low, politician ( born 1900 )

Individuals who were born Very Low Birth Weight (< 1500 grams ) and Extremely Low BirthWeight ( ELBW ) are at greater risk for various cognitive deficits including planning ability.

The father is Brian Low ( born 1975 ).

People born up to the 1980s often have one of the Low Saxon dialects as one of their first languages, although decline has been greater in urbane centres of the Low Saxon regions.

Low ( born 23 July 1970 in Hemel Hempstead ) is an English poet, theologian, composer, role-playing-game designer and writer.

* December 8-Jackson Mac Low, American poet ( born 1922 )

George Michael Low ( born George Wilhelm Low ; June 10, 1926 – July 17, 1984 ) was a NASA administrator and 14th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

He was born near Vienna, Austria to Artur and Gertrude Burger Low, small business people in Austria.

* Rien Low ( born 22 February 1982 )