Netherlandish Proverbs | One winds on the distaff what the other spins ( Both spread gossip ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

In 1615, the shipwreck and death of governor Pieter Both, who was coming back from India with four richly laden ships in the bay, caused the route to be considered as cursed by Dutch sailors, and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.

Some examples include the " Pieter Both " mountain, the " Vandermeersh " region near Rose-Hill as well as many other names.

Both Charles McNider and Pieter Anton Cross train owls as sidekicks.

Pieter Both ( 1568, Amersfoort – 6 March 1615, Mauritius ) was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

When the newly founded Dutch East India Company set up a government for the Dutch East Indies, Pieter Both was invited to become the Governor-General.

Two of the ships were shipwrecked near Mauritius, and Pieter Both drowned.

The second highest mountain of Mauritius is named Pieter Both after him.

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* Pieter Both, Dutch politician

Two paintings ( both dated 1565 ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling — Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf.

He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema ( 1797 – 1840 ), the village notary, who had had three sons by a previous marriage, and the third child of his mother, Hinke Dirks Brouwer ( c. 1800 – 1863 ).

In 2008, the reconstructed Pieter Vreedeplein was opened to public, creating more shopping area in the city which had not the shopping possibilities as similar-sized cities in the Netherlands.

The French, who had colonized the Saint Lawrence River valley to the north, and the English, who had taken over the Dutch settlements that became the Province of New York to the south, began contesting the area as early as 1691, when Pieter Schuyler built a small wooden fort at the Ticonderoga point on the western shore of the lake.

Apart from these paintings of his own invention, Pieter Brueghel the Younger also copied the works his father had created by using a technique called pouncing.

During those years at Leiden he had numerous discussions with Ehrenfest, Kamerlingh Onnes, Hendrik Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman, and Albert Einstein.

Houtermans and Ilse had three children, Pieter, Elsa, and Cornelia.

His father's name must have been Simon, Simons being a patronym ; he had a brother named Pieter.

By this time the band had moved to England, and released their fourth album, Phoenix, on PolyGram in 1991 ; after this album, Anka Wolbert and Pieter Nooten left the band due to disagreements about the band's musical direction.

When Saartje Specx, a girl whom he had been entrusted to care for, was found in a garden in the arms of a soldier, Pieter Cortenhoeff, Coen showed little mercy in having Cortenhoeff beheaded.

Granvelle had a famous art collection, which partly featured the favourite artists of his Habsburg patrons, such as Titian and Leone Leoni, but also included a number of works by Pieter Brueghel, as well as a significant collection inherited from his father.

By 870 Baldwin had acquired the lay-abbacy of St. Pieter in Ghent and is assumed to have also acquired the counties of Flanders and Waasland, or parts thereof by this time.

Thereafter, a presidential election was held in which vote rigging was widespread-even the main opposition candidate, Hector Kobbekaduwa was impersonated, and the widely known Communist leader Pieter Keuneman also found that his vote had been cast for him when he arrived at the booth.

In the summer of 1623 the Englishmen who had been pardoned and acquitted, sailed to Batavia, and complained to the Dutch governor-general Pieter de Carpentier and the Council of Defence about the Amboyna affair, which they said was a false accusation based upon a fantasy and the confessions had been obtained only by severe torture.

A number of 17th century Dutch painters, Pieter Claesz for instance, had specialized in tabletop still life of astonishing verisimilitude.

He pointed out that neither she nor any other woman had been placed on the list of ' war criminals ' after the Spanish took control, while her 18-year-old cousin Pieter Dirksz Hasselaer, a member of the schutterij, was on the list and was arrested, though later released.

They had six children: Grietje ( 1629 ), Eglon (~ 1635 ), Cornelia ( 1642 ), Elisabeth ( 1645 ), Pieter ( 1648 ), and Alida ( 1650 ).

Pieter was delivered as a baby by the original Doctor Mid-Nite, Charles McNider, who had just rescued his mother from vagrants.

And indeed, the oeuvre of Pieter ( 1623 – 1682 ) clearly manifests the influence of Philips with regard to the range of subjects, but regarding the artistic style, Pieter had quite one of his own.

Given the relative closeness in age and same father's name indicated by the patronym ( Jonas was born about 1600, Pieter, born in 1616 ) it has been claimed that Pieter was a brother or cousin to Jonas Bronck, and not a son as had been surmised.

* Pieter Cruythoff is sent out from the Cape settlement to investigate the suitability of the interior for agriculture

In September 2000, magistrate Pieter Theron, who was presiding in a case involving PAGAD members, was murdered in a drive-by shooting.

Apus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35 cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

The modern constellations in this region were defined during the Age of exploration, notably by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman at the end of sixteenth century.

Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.

8. 183-235 ) in Pieter Bruegel the Elder ’ s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus " Essay on Brueghel's visualisation of Ovid.

* 1886 – Pieter Oud, Dutch politician ( d. 1968 )

Dorado was one of twelve constellations named by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

Pieter van den Broecke was employed by one of these companies.

* 1629 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter ( d. 1684 )

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Triumph of Death ( c. 1562 ) in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

The stars were first defined as a separate constellation by Petrus Plancius, who created twelve new constellations based on the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.

Hydrus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

Three other players, Herschelle Gibbs, Nicky Boje, and Pieter Strydom, were also implicated.

He also admitted asking Pieter Strydom to place a R50 bet on South Africa to win for him.

Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks ( 1569 – 1625 ), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons.

To determine if these conditions are met, the suspect is observed in a forensic psychiatric detention center, the Pieter Baan Centre.

Neither the prosecution or the defense can effectively challenge the Pieter Baan Centre's report, since it is the only institution that can conduct such investigations.

Fatal mistakes have occurred, for instance, when a child molester regarded by the Pieter Baan Center as " not dangerous " killed a child upon release.

This painting by the Workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, depicts St. Jerome in his study.

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he influenced Cornelis de Bie, Jan Coelenbier, Cornelis van Noorde, Abraham Susenier, Herman Saftleven, Pieter Jansz van Asch, and Abraham van Beijeren.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.