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    William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Dutch: Willem de Zwijger; 24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William...
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    A bronze statue of William the Silent (also known as Willie the Silent and Still Bill) was installed in 1928 on the Voorhees Mall section of Rutgers University's...
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  • William of Orange usually refers to either: William the Silent, William I, (1533–1584), Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt, founder of the House...
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    foreign threats. This was in the tradition of the princes of Orange before him: his great-grandfather William the Silent, his grand-uncle Maurice, his...
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    Philip William, Prince of Orange (19 December 1554 in Buren, Gelderland – 20 February 1618) was the eldest son of William the Silent by his first wife...
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    last stadtholder, William V, Prince of Orange, fled the country. William the Silent became the leader of the Dutch Revolt and of the independent Dutch...
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  • published by Konami. The first four mainline video games in the series—Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 4: The Room—were developed...
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    widespread mutinies in the Spanish army caused a general uprising. Under the leadership of the exiled William the Silent, the Catholic and Protestant-dominated...
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    republic rather than a unitary monarchy. In 1702, after William the Silent's great-grandson William III of England died without children, a dispute arose...
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  • William the Silent refers to a portrait painting on panel by the Flemish painter Adriaen Thomasz. Key depicting William the Silent, the leader of the...
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    elsewhere in Europe, particularly since William the Silent organised the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, which after the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) led...
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    Balthasar Gérard (category William the Silent)
    was the assassin of the Dutch revolt's leader, William the Silent of the House of Orange (William the Silent, and later known as the "Father of the Fatherland")...
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    The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding...
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    from the special inquisition set up to punish the riots during the Dutch Iconoclasm of 1566. In 1567 de Boisot made contact with William the Silent (also...
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  • Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (also known simply as The Toy Maker) is a 1991 American science fiction horror film directed by Martin Kitrosser...
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    A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion...
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  • Pompey was the dog of William The Silent, the Prince of Orange. During a campaign against the Spanish, William's dog, Pompey, thwarted an assassination...
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    held to be the Father of the Nation in the Netherlands, since John William Friso, a great-great-grandson of William the Silent, is known to be a common...
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    Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook. McFarland. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-7864-5468-6. William Holden at IMDb William Holden at Find...
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  • Silent Witness is a British crime drama television series produced by the BBC that focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations...
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    "Silent Night" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in...
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    Solms-Braunfels and his 1st cousin once removed through William the Silent. Their children were as follows: William Henry, Electoral Prince of Brandenburg (21 May...
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  • Silent Hill: Origins (stylized as Silent Hill: 0rigins) is a 2007 survival horror game developed by Climax Studios and published by Konami Digital Entertainment...
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  • The survival horror video games series Silent Hill features a large cast of characters. The games' player characters are "everymen", in contrast to action-oriented...
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  • Silent Witness is a British television drama. The following is a list of all episodes that have been broadcast across all television series, since the...
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    Maurice, Prince of Orange (category Stadtholders in the Low Countries)
    Nassau, and studied in Heidelberg and Leiden. He succeeded his father William the Silent as stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland in 1585, and became stadtholder...
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    1563 – 23 June 1588) was the second daughter of William the Silent and his second wife, Anna of Saxony. She married William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg...
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  • second century Cynic or Neopythagorean philosopher William the Silent (1533–1584), Prince of Orange, main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish...
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    House of Nassau (category Monarchy of the Netherlands)
    of William the Silent became extinct and thereby the first House of Orange-Nassau. John William Friso, the senior agnatic descendant of William the Silent's...
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    death of William III of Orange, the legitimate male line of William the Silent (the second House of Orange) became extinct. John William Friso, the senior...
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