• "The Maid of Amsterdam", also known as "A-Roving", is a traditional sea shanty. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 649. The song may date to the Elizabethan...
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    shanty "A-roving" (which he titled "The Maid of Amsterdam") was derived from Thomas Heywood's The Tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece (1608). Lyrics and ideas...
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    Visserplein 3 in Central Amsterdam, Amsterdam, in the North Holland region of The Netherlands. The synagogue was completed in 1675. Esnoga is the word for synagogue...
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    kitchen maid, by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which regards it as "unquestionably one of the museum's...
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  • abundance throughout the series, including such songs as "The Maid of Amsterdam", "Ruben Ranzo", "South Australia", "Maggie May", "The Sailor's Hornpipe"...
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  • the surveillance target Roving Boy (1980–1983), American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse Roving Crows, English folk fusion band The Maid of Amsterdam...
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    Rather Play a Maid Than Be One". The New York Times. Zeigler, Ronny. "Hattie McDaniel: '(I'd) ... rather play a maid.'" N.Y. Amsterdam News, April 28...
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  • Winds, in the Morning," an anachronistic American whaling song. The second episode, "The Raiders," is the only episode to use "The Maid of Amsterdam" as its...
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  • brothers; Hendrick and Louis) moved in during the war. Her brothers moved out of the home. Hendrick living in Amsterdam with his boyfriend Sebastian and Louis...
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    employment as maids in Amsterdam, while young men took employment as sailors. Large parts of the Dutch merchant fleet and navy came to consist of Norwegians and...
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    finally the Kamenisters (Chamber Maids).[page needed] However, during the tenure of Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress in the mid-16th century, the court...
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  • This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some...
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    and Maid (Dutch: Dame en dienstbode) is an oil-on-canvas painting produced by Johannes Vermeer c. 1667. It portrays two women, a mistress and her maid, as...
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    television series Dollface (2019–2022), the film Promising Young Woman (2020), and the Netflix miniseries Maid (2021). List of awards and nominations received...
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    The Kitchen Maid (in Spanish La mulata, La cocinera or Escena de cocina (Kitchen Scene)) and Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus are two paired domestic...
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    The Love Letter (Dutch: De liefdesbrief) is a 17th-century genre painting by Jan Vermeer. The painting shows a servant maid commenting to her mistress...
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  • catholic family in Zutphen. She became a maid in Amsterdam and fell in love with an infantryman to the dislike of both her family and employer, and who followed...
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  • the other members of the household. Marin is his severe, unmarried sister. Cornelia is the maid, a little older than Nella, more spirited than maids in...
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  • "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" Source: "Golden Vanity" "High Barbaree" "Maid of Amsterdam" "Henry Martin" "Hullabaloo Baley" "Blow the Man Down" "Blow...
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    whereby Judith had both a maid and a charger, taken by Erwin Panofsky as an example of the knowledge needed in the study of iconography. For many artists...
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    The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater at 214 West 42nd Street, at the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District of Manhattan in New...
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    after the 1980s due to sister brand Minute Maid selling similar products under its own name. In 2001, Fanta received a national push due to the U.S.'s...
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    Trijntje Keever (category Deaths from cancer in the Netherlands)
    ('The Tall Girl'), is alleged to be the tallest woman in recorded history, standing 9 Amsterdam feet or 2.60 metres (8 ft 6.75 in) tall at the time of her...
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  • in the fictional town of Ashfordly and the village of Aidensfield in the North Riding of Yorkshire during the 1960s, the programme is based on the "Constable"...
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    legacy is celebrated by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings. The most comprehensive...
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    worker of silk or caffa (a mixture of silk and cotton or wool). He was the son of Jan Reyersz and Cornelia (Neeltge) Goris. As an apprentice in Amsterdam, Reijnier...
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    within the larger whole, the only section of the cycle to do this. Fabill 4, The Confession of the Tod, "The Taill of how this forsaid Tod maid his Confessioun...
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  • Still Smokin (film) (category Films shot in Amsterdam)
    Chong sketches with a wraparound story involving the duo arriving in Amsterdam for a film festival. While the film grossed $15 million, it received predominantly...
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    itself. The figures are set out in a shallow stage, theatrically lit from the side, isolated against the inky black background. Judith's maid Abra stands...
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  • The Coffee Trader is a historical novel by David Liss, set in 17th-century Amsterdam. The story revolves around the activities of commodity trader Miguel...
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