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    Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, OM, CH, DTD, ED, PC, KC, FRS (baptismal name Jan Christiaan Smuts, 24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African...
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  • literature Koos Ras (1928–2001), South African singer and comedian Leopold Willem Ras (1760s–1823), Dutch merchant-trader and diplomat, opperhoofd in Dejima...
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    Jan Jansse van Nes; the second was commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Aert Jansse van Nes with as Vice-Admiral Enno Doedes Star and Rear-Admiral Willem van...
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    1634, Jean Vrolicq renamed the island Île de Richelieu. Jan Mayen first appeared on Willem Jansz Blaeu's 1620 edition map of Europe, originally published...
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    The Willem de Kooning Academy (Dutch: Willem de Kooning Academie) is a Dutch academy of media, art, design, leisure and education based in Rotterdam. It...
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  • Vrijheid 72 guns (1731) (A) Haarlem 72 guns (1736) (M) Prins Willem ?74 guns (1746) (A) Prinses Roijaal 74 guns (1759) (A) Admiraal Generaal 74 guns (1764)...
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  • 1946-2 Jan 1949) Governors under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (1949–present) Luis Muñoz Marín, Governor (2 Jan 1949-2 Jan 1965)...
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  • British composer of 13 symphonies and 13 concertante symphonies Christopher Gunning (1944–2023), British composer of 13 symphonies Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944–2008)...
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  • Events from the year 2024 in the Netherlands. Monarch: Willem-Alexander Prime Minister: Mark Rutte (until 2 July); Dick Schoof (since 2 July) Speaker of...
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    convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay. 1806 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British. 1866 – Wesley...
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    10th dan in Hapkido. He was also the coach of two-time Olympic champion Willem Ruska. Born in Amsterdam, Bluming grew up in a Jewish neighbourhood during...
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    academic (born 1949) Jakes Gerwel, academic and anti-apartheid activist (1946–2012) Adam Habib, political scientist (born 1965) Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr,...
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    Schaft and Jan Bonekamp, a friend in the resistance, carried out an assassination in Zaandam on Dutch police officer and collaborator Willem Ragut. Schaft...
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    Indonesian). Retrieved 2024-12-07. Jan A. Krancher, ed. (2010), The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949, McFarland, ISBN 978-0786481064,...
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    In collusion with his colleague-stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen, Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz (a cousin in the cadet branch of the House of Orange-Nassau)...
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  • Electra Glide in Blue Jean-Pierre Guiran (born 1950) Fuat Güner (born 1948) Christopher Gunning (1944–2023) Hildur Guðnadóttir (born 1982) – Joker, Chernobyl...
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  • three places to take the guns. An ammunition room was built into the bow of the ship. The MoD provided the anti-aircraft guns free of charge. Although...
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  • loan spell. ^ Cedric van der Gun played for Willem II on loan for the 2002–03 season, leaving Ajax after his loan spell. ^ Jan van Halst played for Fortuna...
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  • the 47 occupants. 23 August 1954: Flight 608, operated by Douglas DC-6B Willem Bontekoe, crashed between Shannon, Ireland, and Schiphol in the North Sea...
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    Inventaris van de archieven van stadhouder Willem V (1745–1808) en de Hofcommissie van Willem IV en Willem V (1732–1794), Uitgeverij Verloren, ISBN 90-6550-890-2...
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  • Office Mojo. January 28, 2024. Retrieved January 28, 2024. "The Monk and The Gun - Official Trailer", IGN, December 7, 2023, retrieved December 27, 2023 Renner...
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    Zeewijk (redirect from Jan Steyns)
    and 315,836 guilders in 10 chests. Jan Steyns from Middelburg was the skipper, in his first command, replacing Jan Bogaard who was too sick to sail. The...
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  • stars Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Colin Firth in supporting roles. The eponymous protagonist, a...
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    Michael Douglas (category American gun control activists)
    Alfred A. Knopf (2002) pp. 247–249 Hirschberg, Lynn. Rolling Stone magazine, Jan. 16, 1986 pp. 28–32, 41 "Michael Douglas & Brenda Vaccaro: Is Out-of-Wedlock...
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    The island has many glaciers, mountains and fjords. The Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz gave Spitsbergen its name when he discovered it in 1596. The name...
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  • William Flinders Petrie (British, 1853–1942) Karl Piehl (Swedish, 1853–1904) Willem Pleyte (Dutch, 1836–1903) André Pochan (French, 1891–19??) Paule Posener-Kriéger...
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    Municipality in 1913, at which time it had 25,000 inhabitants, and Spånga in 1949). The municipal border was established in 1971; with the exception of Hansta...
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  • Civilization Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) – "End of history" thesis Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) – world history and geography for younger readers William...
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    a supporting role in Julian Schnabel's film At Eternity's Gate starring Willem Dafoe. In 2019, he starred in Jonas Åkerlund's action film Polar, which...
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  • Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Norman Lewis, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Theodoros...
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