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    The Jewish cemetery in Hoorn can refer to the original Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of the Dutch city of Hoorn (where the first burial took place in...
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    work. Notable museums in Hoorn include: Westfries Museum Museum of the 20th Century (on the Oostereiland) Jewish cemetery, Hoorn As of 16 June 2022, the...
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    Marga Minco (category Jewish centenarians)
    community; he may have worked as a salesman. Her mother was Grietje Minco-van Hoorn (1889–1943). She had a brother, David, and a sister, Bettie. The family...
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  • Blunderbuss (redirect from Cemetery gun)
    tripwire activated blunderbusses, known as alarm guns, spring guns and cemetery guns, were set up in graveyards and country estates to scare away poachers...
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  • Jewish pirates were Jewish people who engaged in piracy. While there is some mention of the phenomenon in antiquity, especially during the Hasmonean period...
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  • that these Jewish converts be burned at the stake or drowned, but it is believed by scholars that the punishments were not meted out. The Hoorn convert trial...
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    (1915) Portrait of a Girl (1918) Portrait of Johanna Eugenia Theadora Van Hoorn Schouwe (1918) Chisholm 1911. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's...
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    Women, gender roles and children) The Hemlanden cemetery located here is the largest Viking Period cemetery in Scandinavia Phillip Pulsiano; Kirsten Wolf...
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  • December 21, 2017. Bruin, Jan de (2013). "Twee West-Friese slaven" (PDF). Oud Hoorn (in Dutch). 35 (2): 59–63. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 13...
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    historic district on October 15, 1966. The Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery is located in Chalmette, Louisiana, six miles (10 km) southeast of New...
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    September 12, 1860. William Walker was 36 years old. He is buried in the "Old Cemetery", Trujillo, Colón, Honduras. William Walker convinced many Southerners...
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  • A Self-Guided Tour of Portland's Historic Lone Fir Cemetery" (PDF). Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-27. Retrieved...
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    the coast of India. Sinan (the pirate) is not the Sinan buried in a Jewish cemetery in Albania, because that refers to the grave of Kapudan Sinan (Sinanüddin...
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    pay their respects without fear of arrest. He was buried at Palisadoes cemetery, Port Royal, followed by a 22-gun salute from the ships moored in the harbour...
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    Michel de Grammont Moses Cohen Henriques Nathaniel Gordon Nicholas van Hoorn Ng Akew Olivier Levasseur Pedro Gilbert Peter Easton Pierre Lafitte Piet...
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    nineteenth century. Bishop was buried in an unmarked grave at June Road Cemetery in North Salem, New York. In 2000, North Salem's Town Historian, Dick Yakman...
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  • Samuel Pallache (category Jewish merchants)
    gravestone (image) in the Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, a "cemetery of the Portuguese Jewish community" in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel near Amsterdam. Thousands...
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    was given the name Vischers Hook ("fishers' hook"). The name referred to Hoorn, a Dutch fisherman who had built a house at that location.: 21  At the time...
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    Daniel Patterson (naval officer) (category Burials at the Congressional Cemetery)
    1839. Daniel Todd Patterson and his wife are buried in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The Life of Gould, an Ex-Man-of-War's Man, by Roland...
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    this point was named by an early owner, Siebert Classen, "Hoorn's Hook", for his native Hoorn on the Zuider Zee. The first house on the site was built...
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  • Michel de Grammont Moses Cohen Henriques Nathaniel Gordon Nicholas van Hoorn Ng Akew Olivier Levasseur Pedro Gilbert Peter Easton Pierre Lafitte Piet...
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  • Hanson Smadar Hanson, Clyde Berg Droomfabriek, De 2007 Netty van Hoorn Netty van Hoorn Drunk in Public 2007 David J.Sperling Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead:...
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    destinations include the Cathedral and other notable churches, the city cemetery, and the statue of Magellan. Some cruise ships to Antarctica depart from...
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    the Chalmette Battlefield, which also includes the Chalmette National Cemetery. It features the 100-foot-tall Chalmette Monument and is part of the Jean...
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    David Porter (naval officer) (category Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery)
    Empire. He was buried in the cemetery of the Philadelphia Naval Asylum, and then in 1845 reburied in the Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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  • dying from what may have been tuberculosis and was buried at Palisadoes cemetery. Blackbeard- played by Patrick Lander- earned his stripes by attacking...
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    Parish Church Kingston railway station Liberty Hall, King Street Old Jewish Cemetery, Hunts Bay Port Royal The Admiralty Houses Wesley Methodist Church...
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  • allowing her and Robin to escape. The next day, after hiding out in a cemetery, she is discovered in a bathhouse by the Beast Pirate Hawkins, but is rescued...
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    dedicated to St Elen or St Helen). Beacon Hill Cemetery was excavated by Charles Thomas in 1969. The cemetery contains four inscribed stones, dated to the...
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    1945, historian Enrique Ramírez Brau speculated that Cofresí may have had Jewish ancestry. A theory, held by David Cuesta and historian Ursula Acosta (a...
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