DORDRECHT

dôrˈdrĕkht or Dortdôrt, city (1994 pop. 113,394), South Holland prov., SW Netherlands, at the point where the Lower Merwede divides to form the Noord and Oude Maas (Old Meuse) rivers. An important rail junction and river port, it has shipyards and manufactures heavy machinery and chemicals. Founded in the early 11th cent., Dordrecht was the scene (1572) of the meeting of the Estates of Holland that proclaimed William the Silent stadtholder. Dordrecht has a 14th-century Gothic church (Groote Kerk) and an art museum.

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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 5
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...1987). Profiles: jaakko Hintikka. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Hintikka J (1962). Knowledge...J (1969). Models for modalities. Dordrecht: Reidel. Hintikka J (1973a). Logic...historical perspectives in epistemology. Dordrecht: Reidel. Hintikka J (1975). The...
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Evidentialism: Essays in Epistemology
Book by Earl Conee, Richard Feldman; Clarendon Press, 2004
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory Of
...and Knowledge , George Pappas, ed. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1979), pp. 104-5...Skepticism, Justification, and Explanation (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1980), p. 132.) 19...and Knowledge , George Pappas, ed. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel 1979), pp. 1-24. As...
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Painting of the Golden Age: A Biographical Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century European Painters
Book by Adelheid M. Gealt; Greenwood Press, 1993
Subjects: Painters--Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Painting, Modern--17th-18th Centuries--Europe--Dictionaries
HOOGSTRAETEN, Samuel Dircksz van Dordrecht 1627-1678 , Dutch. Hoogstraeten has...Abraham Furnerius. By 1648 he was back in Dordrecht and in 1651 he was active in Vienna where...Masters of the Holland Mint , dated 1674, Dordrecht, Museum . In 1652 he was in Rome, in...
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Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485
Book by Ronald H. Fritze, William B. Robison; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Great Britain--History--13th Century--Dictionaries, Great Britain--History--Lancaster And York, 1399-1485--Dictionaries
...the rest of Europe. He made payment in Dordrecht bonds rather than money. In 1337 Edward...favorable terms. After the wool reached Dordrecht, this cooperative initiative between...III took possession of wool lying in Dordrecht, paying 10 a sack in Dordrecht bonds...
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Psychological Perspectives on Deafness
Book by Marc Marschark, M. Diane Clark; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1993
Subjects: Deafness--Psychological Aspects
...special reference to Swedish". Dordrecht: Reidel. Flynn S. 1987 . A parameter...setting model of L2 acquisition . Dordrecht: Reidel. Flynn S., ONeil W...in second language acquisition . Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers...
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Recent Titles in Philosophy *
Journal article by Elizabeth C. Shaw; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 57, 2004
...Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002...Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002...Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003...
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A Partial List of the Empirical Theoretical Literature on Subject-Specific Pedagogy
Journal article by Norman G. Lederman; School Science and Mathematics, Vol. 101, 2001
Subjects: Education--Study and teaching, Teacher education, Teachers--Training, Teaching--Bibliography
...content knowledge (pp. 147-162). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers...content knowledge (pp. 133-146). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers...pedagogical content knowledge (pp. 3-20). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers...
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From Logic to the Person: An Introduction to Edmund Husserl's Ethics
Journal article by Henning Peucker; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 62, 2008
Subjects: Husserl, Edmund--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Husserl, Edmund--Ethical aspects, Philosophers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Philosophers--Ethical aspects
...eds. John Drummond and Lester Embree (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002), 229-48. (2...Husserliana 28, ed. Ullrich Melle (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988); henceforth: Hua...11, Hua. 30, ed. Ursula Panzer (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996), see particularly...
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Researching Teacher Education Practices: Responding to the Challenges, Demands, and Expectations of Self-Study
Journal article by John Loughran; Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 58, 2007
Subjects: Teacher centers--Research, Teacher education--Research, Teachers--Research, Teachers--Training
...practices (Vol. 2, pp. 1295-1332). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic...practices (Vol. 2, pp. 313-342). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic...through self-study (pp. 65-79). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. Ham...
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Recent Titles in Philosophy(*)
Journal article by Albert E. Gunn; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Books--Bibliography
...International Archives of the History of Ideas. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998...Philosophers, First to the Twentieth Century. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999...A. The Coming Age of Thresholding. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999...
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Bach-orgel Grote Kerk Dordrecht
Magazine article by James L. Wallmann; The American Organist, Vol. 43, March 2009
Bach-orgel Grote Kerk Dordrecht by James L. Wallmann BACH-ORGEL GROTE KERK DORDRECHT, ed. Peter van Dijk. Dordrecht: Stichting Bachorgel Grate Kerk Dordrecht, 2007. 176 pp., ill. ISBN 978-90-90222-10-3. euro49.90 (available...
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Het Orgel in de Doopsgezinde Kerk in Almelo/smitsorgel in de Sint-petruskerk Boxtel in Volle Glorie Hersteld/het Orgel in de Wilhelminakerk Te Dordrecht: Een Drieluik/orgel En Organisten Van Loosduinen: Twee Eeuwen Kerk En Muziek in Een Tuindersdorp/het Hinsz-orgel in de Catharinakerk Te Roden/het Orgel in de Caroluskapel Te Roermond
Magazine article; The American Organist, Vol. 41, September 2007
...Hersteld/het Orgel in de Wilhelminakerk Te Dordrecht: Een Drieluik/orgel En Organisten Van...euro 10. HET ORGEL IN DE WILHELMINAKERK TE DORDRECHT: EEN DRIELUIK, Peter Dillingh. Dordrecht: Commissie Orgelfonds Wilhelminakerk, 2006...
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Aelbert Cuyp at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 280, May 2002
Subjects: Artists, Dutch--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cuyp, Alfred--Criticism, interpretation, etc., National Gallery (United Kingdom)--Exhibitions, Painters--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...its latest borrowed exhibition, settled on the Dordrecht of Aelbert Cuyp. Dordrecht stands sentinel on the confluence of the Rhine...into something like an archipelago, of which Dordrecht is almost an island. The Customs House and the...
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Probation-Police Partnerships in Britain
Magazine article by Donald G. Evans; Corrections Today, Vol. 62, August 2000
Subjects: Crime prevention--Technique, Probation officers--Technique, Probation--Management, Recidivists--Management, United Kingdom. Crime and Disorder Act 1998
...and police services visited the town of Dordrecht in the Netherlands to learn from its...Lancashire and was called the Burnley-Dordrecht Initiative. A steering group was formed...Burnley project and the Dutch program. The Dordrecht project is a diversion scheme focused...
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Refocusing U.S. Math and Science Education
Magazine article by Gilbert A. Valverde, William H. Schmidt; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 14, Winter 1997
Subjects: Academic achievement--Analysis, Education and state--Analysis, United States--Social policy
...and Science Teaching in Six Countries. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic...Science and Mathematics Education. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic...Intentions in School Mathematics, Vol. 1. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic...
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Landscape Master Cuyp Lights Up National Gallery
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, October 6, 2001
...the Maas River in the artists native Dordrecht - the oldest city in the Netherlands...peace negotiations. Cuyps "The Maas at Dordrecht" (early 1650s) is an enormously exciting...the ship signals the coming of several Dordrecht dignitaries with his beats. A bugler...
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Bluebirds in the Chase to Land Dutch Hotshot Lopes
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 30, 2007
...scoring form for Dutch second division side Dordrecht. But City face stiff competition for...the season, has been a huge hit for Dordrecht this season, firing in an impressive...saw him sign a two-year contract with Dordrecht and he quickly established himself as...
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MURDERED NIALL IS COMING HOME; Heartbroken Family Bring Victim Back
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 30, 2010
...fatal injuries suffered in a violent row outside a pub in Dordrecht, Rotterdam. The electrician travelled to the Netherlands...think you will ever meet someone nicer than him." Police in Dordrecht have arrested a 45-year-old man in connection with the...
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PM Eaten by the Mob; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 14, 2011
...Johan de Witt was killed and eaten by an angry mob? BORN in Dordrecht in 1625, Johan de Witt was a member of one of the old burgher...mathematicians of his age. In 1650, he was appointed Pensionary of Dordrecht, leader of Dordrechts deputation in the government of Holland...
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PM Eaten by the Mob; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 14, 2011
...Johan de Witt was killed and eaten by an angry mob? BORN in Dordrecht in 1625, Johan de Witt was a member of one of the old burgher...mathematicians of his age. In 1650, he was appointed Pensionary of Dordrecht, leader of Dordrechts deputation in the government of Holland...
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encyclopedia articles on: Dordrecht  - 17 results

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Dordrecht
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DORDRECHT dor drekht or Dort dort, city (1994...Founded in the early 11th cent., Dordrecht was the scene (1572) of the meeting...proclaimed William the Silent stadtholder. Dordrecht has a 14th-century Gothic church...
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Mennonites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in German, and the Conservative Amish, who abide by the Dordrecht Confession of Faith but hold services in English as well as...and the Netherlands, where it became influential. The Dordrecht Confession of Faith, embodying the distinctive features of...
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Marnix, Philip Van
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which remains the national anthem of the Netherlands. In 1572 he represented William at the estates of Holland, held at Dordrecht, and secured the recognition of William as lawful stadholder of Holland. Among his writings are the vehement anti-Catholic...
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Dutch Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of Italian Renaissance motifs appeared especially in decorative sculpture, and centers of sculptural production grew up at Dordrecht, Utrecht, and Breda. In painting, enthusiasm for Italian art, combined with a kind of late revival of Gothicism, resulted...
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Meuse , River, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which flows into the North Sea. The other branch, called the Bergsche Maas, flows into an inlet of the North Sea S of Dordrecht. The Oude Maas (Old Meuse), which is a branch of the Waal, and the Nieuwe Maas (New Meuse), which is a continuation...
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