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Person passed out on sidewalk – New York City, 2008 – shot using Dutch angle. In filmmaking and photography, the Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, vortex plane, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot that involves setting the camera at an angle so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the ...
It originated from the Germanic root for "narrow" (compare German and Dutch eng = "narrow"), meaning "the Narrow [Water]", i.e., the Schlei estuary; the root would be *h₂enǵʰ, "tight". The name derives from "hook" (as in angling for fish), in reference to the shape of the peninsula where they lived; Indo-European linguist Julius Pokorny ...
When the Dutch abolished or curtailed those monarchies, the bupati were left as the most senior indigenous authority. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] They were not, strictly speaking, "native rulers" because the Dutch claimed full sovereignty over their territory, but in practice, they had many of the attributes of petty kings, including elaborate regalia ...
Provinces are further divided into regencies and cities (formerly called second-level region regencies/cities or kabupaten/kotamadya daerah tingkat II), which are in turn subdivided into districts (kecamatan). Proposals for the creation of additional provinces (by the splitting of existing provinces) have been considered by the Indonesian ...
During the Dutch East Indies and early republic period, the term district referred to kewedanan, a subdivision of regency, while kecamatan was translated as subdistrict (Dutch: onderdistrict). [7] Following the abolition of kewedanan, the term district began to be associated with kecamatan which has since been directly administered by regency.
Kenyah dance. The Kenyah people, traditionally being swidden agriculturalists [5] and living in longhouses (uma dado'), [6] is an umbrella term for over 40 sub-groups that mostly share common migration histories, customs, and related dialects.
The company was expelled in 1638, however, after the sultan waged a war against the Dutch and burned much of the company's possessions around the port. [19] [12] Fort Tatas, a Dutch fortress in Banjarmasin, 1924. Similarly, an English company agreed upon a treaty with the sultanate in 1698 but was expelled from the region in 1707.
The 32 km Dutch Afsluitdijk, separating the IJsselmeer (right) from the Wadden Sea (left), served as inspiration for the Giant Sea Wall project. The National Capital Integrated Coastal Development ( NCICD) includes the construction of a giant sea wall just north of the bay in Jakarta as a measure to protect the city against floods from sea.