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The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (Dutch: [ˌzœydərˈzeː] ⓘ; old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands. It extended about 100 km (60 miles) inland and at most 50 km (30 miles) wide, with an overall depth of about 4 to 5 metres (13 ...
A group called the "Zuider Zee Society" began a thorough investigation as to the best means of closing and draining the Zuider Zee in 1886, and in 1891 Lely introduced his plan, which formed the basis for the development of what were to become the Zuiderzee Works. [5]
A test Knight had done for Roach ended up in Pick a Star, an MGM musical comedy film that also featured Laurel and Hardy in a non-speaking guest bit; Knight was briefly seen as a nightclub singer. Even though he studied acting with Irving Pichel , no further film opportunities came to Knight, other than a potential film series in Australia that ...
1928–1929 Zuider Zee; 1929–1930 The Golden Dog; The Second Man; 1930–1931 The Tiger Smiles; 1931–1932 Spanish Blades; 1932–1933 It's the Valet; Private Lives; 1933–1934 Fiesta; Goodbye Again; 1934–1935 Stags at Bay (incl. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)); Holiday; 1935–1936 What a Relief! 1936–1937 Take It Away; 1937 ...
Samantha Bee is clapping back at “Saturday Night Live” boss Lorne Michaels, who makes a diss at her in his upcoming memoir “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” The former ...
What the White House appeared to be aiming at in the order is the idea that independent agencies should be interpreting the law consistently with the rest of the administration. In the case of ...
The replacement dyke was also built to a simpler standard than the original: when first built, this had been a sea dyke protecting from the sea of the Zuider Zee. After the construction of the Afsluitdijk , this was now just the calmer water of the IJsselmeer.
"Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live" by Susan Morrison (Random House), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available February 18 Holocaust survivors on bearing witness