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The Dort, or Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed is an 1818 painting by J. M. W. Turner, based on drawings made by him in mid September 1817. [1] It shows a view of the harbour of Dordrecht. It is the finest example of the influence of Dutch marine painting on Turner's work. [2]
Dordrecht Island Island of Dordrecht (7) in the Rhine-Meuse delta. The name Dordrecht comes from Thuredriht (circa 1120), Thuredrecht (circa 1200). The name seems to mean 'thoroughfare'; a ship-canal or river through which ships were pulled by rope from one river to another, as here between the Dubbel and the Merwede.
Hertha Strauch was born in St Avold in Alsace-Lorraine, then part of Germany, on 24 June 1897.She grew up bilingual in German and French, going to school in Metz, [2] where her family owned a small department store.
The Canons of Dort, or Canons of Dordrecht, formally titled The Decision of the Synod of Dort on the Five Main Points of Doctrine in Dispute in the Netherlands, is an exposition of orthodox Reformed soteriology against Arminianism, by the National Synod held in the Dutch city of Dordrecht in 1618–1619.
Luguentz Dort defended Brandon Ingram for 37.5 partial possessions through nearly nine minutes of being matched up in OKC’s 94-92 win Sunday.
The origins of the five points and the acrostic are uncertain, but they appear to be outlined in the Counter Remonstrance of 1611, a lesser-known Reformed reply to the Arminian Five Articles of Remonstrance, which was written prior to the Canons of Dort. [3] The acrostic TULIP was used by Cleland Boyd McAfee as early as circa 1905. [4]
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Ronald L. Olson joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -5.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Droit du seigneur [a] ('right of the lord'), also known as jus primae noctis [b] ('right of the first night'), sometimes referred to as prima nocta, [c] was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night.