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The Good Hope (Danish: Det gode håb) is a 1964 novel by the Faroese writer William Heinesen, and set in 17th-century Tórshavn. It received the Nordic Council Literature Prize . [ 1 ] Heinesen wrote in the Danish language, but his novels, including The Good Hope , were later translated into the Faroese language .
The Good Hope may refer to: The Good Hope (play), a 1900/1901 Dutch play by Herman Heijermans; The Good Hope (novel), a 1964 novel by William Heinesen; See also.
The Good Hope (from Dutch: Op Hoop van Zegen; more literally: Hoping for the best) is a Dutch play written by Herman Heijermans in 1900/1901. It takes place in a fishing village, with the conflict between the fishermen and their employer ending in tragedy with the unsound boat setting out to sea and sinking with all hands and the owner ...
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; Good Hope, Botswana; Good Hope, Dominica; Goodhope, Buffalo City, a village in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and ...
HMS Good Hope was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900; she was originally named Africa, but was renamed before she was launched.She became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906, and was the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in 1908.
The series is centered on an afterlife in which humans are sent to "the Good Place" or "the Bad Place" after death. All humans are assigned a numerical score based on the morality of their conduct in life, and only those with the very highest scores are sent to the Good Place, where they enjoy eternal happiness with their every wish granted, guided by an artificial intelligence named Janet ...
Good Hope was the first permanent modern settlement of size in Southeast Washington. The Nacotchtank Native Americans were the first settlers to inhabit the area now known as Good Hope, living and fishing along the nearby Anacostia River. [2] Captain John Smith was the first European to visit the region in 1612 C.E., naming the river the ...