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The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean ( Scotia Sea ) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean .
Nicholas van Hoorn (c. 1635 in Vlissingen – buried 24 June 1683, in Isla Mujeres) was a merchant sailor, privateer and pirate. He was born in the Netherlands and died near Veracruz after being wounded on the Isla de Sacrificios .
The 23-year old Van Horn had already had 50 professional fights, sporting an impressive 48–2 record, and had become a world champion in two divisions, while the 31-year old Barkley was thought to be past his best after losing 3 consecutive middleweight title fights from 1989 to 1990 before taking a one-year hiatus and then beating two ...
He was the brother of Agatha van Hoorn, who married his friend, the Haarlem mayor Cornelis Guldewagen. [1] His sister Catherina married Jacobus Buttinga in 1628. [ 2 ] Andries became magistrate in 1627, and captain of the schutterij in 1633, when he was painted by Frans Hals in his group portrait The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in ...
The exterior of the Van Horn group corporate headquarters, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Plymouth, Wis.
Van Hoorn is a Dutch toponymic surname. The place of origin often is the city of Hoorn in North Holland , but may be any of four other Dutch settlements named Hoorn , three named Den Hoorn , or Horn /the county of Horne in Dutch Limburg . [ 1 ]
Thomas B. Van Horne, (June 1, 1782 – September 21, 1841) served as a federal land register and Ohio State Senator. He is noted for his leadership during the War of 1812 . Early life
Simon Hatley (27 March 1685 – after 1723) was an English sailor involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean.On the second voyage, with his ship beset by storms south of Cape Horn, Hatley shot an albatross, an incident immortalised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.