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The Netherlands are one of the sixteen countries to have made their debut at the inaugural Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003, which took place on 15 November 2003 at the Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mercator is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), a Belgian cartographer . She was designed by G.L. Watson & Co. and built in Leith , Scotland [ 2 ] and launched in 1932.
The Netherlands competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in France, which was held in Nice on 26 November 2023. [1] [2] Sep and Jasmijn were selected by AVROTROS to represent the country with their song "Holding On to You" through the televised national selection Junior Songfestival 2023.
The Netherlands participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, with "Burning Daylight" performed by Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper.The Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS internally selected the Dutch entry for the 2023 contest.
The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) is a nonprofit German think tank with a focus on China founded in 2013 by Stiftung Mercator , a private foundation in Germany. The institute’s focus is on political, economic, social, technological and ecological developments in China and their global impacts.
Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4]
Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.
Schijndel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxɛindəl] ⓘ) is a town and former municipality in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.Schijndel is located approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) southeast of 's-Hertogenbosch.