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Ten senators are co-opted, meaning they are elected by their peers: six by the Dutch-language group of the Senate and four by the French-language group of the Senate. These seats are distributed proportionally between parties based on the results of the latest direct election of the Chamber of Representatives (federal level).
Willem Anne Assueer Jacob, Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (18 September 1834 – 31 August 1889) was a Dutch nobleman and politician. [1] He served as President of the Senate from 1888 until his death in 1889.
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Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer-Obdam as painted by George de Marees. The central figure was the lord of the heerlijkheid and effectively its owner—the manorial lord or lady. In Dutch, the lord was called heer and the lady vrouw(e). The lord was also referred to by the Latin word dominus. A rarer English alternative is seigneur. [9]
However, Shakespeare's use of the phrase in King Lear is limited to a reference to the shutting of doors at the end of Scene II, with the characters of Regan and Cornwall both advising the King, "Shut up your doors". The earlier meaning of the phrase, to close something, is widely used in Little Dorrit, but is used in one instance in a manner ...
The "Transvaal National Anthem" (Afrikaans and Dutch: Transvaalse Volkslied) [1] was the national anthem of the South African Republic, also known as the Transvaal Republic.
Alexander De Croo (Dutch: [aːlɛkˈsɑndər də ˈkroː]; born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025.
The Amsterdam archery militia whose patron saint was St. Sebastian, in 1653, by Bartholomeus van der Helst. Schutterij (Dutch pronunciation: [sxʏtəˈrɛi] ⓘ) refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire.