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This had the effect of increasing congestion along the New Jersey-bound tube of the Holland Tunnel, which drivers could use for free. Drivers would go through New Jersey and use the Bayonne Bridge, paying a lower toll to enter Staten Island. The amount of westbound traffic in the Holland Tunnel increased compared to eastbound traffic: by 1998 ...
After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. This cabinet card of Truth was produced around 1864, and is now in the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden
"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability. The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome .
Pilgrims Going to Church, an 1867 portrait by Boughton now housed at the New York Historical Society. Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, [2] and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist.
On 14 October 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland of Just Stop Oil threw two tins of soup at an 1888 Sunflowers painting by Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery in London, glued themselves to the wall and asked the crowd whether they were more concerned by the protest or by the effects of climate change on the planet. They had been ...
In April 1285 there were negotiations with Floris V for Elizabeth's betrothal to his son John I, Count of Holland. [2] The offer was accepted and John was sent to England to be educated. [ 3 ] On 8 January 1297 Elizabeth was married to John at Ipswich . [ 4 ]
Because of the east–west flow of the Low Countries' large rivers, they were a military and political barrier between north and south. The southern Low Countries could not exert influence over the north. This division meant that the counts of Holland became politically important in the north. Holland extended its political power over Zeeland. [46]
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