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Logo. The Biografisch Portaal (Biography Portal) is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible.
Master of the Amsterdam Death of the Virgin (fl. 1485 – 1510 in Amsterdam or Utrecht) Master of the Brunswick Diptych (fl. 1485 – 1510 in Haarlem?) Master of the Figdor Deposition (fl. 1480 – 1500 in Haarlem) Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece (Nijmegen? c. 1450 – Cologne 1510) Master of the Tiburtine Sibyl (fl. 1470 – 1505 in ...
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The Grave with the Hands (Dutch: Graf met de handjes, lit. 'Grave with the little hands') is a 19th-century funerary monument in the Dutch city of Roermond.It comprises two almost identical tombstones on either side of a wall separating the Catholic part from the Protestant part of Begraafplaats Nabij de Kapel in 't Zand (Cemetery Near the Chapel in the Sand), each with a carved arm and hand ...
Hans Lipperhey [a] (c. 1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or simply Lippershey, [b] was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker.He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because he was the first one who tried to obtain a patent for it. [1]
In some languages, Holland is used as the formal name for the Netherlands. However, Holland is a region within the Netherlands that consists of the two provinces of North and South Holland. Formerly these were a single province, and earlier the County of Holland, which included parts of present-day Utrecht.
On 9 December 2005, Guinness World Records recognized the claim of then 116-year-old María Capovilla of Ecuador to be the world's oldest person, supplanting Van Andel-Schipper from the revised title, to become the world's oldest living person on 29 May 2004, upon the death of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, she would have become the world's ...
The list including known and validated supercentenarians who died before 2015 was compiled by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). [1] Later cases were sourced either from more recent GRG data, [2] from administrative reports or from press coverage, as indicated in the table.