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The school was a Montessori Lyceum with directions Gymnasium (school), vwo (), havo en vmbo-T.More than 50% of the students attended vmbo department of the school. In course year 08–09, the school had 504 students (including VAVO students) and 52 teachers.
Amsterdam at this time was a small fishing village at the mouth of the Amstel. A part of Utrecht, this area was part of the seigniory (heerlijkheid) of the Van Aemstel family. At one point the right bank of the Amstel was being referred to as the "Old Amstel" (Ouder-Amstel), the left bank as the "New Amstel" (Nieuwer-Amstel).
Amstel 1870 is a slightly dark 5% abv lager. In France a beer called Amstel Free, with minimal alcohol content –about one per cent ABV– is produced. A non-alcoholic beer, Amstel Zero, can be purchased in the Netherlands, Greece, Egypt and few other countries. Amstel Ultra Light is a beer made by Heineken Mexico for the Mexican market.
The name Amstel and the older form Aemstel are derived from Amestelle, which is a compound of the words aam or ame meaning water and stelle meaning solid, high, and dry ground. [2] [3] [4] In the 12th century, Amestelle was used for the area or gouw that was closed in by the rivers Amstel and Bullewijk and the bay IJ. [3]
The origins of the city lie around 1000 CE, [1] [2] when inhabitants settled at the mouth of the Amstel and began peatland reclamation. [1] After the All Saints' Flood (1170), a dam was built in the Amstel to protect the lower lands from floods. [1] In 1275, Amsterdam was granted a toll privilege by Count Floris V which exempted it from a ...
The van Amstel family (Dutch: Heren van Amstel) was an influential dynasty in the medieval Netherlands from the twelfth until the fourteenth century. The family developed the Amstelland and held the stewardship in the ecclesiastical districts in the northwest of the Nedersticht (largely the current province) of Utrecht, first in the name of the ...
Louis van Amstel, a former "Dancing with the Stars" professional dancer, shared his son's experience last month in a video on Instagram. During a Thanksgiving gratitude exercise, the 11-year-old ...
Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge .