Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Catarrhina .
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Examples
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Nomura analyst Catharina Saponar said the report was stronger then expected and showed surprisingly good profitability.
Vestas to Cut 3,000 Jobs as Profit Falls Erik Durhan 2010
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In their 2009 report "The Giant Buddhas of Bamiyan: Safeguarding the Remains," Michael Petzet and Catharina Blänsdorf of the International Council of Monuments and Sites said that little is actually known about the works during the region's Buddhist period, which lasted until 770.
The Ruins of 'Monument Valley' Arnie Cooper 2011
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Other facts are not so clear-cut and I had to make choices: he may or may not have lived in the house of his mother-in-law (I decided he did); he converted to Catholicism at the time of his marriage but not necessarily because Catharina was Catholic
An interview with Tracy Chevalier about Girl With A Pearl Earring 2010
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He married Catharina Koopman, whom he met in 1966 while skiing with friends in the Swiss mountains.
Simon van der Meer, Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 85 2011
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I was careful to be true to the known facts; for instance, he married Catharina Bolnes and they had eleven surviving children.
An interview with Tracy Chevalier about Girl With A Pearl Earring 2010
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Hendrik van der Merwe and Johanna Catharina settled in the high Witsenberg valley, the source of the Olifants.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Victoria van de Caab and her daughter Rachel also remained within plausible visiting distance of their old home, moving to the Witsenberg valley with Johanna Catharina and Hendrik van der Merwe.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Johanna Catharina and Elsie married brothers Hendrik and Petrus van der Merwe Hendriksz from the Sneeuwberg; Willem married another van der Merwe cousin, Elisabeth Geertruij.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The van Wyk sons were too young to manage on their own, the eldest surviving boy being only 3 at the time. 65 Willem and Johanna Catharina were not poor but they did not have an abundance of livestock or other agricultural resources.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Johanna Catharina and Elsie gravitated toward a region heavily settled by the van der Merwe family, and other siblings moved further afield, emphasizing the great degree of mobility in frontier communities and the extent to which the frontier regions were deeply connected to the rest of the colony.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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