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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Netherlands on the Meuse River southeast of Rotterdam. Founded in the 11th century, it is a railroad junction and river port.
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"Market Woman of Dordrecht" is clever and well drawn, and deserves the commendation which it received when it was exhibited last year in the Royal Academy.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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When completed, the full-size ark will remain in Dordrecht until the middle of 2012, when Huibers then plans to take his ship around the world, beginning with London in time for the Olympic Games.
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A midshipman, he arrived aboard the Dordrecht serving as an arquebusier.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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He is the author of Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy (1990, Kluwer, Dordrecht) in collaboration with Jerry Ravetz, and numerous papers in the field of environmental and technological risks and policy-related research.
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The Norman Rorik, brother of the above-mentioned younger Heriold, who earlier had fled dis honored from Lothair, again took Dordrecht and did much evil treacherously to the Christians.
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They continued up the Rhine as far as Dordrecht, and nine miles farther to Meginhard, when they turned back, having taken their booty.
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Boston and Dordrecht: 1983; Weizsecker, Carl Friedrich von.
Lise Meitner. 2009
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Loeb, P. and Wolff, M. (eds.), 2000, Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Model Theory Hodges, Wilfrid 2009
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In 1987/1988 I lived in Dordrecht, Holland and during that time the local library hosted a display celebrating Arafat's first intifada (the one where small boys were encouraged to sling stones in the front line).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Furthermore, although his chanson Congié je prens de vous ends with the line ‘adieu Dordrecht, jusque au revoir’, so far it has not been proved that he stayed in Dordrecht.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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