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DELFT , a See also:town of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland in the See also:province of See also:South Holland, on the Schie, 5 M. by See also:rail S.E. by S. of the See also:Hague, with which it is also connected by See also:steam-See also:tramway. Pop. (1900) 31,582. It is a quiet, typically Dutch town, with its old See also:brick houses and See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree-bordered canals. The Prinsenhof, previously a monastery, was converted into a See also:residence for the See also:counts of See also:Orange in 1575; it was here that See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Silent was assassinated. It is now used as a William of Orange Museum. The New See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, formerly the church of St See also:Ursula (14th See also:century), is the See also:burial See also:place of the princes of Orange. It is remarkable for its See also:fine See also:tower and See also:chime of bells, and contains the splendid allegorical See also:monument of William the Silent, executed by Hendrik de Keyser and his son Pieter about 1621, and the See also:tomb of See also:Hugo See also:Grotius, See also:born in Delft in 1583, whose statue, erected in 1886, stands in the See also:market-place outside the church. The Old Church, founded in the 11th century, but in its See also:present See also:form dating from 1476, contains the monuments of two famous admirals of the 1.7th century, See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin See also:van See also:Tromp and Piet Hein, as well as the tomb of the naturalist See also:Leeuwenhoek, born at Delft in 1632. In the town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall (1618) are some See also:corporation pictures, portraits of the counts of Orange and See also:Nassau, including several by Michiel van See also:Mierevelt (1567-1641), one of the earliest Dutch portrait painters, and with his son Pieter (1'595-1623), a native of Delft. There are also a See also:Roman See also:Catholic church (1882) and a See also:synagogue. Two important educational establishments are the See also:Indian
See also:DELHI
See also:Institute for the See also:education of See also:civil service students for the colonies, to which is attached an ethnographical museum; and the Royal See also:Polytechnic school, which almost ranks as a university, and teaches, among other sciences, that of diking. A fine collection of See also:mechanical See also:models is connected with the polytechnic school. Among other buildings are the See also:modern " See also:Phoenix " See also:club-See also:house of the students; the See also:hospital, containing some anatomical pictures, including one by the two Mierevelts (1617); a lunatic See also:asylum; the Van Renswoude orphanage, the See also:theatre, a school of See also:design, the See also:powder See also:magazine and the See also:state See also:arsenal, originally a warehouse of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, and now used as a manufactory of See also:artillery stores.
The name of Delft is most intimately associated with the manufacture of the beautiful See also:faience pottery for which it was once famous. (See See also:CERAMICS.) This See also:industry was imported from See also:Haarlem towards the end of the 16th century, and achieved an unrivalled position in the second See also:half of the following century; but it did not survive the See also:French occupation at the end of the 18th century. It has, however, been revived in modern times under the name of " New Delft." Other branches of industry are See also:carpet-See also:weaving, distilling, oil and oil-cake manufacture, See also:dyeing, See also:cooperage and the manufacture of arms and bullets. There is also an important See also:butter and See also:cheese market.
Delft was founded in 1075 by See also:Godfrey III., See also:duke of See also:Lower See also:Lorraine, after his See also:conquest of Holland, and came subsequently into the hands of the counts of Holland. In 1246 it received a See also:charter from See also:Count William II. (see C. See also:Hegel, Skate und Gilden, ii. 251). In 1536 it was almost totally destroyed by See also:fire, and in 1654 largely ruined by the See also:explosion of a powder magazine.
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