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DEVENTER , a See also:town in the See also:province of See also:Overysel, 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, on the right See also:bank of the Ysel, at the confluence of the Schipbeek, and a junction station ro m. N. of See also:Zutphen by See also:rail. It is also connected by See also:steam See also:tramway S.E. with Brokulo. Pop. (190o) 26,212. Deventer is a neat and prosperous town situated in the midst of prettily wooded environs, and containing many curious old buildings. There are three churches of See also:special See also:interest: the Groote Kerk (St Lebuinus), which See also:dates from 1334, and occupies the site of an older structure of which the 11th-See also:century See also:crypt remains; the See also:Roman See also:Catholic Broederkerk, or See also:Brothers' 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, containing among its See also:relics three See also:ancient gospels said to have been written by St Lebuinus (Lebwin), the See also:English apostle of the See also:Frisians and Westphalians (d. c. 773); and the Bergkerk, dedicated in 1206, which has two See also:late Romanesque towers. 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 (1693) contains a remarkable See also:painting of the town See also:council by Terburg. In the See also:fine square called the Brink is the old weigh-See also:house, now a school (gymnasium), built in 1528,with a large See also:external See also:staircase (1644). The gymnasium is descended from the Latin school of which the celebrated See also:Alexander See also:Hegius was See also:master in the third See also:quarter of the 15th century, when tie See also:young See also:Erasmus was sent to it, and at which See also:Adrian Floreizoon, after-wards See also:Pope Adrian VI., is said to have been a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. Another famous educational institution was the " See also:Athenaeum " or high school, founded in 163o, at which See also:Henri Renery (d. 1639) taught See also:philosophy, while Johann See also:Friedrich Gronov (See also:Gronovius) (1611—1671) taught See also:rhetoric and See also:history in the See also:middle of the same century. The " Athenaeum " disappered in 1876. In See also:modern times Deventer possessed a famous teacher in Dr See also:Burgersdyk (d. 1900), the Dutch translator of See also:Shakespeare. The town library, also called the library of the
Athenaeum, includes many See also:MSS. and See also:incunabula, and a 13th-century copy of Reynard the See also:Fox. The archives of the town are of considerable value. Besides a considerable agricultural See also:trade, Deventer has important See also:iron foundries and See also:carpet factories (the royal manufactory of See also:Smyrna carpets being especially famous); while See also:cotton-See also:printing, rope-making and the See also:weaving of woollens and silks are also carried on. A public See also:official is appointed to supervise the proper making of a See also:form of gingerbread known as " Deventer See also:Kock," which has a reputation throughout Holland. In the church of Bathmen, a See also:village 5 M. E. of Deventer, some 14th-century frescoes were discovered in 187o.
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