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Chrétien van Esse
Belgian revue singer who formed a duo with Louise 'Louisette' van Gijtenbeek.
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Frits van Haarlem
Frits van Haarlem was the son of an Amsterdam concert hall operator.
He was an independent theatrical agent. In 1884, he founded the first specialty theatre in the Netherlands. This theatre began in the Amsterdamse Grand Café and the...
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Robert William Paul
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J.B. van Heutsz
Dutch soldier. From 1904 to 1909, he was the Commanding Officer and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
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Louis Botha
South African general who fought on the side of the Boers.
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Christiaan de Wet
South African general who fought on the side of the Boers.
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Jacobus de la Rey
South African general who fought on the side of the Boers.
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Henri Grünkorn
Henry Grünkorn was a German carnival and cinema operator in Ghent. From 1897 to 1908, he travelled with his film theatre to Dutch and Belgian carnivals and fairs. Grünkorn used a Lumière cinematograph (an early movie projector) that ran on...
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Queen Emma of the Netherlands
The originally German Princess Emma van Waldeck-Pyrmont was the Queen of the Netherlands from 1879 to 1890, and Regent from 1890 to 1898. Emma married at age twenty to King Willem III of the Netherlands, who was roughly...
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Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands
As the third son from the third marriage of Duke Frederik Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Heinrich van Mecklenburg-Schwerin had little chance of becoming the heir.
But when a husband was sought in 1898 for the newly inaugurated, eighteen...