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21 unusual facts about Delft


Azomonas agilis

agilis was first isolated and described by Martinus Beijerinck in 1901, who obtained the species from Dutch canal water in Delft.

Cornelius Low House

Delft tiles take their name from the city Delft, in Holland, where the tiles were first created in the 16th century.

The fireplaces in the Low House contain original 18th century Delft tiles.

Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau

Louise Juliana of Orange-Nassau (Delft, 31 March 1576 – Königsberg, 15 March 1644) was the eldest daughter of William of Nassau, Prince of Orange and his third spouse Charlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier.

Delft

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is one of three universities of technology in the Netherlands.

Delft is primarily known for its historic town centre with canals; also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery (Delftware), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.

education; (a.o. TU Delft Delft University of Technology) (As of 2007 14.299 students, 2.712 scientists and 1.859 researchers),

The Delft Explosion is the principal reason why Delft University of Technology maintains explosion science as a key topic within its research portfolio and graduate skill-set.

DUT Racing

Founded in 2000 by two students at the TU Delft, the team started their first racing adventure in the summer of 2001.

Delft University of Technology Racing team, trading as DUT Racing or Formula Student Team Delft, is a Dutch Formula Student team based in Delft.

Edward Misselden

He was deputy-governor of the Merchant Adventurers' Company at Delft from 1623 until 1633.

Gong ageng

Actual pitch will vary, but a fine gong ageng of example of the Nusantara Museum of Delft was measured to have a fundamental tone of 44.5 Hz.

Henri Maclaine Pont

Born in Batavia in 1884, Henri Maclaine Pont studied civil engineering in Delft.

Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland

The gemeenlandshuis at the Oude Delft in Delft houses the main office of the Delfland Water Board.

Hotel Die Port van Cleve

The hotel offers 121 rooms, 5 meeting rooms, Brasserie de Poort renowned for the numbered steaks and authentic Bar-Bodega 'De Blauwe Parade' with a unique Delft Blue tile fresco from 1887.

Imari porcelain

European centers imitated the style of "Imari" wares, initially in faience at Delft in the Netherlands, and in the early 19th century at Robert Chamberlain's factory at Worcester.

ITUpSAT1

The launch service interface for all CubeSats is provided by ISIS (Innovative Solutions In Space BV) from Delft, Netherlands.

Neduntheevu

A naval battle was fought off the coast of the island in 2008 during the Sri-Lankan Civil War.

Royal Netherlands Naval College

With the forming of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 January 1816, an institute for training naval officers was founded in Delft.

Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands

She died at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague in 1837, aged 62, and is entombed in the New Church in Delft.

William, Prince of Orange

On 26 June 1879 his body was entombed in the royal crypt at the New Church of Delft.


Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

After 1870 Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint abandoned historical romance for the modern society novel, but her Delftsche Wonderdokter ("The Necromancer of Delft", 1871) and Majoor Frans ("Major Frank", 1875) did not command the success of her earlier works.

Banchō Sarayashiki

Okiku often refused his amorous advances, so he tricked her into believing that she had carelessly lost one of the family's ten precious delft plates

Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

Van der Delft wrote another shorter description for Prince Philip on 21 October 1547.

Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna

Dohna was born in Delft, Dutch Republic, to a noble family with close family ties to the Calvinist Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, the Stadtholder of the Netherlands.

DSV Concordia

DSV Concordia is a multi sport club in Delft that has been operating since 1885 and introduced Jan Thomée to the world when he became the leading football goal scorer for the Netherlands and played in the 1908 Summer Olympics as part of the Dutch team that took the Football Bronze.

Fokker S-13

Years afterwards, the airframe was donated to the aerospace faculty of the TH Delft, today known as Delft University of Technology.

Gerrit Paape

After jobs in Delft, Dordrecht and the Hague, he was offered an honourable post in Leeuwarden in September 1796.

Grand Trianon

The façade was made of white and blue Delft-style "porcelain" (ceramic) tiles from the French manufactures of Rouen, Lisieux, Nevers and Saint-Cloud.

Henri van Schaik

Henri Louis Marie van Schaik (July 24, 1899 in Delft – August 19, 1991 in Cavendish, United States) was a Dutch horse rider who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland

The organization was established in 1289 when William I, Duke of Bavaria (As William V, Duke of Holland) authorized the "Heemraden of Delft" to manage water and serve as a court.

Horace Barker

He then spent a year at the Delft Microbiology Laboratory in the Netherlands under Albert Kluyver.

Manoj Datta

He has visited Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT in the US, Imperial College, Cambridge University and Cardiff University in UK, Tianjin University in China, IHE and TU Delft in Netherlands and Waterloo and McGill Universities in Canada.

Martinus Beijerinck

At the time, Delft, then a Polytechnic, did not have the right to confer doctorates, so Leiden did this for them.

He became a teacher in microbiology at the Agricultural School in Wageningen (now Wageningen University) and later at the Polytechnische Hogeschool Delft (Delft Polytechnic, currently Delft University of Technology) (from 1895).

Rörstrand

After an ”Associations contract between all concerned in the Swedish Porcelain works, which will be established at great Rörstrand in the Delft manner” was signed in 1726, a porcelain factory was built at the castle Rörstrand.

Rudolf Koppitz

While working in Vienna early in his career, Koppitz photographed many of the picturesque aspects of the city - St. Stephen's Cathedral, Karl's Church - and traveled to photograph Hungarian villages, fishing boats near Delft, views of Dresden and alpine landscapes.

Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil

She studied civil engineering at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and after her marriage with Cornelis Hulsman in Alexandria in 1988 she went to the Netherlands and studied at the University of Delft.

Sytske de Groot

As of 2012, she was a student of marine engineering at Delft University of Technology and she was a member of the Proteus-Eretes rowing club in Delft.

Treaty of The Hague

Treaty of The Hague (1428)- better known as Treaty of Delft, the suburb of The Hague