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2 unusual facts about Harlingen, Friesland


Clarence Bouma

Clarence Bouma (November 30, 1891, Harlingen, Friesland - August 12, 1962, Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a theologian and professor at Calvin Theological Seminary.

Harlingen

Harlingen, Friesland, a municipality and city in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands


Achmea

Then the Frisian accountant, Ulbe Piers Draisma, founds the "Onderlinge Brand Assurantie Sociëteit (Achlum)" in Achlum, Frisia, the Netherlands

Aeroméxico Connect

The route network expanded all across the north of Mexico, and some routes to the United States were operated for a brief period, such as: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi, and Austin in Texas.

Almenum

Philip II of Spain granted Harlingen permission to include Almenum within its border in 1563.

Beeville, Texas

TTa operated scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-3 prop airliners from Chase Field with service to Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, San Antonio and other destinations in Texas.

Caspar de Robles

Caspar de Robles or Gaspard di Robles (Madrid, 1527 – Antwerp, 1585) also known as Billy in Artois, was Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen at the beginning of the Eighty Years' War (reign: 1568 to 1576).

Christian Historical Party

It won and kept seats in several districts with large reformed populations, Goes in Zeeland, Apeldoorn in Gelderland, Dokkum in Friesland and Katwijk and Schiedam in South Holland.

Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau

After the death of her husband in 1664, she became regent for her son in Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe.

East Frisian peninsula

By contrast, Ost-Friesland includes, as a rule, the other traditionally Frisian parts of the peninsula: the town of Wilhelmshaven and the Oldenburg district of Friesland (Jeverland and Friesische Wehde).

In its broadest definition Ost-Friesland can be used to embrace all the Frisian parts of the German state of Lower Saxony, i.e. those areas which represent the "East Section" of the Inter-Frisian Council (which include the former Rüstringen (Butjadingen etc.), Land Wursten and sometimes other areas).

Fries Scheepvaart Museum

Its collections include the 17th century silver IJftinus van Popta Treasure, the purported sword of Grand Pier, the Mata Hari Hall, and the Resistance Friesland.

Friesland

They are East Frisian (Seeltersk, which is different from East Frisian (Ostfriesisch) and is spoken in the Saterland, and a collection of Low German dialects of East Frisia) and North Frisian, spoken in North Friesland.

The Roman occupation of Frisia began in 12 BC with the campaign of Nero Claudius Drusus in Germania.

Friesland-class destroyer

The Friesland Class destroyers were built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1950s.

They were replaced by the Kortenaer class frigates in the early 1980s and seven ships were sold to the Peruvian Navy where they served until 1991.

Georg Schenck van Toutenburg

Georg Schenck van Toutenburg (German - Georg Schenk von Tautenburg) (1480, Windischeschenbach – 2 February 1540, Vollenhove) was Stadhouder of Friesland (1521-1540), succeeding Wilhelm van Roggendorf.

Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District

The HCISD district office and KHGN-TV Channel 17 TV station are located at 407 N. 77 Sunshine Strip in Harlingen, Texas (78550).

KHGN-TV is used to inform parents and students of updates involving Harlingen and its schools.

Harlingen, Texas

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Henry IV, Duke of Saxony

In 1505 Heinrich ceded Friesland to Georg, in return for an annuity and the districts of Wolkenstein and Freiberg, where Heinrich made his residence.

Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs

Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs (22 April 1794, Karlseck, Hohenkirchen, now Wangerland, Friesland – 17 September 1861, Friedrichroda) was a German philosopher.

Het Bildt

Consequently Albert's successor Heinrich of Saxony, who was of a rather inert disposition, relinquished his claims to the governorship, and in 1505 an agreement was made between Albert's two sons by which Friesland was transferred to Heinrich's brother, George of Saxony, while Heinrich received an annuity and the districts of Freiberg and Wolkenstein.

Jean Martirez

She was then hired as an anchor and reporter for the Harlingen, Texas CBS-affiliate KGBT.

Johannes Crucius

Crucius studied in Geneva and on 28 September, 1586 he matriculated at the Heidelberg University a year after Franciscus Gomarus, along with the students Abrahamus Vandermylen of Dordrecht, Meinardus ab Idzaerda of Friesland, and Andreas ab Hiddema of Friesland.

John III of Egmont

John III of Egmont (or Egmond) (Hattem, April 3, 1438 – Egmond, August 21, 1516) was first Count of Egmont, Lord of Baer, Lathum, Hoogwoude, Aarstwoude, Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam, and Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland.

John Scory

He soon, however, left England and went to Emden in Friesland, where he became superintendent of the English congregation.

KMBH

KMBH-FM, a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States

Makkum

Makkum, Súdwest-Fryslân, a village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, Friesland province

Max Aardema

Max Aardema (born 1963) is a Dutch police officer and runner up Party for Freedom (PVV) party leader in the province of Friesland in the 2011 provincial elections.

Merry Christmas from the Family

Fred and Rita—whose relationship to the narrator appears to have been forgotten—arrive from Harlingen in a motor home, which when plugged in, overloads the electrical system and knocks out the family's Christmas lights.

Morra

Morra, Dongeradeel, a hamlet in the province of Friesland, Netherlands

Oosterwolde

Oosterwolde, Friesland, a village in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf in the Dutch province of Friesland

Rinderpest

The results of his experiment in Friesland were encouraging, but they proved to be the exception: testing by others in the provinces of Utrecht, Leeuwarden and Friesland obtained disastrous results.

Rio Grande Valley Giants

The Corpus Christi Giants, which joined the TL in 1958, finished last in attendance (61,500) in 1959, and transferred to Harlingen over the winter.

The Rio Grande Valley Giants was an American minor league baseball franchise in the Double-A Texas League located in Harlingen, Texas, that played from the beginning of the 1960 season through June 10, 1961.

Skarsterlân

The municipality was created 1 January 1984 by merging the municipalities of Doniawerstal and Haskerland, the part of Utingeradeel consisting of the villages Akmarijp and Terkaple and the village Nieuwebrug that used to belong to Heerenveen.

Texas State Technical College System

TSTC also operates campuses in Harlingen (with a branch in Ingleside), Marshall (with a branch in Red Oak to open in 2014), and West Texas (with campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood, and Sweetwater), as well as TSTC Corporate College, which operates customized training programs for specific industries.

Tour skating

The Netherlands is home of Elfstedentocht, a 200 km distance skating race of which the tracks leads through the 11 different cities in Friesland which is a northern province of the Netherlands.

Warren W. Tichenor

Warren W. Tichenor (born in Harlingen, Texas in 1960) served as the nation's 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, serving under President George W. Bush, having been sworn in on 12 June 2006 after being confirmed by a unanimous vote of the United States Senate on 26 May 2006.

West Friesland

Occasionally, the region where the West Frisian language is spoken, i.e. mostly the Province of Friesland in the Netherlands

West Frisian

West Frisian language, the language spoken in the Friesland province of the Netherlands

Wieringen

= "I, Gerwic of Friesland, transfer to St. Bonifacius of the monastery of Fulda the land that is under my jurisdiction near the river Marsdiep, and all I had in possession either fields or meadows, forests, houses or serfs.".

Willem Bentinck van Rhoon

He championed the cause of William IV, Prince of Orange who was stadtholder of the province of Friesland in the Dutch Republic, but was denied that dignity in most of the other provinces.

William II, Duke of Bavaria

Duke William I of Bavaria-Straubing had previously sent five expeditions to conquer Friesland.

Willie Dee Bowles

After graduating from Sam Houston State in 1931, Bowles taught English and Spanish at Alief High School near Houston, Texas until 1934, and then, from 1934 through 1939, taught History at Harlingen High School in Harlingen, Texas.


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