In 1616, the explorer Willem Corneliszoon Schouten braved furious storms as he rounded the southernmost tip of South America.
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Cape Horn, the most southerly point of the Americas, was named after the town by Willem Schouten, who rounded it in 1616.
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Cornelius May is said to be from the city of Hoorn but may have been born in the small village of Schellinkhout, just east of Hoorn, as he appears to have been the brother of Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout, after whom the island of Jan Mayen is named.
On top of the The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes, Delaware, designed after the City Hall of Hoorn, stands a statue of De Vries.
To make the film, Netty van Hoorn and her cameraman Onno van der Wal repeatedly visited the school, which is located in the modern Codarts building in downtown Rotterdam, filming students in their daily lives over a ten-month period.
Fabricius's story was based on the actual logbook of 17th-century captain Willem Ysbrandtsz. Bontekoe (Hoorn, 1587–1657), detailing Bontekoe's journey to the Dutch East Indies between 1618 and 1625.
In May 1683, de Grammont, van Hoorn and de Graaf sacked Vera Cruz in Mexico, taking 4,000 prisoners for ransom.Later Grammont raided Spanish Florida settlements, including St.Augustine and the Mocama mission province, forcing further southward migrations.
In the documentary De Droomfabriek (the Dream Factory, 2006) Netty van Hoorn depicts the passion of the students and the teachers at the Havo voor Muziek en Dans (Academy for Music and Dance) in Rotterdam and the large and small dramas of their lives in a school that is unique in the Netherlands.
On the disused side of platform 2 of Huddersfield railway station in northern England, an old carriage is bolted to the ground, and set in its window is a Dutch plaque commemorating 100 years of Stoomtram Hoorn - Medemblik.
Van Hoorn is a rock and blues band formed by Australian international model/singer Cheyenne Tozzi and Australian guitarist Josh Mullane (Izzy).