Though most buitenhuizen have been demolished, examples are still in existence are along the river Vecht, the river Amstel, the Spaarne in Kennemerland, the river Vliet and in Wassenaar.
Important driver for the development of the area was the Vliet river, ferrying people and goods through Holland in the Middle Ages, and even in Roman times.
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The town's name has been in use for centuries and refers to the lock in the Vliet, near the historic city of Leiden.
In 1812, a single municipality "Polsbroek" was created, covering both Noord-Polsbroek and Zuid-Polsbroek, and several surrounding villages (Cabauw, Vliet, Vlist, Zevender, and Hoenkoop).
Hans van Vliet (born 1949), Dutch computer scientist and Professor of Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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:nl:Jeremias van Vliet (thai Wan Walit - วัน วลิต) (1602-1663), Dutch East India Company director and historian in Thailand
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Carolyne M. Van Vliet (born in Dordrecht), Dutch-born American physicist
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:nl:Paul van Vliet (born 1935), Dutch cabaretier and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
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Maury Van Vliet (1913-2001), Canadian physical education academic
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Don Van Vliet better known as Captain Beefheart (1941-2010), American musician and painter
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Hans Van Vliet, better known as Hunz (born 1976), Australian electronic pop musician of the band Hunz
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Claire Van Vliet (born 1933), Canadian artist, illustrator and typographer
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Stewart Van Vliet (1815-1901), Union general of the American Civil War
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Then from the same university Van Vliet obtained an MA in physics, in 1953, and a PhD in 1956 for a thesis entitled Current Fluctuations in Semiconductors and Photoconductors, under Gerardus J. Sizoo.
Following 969, Van Vliet returned to Toronto where he co-hosted the program Inside Jam! with Tara Slone on Sun TV.
-- Note: Guinness World Records source their Arcade world records scores from Twin Galaxies --> until beaten by newcomer Aart van Vliet, of the Netherlands, who scored 1,653,270 points on May 27, 2009 at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, USA.
Born Gijsbert van Steenwijk as the son of Arnoud van Steenwijk and Neeltje van Vliet in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Van Steenwyk received an academic education.
The Mebo II was originally the Dutch freighter, "Silvretta," built in 1948 by De Groot en van Vliet, Slikkerveer.
Stereo Review acknowledged the album as Beefheart's attempt to "go commercial," while opining that "Captain's conception of commercial is still sweetly weird." Colman Andrews writing in Phonograph Record Magazine described the album as evidence that Van Vliet was "the greatest white blues singer in America today."