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unusual facts about Vlissingen



Alan Clay

In the mid-1990s he toured European and Australian festivals with his teenage son, Michael, as the duo Snap and Crackle (pictured right) including performances at the Pflasterspektakel in Linz, Austria and the Vlissingen International Festival in Holland and the Stockholm Water Festival in Sweden.

De Moor

:fr:Jan de Moor (fl. 1628), Dutch mayor of Vlissingen and first colonist of Tobago

De Schelde Scheldemusch

In 1935 the Dutch dockyard NV Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, based at Vlissingen (Flushing) on the Schelde (Scheldt) estuary moved into aircraft manufacture with the acquisition of the staff of the Pander Company.

Douwe Eisenga

In the same years Eisenga appeared in Vlissingen to make premiere performance of Kabaal (Kabbalah), his chamber music piece about Michiel de Ruyter, at the Zeeland Nazomer Festival (Zeeland Autumn Festival).

G. J. Renier

Gustaaf Johannes Petrus Renier (25 September 1892, Flushing – 1 September 1962, Twickenham) was professor of Dutch History at University College London.

Haltern–Venlo railway

With the connection of the Boxtel Railway to the bridge over the Rhine at Wesel before the First World War, a long-distance connection was established on the (London–) Vlissingen–Wesel–OsnabrückBerlin–Eydtkuhnen (now Chernyshevskoye)–Saint Petersburg route.

Hans Juchem

He also took part in the Western Campaign in June 1940 and was involved in fighting at Vlissingen in the Netherlands, Cassel, the Marne and in Orléans in France where he was wounded for the first time and awarded the Wound Badge.

Irma Boom

She works both nationally and internationally in the cultural and commercial sectors; her clients include the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Wiel Arets, Chanel, Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Inside Outside, Museum Boijmans, Zumtobel, Ferrari, Vitra, NAi Publishers, and Camper.

Paul Fentener van Vlissingen

The Sunday Times Rich List 2005 ranked Van Vlissingen as the richest man in Scotland, with an estimated wealth of £1.1 billion.


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