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Name: Johan de Witt
Birth Date: September 24, 1625
Death Date: August 20, 1672
Place of Birth: Dordrecht, Netherlands
Place of Death: The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Gender: Male
Occupations: statesman

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Biography of Johan de Witt
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The Dutch statesman Johan de Witt (1625-1672), as councilor pensionary of Holland from 1653 to 1672, led the Dutch Republic after the end of its war of independence. A man of keen intelligence, displayed notably in his contributions to mathematics and...


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1625-1672 Dutch mathematician and statesman who applied his mathematical talents to the financial problems of Holland during his career as grand pensionary, by arguing probabilistically that life annuities were offered at too high a rate of interest in...
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Johan de Witt (September 24, 1625, Dordrecht–August 20, 1672, The Hague) was a key figure in Dutch politics at a time when the Republic of the United Provinces was one of the Great Powers in Europe, dominating world trade and thus one of the...


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The Virginian Pilot
Katrine V. de Witt.(Local)
01/25/2006: 547 words, approx. 2 pages
VIRGINIA BEACH -- VIRGINIA BEACH - Katrine vanVliet de Witt, born Dec. 26, 1903, in St. Christopher's Hospital on Freemason Street in Norfolk, she was the fourth daughter of Cornelius and Cecile Amelie Mottu de Witt of Norfolk. In 1909 she moved with...
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Artforum International
Tue Greenfort: Witte de With.
11/01/2006: 565 words, approx. 2 pages
Producing a 1.5-liter PET plastic bottle wastes twice as much water as the bottle will hold. That's the kind of fact you learn through the work of Berlin-based Danish artist Tue Greenfort, who is fascinated by the absurdities of our everyday ways of...
 


 

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