Christian Historical Party — Netherlands This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the Netherlands … Wikipedia
Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… … Universalium
SPORTS — There is no evidence of sports among the Jews during the obscure period between the close of the Bible and the Maccabean periods. At the beginning of this latter period, in the second century B.C.E., circumstances conspired to make sporting… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Abraham Kuyper — Infobox Prime Minister name =Abraham Kuyper caption = Portrait of Abraham Kuyper by Jan Veth order =Prime Minister of the Netherlands term start = 1 August 1901 term end = 17 August 1905 deputy = predecessor = Nicolaas Pierson successor = Theo de … Wikipedia
literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… … Universalium
Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van — born Sept. 14, 1547, Amersfoort, Spanish Netherlands died May 13, 1619, The Hague, Neth. Dutch statesman and a founding father of Dutch independence. A lawyer in the province of Holland, he helped William I negotiate the Union of Utrecht (1579).… … Universalium
Herman Dooyeweerd — (7 October 1894, Amsterdam 12 February 1977) was a Dutch juridical scholar by training, who by vocation was a philosopher and the founder of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea. He received early support for his work from his brother in law D.… … Wikipedia
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium
Jacob Klapwijk — (born 24 October 1933, Dronrijp) studied under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven in philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam. Klapwijk s dissertation was written on Ernst Troeltsch (1865 1923), the German theologian and philosopher of radical… … Wikipedia
Truth — For other uses, see Truth (disambiguation). Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy, François Lemoyne, 1737 Truth has a variety of meanings, such as the state of being in accord with fact or reality … Wikipedia
