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Word: dordrecht (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...overseas car plants, so all Detroit has to do is to apply their overseas expertise in the U.S. I drive a 1.2-liter Opel Corsa (made in Germany) and our second car is a 0.8-liter Chevrolet Matiz (made in Korea). These cars aren't "gas guzzlers." Jan Nieuwenhuizen, DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Deal? Not Yet | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...violent color first learned about art came from black-and-white reproductions. As the son of a Protestant clergyman, the young Van Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Isra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Museum | 2/23/2003 | See Source »

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