Word: frisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alien population groups, and the Mennonite settlements in Saskatchewan and Manitoba were told that their children would have to attend Canadian schools. Stubbornly refusing to obey, the German-speaking Mennonites, relatives of the plain folk of Pennsylvania and direct, inbred descendants of the Germanic fishermen who migrated from the Frisian Islands 400 years ago, began to search for a new homeland...
...still more implacable foe-the grey, pounding rollers of the North Sea, which time and again broke over Flanders' beaches to flood the low-lying flatlands behind. From earliest times the people of Flanders were forced so often to seek refuge with their northern neighbors, the Frisians, that they came at last to be known as Vlaming, the Frisian word for refugee. Their land was Vlandria, land of the refugees...
...historic dikes of Holland, breaking through in at least 70 places, to reclaim what centuries of Dutch ingenuity had taken from the sea. It was perhaps the worst Dutch disaster since St. Elizabeth's Flood in the Middle Ages, in which thousands lost their lives. In the Frisian Islands to the north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet. Floodwater lapped at the outlying parts of Rotterdam (pop. 650,000) and poured over Dordrecht (pop. 70,000) a little to the southeast. In a matter of hours, roughly a sixth of The Netherlands...
...Committee of the Association of Research Libraries, of which Mr. Metcalf is chairman, is a cooperative group which enables American Libraries to obtain specialized monographs. Each library stores these books--of little interest to anyone other than graduate students. Widener's subjects range from Arikaans Literature to Frisian language...
...Committee of the Association of Research Libraries, of which Mr. Metcalf is chairman, is a cooperative group which enables American Libraries to obtain specialized monographs. Each library stores these books--of little interest to anyone other than graduate students. Widener's subjects range from Arikaans Literature to Frisian language...