wiki-illiam #108: q4
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dubdobdee4. Who:
1: held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
2: is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
3: built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?
4: is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?
5: was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
6: was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?
7: was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?
8: stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
9: developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
10: removed Royal Charles from Chatham?
1: held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
2: is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
3: built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?
4: is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?
5: was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
6: was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?
7: was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?
8: stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
9: developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
10: removed Royal Charles from Chatham?
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Date: 2013-01-01 01:07 pm (UTC)The only sea I can think of which bears a Dutch guy's name is the Tasman. Abel Tasman charted the eastern coasts of Australia (including Tasmania, which he named Van Diemen's land after his patron) and much of New Zealand (which he named after his home province of Zeeland). He would have had several opportunities to build an island cabin, though none spring to mind immediately. Unless it's a ship's cabin, rather than the hut kind?
Would the 'quiet leader' be Ghandi?
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Date: 2013-01-01 08:40 pm (UTC)*) as opposed to e.g. "killed in battle", I guess
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Date: 2013-01-02 10:56 am (UTC)The northernmost province of New Zealand is called Northland, and its most westerly point is Cape Maria van Diemen - named by Abel Tasman after the wife of his financial backer.
Which means that possibly 3 refers to someone else with an eponymous sea.
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Date: 2013-01-02 12:29 pm (UTC)A student of Brahe would probably be an astronomer. Is Christiaan Huygens early enough to have studied under Brahe?
I now know from WP that a cherem is, amongst other things, a form of Jewish excommunication, so #7 is undoubtedly Baruch Spinoza.
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:50 pm (UTC)Royal Charles/Chatham - It's the raid on the Medway, I think, from the Second Anglo-Dutch War - the RC is taken by Dutch ships, but I can't be more specific than that. I'll look into it now.