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School: The Westminster Schools Atlanta
Contact: JereLink@Westminster.Net
Date: 3-28-2001
Sehr geehrte Kollegen!
(Pardon, mes connaissances
de francais ne sont plus au courant). In response to your query, let me freely
admit that Flanders or Belgium is `covered' only when it achieves wider
prominence: the heyday of the medieval towns (Bruges, Ghent, etc.) and the
Flemish role in the Hansa League, the role of Flanders in the Hundred Years War,
the Wars of `Dutch' Independence, the shift to the Austrian Netherlands, the
French invasion of 1792, the formation of the Kingdom of Holland, the Belgian/
Brussels `opera' revolt of 1830-31, the treaty of neutrality, Belgian advances
in the Industrial Revolution (viz. RRs), King Leopold and the Congo, the
violation of Beligan neutrality in 1914/1940, then (we hope) some attention to
Belgium as a key to post-WWII European integration (Spaak, etc.)
Of your figures, we mention Vesalius, Breughel,
Rubens, Van Eyck,
Jansen and Egmont; we
also cover (not on the list?) Correns and DeVries
in 1900, the rediscovery of Mendel--pardon my ignorance, but wasn't one Dutch
and the other Belgian?
Good luck with your worthy project. How nice to have my first translantic
contact via e-mail! Yours sincerely,
Dr. Jere H. Link, History Department Head
The Westminster Schools, Atlanta GA
Georgia, USA
School: Parkview High School in Lilburn, Georgia.
Contact: Dennis_Stromie@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Date: 4-9-2001
Mercator is the only one I find in our book. He is in our Geography textbooks because of his map projection.
I hope this helps.