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  Beatrix' Drum & Bugle Corps - Hilversum, Holland
Beatrix' Drum and Bugle Corps - Hilversum, Holland
Now that that 2007 season has come to an end, with a great 2nd place finish at the European Championships, the new 2008 season for Beatrix starts with an Open House at the 27th of October.
Beatrix left the corpshall full force for a special concert for our drumcorps cook Co Streicher.
www.beatrix.org   (188 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Beatrix of the Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Beatrix of the Netherlands (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard van Oranje-Nassau) (born January 31, 1938), Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, styled HM The Queen is the Queen of The Netherlands, having acceded to the throne in 1980.
Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands (Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria van Oranje-Nassau) (born December 7, 2003, at the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague), Princess of Orange-Nassau, called Amalia, is the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, the Prince of Orange...
Her Excellency Countess Eloise Beatrix Sophie Laurence of Orange-Nassau (born 8 June 2002 in The Hague), Jonkvrouw of Amsberg, is the first child of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands and Princess Laurentien, née Laurentien Brinkhorst.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Beatrix-of-the-Netherlands   (975 words)

  
 Drawings
Beatrix Potter was a talented watercolourist, particularly of the natural world, from an early age and her paintings and drawings are now in collections, both private and public, all over the world.
Beatrix considered the Armitt, which from the beginning concentrated on local history, art and literature, to be of potential benefit to the area.
Beatrix notes that these are long-eared bats disputing with a common bat for the possession of the roosting place.
www.beatrixpottersociety.org.uk /files/drawings.html   (260 words)

  
 Beatrix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beatrix (bay'-a-triks or bee'-a-triks) is a Latin name for "blessed woman." The name originated from the Latin name Viatrix, and was merged with the Latin word Beata (from beatus, blessed).
Beatrix of Castile, Queen of Portugal (note: two Queens held this combination of name and title)
Beatrix is also a character in the video game Final Fantasy IX.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beatrix   (223 words)

  
 Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
Beatrix Potter married William Heelis, a solicitor in Hawkshead, in 1913.
Beatrix Potter(Famous People, Famous Lives) by Harriet Castor, is a biography of Beatrix Potter which focuses on the main events in her life, illustrated with line drawings by Martin Remphry.
Beatrix Potter strongly approved of the aims and ideals of the Armitt sisters, particularly their concern for the study of natural history and their active interest in safeguarding the Lake District countryside.
www.visitcumbria.com /bpotter.htm   (1364 words)

  
 Beatrix Potter
One spot the family often returned to when Beatrix was in her teens was Wray Castle, on the west shore of Windermere, in the Lake District.
According to Judy Taylor, media specialist for The Beatrix Potter Society and an international Potter expert, in the foreword to the 1989 edition of The Journal, Potter's first signed illustrations were published in A Happy Pair, verse by Frederick E. Weatherly, when she was twenty-seven.
When she died at her home in 1943, Beatrix Potter bequeathed more than 4,000 acres of farms and her cottages and her flocks of Herdwick sheep to the National Trust.The Lake District continues to be one of the most rural, untouched corners of England.
www.literarytraveler.com /europe/potter.htm   (1536 words)

  
 Beatrix Potter
Beatrix became deeply involved in looking after her growing estate and in the life of the Lake District countryside which she had grown to love.
Beatrix died in 1943, just before Christmas, and her head shepherd, Tom Storey, scattered her ashes, as she had requested, among the little hills of what she had described as 'the most pleasant countryside in the world‘.
The importance of Beatrix Potter at The Armitt is considerable.
fp.armitt.plus.com /beatrix_potter.htm   (1056 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Beatrix
Beatrix seems also to have been accepted as the Latin name of a noble lady of Bohemia, called in Bohemian Bozena, who lived at the end of the twelfth century and became a nun.
Aunt of the saint of that name, who is generally known as Blessed Beatrix, seems to have died in 1226 or perhaps in 1246.
There Beatrix seems to have aroused the jealousy of her royal mistress and was imprisoned for three days without food.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02375a.htm   (882 words)

  
 Aesthetic Realism and Beatrix Potter's 'Peter Rabbit' / Wonder and 'Matter-of-Fact' Meet
Beatrix Potter wrote many letters to the children of her friends and relatives, one of which, written in 1902 to a little boy who was ill, Noel Moore, was to become a classic of children's literature.
Beatrix Potter carefully and beautifully places the picture in that white space that both fixes the image and also allows it to float freely as the soft, blurred edges blend into the white.
Beatrix Potter has been loved and is important as an artist and writer because in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in book after book, she shows that we don't have to make up a better world.
www.aestheticrealism.net /Aesthetic-Potter/Aesthetic-Potter.html   (2529 words)

  
 BBC - Cumbria - Enjoy Cumbria - Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter's Hill Top Farm is still in the care of the National Trust and remains one of the most-visited places in Cumbria.
Beatrix Potter was born in London but visited Cumbria for holidays as a child.
Beatrix Potter first visited Cumbria when she was 16.
www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/enjoy_cumbria/famous_people/beatrix_potter.shtml   (458 words)

  
 Beatrix Potter
Beatrix's younger brother, Bertram, was born when she was six years old, and the children were schooled at home by a governess until Bertram was old enough to attend school.
Beatrix stayed home and was cared for by a string of governesses who encouraged her to read and write, and introduced her to music and art [3].
Beatrix spent much of her childhood in solitude, only seeing her parents at bedtime and on special occasions.
www.etsu.edu /haleyd/engl3134/ejournal/smith.html   (876 words)

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