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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jacob van Hoogstraten
		Hoogstraten began his controversial career by publishing in defence of the mendicant orders, who had been accused of abusing their
		Reuchlin to appear within six days before the ecclesiastical court of Mainz to answer to the charges of favouring the Jews and their anti-Christian literature.
		Hoogstraten to pay the expenses consequent upon the process.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07464b.htm (596 words)

	smh.com.au - The Sydney Morning Herald
		Hoogstraten, who was ordered to pay £5 million ($14 million) to the family of a former business associate killed by two of his thugs, stands to lose control of his palace in Sussex and an art collection valued at £200 million.
		Hoogstraten was not in court to hear Judge Peter Smith strike out his defence against a fraud claim brought by Mohammed Raja, a Pakistan-born businessman.
		Hoogstraten will regain his property only after the Raja family receives its damages and after other debts have been paid, plus legal costs estimated at £400,000 and court fines that already stand at £100,000.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/13/1039656221304.html (634 words)

	HOOGSTRATEN - LoveToKnow Article on HOOGSTRATEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This artist, who was first a pupil of his father, lived at the Hague and at Dort till about 1640, when on the death of Dirk Hoogstraten he changed his residence to Amsterdam and entered the school of Rembrandt.
		Hoogstratens works are scarce; but a sufficient number of them has been preserved to show that he strove to imitate different styles at different times.
		In a portrait dated 1645 in the Lichtenstein collection at Vienna he imitates Rembrandt; and he continues in this vein as late as 1653, when he produced that wonderful figure of a Jew looking out of a casement, which is one of the most characteristic examples of his manner in the Belvedere at Vienna.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOOGSTRATEN.htm (297 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Hoogstraten 'grooming son to run his empire'
		Nicholas Hoogstraten, the property tycoon whose sentence for the manslaughter of a business associate was quashed on appeal, has said he is grooming his eldest son to take over what he claims is an empire worth £800 million.
		Hoogstraten, who was described by a judge as a "self-styled emissary of Beelzebub", said Rhett, 20, one of five children by different women, will shadow his business practices to "find out everything that's going on".
		A BBC documentary features Hoogstraten's first interview since he was jailed for 10 years in 2002 for the manslaughter of another Brighton landlord, Mohammed Raja, a conviction later quashed by the Court of Appeal.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/13/nhoog13.xml (207 words)

	Mugabe's delight at Hoogstraten release
		Mr van Hoogstraten, from Uckfield, East Sussex, was freed after a legal battle during which he argued successfully that the judge had made a mistake and had misdirected the jury at the original trial where he had been found guilty of manslaughter.
		In the interview, Mr van Hoogstraten who is one of the largest landowners in Zimbabwe, where he acquired 218,000 hectares (540,000 acres) of farmland in the 1990s, denied claims that his property had been seized by fl squatters.
		Mr van Hoogstraten, whose precise worth is now unknown but who at the time of his trial was named as one of Britain’s richest men with a fortune estimated at more than £500 million, claimed that while inside he had helped a number of inmates who he felt had also been wrongly convicted.
	www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/hoogstraten2.1170.html (693 words)

	Greed
		Capitalism would call the property baron Nicholas van Hoogstraten a success, if he hadn't arranged a hand grenade attack on one business rival back in the 60s, or been convicted of the manslaughter of another, for which he was jailed for 10 years in October.
		Hoogstraten also "worked" hard to get on, buying properties cheaply with sitting tenants, then "winkling them out" (as he put it) in order to sell on for far more with vacant possession.
		When Hoogstraten's income was threatened by an imminent fraud trial, he was minded to send in a pair of tooled-up heavies.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/dec02/greedstraten.html (649 words)

	ZWNews.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		Mr van Hoogstraten, from Uckfield, East Sussex, was freed after a legal battle during which he argued successfully that the judge had made a mistake and had misdirected the jury at the original trial where he had been found guilty of manslaughter.
		In the interview, Mr van Hoogstraten who is one of the largest landowners in Zimbabwe, where he acquired 218,000 hectares (540,000 acres) of farmland in the 1990s, denied claims that his property had been seized by fl squatters.
		Mr van Hoogstraten, whose precise worth is now unknown but who at the time of his trial was named as one of Britain’s richest men with a fortune estimated at more than £500 million, claimed that while inside he had helped a number of inmates who he felt had also been wrongly convicted.
	www.zwnews.com /print.cfm?ArticleID=8198 (694 words)

	Hoogstraten -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hoogstraten is a (An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government) municipality located in the (A native or inhabitant of Belgium) Belgian province of (A port in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river) Antwerp.
		The municipality comprises the city of Hoogstraten proper and the towns of Meer, Meerle, Meersel-Dreef, Minderhout and Wortel.
		The total area is 105.32 (Click link for more info and facts about km²;) km²; which gives a (Click link for more info and facts about population density) population density of 175.14 inhabitants per km²;.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hoogstraten.htm (117 words)

	Property baron cleared of killing rival - www.smh.com.au
		Hoogstraten, 58, from Uckfield, East Sussex, had been cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter of Raja at the Old Bailey last year.
		Hoogstraten's defence team then went on to argue that there was no case left for him to answer at all.
		Hoogstraten was given bail by judge Keith on condition he returned to the Old Bailey tomorrow to have the case formally dropped against him.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/12/09/1070732170039.html (808 words)

	Antilliaanse Feesten Hoogstraten
		Hoogstraten is a resounding name in the world of the Caribbean music.
		Hoogstraten, where a rich past and a sparkling present are going hand in hand.
		The two-days summer festival of Hoogstraten is the absolute climax of a whole salsa year.
	www.antilliaansefeesten.be /en/history_press.html (657 words)

	Flow my tears, the Tycoon said \| Samizdata.net
		Still, what I learned about him from the file notes left an indelible impression on me that was stirred again today when I heard that Hoogstraten has been convicted of manslaughter and now faces the possibility of a life sentence.
		Hoogstraten is the nearest thing to a Bond villain that I have ever actually encountered.
		It is also well worth pointing out that Hoogstraten built his empire and wreaked his worst havoc at a time when there was far greater state intervention in the property market than we have now and where the laws and regulations protecting tenants in rented property were far more draconian.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/001620.html (713 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hoogstraten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On January 1st, 2005 Hoogstraten had a total population of 18,512.
		Every second weekend of August a Latin festival called "Antilliaanse feesten" is being held at Hoogstraten.
		A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hoogstraten (1049 words)

	Jew Hoogstraten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Raja, a Pakistani residing in England, used to be one of van Hoogstraten's partners, but the Jew, well known for his shady transactions, swindled Raja, so he sued van Hoogstraten for fraud.
		Croke was earlier this month sentenced to life in prison for his involvement, and according to the judge he is "plainly very dangerous." Van Hoogstraten is about to go through an examination conducted by a forensic psychiatrist, after which his sentence will be passed, on October the 2nd this year.
		The judge in that case declared that the Jew was an "arrogant and evil young man." Despite his Jewish background, van Hoogstraten was educated in a Jesuit school, but his view on Christians was well manifested when he battered one of the nuns with a chair leg during school.
	www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com /index416.htm (738 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: van Hoogstraten, Samuel Thomas
		Samuel van Hoogstraten travelled to London, Vienna, and Rome, worked in Amsterdam and The Hague as well as his native Dordrecht, and was a man of many parts.
		Samuel van Hoogstraten, born in 1627, was a pupil of Rembrandt.
		Samuel van Hoogstraten is familiar to scholars of Dutch art as a talented pupil and early critic of Rembrandt, and as the author of a major Dutch painting treatise.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/HOOGSTRATEN_BIO.html (1274 words)

	ZWNews.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		In the mid-1980s Hoogstraten bought an 8% stake in Willoughby’s, an offshoot of the Lonrho empire that had mining and land interests in Zimbabwe.
		Back in Harare, the Willoughby’s headquarters doubled up as another Hoogstraten residence, and became a transit point for an array of young African beauties he claimed he was sending off to his hotel group in the Caribbean for training.
		Although Hoogstraten’s estates appear to be falling in value, diplomats said it was possible they had been identified as potential collateral in any deal with the Russians.
	www.zwnews.com /print.cfm?ArticleID=4973 (1581 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hoogstraten visited London, Vienna, and Rome, worked in Amsterdam and The Hague as well as his native Dordrecht, and was a man of many parts.
		During van Hoogstraten's lifetime he was recognized as a painter, poet, man of letters, sometime courtier, and prominent citizen of his native city of Dordrecht, where he served for several years as an official of the Mint of Holland.
		Hoogstraten was a specialist in this field and the work shown here is typical of the genre.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4nov/art1119.html (11955 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Van Hoogstraten legal case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		PROPERTY tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten claimed a sweeping victory yesterday in his multi-million-pound legal battle with the family of a man he was once convicted of killing.
		PROPERTY tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten today won his appeal over a £5 million claim by the family of a man he was convicted of killing.
		NICHOLAS van Hoogstraten, a property tycoon whose personal wealth was once estimated at £500 million, yesterday pleaded with judges to allow him more time to raise money to fund a court action.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=488 (465 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.K.
		Van Hoogstraten was convicted of manslaughter in 2002 for his role in Raja's murder after hiring two men to `teach Raja a lesson.' The U.K. Court of Appeal quashed that conviction in July 2003 on the grounds the jury hearing the case had been misdirected, freeing the property tycoon from a 10-year prison sentence.
		At the time of his death, Raja was suing Van Hoogstraten for around 5 million pounds ($8.8 million) for fraud.
		Hoogstraten is revealed in the judgment as an utterly dishonest and ruthless criminal with no regard for other people, the truth or the law,'' Peter Irvin, a lawyer for the Raja family, said today in documents submitted to the court.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=admkID4MptZ8 (541 words)

	Van Hoogstraten 'behind killing' of rival
		Nicholas van Hoogstraten was on Monday held responsible by the British High Court for the murder of a business rival - despite being cleared in the criminal courts.
		Mr Justice Lightman ruled that van Hoogstraten, a close friend and financial backer of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, "recruited two highly dangerous thugs" to murder Mohammed Raja in order to halt a civil action Raja was bringing against him.
		van Hoogstraten, 60, was sentenced to 10 years at the Old Bailey in 2002 for manslaughter, but his conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal.
	www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/hoogstraten9.13580.html (408 words)

	Zimbabwe -- Hoogstraten "to buy" MiGs for Mugabe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hoogstraten already has a huge landholding of more than 500,000 acres after taking over three estates formerly belonging to Lonrho, the conglomerate built by "Tiny" Rowland, in the 1990s.
		Hoogstraten, 57, is in Belmarsh prison awaiting sentence for manslaughter after being found guilty of hiring two hitmen who shot and stabbed to death a former business partner, Mohammed Sabir Raja.
		Hoogstraten's backing for the Mugabe regime won him friends within the ruling Zanu PF party and his lands have been relatively unaffected by the past two years of lawlessness.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/735047/posts (917 words)

	View of an Interior, or The Slippers (traditional title, given in the 19th century) \| Musée du Louvre
		Hoogstraten focused all his attention on the rigorous spatial construction.
		Depth of field is rendered through the succession of receding planes of motifs that seem to fit into one another: namely, the picture frame, the two door casings, and the two paintings hanging on the back wall.
		Hoogstraten's great genius is exemplified by this artful denunciation of amorous adventures, which are suggested but remain concealed from the viewer in an alcove at the end of a second succession of rooms.
	www.louvre.fr /llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT<>cnt_id=10134198673226377&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE<>cnt_id=10134198673226377&FOLDER<>folder_id=9852723696500813&fromDept=false&baseIndex=25&bmUID=1143480606494&bmLocale=en (871 words)

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