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	John Maurice of Nassau Summary
		John Maurice of Nassau (1604-1679) was a Dutch military officer whose rise to power paralleled Dutch ascendancy in the Atlantic; his years as governor general of Netherlands Brazil marked the apogee of Dutch authority in South America.
		John Maurice, who bore the title Count of Nassau-Siegen, was born on June 17, 1604, in the family castle at Dillenberg, Germany, scion of a famous European family.
		John Maurice of Nassau (Dutch: Johan Maurits van Nassau, 1604-1679) was count and since 1674 prince of Nassau-Siegen.
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	JOHN, KING OF SAXONY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN, KING OF SAXONY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		JOHN V. (1689-1750), king of Portugal, was born at Lisbon on the 22nd of October 1689, and succeeded his father Pedro II.
		John the Victorious was a perfect model of a feudal prince in the days of chivalry, brave, adventurous, excelling in every form of active exercise, fond of display, generous in temper.
		JOHN (1371-1419), called the Fearless (Sans Peur), duke of Jurgundy, son of Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Mar-;aret of Flanders, was born at Dijon on the 28th of May 1371.
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	JOHN MAURICE OF NASSAU - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN MAURICE OF NASSAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although John George was unable to procure his minister's release, Leopold managed to allay the elector's anger, and early in 1693 the Saxon soldiers rejoined the imperialists.
		JOHN1 MAURICE OF NASSAU (1604-1679), surnamed the Brazilian, was the son of John the Younger, count of Nassau-Siegen-Dillenburg, and the grandson of John, the elder brother of William the Silent and the chief author of the Union of Utrecht.
		These squabbles John Groot is said to have settled by building an octagonal house which had eight entrances and eight tables, so that the head of each family could enter by his own door and sit at the head of his own table.
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	John Maurice of Nassau -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Maurice of Nassau (Dutch: Johan Maurits van Nassau, 1604-1679) was a count of Nassau-Siegen.
		John Maurice joined the (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch army in 1621, at a very early age.
		Slauerhoff in 1933 as "Johan Maurits van Nassau").
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_maurice_of_nassau.htm (601 words)

	Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
		The county of Nassau was divided in 1255 ("prima divisio") by Walram and Otto, sons of Count Henry II the Rich.
		When the Emperor Charles V defeated the Elector John Frederick and the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at Mühlberg in 1547, he transfered the Electorate to Maurice of the "Albertine" line, where it remained, leading to the Kingdom of Saxony.
		One daughter married a Romanov and was the mother of a Tsar, albeit an ephemeral one; but then another married the Emperor Charles VI and become the fateful mother of Maria Theresa, who for fourty years was herself the House of Hapsburg.
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	Joan Robinson
		Robinson's early contributions tended to be fundamental extensions of neo-classical theory: her 1941 paper on the theory of cost actually served, paradoxically, to assist neo-classical general equilibrium theory dodge Piero Sraffa's (1926) critique (which is why it elicited so much praise from Jacob Viner).
		Robinson was quick to move on beyond her theory of imperfect competition - in spite of the fact that its success in modern textbooks.
		The cause of her sudden turnaround was John Maynard Keynes General Theory.
	www.economyprofessor.com /theorists/joanrobinson.php (1595 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Maurice of Nassau (Benelux History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AllRefer.com - John Maurice of Nassau (Benelux History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Maurice of Nassau 1604–79, Dutch general and colonial administrator, a prince of the house of Nassau-Siegen; grandnephew of William the Silent.
		The Dutch West India Company appointed him (1636) governor-general of its newly acquired possessions in Brazil.
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	John Maurice of Nassau. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He conquered NE Brazil from the Portuguese and, in order to insure the supply of slave labor, seized several Portuguese strongholds on the Guinea coast of Africa.
		An able administrator, John Maurice consolidated Dutch rule in Brazil.
		He built up the state of Pernambuco and rebuilt the city of Recife.
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	John Maurice of Nassau on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was known for his patronage of the arts and his residence at The Hague is the celebrated Mauritshuis.
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	John Maurice Nassau-Siegen
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		NASSAU-SIEGEN, John Maurice, Prince of (nas-sow-zee'-gen), Dutch soldier, born in Delft, Holland, in 1604; died in Cleves, Germany, 29 December, 1679.
		From early youth he showed military talent and participated in the war against the Spaniards, especially in the siege of Breda in 1625.
	famousamericans.net /johnmauricenassausiegen (488 words)

	DR. ED METZLER's Virtual Siegen Home: John Maurice of Nassau
		Dillenburg was a brother of the Dutch revolutionary hero William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Count of Katzenellenbogen.
		While he was away, his older brothers died, John on 27.
		Siegen in Nassau, where a high-school is named after him the “
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		Orange-Nassau, Guillaume d', premier comte de Nassau, Prince d'Orange, dit le Taciturne
		Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent
		Truman, Harry S. Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, dit Mark
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