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		Piet Pieterszoon Hein (or Pieter Pietersen Heyn) (November 25, 1577 – June 18, 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.
		Hein was born in Delfshaven (now part of Rotterdam), the son of a captain, and he became a sailor while he was still a teenager.
		Hein is today often called a pirate, but he was a privateer as the Republic was at war with the Habsburgs and this was what would make Hein most famous.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein (928 words)

	Piet Hein (Netherlands)
		Hein was born on November 25, 1577 in Delfshaven[?] as the son of a captain, and he became a sailor while he was still a teenager.
		The Piet Hein Tunnel in Amsterdam is named in his honor, as is the former Dutch frigate Hr.
		A direct descendant of Hein was Piet Hein, a famous 20th century physicist and poet.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pi/Piet_Hein_(Netherlands).html (306 words)

	Piet Pieterszoon Hein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piet Pieterszoon Hein (or Pieter Pietersen Heyn) (November 25, 1577 – June 18, 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.
		Hein is today often called a pirate, but he was a privateer as the Republic was at war with the Habsburgs and this was what would make Hein most famous.
		Hein was the first and the last to capture such a large part of a Spanish "silver fleet" from America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein (943 words)

	Piet Pieterszoon Hein
		Piet Pieterszoon Hein (or '''Pieter Pietersen Heyn''') (November 25, 1577 – June 18, 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.
		Hein was born in Delfshaven (now part of Rotterdam), the son of a captain, and he became a sailor while he was still a teenager.
		Piracy was condoned by the WIC, but Hein, though often called a pirate, was what in modern terms would be named a merchant raider as the Republic was at war with the Habsburgs and this was what would make Hein most famous.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein (640 words)

	Sint Maartens Zeevaarders Syndicaat
		Piracy was condoned by the WIC, but Hein, though often called a pirate, was what in modern terms would be named a merchant raider as the Republic was at war with the Habsburgs and this was what would make Hein most famous.
		In 1628, Hein, with Witte de With as his flag captain, sailed out to capture the Spanish treasure fleet loaded with silver from their American colonies.
		Part of this fleet had been warned because a Dutch cabin boy had lost his way on an island and was captured, betraying the plan, but the other half continued its voyage, unaware of the threat.
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		Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century.
		Hein Tunnel in Amsterdam is named in his honor, as is the former Dutch...
		Hein did popularize the use of the super-ellipse in architecture, urban...
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	Piet Hein Hotel
		Piet Pieterszoon Hein (also written as Heyn) (November 25, 1577 – June 18, 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
		Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 18, 1996) was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone".
		Piet Hein is dead, so he no longer markets the products, but according to the website for his company the products are still being made and sold.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/156/piet-hein-hotel.html (1345 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Piet Hein - Danish Renaissance Man
		Piet Hein was born in Denmark, a direct descendant of the 17th Century Dutch naval hero
		In trying to decide whether Piet Hein was a scientist or an artist, one reaches the conclusion that like his superellipse he was neither one thing nor the other, but was a beautiful blend of the two.
		Piet Hein defined art as a way of thinking about all subjects, so for him being a poet was only one outlet for his astonishing creativity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1053956 (1172 words)

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		Hein went from a ship slave as a young child to a captain in his mid-thirties.
		Due to Hein’s heroic efforts, The Piet Hein Tunnel was created in his honor in Amsterdam.
		They told stories about their grandfathers who were apart of Piet Hein’s victorious defeat of the Spanish Silver Fleet.
	www.msu.edu /~williss2/carpentier/part1/piethein.html (286 words)

	Vermeer's Neighborhood
		The ‘painter of light’, who was born in Delft, was interred in his mother-in-law's family crypt after his death in 1675.
		Piet Hein In 1628, Pieterszoon Hein sailed out to capture the Spanish fleet loaded with silver from their American colonies.
		Twelve Spanish ships were trapped off the Cuban coast in the Bay of Matanzas, and Hein captured about twelve million guilders of booty in silver and other expensive trade goods.
	essentialvermeer.20m.com /maps/delft/vermeer's_neighborhood_b.htm (1401 words)

	Piet Hein (Denmark) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 17, 1996) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone".
		He was a direct descendant of Piet Pieterszoon Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century.
		He is known to a wider public for his thousands of short, aphoristic poems called Grooks (Gruk in Danish) and creations like the games of Hex, Tangloids, Morra, Tower, Polytaire, TacTix, Nimbi, Qrazy Qube, Pyramystery, and the Soma cube.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piet_Hein_(Denmark) (310 words)

	Hotel Piet Hein Amsterdam
		Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577–1629) was a Dutch naval commander and folk hero;
		Piracy was condoned by the WIC, but this is, in fact, what made Hein most famous." These two sentences don't make sense to me. It would make more sense if it said, "Piracy was not condoned by the WIC, but this is, in fact, what made Hein most famous." Was a negative accidentally left out?
		Piet is an esoteric programming language designed by David Morgan-Mar, whose programs are bitmaps that look like abstract art.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/96/hotel-piet-hein-amsterdam.html (1346 words)

	Piet Hein, Dutch Admiral - Timeline Index
		Piet Pieterszoon Hein (Heyn) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
		In 1628, Hein sailed out to capture the Spanish treasure fleet loaded with silver from their American colonies.
		Twelve Spanish ships were trapped off the Cuban coast in the Bay of Matanzas, and Hein captured about twelve million guilders of booty in gold, silver and other expensive trade goods.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/1333 (328 words)

	Poet: Piet Hein - All poems of Piet Hein
		Poet: Piet Hein - All poems of Piet Hein
		Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 17, 1996) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse...
		The Piet Hein Tunnel in Amsterdam is named in his honor,...
	www.poemhunter.com /piet-hein/poet-6706 (315 words)

	All Empires History Forum: YOUR GREAT MILITARY LEADERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Hein is today often called a pirate, but he was what in modern terms would be named a ''merchant raider'' as the Republic was at war with the Habsburgs and this was what would make Hein most famous.
		Fifteen Spanish ships were intercepted; nine smaller merchants were talked into a surrender; six fleeing galleons were trapped off the Cuban coast in the Bay of Matanzas.
		After some musket volleys from Dutch sloops their crews surrendered also and Hein captured about twelve million guilders of booty in gold, silver and other expensive trade goods, as indigo and cochineal.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11745 (4349 words)

	Delft, Art Pottery at Glass Pottery Store
		The city centre retains many old and historical buildings, and many streets have canals in the centre, inhabited by fish and plants.
		Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Johannes Vermeer and Anthony van Leeuwenhoek are buried here.; Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), constructed between 1381 and 1496.
		It contains the Dutch royal family's burial vault, which between funerals is sealed with a 5000 kg cover stone.; The Prinsenhof (Princes' Court), now a museum.; City Hall.; The Oostpoort (Eastern gate), built around 1400.
	www.glasspotterystore.com /delft.htm (1092 words)

	Vermeer: A Pronunciation Guide to Dutch Names and Terms around Vermeer
		But happily there arose out of the fire
		There is a well-known song about admiral (and pirate) Piet Hein (also spelled Heyn) and his 1628 capture of the Spanish silver fleet; the song may well be recent, but it could also be something that Vermeer and the people in his paintings were familiar with.
		The stockholders of the West India Company made something like 50 to 75% on their investment in the year of the Silver Fleet (sources differ on the amount.)
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