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Witt  (vt), Katerina Born 1965.
German figure skater who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic games. She won world championships in 1985, 1987, and 1988.
Witt [wɪt]
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(Biographies / Witt, Johan de (1625-1672) M, Dutch, POLITICS: statesman) Johan de. 1625-72, Dutch statesman; chief minister of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1653-72)
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Cornelius de Witt, Ruart de Pulten, that is to say, warden of the dikes, ex-burgomaster of Dort, his native town, and member of the Assembly of the States of Holland, was forty-nine years of age, when the Dutch people, tired of the Republic such as John de Witt, the Grand Pensionary of Holland, understood it, at once conceived a most violent affection for the Stadtholderate, which had been abolished for ever in Holland by the "Perpetual Edict" forced by John de Witt upon the United Provinces.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
General James Clinton, the brother of George Clinton, then governor of New York, and the father of De Witt Clinton, who died governor of the same State in 1827, commanded the brigade employed on this duty.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
* Evidently the late De Witt Clinton, who died governor of New York in 1828.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
 
 
 
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