"The Maid of Amsterdam", also known as "A-Roving", is a traditional sea shanty. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 649. The song may date to the Elizabethan...
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Sea shanty (section Nature of the songs)
shanty "A-roving" (which he titled "The Maid of Amsterdam") was derived from Thomas Heywood's The Tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece (1608). Lyrics and ideas...
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Visserplein 3 in Central Amsterdam, Amsterdam, in the North Holland region of The Netherlands. The synagogue was completed in 1675. Esnoga is the word for synagogue...
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Winds, in the Morning," an anachronistic American whaling song. The second episode, "The Raiders," is the only episode to use "The Maid of Amsterdam" as its...
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kitchen maid, by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which regards it as "unquestionably one of the museum's...
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abundance throughout the series, including such songs as "The Maid of Amsterdam", "Ruben Ranzo", "South Australia", "Maggie May", "The Sailor's Hornpipe"...
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Rather Play a Maid Than Be One". The New York Times. Zeigler, Ronny. "Hattie McDaniel: '(I'd) ... rather play a maid.'" N.Y. Amsterdam News, April 28...
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the surveillance target Roving Boy (1980–1983), American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse Roving Crows, English folk fusion band The Maid of Amsterdam...
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Lady-in-waiting (redirect from Waiting-maid)
finally the Kamenisters (Chamber Maids).[page needed] However, during the tenure of Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress in the mid-16th century, the court...
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Norwegians (redirect from People of Norway)
employment as maids in Amsterdam, while young men took employment as sailors. Large parts of the Dutch merchant fleet and navy came to consist of Norwegians and...
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