11-05-2018, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by GspotProductions
Peter Stuyvesant...
can anyone give me some background on this person, this website, does anyone else have other images being used to link to this, it seems it has tonnes of /dateme.html and so forth, so I take it, itīs common practice for the owner of this .org site...
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Google is your friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant
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Peter Stuyvesant (English pronunciation (/ˈstaɪvəsənt/); in Dutch also Pieter and Petrus Stuyvesant); (1610[1]–1672) served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City and his name has been given to various landmarks and points of interest throughout the city (e.g. Stuyvesant High School, Stuyvesant Town, Stuyvesant Plaza, Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, etc.).
Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway. Stuyvesant, himself a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, opposed religious pluralism and came into conflict with Lutherans, Jews, Roman Catholics and Quakers as they attempted to build places of worship in the city and practice their faiths.
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The Stuyvesant in the Bedford-Stuyvesant Neighborhood of Brooklyn is named after him
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