johannes
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1. johannes - Noun
2. Johannes - Proper noun
Meaning
A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.
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I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.
The Perspectiva is a clear and concise summary of the science of light at the time... a popular text on optics until the seventeenth century... used and cited by many medieval and Renaissance scholars, including Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Kepler.
A body who washed up on Terschelling in 1953 has been identified as missing Dutch sailor Johannes Garstenveld, born in Den Helder in 1922.
A few years later, Johannes Gutenberg created the first European moveable type printing press in Strasbourg.
After Johannes' death, she married Abraham Van Buren in 1776.