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The first Final Four for the Hawkeyes in 30 years is leading to some reminiscing, like the 61-year-old Bluder recalling watching Bolin, now 65, with the Iowa Cornets, a pioneering women’s pro team.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2023

The choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker will show two celebrated works, “Transfigured Night” and “Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke.”

From New York Times • May 24, 2016

In the afternoon drove to Ryswyck, to the house of M. Cornets de Groot, the living representative of the Grotius family.

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by White, Andrew Dickson

Groot, Ermengarda de, who she was, 1, 2 Her marriage with Cornelius Cornets, ibid Her children, 2.

From The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works by Burigny, Jean Lévesque de

Visit to M. Cornets de Groot at Ryswyck; relics of his great ancestor; curious information regarding the latter.

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by White, Andrew Dickson