KEMPEN  , a See also:

• TOWN

town in the Prussian See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

Province, 40 M . N. of See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne by the railway to Zevenaar . Pop . (I goo), 6319 . It has a See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas a Kempis, who was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born there . The See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries are considerable, and include See also:

• SILK

silk-See also:

• WEAVING

weaving, See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass-making and the manufacture of See also:

• ELECTRICAL
• ELECTRICAL (or ELECTROSTATIC) MACHINE

electrical plant . Kempen belonged in the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages to the archbishopric of Cologne and received civic rights in 1294 . It is memorable as the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a victory gained, on the 17th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1642, by the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and Hessians over the Imperialists . See Terwelp, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Stadt Kempen (Kempen, 1894), and Niessen, Heimatkunde See also:

• DES

des Kreises Kempen (See also:

• CREFELD, or KREFELD

Crefeld, 1895) .