Most Dutch-based creoles originated in Dutch colonies in the Americas and Southeast Asia, after the 17th century expansion of Dutch maritime power.
Jean Weidner was born to Dutch parents in the vicinity of the Swiss-French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a place in the French department of Haute-Savoie.
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With the subsequent German occupation of France, he fled with several others from Paris to Lyon in the unoccupied part of France.
Floris Adriaan, Baron van Hall (May 15, 1791 in Amsterdam – March 29, 1866 in The Hague) was a Dutch nobleman and an important statesman from the middle of the 19th century.
Gerardus Pieter Baerends (March 30, 1916 - September 1, 1999) was a Dutch biologist and one of the most important representatives of the so-called classical ethology in the tradition of Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
After the departure of the German missionaries, they were replaced by Swiss and Belgian and later Dutch missionaries, the work progressed rapidly in 1916.
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He worked as a freelance translator, as the London correspondent of a Dutch newspaper, and as the editor of the papers Dramatic Opinions and The Candid Friend, and, in collaboration with Leonard Smithers, in publishing.
The genus of trees Paulownia was coined by a Dutch botanist named Siebold to honour Anna Pavlovna.
As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Beers, North Brabant, a Dutch place in the North Brabant municipality of Cuijk
The prize was founded in memory of Jan Zwartendijk, an honorary Dutch diplomat who helped Jews escape from Lithuania by issuing bogus visas to Curacao.
Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.
In December 2011, Munidasa in collaboration with close friends, Sri Lankan Cricketing Legends Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara opened the Ministry of Crab, housed in the recently refurbished 400-year-old ‘Old Dutch Hospital’ Shopping Precinct.
University College Dublin has a Dutch Society that is synonymous on campus with Dutch Gold.
Charles Hurlbut "Dutch" Sterrett (October 1, 1889, in Milroy, Pennsylvania – December 9, 1965) was a professional baseball player who played 2 seasons for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
Fourteen of the short stories are set in Dutch East Borneo, two in British North Borneo, two in New Guinea, two in the South Seas (South China Sea, East China Sea and Southern Pacific Ocean) and one off the coast of the Unfederated Malay States.
Gustaaf Johannes Petrus Renier (25 September 1892, Flushing – 1 September 1962, Twickenham) was professor of Dutch History at University College London.
The first top chairperson was publishing editor Dr. Michael Werner who established the Pennsylvania German newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe and an archive for Pennsylvania Dutch literature in Ober-Olm.
The Grenzlandring (German for "border-region ring"), sometimes Grenzland-Ring written, is a former high-speed race track oval in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, around the town of Wegberg, located close to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch town of Roermond.
This gave rise to the well known Barbizon school and their example was followed in the 1850s by a few Dutch painters who gathered in Oosterbeek in order to work in the surrounding countryside.
Although Hendrick added Federal-style dormer windows, the gambrel roof with graceful spring eaves is typical of the Dutch Colonial architectureal style.
Henk Meijer (born 1959), Dutch taekwondo coach and former competitor
He led Royal Dutch to several major mergers and acquisitions, including a merger with Samuel's "Shell" Transport and Trading Company in 1907 and the purchase of Azerbaijan oil fields from the Rothschild family in 1911.
Henriette Amelie de Nerha (Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, 1754 - Amsterdam, 19 June 1818), was a Dutch memoir writer, known for her relationship with Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.
In late 2013, the BBC reported the results of a study by activist Ms. Meron Estefanos and Dutch educators from Tilburg University.
He tried to get Dutch sponsors in various ways, such as by putting a one-page advertisement in "De Telegraaf" newspaper.
The museum houses the large painting The Golden Canvass of Flanders (“Het Gulden Doek van Vlaanderen”) by Dutch-born Belgian painter Henry Luyten.
The presence of Dutch, French, and English explorers in the estuary of the Amazon River has concurred for the settlement of Portuguese expeditionaries in the current territory of the State of Pará, and also for the expedition of Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco which, in 1616, has founded the city of Belém.
As a Dutch member of parliament, he was also a member of the Flemish Cultural Council (forerunner Flemish Parliament).
Joseph David Wijnkoop (Amsterdam, 14 August 1842 - Amsterdam, 1 October 1910) was a Dutch rabbi and scholar in Jewish studies.
Beyond the German border, the district borders the Belgian town of Kelmis, in the Province of Liège, as well as the Dutch communities of Vaals, Wittem and Simpelveld, all contained with the Dutch Province of Limburg.
Formed around vocalist Farrah West and keyboard player/producer Richard West from British rock band Threshold, League of Lights recorded their debut album with contributions from guitarist Ruud Jolie of Dutch symphonic rock act Within Temptation, drummer Mark Zonder of US progressive metallers Fates Warning, and bassist Jerry Meehan.
Christiaan Lindemans (1912-1946), World War II Dutch double agent who worked for the Nazis
In Denmark it is known as judaspenge and in Dutch-speaking countries as judaspenning (coins of Judas), an allusion to the story of Judas Iscariot and the thirty pieces of silver he was paid for betraying Christ.
Dutch explorer Juan Maria Schuver visited the town in the 1880s and reported on a visit to the Shinasha people living in the nearby mountains.
He returned to the Dutch youth set-up in 2005, playing in the European Under-23 Championship in Deventer.
Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Three-hundred of these POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 6 in Orio, 350 POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 21 in Nakama, 100 Dutch POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 9 Miyata, and 250 including 150 Australian POWs were allocated to Mitsui to work in their coal mines at PW Fukuoka Camp 17 in Ōmuta.
Dutch maritime maps from the last part of the 16th and the 17th century also locate Notow at Avaldsnes.
Uilke Piebe ("Oeki") Hoekema (born 28 January 1949 in Leeuwarden) is a retired Dutch football player who played for Go Ahead Eagles, PSV, De Graafschap, Lierse SK, ADO Den Haag and FC Wageningen, as well as the Dutch national side.
OpenGALEN has been set up as a not-for-profit Dutch Foundation by the universities of Manchester and Nijmegen to make the results of the GALEN projects available to the world.
Pajama Day is a 2008 album by the Dutch rock band Claw Boys Claw, their first album since 1997's Will-O-The-Wisp.
In the 1960s he drummed with noted guitarist Jan Akkerman in bands such as the Friendship Quartet, Johnny and the Cellar Rockers, the Hunters, and Brainbox, as well as in other Dutch groups such as After Tea, Tee Set, and ZZ and the Maskers.
Plan-Frederiks was a plan made up by the Dutch politicians K.J. Frederiks and J. van Dam that was meant to protect Jewish people in name of the German people during World War II.
On 24 June 2013, the Dutch news blog GeenStijl posted a video in which Baldassarre was seen checking in at the European Parliament to claim a 304 euro daily expenses fee, leaving immediately afterwards.
Two specimens, an immature and adult male were last recorded and collected around 1917-1918 in secondary lowland forests in Medan area of North Sumatra province by the Dutch collector, August van Heijst.
Santiago Arias Naranjo (born 13 January 1992 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a right back for Dutch club PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie.
The remote location of these wells required Royal Dutch Petroleum to emerge as an integrated oil company from well-head to consumer, exporting its products around Asia.
Stanislaus N.I.M. (Stan) Storimans (January 8, 1969 Tilburg – August 12, 2008 Gori, Georgia) was a Dutch RTL TV veteran cameraman.
On TV, he was played by Joop Doderer, who became so identified with the part that the Dutch expression for the most extreme form of typecasting, where an actor is identified with just one single character, is called the Swiebertje-effect.
Tatjana Šimić (born 9 June 1963), also known by the mononym Tatjana, is a Croatian-Dutch model, actress and singer.
The Divine Canary (Dutch: De Goddelijke Kanarie) is a Dutch language book written by August Willemsen, which describes the history of football in Brazil.
After the subjugation of the Dutch by Travancore in 1742, military operations of Marthanda Varma progressed against the northern neighbouring kingdoms including Thekkumkoor.
In 1944 the Germans planned to blow up the bridge again, but Jan van Hoof, a Rover Scout and member of the Dutch Resistance, managed to prevent this.
Metekohy worked with Headhunterz again in 2011, on his song "Tonight" which also featured another fellow Dutch hardstyle act: Noisecontrollers, the song proved successful also and was nominated for a 2012 hard dance award of which the song was put upon the compilation album "Hard Dance Awards 2012" where it was featured as a remix from Alpha².
He published several works on the history of Dutch nazi literature, among others a biography of George Kettmann, one of the most prominent Dutch nazi writers.