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14 unusual facts about Dutch people


Bykle

From as early as 1203 and as late as 1780 there are reports of English and Dutch trapping of falcons at Breivik in Bykle.

CAS International

In 2008 the name Comité Anti Stierenvechten was changed to CAS International because its original goal had been achieved: the majority of Dutch tourists don't visit bullfights and Dutch travel organisations do not promote bullfighting any more.

CAS International was founded in 1993 as Comité Anti Stierenvechten following a request from Spain, with the help of ADDA from Barcelona, Spain, De Dierenbescherming (Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals) and the international animal welfare organisation WSPA originally aimed at stopping Dutch tourists from going to bullfighting.

Cratloe

This castle was built by Sean McNamara in the latter part of the 15th century, but by 1641 it had passed out of the McNamara family and was owned by a Dutch Protestant.

Dutch people

This, together with the growing number of Dutch intelligentsia and the Dutch Golden Age in which Dutch culture, as a whole, would get international prestige, consolidated the Dutch as an ethnic group.

The ideologies associated with (Romantic) Nationalism of the 19th and 20th centuries never really caught on in the Netherlands, and this, together with being a relatively mono-ethnic society up until the late 1950s, has led to a relatively obscure use of the terms nation and ethnicity as both were largely overlapping in practice.

Ellen Palmer Allerton

Her father, a farmer, was born in East Guilford, Vermont on November 1, 1786 and her mother, a descendant of Dutch pioneers, on July 10, 1792 at Salisbury, Connecticut.

Géza Frid

Géza Frid (25 January 1904 – 13 September 1989) was a HungarianDutch composer and pianist.

Holambra

The colony Holambra and The Cooperativa Agropecuária de Holambra (Cattle Farming Cooperation of Holambra) were founded in 1948 by Catholic Dutch immigrants at the farm Fazenda Ribeirão, situated between the cities Jaguariúna, Santo Antonio de Posse, Artur Nogueira and Cosmópolis.

Huernia

The name is in honour of Justin Heurnius (1587–1652) a Dutch missionary who is reputed to have been the first collector of South African Cape plants.

John Tutchin

At the same time, he grew disaffected by William's Dutch courtiers and wrote, in 1700 The Foreigners.

Notow

Dutch maritime maps from the last part of the 16th and the 17th century also locate Notow at Avaldsnes.

Ponta Grossa

From the beginning of the twentieth century on, numerous Slavic (Russians, Poles and Ukrainians) and German families settled in the city, along with Dutch, Italian, Lebanese and Japanese immigrants.

Van Damm

van Damm (properly written with a small v) is a surname of Dutch origin.


Alex Agnew

His "rock 'n' roll comedy" (as he himself calls it) is mostly a mix of blue comedy and the production of sound effects, similar to Dutch-Moroccan comedian Najib Amhali.

Assassination of Pim Fortuyn

Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician was assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum, North Holland on 6 May 2002, nine days before the Dutch general election of 2002.

Black Jackets

In the Netherlands the recruitment of people from the working class Dutch ( primarily of Traveler/woonwagenbewoner descent), Belgium, Surinamese, Dutch Antillean, Moluccan, Chinese, Bosniaks, Serbs as well as Turkish and Albanian communities has had an extensive impact on the growth of the organization.

Blue Balliett

Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.

Boy Ecury

Boy Ecury and his father's quest for the truth about his son's last years were subject of the 2003 movie Boy Ecury by Dutch film director Frans Weisz.

Centro Cultural Bella Época

The 2,000 square meters glass ceiling was designed by Dutch artist Jan Hendrix and it explores natural forms with a simulated Arab writing.

Channii

Channii is a Dutch singer/songwriter born May 27, 1991 in the capital of Holland, Amsterdam, she's a mix of different cultures: Dutch, Portuguese and Asian.

Church of St Michael, Tilehurst

Dutch merchant and lord of the manor, Sir Peter Vanlore, lies with wife in heraldic splendour, accompanied by nine children.

Eric van Douwen

Eric Karel van Douwen (April 25, 1946 in Voorburg, South Holland, Netherlands – July 28, 1987 in Athens, Ohio, USA) was a Dutch mathematician specializing in set-theoretic topology.

Feminist Improvising Group

Dutch trombonist Annemarie Roelofs, English singer Frankie Armstrong, Dutch woodwind player Angèle Veltmeijer, and French saxophonist and guitarist Françoise Dupety also played intermittently with the group.

Fortifications of New Netherland

The Dutch named the three main rivers of the province the Zuyd Rivier or South River, the Noort Rivier or North River, and the Versche Rivier or Fresh River, and intended to use them to gain access to the interior, to the Native Americans and to the lucrative fur trade.

Frederick Heiden

Count van Heiden was born in Sveaborg, later renamed Suomenlinna, son of Dutch Lodewijk (Ludwig) Sigismund Gustavus van Heiden (b.September 6, 1772, Zuidlaren-d. November 5, Tallinn), who left Netherlands in 1795 during French invasion and settled in Livonia.

Gijs van Aardenne

Gijsbert (“Gijs”) Michiel Vredenrijk van Aardenne (18 March 1930, in Rotterdam – 10 August 1995, in Dordrecht) was a Dutch politician.

Henry Van Asselt

Henry Van Asselt (11 April 1817, Elspeet - 7 December 1902, Seattle) was a Dutch immigrant to the US, one of the first to settle the area that is now Seattle, Washington.

Hoopoe Starling

The Hoopoe Starling was discovered in 1669 and first described 1783 by Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert.

Immigration to Chile

It is currently estimated that there are about 50,000 descendants of Dutch in Chile, mostly located in Malleco, Gorbea, Pitrufquén, Faja Maisan and around Temuco.

In Search of Sunrise

In Search of Sunrise is the first compilation album in the In Search of Sunrise series mixed by Dutch trance producer and DJ Tiësto, released on November 22, 1999 in the Netherlands (see 1999 in music).

In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama

In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama is the third compilation album in the In Search of Sunrise series mixed by Dutch trance producer and DJ Tiësto, released on May 29, 2002 (see 2002 in music) in the Netherlands.

In Search of Sunrise 8: South Africa

In Search of Sunrise 8: South Africa is a compilation album by Dutch trance producer Richard Durand.

Internet in Indonesia

Indonesia ordered ISPs to block YouTube in April 2008 after Google reportedly did not respond to the government’s request to remove the film “Fitna” by the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, which purportedly mocked the Prophet Muhammed.

Jean-Nicolas Lemmens

Jean-Nicolas Lemmens (also Joannes Nicolaas Lemmens or Joannes Nicolaus Lemmens) (Schimmert, 3 June 1850 - Cobán (Guatemala), 10 August 1897) was a Dutch Catholic priest and Bishop of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada.

Jeremy Bokila

Jeremy Loteteka Bokila (born 14 November 1988 in Kinshasa) is a Congolese-Dutch footballer, who plays as a forward for Russian Premier League team Terek Grozny and the DR Congo national team.

John de Ruiter

John de Ruiter was born on November 11, 1959, one of two boys and two girls raised by Dutch immigrant parents in the town of Stettler in Alberta, Canada.

Jonathan LaPaglia

LaPaglia was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the youngest of three sons of Maria Johannes (née Brendel), a secretary, originally from the Netherlands and Gedio "Eddie" LaPaglia, an auto mechanic and car dealer from Bovalino, Calabria, Italy.

Kaaren de Zilva

Her parents were born in Sri Lanka and throughout the family tree the predominant ethnicities are Portuguese and Dutch.

Kleve

One example of this is Govert Flinck, although born in Kleve, established himself as a Dutch artist.

Miho Saeki

Defeated, among others well-known Dutch woman Miriam Oremans, and the total balance of the performances is a tie - three wins and three defeats.

New Zealanders

Originally composed solely of the indigenous Māori, the ethnic makeup of the population has been dominated since the 19th century by New Zealanders of European descent, mainly of Scottish, English and Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as French, Dutch, Scandinavian and South Slavic.

Paul Mulders

Paul dela Cruz Mulders (born 16 January 1981) is a DutchFilipino professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dutch Eredivisie side SC Cambuur.

Piedmont, Missouri

Among the major first ancestries reported in Piedmont were 21.4% American, 11.6% German, 11.3% Irish, 8.6% English, 3.7% Dutch, and 2.5% French.

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Enthusiastically, Redouté became an heir to the tradition of the Flemish and Dutch flower painters Brueghel, Ruysch, van Huysum and de Heem.

Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt

Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1 July 1782 in Kampen – 25 January 1825 in Utrecht) was a Dutch count and baron who served as a general in the French and Dutch armies during the Napoleonic era and later.

Religion in Sweden

During the era following the Reformation, usually known as the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy, small groups of non-Lutherans, especially Calvinist Dutchmen, the Moravian Church and Walloons or French Huguenots from Belgium, played a significant role in trade and industry, and were quietly tolerated as long as they kept a low religious profile.

René de Clercq

René De Clercq, born René Desiderius Declercq (Deerlijk, Belgium, 14 November 1877 – Maartensdijk, Netherlands, 12 June 1932), was a Flemish-Dutch political activist, writer, poet, and composer.

Şarkışla

The well known Turkish originated female Dutch politician Nebahat Albayrak was born (1968) in Maksutlu village of this town as well.

Sim Visser

Simon Hendrik (Sim) Visser (3 January 1908, Eierland (Texel), North Holland – 13 April 1983, Den Helder) was a Dutch politician.

Tatjana Šimić

Tatjana Šimić (born 9 June 1963), also known by the mononym Tatjana, is a Croatian-Dutch model, actress and singer.

Volkert van der Graaf

He is known for assassinating the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on 6 May 2002 during the political campaign for the Dutch general elections of 2002.

Wouterus Verschuur

Wouterus Verschuur (11 June 1812 – 4 July 1874) was a Dutch painter of animal subjects – mainly horses – and of landscapes.