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2 unusual facts about Pieter-Dirk Uys


Pieter-Dirk Uys

The character was inspired by Australian comedian Barry Humphries's character Dame Edna Everage.

The Pieter–Dirk Uys Story, a 2007 documentary by Julian Shaw


Alcove, New York

Alcove is a part of the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District (RCS) and the children attend Pieter B. Coeymans Elementary School for kindergarten through fifth grade, and Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School for sixth through twelfth.

Allart Pieter van Jongestall

Allart Pieter van Jongestall, also spelled Allard Pieter van Jongestal (Stavoren, 12 August 1612 – Hallum, 9 November 1676) was a Dutch jurist and diplomat.

Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

Ards Forest Park

She was the wife of Lt. Col. Sir Pieter C. van B. Stewart-Bam, Kt., O.B.E., a South African soldier, politician and businessman whom she married in 1910.

Benjamin Feliksdal

To finish his studies he went to Rome 1959 to the Dutch dancer and pedagogue Pieter van der Sloot and to The Rambert school of Ballet in London for special coaching.

Cornelis Christiaan Dommersen

Pieter Cornelis Dommersen had a son called William Raymond Dommersen (1859-1927), who also became a painter in England.

Cornelis Schut

From 13 January 1627 he collaborated with the painter Tyman Arentsz. Cracht on frescoes in the villa "Casino Pescatore" located in Frascati, owned by Giorgio Pescatori (aka Pieter de Vischere), a wealthy Italian banker and patron of Flemish descent.

David McHugh

McHugh hit the headlines in August 2002 when a drunk South African fan, Pieter Van Zyl, ran onto the pitch and assaulted him during the Tri Nations match between South Africa and New Zealand in Durban.

Denmark, Western Australia

Thijssen named the discovered land after Pieter Nuyts, a high employee of the Dutch East India Company, who was aboard ship as a passenger.

Dextropropoxyphene

It is listed in Dr. Philip Nitschke's The Peaceful Pill Handbook and Dr. Pieter Admiraal's Guide to a Humane Self-Chosen Death.

Doctor Mid-Nite

As an adult Pieter is later unable to save his mother from Chagas disease, which she catches in Brazil while visiting him.

Elisabeth Bas

It was on the corner of the Nes and the Pieter Jacobszstraat and was patronised by politicians, artists and writers.

Gerard Baerends

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.

Jonas Bronck

The American poet William Bronk reported that he was a descendant of Pieter Bronck.

Login Geiden

Born in Zuidlaren, in the north east of the Netherlands, van Heiden was the second son of Imperial Count Sigismund Pieter Alexander van Heiden, Lord of Reinestein and Laarwoud, Drost of Drenthe, and Baroness Marie Frederique van Reede.

Madelon Szekely-Lulofs

De andere wereld ('The Other World') is a 1934 novel about a poor downtrodden boy from Amsterdam, Pieter Pots, who gets a job on a rubber plantation in Deli, Sumatra and the world he is going to live in as a colonial white skinned person compared to the very poor life he has led in Amsterdam.

Maria ter Meetelen

Her spouse died, and to avoid being taken to the harem of the sultan, Abdallah of Morocco, she refused to convert to Islam and married the spokesperson of the sultan's slaves, Pieter Janszn.

Petrus Dathenus

Pieter Datheen, Latin Petrus Dathenus (Cassel, Nord, c.1531 - Elbing, 17 March 1588) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian who translated the Heidelberg Catechism into Dutch.

Pieter Boogaart

Pieter Boogaart is the European Secretary of the Folly Fellowship.

Pieter de Carpentier

When Jan Carstenszoon (or Carstensz) and Willem van Coolsteerdt landed the Pera and the Arnhem on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula of New Holland (now Australia) in 1623, after the first discovery by Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken in 1606, they then named the 'Gulf of Carpentaria' after the Governor-General, Pieter de Carpentier.

Pieter Dirkx

In 2011, Pieter Dirkx directed the music video for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's single "Maniac".

Pieter Feith

Pieter Cornelis Feith (born 9 February 1945) is a Dutch diplomat, formerly serving as the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) and as the International Civilian Representative in Kosovo.

Pieter Hellendaal

Still unable to secure a good steady job as a musician in London, Pieter, from 1760 to 1762, made his living expenses by working as the organist for St. Margaret's Church in King's Lynn, Norfolk, a port town about 97 miles north of London.

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.

Pieter Nieuwland

His father began teaching him mathematics, but the young Pieter soon outpaced his father, and the mathematician Henricus Aeneae continued his education.

Pieter Schelte

This has created a controversy due to Pieter Schelte Heerema's service in the Waffen-SS during World War II.

Pieter Van Brugh

Pieter Van Brugh was the oldest son of Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh and Catharina Roeloffs (sometimes shown as Trijntje Roeloffs).

Pieter Van den Abeele

Pieter is also a member of the Power.org consortium and participates in committees and workgroups focusing on disruptive business plays around the Power Architecture.

Pieter van Kouwenhoorn

Pieter van Kouwenhoorn aka Pieter Kouwenhoorn (1599 Haarlem - c21 May 1654 Leiden) (fl.1620s-1630s) was a Dutch botanical illustrator.

Pieter Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman was born in Zonnemaire, a small town on the island of Schouwen-Duiveland, Netherlands, to Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Willemina Worst.

Reformed Political League

The paper Nederlands Dagblad was closely linked to the GPV, until 1974 Pieter Jongeling, who also led the parliamentary party, led the paper.

Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido metro station

Nearby sights include the Collegial Church of Saint Peter and Saint Guy (Sint-Pieter En Guidokerk), for which the station was named; the Erasmus House Museum; the Old Beguinage (now community museum); and the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, where R.S.C. Anderlecht football club play their home games.

The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639

In 1706, the colonel of the St. Jorisdoelen at that time was Pieter Schatter, who was also member of the board of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland.

Tomas Ross

He was born as Willem Pieter Hogendoorn in Den Bommel (Goeree-Overflakkee).

Van der Westhuizen

In 1706 Pieter married Eva Gerritsz Ligthart (widow of Jan Douwensz Mos) from Amsterdam, after the death of Maria earlier that year.


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