Hendrikje van Andel - Hendrikje van Andel Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper (born June 29 1890) is the oldest person ever in the Netherlands and the oldest woman in Europe. She lives in Hoogeveen.(Schipper is her maiden name,van Andel her married name..."van Andel-Schipper" is the Dutch form that conveys this). Henny van Andel-Schipper is still in a good health, although she has almost lost her sense of hearing and her eyesight. She is a big fan of the soccer club Ajax Amsterdam. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Supercentenarian - who have really lived, but the majority of claims to this age one finds recorded do not have sufficient documentary support to be regarded as validated. This is slowly changing as those born after birth registration was standardized in more countries and parts of countries attain supercentenarian age. The oldest documented supercentenarian is Jeanne Calment (1875-1997). While her stories of meeting Vincent Van Gogh or attending the 1885 funeral of Victor Hugo might have been embroidered, her life was documented in the records of her native city of Arles, France, beyond reasonable question. The Guinness Book of World Records in 1978 accepted the age claim of Shigechiyo Izumi, born June 29, 1865, and died February 21, 1986 (the 111th birthday of Jeanne Calment!). However, there is still doubt as to whether.
List of Dutch people - 8 Science and technology 8.8 Before 20th Century 8.9 20th Century 9 Sport Art Architecture Hendrik Petrus Berlage, (1856-1934), architect Willem Marinus Dudok, (1884-1974), architect Aldo van Eyck, (1918-1999), architect Rem Koolhaas, (born 1944), architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, (1890-1963), architect Gerrit Rietveld, (1888-1964), architect Movies Jan de Bont, cameraman, director Rutger Hauer, (born 1944), actor Jeroen Krabbé, (born dec. 5th, 1944), actor, director Johanna ter Steege (born 1961), actress Monique van der Ven, actress Paul Verhoeven, (born 1938), director Music Jan Akkerman, guitar player Elly Ameling, singer classical music Louis Andriessen, (1939-), composer Willem Breuker, (born 1944), jazz musician Herman Brood, (1946-2001), rock musician and artist Christina Deutekom, singer classical music Alphons Diepenbrock, composer Candy Dulfer, saxophone player Golden Earring, rock band Otto Ketting, composer Herman Krebbers, violinist Theo Olof,.
Amway - (AMOs). Amway Corporation, a privately held company founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos and based in Ada, Michigan, has annual sales of about $5 billion. It manufactures and sells personal care products and markets products from other companies, including (in New Zealand, Emma Page jewellery. In 1999 the founders of the Amway corporation launched a sister (and separate) internet-based company named Quixtar. Both Amway and Quixtar are owned by Alticor. Quixtar took over the North American business of Amway in 2001. The system Anybody can become an Amway distributor; distributors may purchase products from Amway at a rate published as wholesale price. In the United States, up to 30% of these monthly purchases may be used for personal consumption, the rest has to be sold to others..
Timeline of biology and organic chemistry - - Claudius Galen wrote numerous treatises on human anatomy. c. 1010 - Avicenna (Ibn Sina or Abu Ali al Hussein ibn Abdallah) published his Canon of Medicine (Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb). 1628 - William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 1658 - Jan Swammerdam observes red blood cells under a microscope. 1663 - Robert Hooke sees cells in cork using a microscope. 1668 - Francesco Redi disproves theories of the spontaneous generation of maggots in putrefying matter. 1676 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes protozoa and calls them animalcules. 1677 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa. 1683 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria. 1765 - Lazzaro Spallanzani disproves many theories of the spontaneous generation of cellular life. 1771 - Joseph Priestley discovers that.
VAA - Vaasa Airport (Finland) Valley Athletic Association (Apple Valley, Minnesota) Van Aaken Automatiserings BV (vaa.com) Van Andel Arena Vashon Allied Arts Vehicular amplifier adapter Verband angestellter Akademiker (vaa.de) Vermont Ambulance Association Vermont Aquaculture Association Vermont Attractions Association Viatical Association of America Vicksburg Art Association Victim's Assistance of America Vietnam Accounting Association Vietnam Advertising Association Vietnam Architects Association Vietnamese-American Association Vintage Aircraft Association (USA) Vintage Automobile Association Virginia Aggregates Association Virginia Angus Association Virginia Auctioneers Association (vaa.org) Virtual Airlines Association Virtual Application Architecture.
Kees van Dongen - Kees van Dongen Kees van Dongen (January 26, 1877 - May 28, 1968), was a Dutch painter born in Delfshaven. He was one of Les Fauves, who lived and worked in France most of his life, and died in Monte Carlo in 1968..
Kill Van Kull - Kill Van Kull The Kill Van Kull is a tidal strait approximately 3 miles long and 1000 feet wide separating Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey. The name kill comes from an old Dutch word for "water channel" It connects Upper New York Bay with Newark Bay. Historically it has been one of the most important channels in commerce throughout the region, providing a passage for marine traffic between Manhattan and the industrial towns of New Jersey. It currently provides the principal access for ocean-going container ships to Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, which together are the busiest port facility in the eastern United States and the principal marine terminal for New York Harbor. The strait is spanned by the Bayonne Bridge..
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen The Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. In addition to various advisory and administrative functions it operates a number of research institutes and awards many prizes, including the Leeuwenhoek Medal in microbiology. It was founded as the Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letterkunde en Schoone Kunsten (Royal Institute of Sciences, Literature and Fine Arts) by Lodewijk Napoleon on May 4, 1808 and renamed in 1816 to Koninklijk-Nederlandsch Instituut van Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schoone Kunsten. In 1851 it was disbanded and reestablished as the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen and in 1938 acquired its present name. External Link KNAW website.
J. H. van 't Hoff - J. H. van 't Hoff Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (August 30, 1852 - March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Rotterdam, the son of a medical doctor. From a young age he was interested in science, and against the wishes of his father he went to study chemistry, first at the Delft Polytechnical Institute, then at the University of Leiden, then to Bonn, Germany (where he studied with Friedrich Kekulé), then Paris (where he studied with C. A. Wurtz), and finally receiving his doctorate at the University of Utrecht in 1874. Before receiving his doctorate, however, Van 't Hoff already published the first of his important contributions to organic.
Jan van Goyen - Jan van Goyen Jan van Goyen (January 13, 1596 - 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. Biography Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem. At age 35, he established a permanent studio at Den Haag (The Hague). Typically, a Dutch painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch Golden Age) will fall into one of four categories, a painter of portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, or genre. Dutch painting was highly specialized and rarely could an artist hope to achieve greatness in more than one area in a lifetime of painting. Jan van Goyen would be classified primarily as a landscape artist with an eye for the genre subjects of everyday life. He painted many of the.
Jan van Eyck - Jan van Eyck Jan van Eyck (1385? - 1440?) was a 15th century painter and one of the first to popularize oil paint. Jan belonged to the Van Eyck family of painters and was a younger brother of Hubert van Eyck. Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and wife Painted 1434 The date of his birth is not more accurately known than that of his elder brother, but he was born much later than Hubert van Eyck, who took charge of him and made him his "disciple". Under this tuition John learnt to draw and paint, and mastered the properties of colours from Pliny. Later on, Hubert admitted him into partnership, and both were made court painters to Philip of Charolais. After the breaking up of the prince's household.
Jacobus van Meteren - Jacobus van Meteren Sir Jacobus van Meteren was a/the? financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible. He was a/the? financier and publisher of the Coverdale Old Testament, the printing of which was completed on the 4th of October 1535. He was also a/the? publisher of Matthew Bible of 1637, the combined work of William Tyndale, Coverdale and John Rogers. There has been some debate over these facts, which the following quote from the entry "Bible, English" in the 1911 Encyclopedia illustrates: "In 1877 Henry Stevens, in his catalogue of the Caxton Exhibition, pointed out a statement by a certain Simeon Ruytinck in his life of Emanuel van Meteren, appended to the latter's Nederlandische Historic (16,4), that Jacob van Meteren, the father of Emanuel, had.
Jan van Riebeeck - Jan van Riebeeck Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck ( 21 April 1619 - 18 January 1677), Dutch colonial administrator, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in Schiedam, where he married Maria de la Quellerie on 28 March 1649. She died in Malacca. Joining the Dutch East India Company (VOC), he served as an assistant surgeon in the East Indies, then undertook (1651) the command of the initial Dutch settlement in the future South Africa. He landed at the future Cape Town on 6 April 1652 and fortified the site as a way-station for the VOC Asian trade route. He died at Batavia on Java in 1677..
James Van Allen - James Van Allen James Van Allen is a physicist associated with the University of Iowa. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following the 1958 satellite missions (Explorer I and Explorer III) in which Van Allen had argued that a Geiger counter should be used to detect charged particles. He was awarded the 1989 Crafoord Prize for his work..
Jacob van Artevelde - Jacob van Artevelde Jacob van Artevelde (1295 - 1345), known as the "Brewer of Ghent", Flemish statesman and political leader, was born in Ghent of a wealthy commercial family. He married twice and amassed a fortune, probably in the brewing industry. Artevelde rose to prominence during the early stages of the Hundred Years' War. Fearful that hostilities between France and England would hurt the prosperity of Ghent, he entered political life in 1337. He proposed an alliance with Bruges, Ypres, and other Flemish towns in order to show neutrality. Artevelde served as captain general of Ghent from that time until his death. Neutrality was eventually broken, and the towns took the side of the English in 1340. In that year, Artevelde persuaded the federation to recognize King.
Jan Baptist van Helmont - Jan Baptist van Helmont Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577 - December 30, 1644), Belgian chemist, physiologist and physician, a member of a noble family, was born at Brussels. He was educated at Louvain, and after ranging restlessly from one science to another and finding satisfaction in none, turned to medicine, in which he took his doctor's degree in 1599. The next few years he spent in travelling through Switzerland, Italy, France and England. Returning to his own country he was at Antwerp at the time of the great plague in 1605, and having contracted a rich marriage settled in 1609 at Vilvorde, near Brussels, where he occupied himself with chemical experiments and medical practice until his death. Van Helmont presents curious contradictions. On the one hand he was.
Jean Claude van Damme - Jean Claude van Damme Jean Claude van Damme (born October 18, 1960), born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, is a Belgian-born action movie actor who's most known for martial arts films. Van Damme has won a number of European karate championships. He is also reported to have experienced Bipolar Disorder..
Vincent van Gogh - Vincent van Gogh Autoportret (1886) Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, though he had little success during his lifetime. Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings) during a period of only 10 years before he succumbed to mental illness (possibly bipolar disorder) and committed suicide. His fame grew rapidly after his death especially following a showing of 71 of van Gogh's paintings in Paris on March 17, 1901 (11 years after his death). (Properly the name rhymes with loch, but it is also pronounced 'goph', 'go' and 'goe'.) Van Gogh's influence on expressionism, fauvism and early abstraction was enormous, and can be seen in many other aspects of.
Jean Van Hamme - Jean Van Hamme Jean Van Hamme is a writer. He has written scenarios for multiple Belgian comic series. Listing: Thorgal XIII Largo Winch This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
