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Goirle
Goirle () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and town in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. Part of the suburban area of the city of Tilburg, it shares with it its phone area code and public transport system. The municipality also includes the villages of Breehees and Riel, Goirle, Riel. Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Goirle, June 2015'' Notable people * Max Steenberghe (1899–1972) a Dutch politician and Govt. minister * John Boxtel (born 1930) a Dutch sculptor of woodcarvings and an art teacher * Pepijn van Erp (born 1972) a Dutch mathematician, skeptical activist and chess player * Jan Taminiau (born 1975) a Dutch clothes designer * Floor Jansen (born 1981) a Dutch singer, songwriter and lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish Sport * Tiest van Gestel (1881–1969) an archer and team gold medallist at the 1920 Summer Olympics * Huub Zilverberg (born 1939) a Dutch former professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Van Geel
Martin van Geel (born 27 November 1960 in Goirle) is a retired Netherlands, Dutch footballer who was active as a midfielder. Van Geel made his professional debut on at 24 August 1977 Willem II (football club), Willem II, and also played for AFC Ajax, Ajax, Roda JC and Feyenoord. After his playing career ended, Van Geel moved into the front offices of a number of Dutch football clubs, holding technical director positions at AZ Alkmaar, AZ, Ajax, Roda JC, Feyenoord, and most recently Willem II, which earned promotion back into the Eredivisie in 2024 under Van Geel's stewardship. It was announced on 16 May 2024 that, on 1 July, Van Geel would be stepping down from his position with Willem II and assuming the role of technical manager of the Eredivisie. Honours ;Ajax * Eredivisie: 1979–80 Eredivisie, 1979–80 References External links Profile 1960 births Living people Dutch men's footballers Dutch businesspeople Directors of football clubs in the Netherlands Feyenoord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Boxtel
John Boxtel (21 June 1930 – 1 October 2022) was a Dutch-Canadian sculptor and art teacher. His works include sculpture, woodcarving, architectural drafting, design, and building. Biography Born in Goirle, Netherlands, Boxtel studied architecture at the Technical School in Tilburg, Netherlands. After emigrating to Canada in 1954, he studied at the University of Toronto, Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario, and the Artists' Workshop in London, Ontario. In 1967, he became an art teacher. Boxtel had gallery exhibitions in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, Kingston, Boston, and the Netherlands. His public commissioned works for monuments were done in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, and United States. Working with the Ukrainian Canadian community John crafted several statues recalling Canada's first national internment operations of 1914–1920, that can be seen in Banff National Park, in Kapuskasing, Spirit Lake, on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature and elsewhere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilburg
Tilburg () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. With a population of 229,833 (January 2, 2024), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-largest in the Netherlands. Tilburg University is located in Tilburg, as are Avans University of Applied Sciences and Fontys University of Applied Sciences. There are three railway stations within the municipality: Tilburg railway station, Tilburg, Tilburg Universiteit railway station, Tilburg Universiteit and Tilburg Reeshof railway station, Tilburg Reeshof. The "Spoorzone" area around Tilburg Central station, once a Dutch Railways train maintenance yard, has been purchased by the city and is being transformed into an urban zone. History Little is known about the beginnings of Tilburg. The name ''Tilliburg'' fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huub Zilverberg
Hubertus "Huub" Zilverberg (born 13 January 1939 in Goirle) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. In 1962, Zilverberg won a stage in the Tour de France and in the Giro d'Italia. Major results ;1959 : Olympia's Tour ;1961 :Ronde van Vlaanderen (for independents) :Rijen ;1962 : Grand Prix du Parisien (with Rik Van Looy, Guillaume van Tongerloo, Edgard Sorgeloos, Joseph Planckaert and Peter Post) :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 7 :Giro d'Italia The Giro d'Italia (; ), also known simply as the Giro, is an annual stage race, multiple-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through, other countries. The first race was organized in 19 ...: ::Winner stage 8 :Schiedam :Leuze ;1963 :Rijen :Hulst References External links * * *Hubertus Zilverbergat FirstCycling.com 1939 births Living people Dutch male cyclists Dutch Tour de France stage winners Dutch Giro d'Italia stage winners Sportspeople from Goir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiest Van Gestel
Jan Baptist Jozef "Tiest" van Gestel (29 March 1881 – 9 February 1969) was an archer from the Netherlands. He was born in Goirle and died in Goirle. He represented his native country at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. There he won the gold medal in the Men's Team Event (28 m), alongside Joep Packbiers, Piet de Brouwer, Driekske van Bussel, Janus van Merrienboer, Jo van Gastel, Janus Theeuwes Adrianus "Janus" Cornelis Theeuwes (4 April 1886 – 7 August 1975) was an archer from the Netherlands. He owned a leather factory (Theeuwes Van de Maade) and was father of seven daughters and one son. His son, Huub, succeeded him. He wa ..., and Theo Willems. References External links profile 1881 births 1969 deaths Dutch male archers Archers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for the Netherlands Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Goirle Archers from North Brabant Olympic medalists in archery Medalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Taminiau
Jan Taminiau (born 14 September 1975) is a Dutch clothes designer who launched his own fashion label bearing his name (written as one word) in 2003. He designed a dress worn by Princess Maxima during the opening of the Mode Biennale exhibition in Arnhem in June 2009. Based in Amsterdam, Taminiau had an atelier located in the heart of the Red-light district, Red-Light prostitution district in Amsterdam. He designed the blue dress worn by Maxima at the investiture of Willem-Alexander. Early life Jan was born in Goirle, the Netherlands. In 2001, Taminiau graduated cum laude from the Academy of Art in Arnhem Artez. Prizes and awards 2014 the Dutch oeuvre price the “Grand Seigneur”. 2014 "Marie Claire Prix de la Mode Best Dutch designer" 2013 the ‘Cultuur Mode Stipendium’ award from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. 2007 Marie Claire Prix de la Mode 2001 the Roos Gesink Award of best graduated student for his final year project at the Academy of Art and Design in Arnhem Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riel, Goirle
Riel is a village (Dutch: '' dorp'') in the municipality of Goirle, south of Tilburg in the province of North Brabant. Until 1997 it belonged to the municipality Alphen en Riel. On the east it is bordered by the stream valley of the river Donge, on the west by the deactivated railroad Turnhout- Tilburg. Riel is a so-called ''esdorp''. The village grew and stretched out as new enclosures took place alongside the main road. First development took place as early as in the 7th century, with a peak in the 12th century when the church stimulated the enclosure of the common grounds and development. Nowadays Riel is a commuter village. In the South and East large nature preserves are located, such as the moor "Regte Heide", also a tumulus A tumulus (: tumuli) is a mound of Soil, earth and Rock (geology), stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as ''kurgans'', and may be found through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of The Netherlands
Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities ( ; Grammatical number#Overview, sing. ) and three Caribbean Netherlands, special municipalities ( ) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division, or public body (Netherlands), public bodies (), in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces of the Netherlands, provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the Cabinet of the Netherlands, central government and they are ruled by a municipal council (Netherlands), municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipal merger (politics), mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created in the mid 19th century. Municipalities themselves are informally subdivided into districts and neighbourhoods for administrative and statistical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floor Jansen
Floor Jansen (; born 21 February 1981) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She is the third and current lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Jansen first became known as the lead vocalist of symphonic metal band After Forever from 1997, when she joined at age 16, to their disbanding in 2009. When After Forever disbanded, she formed ReVamp and has released two albums with them. In 2012 following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerum World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2018, she and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad premiered their hard rock duo Northward (band), Northward. A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Jansen is a member of his progressive metal Supergroup (music), supergroup Star One (band), Star One, and sang in the Ayreon albums ''U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepijn Van Erp
Pepijn van Erp (born 1972) is a Dutch mathematician and skeptical activist. Van Erp studied mathematics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, graduating in 1999. After graduating, Van Erp worked as a statistics consultant at the PTT. Between 2002 and 2005, he lived in Tanzania. Until 2012, Van Erp was secretary at the Stichting Nijmeegs Universitair Fonds (SNUF). In 2011, Van Erp became involved with Stichting Skepsis, where he has served as board member since March 2012. Over a number of years, he has occupied himself with all sorts of dubious claims to determine whether they are scientific or pseudoscientific in nature. In February 2013, Van Erp was one of several commentators who accused the editorial staff of talkshow '' De Wereld Draait Door'' to uncritically present the story of the heavily handicapped Niek Zervaas, who was alleged to have been able to communicate using facilitated communication, a practice characterised as pseudoscience. The editorial staff later admit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Steenberghe
Maximilien Paul Léon "Max" Steenberghe (2 May 1899 – 22 January 1972) was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP), which later formed to the Catholic People's Party The Catholic People's Party (, KVP) was a Roman Catholicism in the Netherlands, Catholic Christian democracy, Christian democratic list of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1945 as ... (KVP). Decorations References External links ;Official Mr. M.P.L. (Max) SteenbergheParlement & Politiek 1899 births 1972 deaths Catholic People's Party politicians Dutch corporate directors Dutch nonprofit directors Dutch nonprofit executives Dutch jurists Dutch Roman Catholics Dutch traditionalist Catholics Dutch people of World War II Dutch political party founders Grand Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Ministers of agriculture of the Nether ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireen Wüst
Irene Karlijn "Ireen" Wüst (; born 1 April 1986) is a Dutch former long track speed skater. Wüst became the most successful speed skating Olympian ever by achieving at least one gold medal in each of five consecutive Winter Olympic appearances. Wüst is the second athlete (after Britain's Steve Redgrave) to win a gold medal at five consecutive Olympics, Summer or Winter, and the first to do so in individual events. Wüst is both the youngest Dutch Olympic gold medalist and the oldest speed skating gold medalist in the history of the Winter Games. At the age of nineteen, on 12 February 2006, she won the gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games 3000 metre event; four years later at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games she won the 1500 metre event; at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games she won two gold and three silver medals, making her the most decorated athlete at the Sochi Games. Following her record sixth speed skating gold medal in the 1500 metres and bronze in the team purs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
