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Alida Cappellini
Alida is a feminine given name, a common Dutch version of Adelaide until about 1960. at the database for given names in the Netherlands It is a compound word: adal 'noble' + heid 'gleam, glitter'. The name was also common in Norway between 1860 and 1910 when immigration was frequent. Notable people with the name include: * Alīda Ābola (born 1954), Latvian orienteering competitor * Alida van der Anker-Doedens (1922–2014), Dutch canoeist * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Hisku
Alida Hisku (born 20 June 1957) is an Albanian singer who was especially popular in the 1970s. Since 1990, she has lived in Germany. Life Hisku was born on 20 June 1957 in Tirana, then the capital of the Communist People's Republic of Albania. As the daughter of the opera singer Fiqrete Hisku, she began singing at a very young age, like her older sister and younger brother. As a child, Alida Hisku won several singing competitions. She studied in the "Jordan Misja" Artistic Lyceum in Tirana. At the age of 13, she debuted in the National Song Festival () organized by the Albanian National Television (RTSh), then one of the few and the most prestigious. She ranked second with the song "Portret" (Portrait) composed by Agim Krajka, which made her known throughout the country. Her major success came in the competitions of 1974, with the song "Vajzat e fshatit tim" (Girls from my village), and 1975, with the song "Buka e duarve tona" (Bread from our own hands), where she ranked first a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Withoos
Alida Withoos (c. 1661/62 – 5 December 1730 (buried)) was a Dutch botanical artist and painter. She was the daughter of the painter Matthias Withoos. Life Alida Withoos was born in Amersfoort. With three brothers Johannes, Pieter, Frans, and her sister Maria, she was trained by her father in painting still lifes and botanical illustrations. Because of the invasion of Utrecht by the French, the family moved to Hoorn in 1672. In 1701, Alida married the Fijnschilder Andries Cornelisz van Dalen, a typical example of relations between artistic and painterly families in seventeenth and eighteenth century Holland. A training in painting was expensive and not often given to daughters, but talented daughters could be trained to work in the studio of their father, uncle, brother or spouse, often under his name. Unlike her husband, brothers and sister, Alida acquired a certain reputation painting under her own name, principally due to her botanical images. In Hoorn a number of the Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida De Vries
Alida de Vries (''Alida Elisabeth Christina "Ali" De Vries,'' married name ''Gerritsen;'' 9 August 1914 – 20 January 2007) was a Dutch athlete, who finished in fifth position at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m relay event alongside Kitty ter Braake, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Elisabeth Koning. She was born in Den Helder. She died at the age of 92 in her hometown Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re .... References * 1914 births 2007 deaths Dutch sports executives and administrators Dutch female sprinters Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Den Helder Olympic female sprinters 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Vázquez
Alida Vázquez (1930–2016) was a Mexican composer who lived and worked in the United States. Vázquez was born in Mexico City, and from 1941 to 1947 attended the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. She studied piano with Esperanza Cruz de Vasconcelos and music theory with Julián Carrillo. She received a scholarship to attend Diller-Quaile Music School in New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ... and also studied with Mario Davidovsky at City College. After completing her music studies, she studied journalism and worked as a music therapist. In 1976 she began teaching music at the Bank Street College of Education. Vázquez died in 2016. Works Vázquez composed song cycles and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, electronic dance music and elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Valli
Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning from the 1930s to the early 2000s. She was one of the biggest stars of Italian film during the Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Fascist era, once being called "the most beautiful woman in the world" by Benito Mussolini, and was internationally successful post-World War II. According to Frédéric Mitterrand, Valli was the only actress in Europe to equal Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo. Valli worked with many significant directors both in Italy and abroad, including Alfred Hitchcock (''The Paradine Case''; 1947), Carol Reed (''The Third Man''; 1949), Luchino Visconti (''Senso (film), Senso''; 1954), Michelangelo Antonioni (''Il Grido''; 1957), Georges Franju (''Eyes Without a Face (film), Eyes Without a Face''; 1960), Pier Paolo Pasolini ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidy Stoppelman
Alida Elisabeth "Lidy" Stoppelman (born 3 July 1933 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch former figure skater. She won three national titles and competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ..., Norway. Results External links * * 1933 births Living people Dutch female single skaters Figure skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Schuyler
Alida Livingston ( Schuyler; 1656–1727) was a New Netherlands-born businesswoman in Dutch Colonial America who exerted a considerable influence in the life of the colony. She was married first to Nicholas van Rensselaer, son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a founding director of the Dutch West India Company and first patroon of Rensselaerswyck, then to her late husband's secretary, Robert Livingston the Elder, the first Lord of Livingston Manor. Early life Alida Schuyler was born in Beverwyck (Albany), in the New Netherlands (New York) as the daughter of the wealthy fur trader Philip Pieterse Schuyler (1628-1683) and Margaretha van Slichtenhorst (1628-1711), of German ancestry. She was one of ten children born to her parents, including Pieter Schuyler (1657–1724), Arent Schuyler (1662–1730) and Gertruj Schuyler (b. 1654), who was married to Stephanus van Cortlandt (1643–1700). Career Alida Schuyler was a major businesswoman particularly during her second marriage, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Rouffe
Alida Rouffe (1874–1949) was a French actress. Joséphine Marie Rouffe was born on 20 March 1874 in Bordeaux. Her father was mime artist Louis Rouffe (1849-1885). She spent most of her career on stage in the south of France, and like her father, she performed in the Alcazar.Daniel Vitaglione, ''The Literature of Provence: An Introduction'', McFarland, 2000, p. 9/ref> Later, she acted in many films, including those directed by Marcel Pagnol.Christian Gilles, ''LES ÉCRANS NOSTALGIQUES DU CINÉMA FRANÇAIS: Tome III : L'Avant-Guerre 1937-1939'', Editions L'Harmattan, 2002, p. 11/ref> She died on 21 November 1949 in Marseille. Filmography *'' Marius (1931 film), Marius'' (dir. Alexander Korda, 1931). *' (dir. Marc Allégret, 1931). *''Toine'' (dir. René Gaveau, 1932). *'' Fanny'' (dir. Marc Allégret, 1932). * '' Paris-Soleil'' (dir. Jean Hémard, 1932). *'' Cigalon'' (dir. Marcel Pagnol, 1935). *'' Topaze'' (dir. Marcel Pagnol, 1936). *'' César'' (dir. Marcel Pagnol, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Rockefeller Messinger
Alida Rockefeller Messinger (born 1948) is an American philanthropist who is an heir to the Rockefeller family fortune. A donor to Democratic candidates and environmentalist causes, she is the former of wife of former Minnesota governor and former U.S. Senator Mark Dayton, and also sister to former West Virginia governor and former U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller. She has notably been a major donor to progressive political causes in her home state of Minnesota. Outside of activism, she is a former trustee of the Rockefeller Family Fund, a public charity started by her father and his siblings. Her great-grandfather is John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and widely considered to be the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history. Early life and family Messinger was born in 1948. She is the youngest daughter of John Davison Rockefeller III (1906–78) and Blanchette Ferry Hooker (1909–92), and a fourth-generation m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Olbers Wester
Alida Olbers Wester (13 October 1842 – 29 October 1912) was an early Swedish botanist noted for studying plant anatomy, particularly the structure of the pericarp. Life Alida Olbers was born on 13 October 1842 in Marstrand, a small island north of Gothenburg. She studied at Stockholm's higher seminar for women teachers, and until 1904 worked privately as a teacher in Stockholm. In the 1880s and 1890s she conducted research at the Hogskola's Botanical Institute. Olbers researched plant anatomy and morphology, and published eight papers, covering subjects such as flower and fruit anatomy in the pinks ( Caryophyllacaea), mints ( Labiatae), geraniums (Geraniaceae) and roses (Rosaceae Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus '' Rosa''. The family includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. Most species are deciduous, but som ...). Olbers married M. Wester in 1897, and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alida Neave
Alida Neave is a South African former tennis player. Neave reached the doubles final at the 1929 French Championships with compatriot Bobbie Heine Miller but were defeated in the final by Lili de Alvarez and Kea Bouman Cornelia "Kea" Tiedemann-Bouman (23 November 1903 – 17 November 1998) was a female tennis player from the Netherlands. She won the singles title at the 1927 French Championships, beating Irene Bowder Peacock of South Africa in the final. Bouma ... in two straight sets. In 1937, she made the singles final of the South African Championships but lost in three sets to Bobbie Heine Miller. Grand Slam finals Doubles (1 runner-up) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Neave, Alida South African female tennis players Year of birth missing Year of death missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
