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Oost Gelre
Oost Gelre is a municipality in the Achterhoek, in the eastern Netherlands. On 1 January 2005, the municipalities Groenlo and Lichtenvoorde merged and formed the new municipality Oost Gelre, which was called Groenlo until 19 May 2006. Population centres Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Oost Gelre, June 2015'' Notable people Arts * Marco Blaauw (born 1965 in Lichtenvoorde), trumpeter * Tom Holkenborg (born 1967 in Lichtenvoorde) aka Junkie XL, composer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, producer and engineer retrieved 23 September 2019 * Peter Beets (grew up in Groenlo), jazz pianist * Esther Rots (born 1972 in Groenlo), film director * Menno Veldhuis (born 1974 in Groenlo), artist * Thomas Puskailer (born 1981 in Lichtenvoorde), Dutch-born Slovak singer and songwriter * Suzan & Freek, Suzan Stortelder (born 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 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] |
Eefsele
Eefsele is a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of Oost Gelre, a part of the province of Gelderland, Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether .... It was first mentioned in 1315 or 1316 as Everslo, and means "forest of Evert (person)". It is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Lievelde. The hamlet was accidentally bombed on 8 February 1945, because the target was a German stronghold in the forest. Eefsele consists of about 80 houses. References Populated places in Gelderland Oost Gelre {{Gelderland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Maurits Bruyninck
Willem Maurits Bruijninck (also ''Bruyninck, Bruijnink, Bruinink, Bruninck'', etc.) (24 January 1689 Lichtenvoorde - ?) was the 25th Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon. He was appointed on 12 March 1740 and was Governor until 8 January 1742. He was succeeded by Daniel Overbeek. Bruijninck was the oldest son of Wilhelmina Verwitt and Peter Bruijninck, ''voogd'' (custodian/governor) of Lichtenvoorde for the lord of Bronckhorst and Borculo. Willem Maurits joined the Dutch East India Company and had risen to ''opperkoopman'' ("upper-merchant") before 1735. From 1735 to 1737 he was Governor of the Sumatran West Coast and commissary of the silver and gold mines of Salida near Padang. He was married to Hermina Helena Tolling.F.H. de VosPortraits of Dutch Governors of Ceylon in ''The Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'', Volume V, Albion Press, Galle Galle (, ; , ) (formerly ) is a major city on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, south of Colombo. Galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzan & Freek
Suzan & Freek are a Dutch musical duo from Achterhoek, Netherlands. The now husband-and-wife couple of Suzan Stortelder and Freek Rikkerink released music together beginning in 2014. The duo first went viral when The Chainsmokers shared their cover of " Don't Let Me Down" in 2016. Their first original song, " Als het avond is", was released in 2018 and reached number one on the Dutch Top 40 in 2019, eventually being certified Platinum. Their debut album ''Gedeeld door ons'' entered the charts at number two in both the Netherlands and Belgium, and their next two albums both reached number one in the Netherlands. The duo has been credited with aiding the newfound popularity of Dutch-language pop music in the Netherlands and Flanders in the 2020s. The duo suspended all activities in 2025 after Rikkerink was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. History Suzan Stortelder and Freek Rikkerink met in 2007 in the music room of the Scholengemeenschap Marianum in Groenlo and began talking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Puskailer
Thomas Jan Benjamin Puskailer (born March 2, 1981) known as Thomas Puskailer is a Dutch-born Slovak singer, songwriter and stage actor. He grew up in the Netherlands and performed across Europe and abroad in musicals, concerts, television shows and series.Superstarista Thomas Puskailer sa povazuje za internacionalneho Slovaka korzar.sme.sk ited October 16, 2010 Puskailer became prominent after appearing on the first season of Czech & Slovak Superstar. Although he was a finalist, Puskailer laun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menno Veldhuis
Menno Veldhuis (born 20 November 1974) is a Dutch artist. Biography Veldhuis was born in Groenlo and grew up in Eibergen. From 1994 until 1999 he studied painting with Marie van Leeuwen, Paul van Dijk and Eli Content at the College of Arts Constantijn Huygens in Kampen (now Artez, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Zwolle). From 2000 until 2001 he studied history of art at the Utrecht University. From 1999 to 2003 he lives and works alternately in Arnhem, Velp and Bussum. From 2004 he lives and works in Potsdam, Germany]. 2008–2012 membership of . After an abstract series of 15 large oil paintings, titled "Machines" (2011– 2013), the artist finds in his next work "Ernte 1" ("Harvest 1", 2013) a more formal content and produces a series of ''Van Gogh-paintings''. In 2013 Menno Veldhuis turns also to photography and creates a series of around 150 selfies „Back to Nature“, in which he shows his tendency to self-mockery. In 2014 the artist create a series of collages „Woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Rots
Esther Rots (born 23 May 1972) is a Dutch film director. Rots made her debut with the 2009 feature film '' Can Go Through Skin'' (''Kan door huid heen'') for which she won the Golden Calf for Best Montage award at the 2009 Netherlands Film Festival. The whole team behind the film also won the Golden Calf Special Jury Prize and Rifka Lodeizen Rifka Lodeizen (born 16 October 1972 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch actress. Career Lodeizen made her debut with a small role in the 1991 film ''The Province (film), The Province''. She was discovered by film director Eddy Terstall and she played a ... won the Golden Calf for Best Actress for her role in the film. Selected filmography * 2009: '' Can Go Through Skin'' (''Kan door huid heen'') * 2018: '' Retrospekt'' References External links * 1972 births Living people Dutch film directors Golden Calf winners Dutch women film directors {{Netherlands-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Beets
Peter Beets (born 12 June 1971) is a Dutch jazz pianist. He has shared the stage with Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel and John Clayton. He recorded with Jeff Hamilton and Curtis Fuller and in 2001 he released his ''New York Trio'', which was the start of his international career. Biography Early years Beets was born in The Hague on 12 June 1971. His mother is a music teacher and his father a jazz-playing gynaecologist with a love of Oscar Peterson and Art Blakey. This musical family, which includes two elder brothers, Marius and Alexander, moved in 1972 to Groenlo, where Peter received his first piano lessons at the age of six. Marius (1966) and Alexander (1968) become professional musicians (on double bass and tenor sax). After college, Beets studied from 1989 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He combined his music studies with law school, but he decided to concentrate exclusively on mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junkie XL
Tom Holkenborg (born 8 December 1967), also known as Junkie XL, is a Dutch composer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, producer, and engineer. Originally known for his trance productions, he has moved to producing electronica and big beat music and film scores. His remix of Elvis Presley's " A Little Less Conversation" became a worldwide hit in 2002. In film scores, he has worked with Hans Zimmer and his company Remote Control Productions on '' Man of Steel'' and '' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'', as well as composing the scores for '' Zack Snyder's Justice League'', '' Divergent'', '' Mad Max: Fury Road'', '' Deadpool'', ''Tomb Raider'', '' Alita: Battle Angel'', '' Terminator: Dark Fate'', ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' (and its sequels), '' Scoob!'', '' Godzilla vs. Kong'', '' Army of the Dead'', '' Three Thousand Years of Longing'' and '' Rebel Moon'' as well as '' Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver''. Early life Holkenborg was born in Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, Netherlands. Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Blaauw
Marco Blaauw is a Dutch trumpet soloist known for his work in the field of new music and with Eau de Cologne, Cologne-based contemporary music group Ensemble Musikfabrik. He plays a double bell trumpet, an invention that has allowed for numerous new compositions for trumpet, including those by Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winner, Rebecca Saunders. Blaauw is a consistent faculty member at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Darmstadt Summer Course, the Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stockhausen Courses Kürten, the Lucerne Festival, and the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar. Biography Blaauw was born September 23, 1965, in Lichtenvoorde, the Netherlands, and began playing trumpet at a young age in the local band. As a young student, Blaauw attended the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and later studied with Pierre Thibaud and Markus Stockhausen. Blaauw has an extensive solo career, particularly in the contemporary, new, and improvised music scenes. He has collaborated on and premie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Suzan may refer to: * Suzan, Iran (other), several villages in Iran * Sužan, Croatia * Suzan, France * The Suzan, a Japanese pop rock band See also *Susan (given name) *Suzanne (other) Suzanne may refer to: People * Suzanne (given name), a feminine given name (including a list of people with the name) * S. U. Zanne, pen name of August Vandekerkhove (1838–1923), Belgian writer and inventor * Suzanne, pen name of Renée Ménd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
