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Etten-Leur
Etten-Leur () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Dutch province North Brabant. Its name is a combination of the two villages from which the municipality originally arose: Etten and Leur. History The villages were always part of one municipality, originally called "Etten c.a." (cum annexis), this later to change to "Etten en Leur". The current name was adopted in 1968. By that time, the villages had grown into one. Both villages, created in the Middle Ages, were relatively prosperous during the period of the Dutch Republic, the exception being the period of the Eighty Years' War in which the area was a major battleground. This prosperity was caused by the fact that Etten was a centre for the production of peat, and Leur was a local trading port, as it had a harbour. Decline in economic importance marked both villages during the nineteenth century. In 1836 Arnold Damen left Leur in order to work as a missionary in the United States. The painter Vincent van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etten-Leur Railway Station
Etten-Leur is a railway station located in Etten-Leur, Netherlands. The station was opened on 11 December 1854 and is located on the Roosendaal–Breda railway. The station is operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The station was closed between 25 September 1940 and 30 May 1972. Train service The following services currently call at Etten-Leur: *2x per hour intercity services Zwolle - Arnhem - Nijmegen - 's-Hertogenbosch - Roosendaal External linksNS websiteDutch Public Transport journey planner Railway stations in North Brabant Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in 1854 Etten-Leur {{Netherlands-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Jacob Rochussen
Jan Jacob Rochussen (23 October 1797 – 21 January 1871) was a Dutch politician. He served as finance minister from 1840 to 1843 and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1845 to 1851. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 18 March 1858 to 23 February 1860. Life and politics Rochussen was born in the town of Etten, North Brabant, on 23 October 1797 to Jan Rochussen, a provincial government member, and his wife. In 1815 Rochussen served in a volunteer corps against Napoleon's armies. Rochussen found employment as a tax collector in Schiedam, South Holland beginning in 1814. Over the next twelve years he served as a tax collector in 's-Hertogenbosch, Rotterdam, and later Amsterdam. He was then selected as secretary at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, serving from 22 January until 10 August 1826. Leaving the chamber, he worked at an entrepôt – a trading post for the import and export of goods without paying duties – and eventually managed it f ... [...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] |
Arnold Damen
Arnold Damen, S.J. (1815–1890) was a Dutch Jesuit missionary who is noted for bringing Jesuit education to Chicago. Biography Damen was born in Leur, North Brabant (The Netherlands) on March 20, 1815, and joined the Jesuit missions in North America under Pierre-Jean De Smet. He trained at St. Stanislaus Novitiate in Florissant, Missouri, and was ordained in 1844. His first job was teaching at St. Louis University, but in 1847 he was appointed pastor of the college church of St. Francis Xavier in St. Louis. In 1857 he was sent to establish the first Jesuit presence in Chicago, where he founded St. Ignatius College Prep, as well as the institution that would become Loyola University. He died at Creighton College in Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the List of cities in Nebraska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's List of Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stef Broks
Stef Broks (born 1st of May 1981, Etten-Leur, The Netherlands) is a Dutch musician, teacher and entrepreneur, best known for his work with Dutch progressive metal band Textures (2001-present). He is known for playing rock and metal with a fusion touch and an extensive use of polyrhythms with his -left-footed- double bass pedals. Broks currently has his own music school Het Popstation in Utrecht and teaches didactics at his old school Codarts Rotterdam and various courses at Metal Factory, Eindhoven. Musical career After playing in several local bands as a teenager, Broks launched his career in 2001 by asking guitarist Jochem Jacobs to start a new state-of-the-art metal band in the style of modern metal acts such as Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, and At the Gates. Broks suggested the band name Textures, derived from the title of an instrumental track on the 1993 album ''Focus'', by the fusion-metal cult band Cynic. While Broks was studying journalism and working for newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter De Clercq
Peter de Clercq (born 1959, Etten-Leur) is a Dutch diplomat who currently is the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), where he also serves as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative. He was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 18 June 2015. Biography De Clercq graduated with a M.A. in development sociology from University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He also attended the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in The Hague. A veteran of the United Nations system, his career includes 27 years of service at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and Humanitarian protection, protect refugees, Internally displac ... [...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] |
104th Infantry Division (United States)
The 104th Infantry Division was an infantry division (military), division of the United States Army. Today, it is known as the 104th Training Division (Leader Training) and based at Fort Lewis (Washington), Fort Lewis, Washington, as a training unit of the United States Army Reserve. Activated in 1921 and deployed during World War II, the division saw almost 200 days of fighting in northwestern Europe as it fought through France, Netherlands, Netherlands, Belgium, and western Germany, fighting back several fierce German counterattacks as it advanced through the theater throughout late 1944 and 1945. This was the only combat duty that the 104th Infantry Division has served during its history. At the end of the fighting on 7 May 1945 (V-E Day), this division was in central Germany opposite the troops of its allies from the Soviet Army. After World War II, this division was reorganized primarily as a training division for Reserve forces. After several decades, the division then e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Van Trijp
Danny van Trijp (born 24 December 1996) is a Dutch darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won two titles on the 2022 PDC Challenge Tour. Career Van Trijp attended European Q-School in 2019, but never got farther than the last 16, missing out on a PDC Tour Card. He did then qualify as one of the Associate Member qualifiers for the 2019 European Darts Open in Leverkusen, Germany. However, he lost 6–3 to Adam Hunt in the first round. He also qualified for the 2019 Dutch Darts Masters. In the first round he won 6–5 against Keegan Brown, but was defeated 6–2 by Ricky Evans in the second round. Van Trijp made his Players Championship debut on 3 August 2019. He lost in the first round to David Pallett 6–5. A day later he won 6–3 against Simon Stevenson, then lost in the second round against Steve Beaton 6–5. Van Trijp made his UK Open debut in 2020. In the first round he defeated Boris Koltsov 6–4 but was then beaten 6–0 by Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Brabant
North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the west, and the Flemish provinces of Antwerp and Limburg to the south. The northern border follows the Meuse westward to its mouth in the Hollands Diep strait, part of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. North Brabant had a population of about 2,626,000 as of January 2023. Major cities in North Brabant are Eindhoven (pop. 231,642), Tilburg (pop. 217,259), Breda (pop. 183,873), its provincial capital 's-Hertogenbosch (pop. 154,205), and Helmond (pop. 94,967) History The Duchy of Brabant was a state of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183 or 1190. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes Trees and Undergrowth (Van Gogh series), landscapes, Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris), still lifes, Portraits by Vincent van Gogh, portraits, and Portraits of Vincent van Gogh, self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic Paintwork, brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, ''The Red Vineyard'', was sold. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Textures (band)
Textures are a Dutch progressive metalcore band, formed in 2001. Textures' lineup revolved around founding members Jochem Jacobs, Stef Broks, Bart Hennephof, and bassist Remko Tielemans who joined in 2007. Since 2010, vocalist Daniël de Jongh and keyboardist Uri Dijk have been with the band. Textures first came to the spotlight with their debut album ''Polars'' with Listenable Records which won an Essent Award for "Most Promising Act" in 2004. Since then, the band released 2 more albums with Listenable Records, 2006's '' Drawing Circles'' and 2008's ''Silhouettes'' after signing to Nuclear Blast records. History Formation and ''Polars'' (2001–2003) In 2001, Jochem Jacobs, guitarist Bart Hennephof, drummer Stef Broks, bassist Dennis Aarts and keyboard player Richard Rietdijk formed the band and were joined by vocalist Pieter Verpaalen for their debut album ''Polars'' with Listenable Records. The album was fully self produced, with the mixing and recording done by Jacob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
