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Marjolein Noijens
Marjolein () less commonly spelled as Marjolijn, is a Dutch feminine given name. It probably originated as an extension of the name Maria, guided to be identical to the Dutch name for marjoram. at the database of given names in the Netherlands. People named Marjolein/Marjolijn People with the given name Marjolein include: * Marjolein Bastin (born 1943), Dutch nature artist, writer, children's author and illustrator * (born 1 ...[...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] |
Marjolein Kooijman
The Gathering are a Dutch rock band formed in Oss, North Brabant in 1989. The band's lineup currently consists of founding brothers René Rutten (guitars) and Hans Rutten (drums), Silje Wergeland (lead vocals), Hugo Prinsen Geerligs (bass) and Frank Boeijen (keyboards). The band's earliest releases were categorized as atmospheric doom metal with influences from extreme metal acts like Celtic Frost and Hellhammer, undergoing numerous vocalist changes before breaking out in 1995 with ''Mandylion''. It was The Gathering's first album to feature lead singer Anneke van Giersbergen and the band's first to chart in the Netherlands. With van Giersbergen, the band's sound shifted from gothic metal to one influenced by shoegaze, post-rock and trip hop, starting with their fifth studio album '' How to Measure a Planet?'' in 1998. In 2007, van Giersbergen left the group to focus on her new band Agua de Annique. The band replaced her with Wergeland, of the band Octavia Sperati. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolijn Verspoor
Marjolijn Verspoor (born 1952) is a Dutch linguist. She is a professor of English language and English as a second language at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She is known for her work on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and the application of dynamical systems theory to study second language development. Her interest is also in second language writing. She is one of the members of the "Dutch School of Dynamic Systems" who proposed to apply time-series data to study second language development along with de Bot, van Geert, and Lowie. Career Verspoor obtained her PhD Thesis at the University of Leiden in 1990. The title of her thesis was ''Semantic Criteria in Complement Selection''. Verspoor has published journal articles and edited several books on different areas of linguistics, including second language development, effects of bilingual education, effects of cognitive insights into second language development, cognitive linguistic approach to English complemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolijn Molenaar
Marjolijn Molenaar (born October 24, 1983, in Leiderdorp) is a former Dutch international cricketer who made 15 appearances in Women's One Day Internationals for the Netherlands national women's cricket team between 2001 and 2006. A right-arm medium-fast bowler, she took 11 wickets in international cricket at an average In colloquial, ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data. The type of average taken as most typically representative of a list of numbers is the arithmetic mean the sum of the numbers divided by ... of 35.00. Her father, Willem Molenaar, was an international cricket umpire. – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 August 2015. Marjolijn Molenaar is the sister of the famous vice-captain of Ajax Zami II, Martijn Molenaar. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolijn Hof
Marjolijn Hof (born 1956) is a Dutch writer who lives in 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 .... She has won many awards including the "Gouden Uil Jeugd Literatuurprijs', the "Gouden Uil Prijs van de Jonge Lezer" and the "Gouden Griffel".. In 2012 she received the Vlag en Wimpel award for her book ''Mijn opa en ik en het varken Oma'' with illustrations by Judith Ten Bosch. Ten Bosch also illustrated her book ''Een boek vol beesten - Neushoorn'' (2005). Works in English translation *''Against the Odds'', Groundwood Books (2011) *''Mother Number One'', Groundwood Books (2011) References External links Official website 1956 births Living people Writers from Amsterdam 21st-century Dutch women writers 21st-century Dutch writers Date of birth mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Februari
Maxim Februari, pseudonym of Maximiliaan (Max) Drenth (born 23 February 1963), is a Dutch writer, philosopher and columnist. Life and work Februari studied law, philosophy and history of art at Utrecht University. His first novel (''De zonen van het uitzicht''), for which he received the ''Multatuli Prize'', was published in 1989. Februari's next novel ''The Book Club'' (Dutch: ''De literaire kring'') was published in 2007. He wrote columns for two leading Dutch newspapers, de Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad''. Februari published a highly original dissertation at Tilburg University Tilburg University is a Catholic research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg, Netherlands. Tilburg has a student population of about 19,1 ... in 2000. This book (''Een pruik van paardenhaar & Over het lezen van een boek, Amartya Sen en de Onmogelijkheid van de Paretiaanse liberaal'') was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolijn Both
Marjolijn Both (born 9 September 1971) is a former synchronized swimmer from The 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 .... She competed in both the women's solo and the women's duet competitions at the . References 1971 births Living people Dutch synchronized swimmers Olympic synchronized swimmers for the Netherlands Synchronized swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Synchronized swimmers at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships Swimmers from Amsterdam European Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolein Van Der Meulen
Marjolein Christine Hermance van der Meulen is an American engineer who served as the James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University from 2014-2014. She is a Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Senior Scientist in the Research Division of the Hospital for Special Surgery. Biography Education van der Meulen received her BS in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. She went on to graduate from Stanford University with a MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 and 1993 respectively. Career van der Meulen worked at the Rehabilitation R&D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California for three years as a biomedical engineer before joining Cornell University as a professor. She currently runs the van der Meulen research group at Cornell University. van der Meulen's research in the field of orthopaedic biomechanics "focuses on the interaction between mechanical st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rima Melati
Marjolien Tambayong (August 22, 1939 – June 23, 2022), better known by her stage name Rima Melati or by her nickname Lientje, was an Indonesian actress, model, and singer. She appeared in close to one hundred feature films, including works by Wim Umboh, Sjumandjaja, and Teguh Karya. She received multiple awards, including a Indonesian Journalists Association, PWI Award for Best Actress for ''Noda Tak Berampun'' (''Unforgivable Smear''), a Citra Award for Best Leading Actress for ''Intan Berduri'' (''A Thorned Gem'', 1972), and five nominations for the Citra Award for Best Supporting Actress. Melati also worked as a fashion designer and, together with her husband Frans Tumbuan, as a restaurateur. After surviving breast cancer in the 1990s, she campaigned for breast cancer awareness. Biography Marjolein Tambayong was born in Tondano, Sulawesi, Dutch East Indies, on 22 August 1939. Though her father Marinus Van Rest was Dutch, she took the family name of her step-father, Tamba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolein Robertson
Marjolein Robertson is a Scottish stand-up comedian and actress from Shetland. She was ''Scots Speaker of the Year''. She has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe and her 2023 show "Marj" was nominated for an award. Early and personal life Robertson's father is Scottish and her mother is Dutch. She was born and brought up in a Christian background in Shetland. Robertson attended university in Edinburgh. She has a diagnosis of ADHD. Since she was 16, Robertson has suffered from adenomyosis, causing abnormally heavy and debilitating menstrual periods. She has incorporated her experience and frustration with getting proper care for her condition into her comedy routines. In 2019 Robertson moved to Glasgow, but returned to Shetland when she could no longer perform during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst the country was in lockdown she performed comedy online and worked in care. Career Robertson lived briefly in Amsterdam performing improvisational comedy where she was encouraged to try s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma
Marjolein Silvia Lips-Wiersma is a New Zealand academic. She specializes in ethics, meaningful work and sustainability. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career Marjo Lips-Wiersma is Professor of Ethics and Sustainability Leadership at AUT. In 1999 she submitted a doctoral thesis titled ''The influence of 'spiritual meaning-making' on career choice, transition and experience'' at the University of Auckland. Her research takes place at the nexus of meaningful work, sustainability, hope and well-being. Lips-Wiersma is amongst the top 2 % of global academics. Her research on meaningful work is well known. It is also used in a variety of organisations around the world and she is chair of the board of the Map of Meaning (https://www.themapofmeaning.org) which, through training and certifying practitioners, helps individuals, organisations and communities to make meaning and its absence visible. Lips-Wiersma has published in jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjolein Lindemans
Marjolein Lindemans (born 17 February 1994) is a Belgian former heptathlete who competed in international elite events. She is a World and European bronze medalist and a Belgian champion in the long jump and pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek language, Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) (). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Anci .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindemans, Marjolein 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Leuven Belgian heptathletes Belgian female hurdlers Belgian female long jumpers Belgian female sprinters Belgian pentathletes 21st-century Belgian sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
