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Bleecker Street Broadway–Lafayette Street (New York City Subway)
Bleecker is a Dutch-language occupational surname. Bleecker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher"). Most if not all people listed below are descendants of Jan Jansen Bleecker/Bleeker, who came to New Amsterdam in 1658. In the Netherlands, only the spelling Bleeker is extant as a family name. People * Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783), American poet * Anthony Bleecker (1770–1827), American author and lawyer * Anthony Lispenard Bleecker (1741–1816), American banker and merchant * Harmanus Bleecker (1779–1849), US congressman from New York, ambassador to the Netherlands * Jan Jansen Bleecker (1641/42-1732), Dutch settler in New Netherland, mayor of New York * Julian Bleecker (born ca. 1967), American mobile artist and technologist * Katherine Russell Bleecker (1893-1996), American filmmaker in silent era * Leon Bleecker (c.1881–1933), New York assemblyman * Maitland B. Bleecker (1903–2002), American inventor, instrumental in modern helicopter design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
