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Dyck is a form of the Dutch surname van Dijck, (van) Dijck, which is also common among Russian Mennonites. Notable surnames * Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Flemish artist * Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck (1818–1895), American missionary * Howard Dyck (born 1942), Canadian conductor * Lillian Dyck (born 1945), Canadian senator * Lionel Dyck (born 1944), Rhodesian-born mercenary * Paul Dyck (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player * Peter George Dyck (1946–2020), Canadian politician * Rand Dyck (born 1943), Canadian professor * Walther von Dyck (1856–1934), German mathematician Fictional Dycks * Elsie Dyck, fictional Mennonite writer in Andrew Unger's novel ''Once Removed'' * Harry Dyck, recurring character in ''The Daily Bonnet'' * Noah and Anita Dyck, fictional Mennonite couple in the television show ''Letterkenny'' * A common misspelling of the movie ''Dick (film), Dick'' since the movie's box art title and logo on the trailer have the hands of a person pointed out to shape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Dijck
Van Dijck is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from (the) dike". The more common form Van Dijk uses the modern spelling of "dike". The form Van Dyck reflects a common replacement of the original IJ digraph with a Y. Notable people with the surname * Abraham van Dijck (1635–1680), Dutch Golden Age painter * Antoon van Dijck (1599–1641), Flemish painter in England, better known as ''Anthony van Dyck'' *Christoffel van Dijck (1605–1669), Dutch printer and type designer * Edward Van Dijck (1918–1977), Belgian cyclist *Erica van Dijck (born 1966), Dutch badminton player * Floris van Dijck (1575–1651), Dutch painter * Hendrik Van Dijck (born 1974), Belgian cyclist *José van Dijck (born 1960), Dutch professor * Kris Van Dijck (born 1963), Belgian politician * Raymond Van Dijck (1935–1997), Belgian pole vaulter * Sander van Dijck (born 1990), Dutch music producer, known more commonly as San Holo Sander van Dijck (born 26 November 1990), better known by his stage na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Unger
Andrew Unger (born November 8, 1979) is a Canadian writer from Steinbach, Manitoba, best known as the author and founder of the Mennonite satire website The Daily Bonnet (along with the collection ''The Best of the Bonnet'') and for the novel ''Once Removed''. Career Before starting the Daily Bonnet, Unger was a contributor to numerous non-fiction publications including '' Geez'', '' CBC.ca'', and ''Ballast'', sometimes publishing under the pen name Andrew J. Bergman. Early in his career, he also wrote and published fiction and poetry, as well as working as a ghostwriter for New York-based Kevin Anderson & Associates. In 2016 Unger founded the Daily Bonnet and, along with his wife Erin Koop Unger, the non-satirical website Mennotoba in 2017. Since 2016, Unger has written more than two thousand Daily Bonnet articles. The website has been visited millions of times each year and has been cited in debate in the Manitoba Legislature and used as an example of Mennonite humour in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Dyke (other)
Van Dyke, VanDyke or Vandyke is an Americanized or anglicized form of the Dutch-language toponymic surname '' Van Dijk'', ''Van Dijke'', '' Van Dijck'', or ''Van Dyck''. Meaning living near the dike. Van Dyke, VanDyke or Vandyke may refer to: As a surname *The Van Dyke family of American entertainers: :* Dick Van Dyke (born 1925), actor :** Barry Van Dyke (born 1951), actor :*** Shane Van Dyke (born 1979), actor, screenwriter, and director :* Jerry Van Dyke (1931–2018), comedian and actor, brother of Dick :** Kelly Jean Van Dyke (1958–1991), actress and adult film performer * Aldo Calderón van Dyke (1968–2013), Honduran journalist and news anchor *Alex Van Dyke (born 1974), American football wide receiver * Anthony E. Van Dyke, United States Marine Corps colonel *Antony van Dyke, variant English spelling of the Flemish-born painter Anthony van Dyck, (1599–1641) * Arlington P. Van Dyke (1926–1990), American businessman and New York politician * Ben Van Dyke (1888–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyke (other)
Dyke (UK) or dike (US) may refer to: General uses * Dyke (slang), a slang word meaning "lesbian" * Dike (geology), a subvertical sheet-like intrusion of magma or sediment * Dike (mythology), ''Dikē'', the Greek goddess of moral justice * Dikes, diagonal pliers, also called side-cutting pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others * Dyke (automobile company), established 1899 Structures * Dyke (embankment) or dike, a natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels, often called a levee in American English * Ditch, a water-filled drainage trench * A regional term for a dry stone wall People * Dyke (surname) * Dyke baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England * Dykes (surname), a British surname found particularly in northern England Places Settlements * Dike, Iowa, United States * Dykes, Missouri, United States * Dyke, Moray, Scotland * Dike, Texas, United States * Dyke, Virginia, United States * Dyke, Lincolnshire, England * Little Dyke, Nova Scotia, Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dyck Language
In the theory of formal languages of computer science, mathematics, and linguistics, a Dyck word is a balanced string of square brackets and The set of Dyck words forms the Dyck language. Dyck words and language are named after the mathematician Walther von Dyck. They have applications in the parsing of expressions that must have a correctly nested sequence of brackets, such as arithmetic or algebraic expressions. Formal definition Let \Sigma = \ be the alphabet consisting of the symbols and Let \Sigma^ denote its Kleene closure. The Dyck language is defined as: : \. Context-free grammar It may be helpful to define the Dyck language via a context-free grammar in some situations. The Dyck language is generated by the context-free grammar with a single non-terminal , and the production: : That is, ''S'' is either the empty string () or is " , an element of the Dyck language, the matching ", and an element of the Dyck language. An alternative context-free grammar for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick (surname)
As a surname, Dick is the 1,513th most common name in Great Britain with 6,545 bearers. Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to Northern Ireland. It is most common in West Lothian, where it is the 78th most common surname with 1,742 bearers. Other notable concentrations include Northumberland (146th, 1,630, Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newc ... (335th, 1,738) and Berkshire (365th, 1,704) and in Norfolk. Currently, in the U.S., it ranks at 1,388 out of 88,799 surnames. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick (film)
''Dick'' is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Andrew Fleming from a script he wrote with Sheryl Longin. It is a comic reimagining of the Watergate scandal which ended the presidency of Richard Nixon and features several cast members from ''Saturday Night Live'' and ''The Kids in the Hall''. Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams star as Betsy and Arlene, two warm-hearted but unworldly 15-year-old friends, who – through various arbitrary circumstances – become the legendary " Deep Throat" figure who played a key role in bringing down the presidency of Nixon (played by Dan Hedaya). At the time of the movie's release, the real identity of Deep Throat was not yet known to the public. Plot Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo are two sweet-natured but ditzy teenagers living in Washington D.C. in 1972. Betsy comes from a wealthy Georgetown family, while Arlene lives with her widowed mother in an apartment in the Watergate building. On the night of the Watergate break-in, the girls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letterkenny
Letterkenny ( ga, Leitir Ceanainn , meaning 'hillside of the O'Cannons'), nicknamed 'the Cathedral Town', is the largest and most populous town in County Donegal, a county in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Letterkenny lies on the River Swilly in East Donegal in the north-west of Ulster, and has a population of 19,274. It is the 36th largest settlement in all of Ireland by population (placing it ahead of Sligo, Larne, Banbridge, Armagh and Killarney), and is the 15th largest settlement by population in the province of Ulster (most of which comprises the separate jurisdiction of modern-day Northern Ireland). Along with the nearby city of Derry, Letterkenny is considered a regional economic gateway for the north-west of Ireland. Letterkenny acts as an urban gateway to the Ulster ''Gaeltacht'', similar to Galway's relationship to the Connemara ''Gaeltacht''. Letterkenny began as a market town at the start of the 17th century, during the Plantation of Ulster. A castle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Bonnet
''The Daily Bonnet'' is a satirical Mennonite website. It was created by Andrew Unger and launched in May 2016. It features news stories and editorials, with the structure of conventional newspapers, but whose content is contorted to make humorous commentary on Mennonite and Anabaptist issues. The Daily Bonnet has been cited in the Manitoba Legislature and used as an example of Mennonite humour in the Canadian House of Commons in support of a bill to create a Mennonite Heritage Week. A number of viral posts including "Mennonite Biker Gangs Clash with Hells Angels at Sturgis" and "Canada Pays Off Entire Federal Debt One Day After Marijuana Legalization" were fact-checked and listed as "satire" by Snopes and Politifact. The site has been visited by millions of people every year since its inception. In 2021, a collection of Unger's Daily Bonnet articles called ''The Best of the Bonnet'' was released by Turnstone Press. See also * List of satirical news websites * Mennonite liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walther Von Dyck
Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (6 December 1856 – 5 November 1934), born Dyck () and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in . He laid the foundations of combinatorial group theory, being the first to systematically study a group by generators and relations. Biography Von Dyck was a student of Felix Klein, and served as chairman of the commission publishing Klein's encyclopedia. Von Dyck was also the editor of Kepler's works. He promoted technological education as rector of the Technische Hochschule of Munich. He was a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1908 at Rome. Von Dyck is the son of the Bavarian painter Hermann Dyck. Legacy The Dyck language in formal language theory is named after him, as are Dyck's theorem and Dyck's surface in the theory of surfaces, together with the von Dyck groups, the Dyck tessellations, Dyck paths, and the Dyck graph In the mathematical field of graph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Mennonites
The Russian Mennonites (german: Russlandmennoniten [lit. "Russia Mennonites", i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire], occasionally Ukrainian Mennonites) are a group of Mennonites who are descendants of Dutch people, Dutch Anabaptists who settled for about 250 years in the Vistula delta in Poland and established colonies in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine and Russia's Volga region, Orenburg Governorate, and Western Siberia) beginning in 1789. Since the late 19th century, many of them have come to countries throughout the Western Hemisphere. The rest were forcibly relocated, so that very few of their descendants now live at the location of the original colonies. Russian Mennonites are traditionally multilingual with Plautdietsch language, Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German) as their first language and lingua franca. In 2014 there are several hundred thousand Russian Mennonites: about 200,000 in Germany, Mennonites in Mexico, 100,000 in Mexico, Mennonites in Bolivia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rand Dyck
Perry Rand Dyck (born 1943 in Calgary, Alberta) is the author of the Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches textbook which is used in many Canadian universities, and taught to students studying Political Science, Law, Economics, Women's Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, and History. Since 1993, Dr. Dyck has participated in the organisation of the Laurentian University Model Parliament, an event which has been featured in Maclean's magazine. He currently teaches at Carleton University as an adjunct professor and also at Nunavut Sivuniksavut in Ottawa. He won the Teaching Excellence Award at Laurentian University and the OCUFA Teaching Excellence Award in 2002 and the Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Award at Carleton University in 2014. Model Parliament Dyck was responsible for the creation of the Laurentian University Model Parliament, or (LMP), in 1993. Since that time, the LMP has been organized by the Laurentian University Political Science Association. In previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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