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Gerritsen
Gerritsen is a Dutch patronymic surname "son of Gerrit". It is particularly common in the province of Gelderland. at the database of surnames in the Netherlands. Variations on this name include Gerritse, Gerrits, Garritsen and Gerretse(n). Notable people with the surname include: * Alida Gerritsen-de Vries (1914–2007), Dutch sprinter * Annette Gerritsen [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn
Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Sheepshead Bay to the west and Marine Park to the east. The area is served by Brooklyn Community Board 15. The population of the neighborhood is 4,797 as of the 2020 U.S. census. History The neighborhood is named for Wolphert Gerretse, a Dutch settler, who, in the early seventeenth century, built a house and mill on Gerritsen Creek, which is now part of the nearby Marine Park neighborhood.Cohen, Joyce"If You're Thinking of Living In/Gerritsen Beach; Secluded Peninsula in South Brooklyn" ''The New York Times'', March 3, 2002. Accessed November 11, 2007. "The area, named for Wolfert Gerritsen, a 17th-century settler, was mostly marshland until around 1920, when a company called Realty Associates began building summer homes." The three-hundred-year-old mill was destroyed by fire in 1931. The famous Whitney family owned property by the mill and built a mansion. The Mansion had horse stabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician. Early life Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own Nancy Drew novels. Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.WRITERS AND SECRET IDENTITIES an essay by Tess Gerritsen posted to her blog Sunday, October 7, 2007 @ 11:45 Although she longed to be a writer, her family had reservations about the sustainability of a writing career, prompting Gerritsen to choose a career in medicine. In 1975, Gerritsen graduated from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Gerritsen
Patrick Gerritsen (; born 13 March 1987) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker. A prospect of the Twente youth academy, Gerritsen made his breakthrough in the 2005–06 season. He would, however, be affected by several long-term injuries in the following seasons and then spent two seasons on loan with second-tier Eerste Divisie club Go Ahead Eagles, before signing a permanent deal in 2011. Between 2012 and 2017, Gerritsen played for lower league club Excelsior '31. Gerritsen has represented the Netherlands at under-21 level, gaining one cap in which he also scored a goal. Club career Twente Gerritsen moved to the youth academy of FC Twente after being scouted at his local youth club DSVD Deurningen. He made his professional debut for Twente on 2 October 2005 as a 90th-minute substitute for Sharbel Touma in an away match against local rivals Heracles Almelo, which his club won 0–4. He scored his first senior goal in his third appearance of the sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Gerritsen
Rupert Gerritsen (1953 – 3 November 2013) was an Australian historian and a noted authority on Indigenous Australian prehistory. Coupled with his work on early Australian cartography, he played an influential part in re-charting Australian history prior to its settlement by the British in 1788, and noted evidence of agriculture and settlements on the continent before the arrival of settlers. Early years Rupert Gerritsen was born in Geraldton,Fremantle Press Authors "G" Fremantle Press, 2011 in 1953, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carel Victor Gerritsen
Carel Victor Gerritsen (2 February 1850 – 5 July 1905) was a Dutch politician known for his radical views. The husband of Aletta Jacobs, he was a proponent of open government, fair wages and birth control. He served as an alderman in Amsterdam and a representative in the States of North Holland. He helped found many radical organisations in the Netherlands including the ( Neo-Malthusian League), (Radical League) and (Free-thinking Democratic League). Early life Gerritsen was born on 2 February 1850 in Amersfoort, the second son of Hendrik Aloijsius Gerritsen and Elisabeth Brasser Gerritsen (née Rijss). His father was a successful grain trader and the family pious members of the Dutch Reformed Church. After attending primary school, he went to Amsterdam to study at the (Institution for Education in Commerce and Industry), with the intention of returning to help run his father's successful grain trading business. However, before returning to Amersfoort, he decided to travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Gerritsen
Jim Gerritsen is an American farmer and activist from Maine. He is mostly known for his involvements in the politics of Organic Faming as the proponent of the same. Gerritsen is President of the Maine-based national trade organization Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA). In March 2011, Gerritsen and other farmers filed a lawsuit ''(OSGATA et al v. Monsanto)'' against Monsanto Corporation to prevent it from suing farmers who have been contaminated by their genetically modified seeds for patent infringement. Gerritsen used to own and operate Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine, where he primarily grew organic Maine Certified seed potatoes and other organic seed since the farm was established in 1976. The farm's ownership and operations have been handed over to Gerritsen's son 2016 onwards Activism In January 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear ''OSGATA et al v. Monsanto'', effectively ending the case. However, American farmers gained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerritsen Creek
Gerritsen Creek is a short watercourse in Brooklyn, New York City, that empties into Jamaica Bay. The creek has been described as one of the "fingers" that formed the original shoreline of Jamaica Bay. The creek lies just beyond the maximum extent of the Wisconsin Glacier. Course The creek currently starts near Avenue U, but its original headwaters lay eight streets farther north, in what is now Midwood. Within that neighborhood, Bay Avenue and Olean Street run diagonally to the rest of the street grid, flanking the former path of the creek. The creek had been truncated to the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Kings Highway by the early 20th century, flowing southeast through the neighborhood of Marine Park. That part of the creek was buried in a storm sewer in 1920. The creek's mouth and much of its remaining length is part of a public park called Marine Park; the head contains the Salt Marsh Nature Center, while the artificial Mau Mau Island is located nearby. Accord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Gerritsen
Annette Albertine Gerritsen (born 11 October 1985) is a Dutch former speed skater. She specialised in the 500 m and 1000 m distances, and won a silver medal in the 1000 metres at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She is the current Dutch junior record holder in the 500 m (38.57) and her personal best (1.16.14) used to be the world junior record. She also holds the world junior record with her Dutch teammates in the team pursuit (3.12.37). Skating career Gerritsen's breakthrough came during the 2004–05 speed skating season when she won the bronze medal in the 500 m at the 2005 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships. She won another bronze medal that same year at the 2005 KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships and qualified for the 2005 ISU World Sprint Championships where she finished in 17th position. 2005–06 season The year after, at the 2006 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships she improved her bronze 500 m medal to a silver and was also able to win a bronze medal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Gerritsen
Lisa Gerritsen (born Lisa Orszag, December 21, 1957) is an American former child actress. She is most famous for her role as Bess, the independent-minded daughter of Phyllis Lindstrom on the 1970s television series ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and its spin-off ''Phyllis.'' Early life Lisa Gerritsen was born Lisa Orszag in Los Angeles and is the granddaughter of child actor and screenwriter True Eames Boardman, and the great-granddaughter of silent film actors True Boardman and Virginia True Boardman. Her acting career began when she was eight years old. Encouraged by her mother and grandfather, she landed her first professional role in an episode of ''The Doris Day Show'' in 1968. Career After ''The Doris Day Show'', Gerritsen had guest-star or cameo appearances in several television shows including '' The Odd Couple,'' '' Bonanza'', ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father'', '' The Virginian'' and ''Family Affair''. She was also cast in several episodes of '' Gunsmoke'', one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Gerritsen
Wendy Gerritsen (born 6 October 1972) is a former Dutch international cricketer whose career for the Dutch national side spanned from 1992 to 1995. A right-arm medium-pacer, she played seven One Day International (ODI) matches, including games at the 1993 World Cup. Gerritsen made her senior debut for the Netherlands at the age of 19, on a tour of England in July 1992. Selected in the Dutch squad for the 1993 World Cup in England, she played in four of a possible seven matches.Women's ODI matches played by Wendy Gerritsen – CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 October 2015. Although primarily in the team as a bowler, Gerritsen was given only 20 overs across her matches. In the last match of the tournament, against |
Tim Gerritsen
Timothy S. Gerritsen is a producer and designer who has been involved primarily in video games. Career Tim Gerritsen was the Business Development Manager at Human Head Studios. Gerritsen decided to license a tabletop role-playing game for his company's ''Rune'' computer game (2000), which could then generate IP that could be used in later releases of the computer franchise. Gerritsen scouted out possible licensees in 1999 at Gen Con 32 and settled on Atlas Games as the best choice; he wanted a small company, who would give more attention to the design of the game, and he liked Atlas' connections with designers like Robin Laws, Jonathan Tweet, Greg Stolze, and John Scott Tynes. John Nephew of Atlas was originally skeptical about producing a licensed game but Atlas Creative Director Jeff Tidball convinced him to give it a try; Atlas then contracted Robin Laws to write the game, and the ''Rune'' role-playing game was published in 2001. Gerritsen was later director of product develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maico Gerritsen
Maico Gerritsen (born 21 March 1986 in Venlo) is a Dutch former professional footballer. He spent three seasons with VVV-Venlo in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. Career A product of VVV's youth system, Gerritsen spent three seasons playing for VVV's senior side, making a total of 19 Eerste Divisie appearances. During the 2007–08 season, he didn't feature for VVV, and was sent on loan to Belgian Second Division side K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel was a Belgian association football club from the city of Geel in Antwerp (province). History The club was born in 1921 as a merger of Flandria and Geel Sport, becoming Flandria Geel Sport, and registered in 1924 to the ..., then in last place in the division. VVV released Gerritsen after the six-month loan at Geel. He joined Belgian Third Division side Bocholter VV for one season where he rarely featured, and signed with Belgian Fourth Division side Esperanza Neerpelt in January 2009. References 1986 births Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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