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Kruk (surname)
Kruk is a surname. The word means "raven" in Polish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian languages. It means crutch, handle, stool in Dutch. The surname may refer to: * Elżbieta Kruk (born 1959), Polish politician *Frances Kruk, Polish-Canadian poet *Herman Kruk (1897–1944), Polish-Jewish activist during World War II *Isaiah Kruk, birth surname of Isaiah Shavitt, , Israeli-American theoretical chemist *Janusz Kruk, (1946–1992), Polish singer, guitarist and composer *John Kruk (born 1961), American baseball player *Jonathan Kruk, master storyteller who regularly performs at Historic Hudson Valley events *Joseph Kruk (1885−1972), Polish-Jewish politician * Mariusz Kruk, Polish sprint canoer * Pavel Kruk (born 1992), Belarusian association football player *Petro Kruk (born 1985), Ukrainian sprint canoer *Pieter van der Kruk (1941–2020), Dutch weightlifter and shot putter * Pieter van der Kruk Jr. (born 1972), Dutch discus thrower and shot putter * Svetlana Kruk (born 1979), Belarusian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven
A raven is any of several larger-bodied bird species of the genus ''Corvus''. These species do not form a single taxonomic group within the genus. There is no consistent distinction between "crows" and "ravens", common names which are assigned to different species chiefly on the basis of their size. The largest raven species are the common raven and the thick-billed raven. Etymology The term "raven" originally referred to the common raven (''Corvus corax''), the type species of the genus ''Corvus'', which has a larger distribution than any other species of ''Corvus'', ranging over much of the Northern Hemisphere. The modern English word ''raven'' has cognates in all other Germanic languages, including Old Norse (and subsequently modern Icelandic) and Old High German , all of which descend from Proto-Germanic . Collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include "rave", "treachery", "unkindness" and "conspiracy". In practice, most people use the more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Van Der Kruk
Pieter "Piet" van der Kruk (13 August 1941 – 4 June 2020) was a Dutch heavyweight weightlifter and shot putter. He won five national weightlifting titles (1964, 1965, 1967–1969) and four shot put titles (1964, 1965, 1967 and 1969), and held the national shot put record from 1967 to 1976. He qualified for the 1968 Summer Olympics both as a shot putter and weightlifter; he chose to compete in weightlifting only and finished in ninth place. After retiring from competitions van der Kruk worked as a national weightlifting coach. From 1988 to 1998 he was a member of the Dutch Olympic Committee, and between 1998 and 2002 headed the Dutch antidoping organization NeCeDo (Nederlands Centrum voor Dopingvraagstukken) in Rotterdam. Later he worked as TV sports commentator with Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through Warner Bros. Discovery Sports#Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe properties, its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian-language Surnames
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state language of Ukraine in Eastern Europe. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU; particularly by its Institute for the Ukrainian Language), the Ukrainian language-information fund, and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often drawn to Russian, a prominent Slavic language, but there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic," ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: " hedistinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian-language Surnames
Belarusian ( be, беларуская мова, biełaruskaja mova, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language. It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus. Additionally, it is spoken in some parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine by Belarusian minorities in those countries. Before Belarus gained independence in 1991, the language was only known in English as ''Byelorussian'' or ''Belorussian'', the compound term retaining the English-language name for the Russian language in its second part, or alternatively as ''White Russian''. Following independence, it became known as ''Belarusan'' and since 1995 as ''Belarusian'' in English. As one of the East Slavic languages, Belarusian shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group. To some extent, Russian, Rusyn, Ukrainian, and Belarusian retain a degree of mutual intelligibility. Its predecessor stage is known in Western acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish-language Surnames
Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In addition to being the official language of Poland, it is also used by the Polish diaspora. There are over 50 million Polish speakers around the world. It ranks as the sixth most-spoken among languages of the European Union. Polish is subdivided into regional dialects and maintains strict T–V distinction pronouns, honorifics, and various forms of formalities when addressing individuals. The traditional 32-letter Polish alphabet has nine additions (''ą'', ''ć'', ''ę'', ''ł'', ''ń'', ''ó'', ''ś'', ''ź'', ''ż'') to the letters of the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet, while removing three (x, q, v). Those three letters are at times included in an extended 35-letter alphabet, although they are not used in native words. The traditional set com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kreuk
Kristin Laura Kreuk (; born December 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress. Debuting on teen drama '' Edgemont'', she became most known for her roles as Lana Lang in the superhero television series ''Smallville'' (2001–2011), also as Catherine Chandler in The CW sci-fi series ''Beauty & the Beast'' (2012–2016) and as Joanna Hanley in the CBC/CW legal drama series '' Burden of Truth'' (2018–2021). She has also starred in movies such as '' Snow White: The Fairest of Them All'' (2001), '' Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li'' (2009) and '' Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy'' (2011). Early life Kreuk was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Deanna Che and Peter Kreuk, two landscape architects. Her father is of Dutch descent. Her mother is of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia; her maternal grandmother was Chinese Jamaican. Her mother and grandmother lived in Singapore and the Solomon Islands before settling in Vancouver. She has a younger sister, Justine Kreuk. Kreuk trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krük
Alexander Dercho (born 21 January 1987) is a retired German footballer. He was born Alexander Krük, before taking his wife's name in 2013. Retirement In 2017, Dercho suffered from a cartilage Cartilage is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue. In tetrapods, it covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints as articular cartilage, and is a structural component of many body parts including the rib cage, the neck an ... injury and never fully recovered from that. At the end of the 2018–19 season, he decided to retire, having played only eight games in the season. References External links Alexander Krükat eintracht-archiv.de * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dercho, Alexander 1987 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Borussia Mönchengladbach II players Eintracht Frankfurt players VfL Osnabrück players Kickers Emden players Arminia Bielefeld players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petras Cvirka
Petras Cvirka (March 12, 1909, Jurbarkas District Municipality, Klangai, Kovno Governorate – May 2, 1947, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian writer of several novels, children's books, and short story collections. He wrote under a variety of pen names: A. Cvingelis, Cezaris Petrėnas, J. K. Pavilionis, K. Cvirka, Kanapeikus, Kazys Gerutis, Klangis, Klangis Petras, Klangių Petras, L. P. Cvirka, Laumakys, P. Cvinglis, P. Cvirka-Rymantas, P. Gelmė, P. Veliuoniškis, Petras Serapinas, and S. Laumakys. His works have been translated into Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, English, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, and Uzbek. Biography Cvirka attended an art school in Kaunas between 1926 and 1930. However, after graduation he drifted away from visual arts to literature. He began publishing poetry in 1924 and studied literature in Paris during 1931 and 1932. He translated 9 books and 34 shorter works from French into Lithuanian. Later in the decade he travelled to Moscow, Leni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Kruk
Svetlana Kuznetsova (in Belarusian: Святлана Крук), more commonly known as Svetlana Kruk, is a beauty queen and the first woman to be crowned Miss Belarus. Biography Kruk was from Grodno, Belarus and was born on June 2, 1979. She studied mathematics at the University of Grodno and later studied economics at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. In 1998, she went to Minsk to join the biggest modelling school in Belarus, the "Nacional'Naja Shkola Krasoty". While there, there were tryouts for the first ever Miss Belarus contest. She impressed the judges and was invited to the content. She prepared for the contest for about six months and won the title of Miss Belarus on March 18, 1998. She received $300 and an electric kettle for winning the competition. Kruk's victory qualified her for Miss Europe 1999, where she placed in the Top 15. She won the Vice-Miss award at Miss CIS 1999. She competed at Miss World 2000 Miss World 2000, the 50th anniversa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Van Der Kruk Jr
Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch form of Peter. The name has been one of the most common names in the Netherlands for centuries, but since the mid-twentieth century its popularity has dropped steadily, from almost 3000 per year in 1947 to about 100 a year in 2016. at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands Some of the better known people with this name are below. See for a longer list. * Pieter de Coninck (?-1332), Flemish revolutionary * (c. 1480–1572), Flemish Franciscan missionary in Mexico known as "Pedro de Gante" * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petro Kruk
Petro Mykhaylovych Kruk ( uk, Петро Михайлович Крук) (born 20 March 1985, in Dubno) is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ..., paired with Ruslan Dzhalilov, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 1000 m event. References Sports-Reference.com profile 1985 births Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Living people People from Dubno Olympic canoeists for Ukraine Ukrainian male canoeists Sportspeople from Rivne Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian people {{Ukraine-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elżbieta Kruk
Elżbieta Małgorzata Kruk (born 19 November 1959 in Lublin) is a Polish politician, a member of Law and Justice (national conservative political party in Poland). She was elected to Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ... on 25 September 2005. External linksSejm Page 1959 births Living people Politicians from Lublin Law and Justice politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Women members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 21st-century Polish women politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 MEPs for Poland 2019–2024 {{Poland-MEP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
