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Marijke Boon
Marijke, sometimes written as Mareike () is a Dutch feminine given name. It is originally a diminutive of Mary. Phonetically, the name is said ''muh-rye´-kah/keh'', preferably with a rolling “r”.Workingwritersandbloggers.comInterview Marijke Durning viewed 14-1-2019 People with this name include: People with the given name Marijke include: * Princess Marijke (later "Princess Christina"), youngest daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands *Marijke Abels (born 1948), Dutch visual artist and instructor *Marijke Amado (born 1954), Dutch television presenter * Marijke van Beukering-Huijbregts (born 1971), Dutch politician * Marijke Callebaut (born 1980), retired Belgian footballer *Marijke Djwalapersad (born 1951), Surinamese politician * Marijke Engelen (born 1961), Dutch synchronized swimmer * Marijke de Goey (born 1947), Dutch visual artist * Marijke van Haaren (born 1952), Dutch politician * Marijke Hanegraaf (born 1946), Dutch poet * Marijke Kegge (born 1957), Dutch sprint ca ... [...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] |
Marijke Moser
Marijke Moser, née Van de Graaf (born 1946) is a former Dutch-born Swiss middle and long distance runner.. She has campaigned for women to enter races on the same terms as men. She was the first woman to run a marathon in under three hours. Life From the age of five to twelve, Marijke van de Graaf lived with her parents in Indonesia, where her father was physician. In 1970 she married Albrecht Moser who was a member of the same athletics club as her in Hilversum in the Netherlands, after which the couple moved to Bern. Moser campaigned for the right of women to run in all raceson equal terms to men. She managed to participate in the male-only Morat-Freiburg race in 1971 as a "clandestine" entry. She registered as a man named Markus Aebischer. Moser ran in the 1500m at the 1972 Olympics for Switzerland. She came eighth in the first heat and she was eliminated before the final. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marieke
Marieke, sometimes written as Marike or Marique (), is a Dutch-language feminine given name, a diminutive of Maria. The Polish, Greek and Japanese equivalent is Marika. The ''-ke'' suffix is characteristic for Flemish, Brabantian and Limburgish dialects, indicating that the name perhaps originated in present-day Belgium or the south of the Netherlands. People with the given name Marieke include: * Marieke Blaauw (born 1979), Dutch animator * Marieke D'Cruz (née Guehrer) (born 1986), Australian swimmer * Marieke van Doorn (born 1960), Dutch field hockey midfielder * Marieke van Drogenbroek (born 1964), Dutch international rower * Marieke van den Ham (born 1983), Dutch water polo player * Marieke Hardy (born 1976), Australian writer, television producer and television actress * Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (born 1991), Dutch writer * Marieke Nijkamp, Dutch writer * Marieke Stam (born 1964), Dutch speed skater * Marieke Tienstra (born 1999), Dutch swimmer * Marieke Veenhoven-Mattheu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mareike Miller
Mareike Miller (; born 3 August 1990) is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the United States. She also plays for the German national team, with which she won two European titles, was runner-up at 2010 and 2014 World Championships, won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and won a silver medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the ''Silbernes Lorbeerblatt'' (Silver Laurel Leaf), twice (2012 and 2016). Biography Mareike Miller was born on 3 August 1990, the daughter of Karl-Heinz and Kristin. She has a brother, Nils. She is nicknamed "MA". Miller began playing basketball at the age of seven, and made her debut with a women's senior club team in Germany when she was 14. In that first game, she suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Over the next four years, she underwent knee surgery four times, three in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mareike Carrière
Mareike Ann Carrière (26 July 1954 – 17 March 2014) was a German actress, spokesperson and translator. She was perhaps best known for her television show appearances. She was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. At the age of 16, she began her training at the Lübeck Drama School. After completing this, she caught up on her Abitur and studied English and French at the Sorbonne in Paris. She finished this study with a diploma as a translator. Carrière died from bladder cancer on 17 March 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. She was 59 years old. Filmography * ' (1978) * '' Second Wind'' (1978) * ' (1981, TV miniseries) * ''The Confessions of Felix Krull'' (1982, TV miniseries) * ''Yerma'' (1984) * '' Abschied in Berlin'' (1985) * ' (1985) * ''Großstadtrevier'' (1986–1994, TV series) * ''Praxis Bülowbogen'' (1987–1996, TV series) * ' (1988, TV series) * ''Fool's Mate In chess, the fool's mate is the checkmate delivered after the fewest possible moves from the game's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mareike Adams
Mareike Adams (born 27 February 1990) is a German rower. She competed in the 2015 World Rowing Championships winning a bronze medal. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ..., she competed in the women's double sculls with teammate Marie-Cathérine Arnold. They finished in 7th place. References External links * * * 1990 births Living people German female rowers People from Wetzlar Sportspeople from Giessen (region) World Rowing Championships medalists for Germany Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers of Germany {{Germany-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijke Van Warmerdam
Marijke van Warmerdam (born 12 March 1959, Nieuwer-Amstel) is a Dutch artist. Biography Marijke van Warmerdam has been developing a characteristic body of work including film, photography, paintings and sculptures since the 1990’s. She is best known for her short film loops, with which she first garnered international attention at the Venice Bienniale in 1995. Shortly thereafter, her work ''Douche'' (''Shower'', 1995) was displayed for an extended period of time on one of the platforms of Schiphol Airport railway station, where thousands of travellers could see the film while waiting for their train. Van Warmerdam relies not on story-telling but on the visual power of the motif: a hat dancing in the wind, a drop of milk slowly dissolving in a glass of water, a girl doing a handstand or a red suitcase sliding down a snowy mountain. Through endless repetition, these seemingly trivial events take on a sculptural quality and an almost dreamlike beauty. In their simplicity, van W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijke Vos
Maria Bernadina (Marijke) Vos (born 4 May 1957 in Leidschendam) is a Dutch politician. Career Pre-political career Vos's father was a judge in 's-Hertogenbosch. Her grandfather, A.H.J. Engels was member of parliament for the Roman-Catholic RKSP. After finishing gymnasium-b in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1975, Vos went on to study biology at the University of Wageningen, graduating in 1983. During her study she was active in the students movement, the peace movement and the campaign against nuclear energy. In 1984 she worked as teacher and campaigner for an environmental organisation, 'Milieudefensie' ('Defense of the Environment'). In 1990 she began to teach ecology at the Centre of Ecology of the University of Leiden until 1992. In 1989 she became a member of the GreenLeft and almost immediately entered its temporary board, that would oversee the merger of the four parties that would form the GreenLeft. She was elected party chairperson in 1990. In 1992 this office became a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijke Verpoorten
Marijke Verpoorten is a researcher and professor at the University of Antwerp. She received a PhD in Economics from the University of Leuven. Her research has focused on development economics, economic causes of armed conflicts, global supply chains, natural resources and religion, particular in Rwanda, Benin and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also teaches economic and institutional development at the Catholic University of Bukavu and development economics at the African school of Economics in Benin. Verpoorten is affiliated with the following groups: LICOS, EUDN, NEPS, Annuaire des Grands Lacs, and Journal of Peace Science. Verpoorten began her work on Rwanda in 2002 by collecting household data in Gikongoro and Gitarama. Part of this early work was published in a paper concerning the estimation of the death toll in Gikingoro during the Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijke Jansen
Marijke Schaar (born 12 November 1944), also known under her maiden name Marijke Jansen, is a former Dutch female tennis player who was active during the 1960s and 1970s. She reached a highest singles ranking of world number 21 in 1971. She had her most successful year in 1971 when she reached the semifinal of the singles event at the French Open, losing to eventual champion Evonne Goolagong, and the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships. In March 1969 she won the singles title at the Cannes Championships, defeating compatriot Betty Stöve Betty Flippina Stöve (born 24 June 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final, the ladies' doubles final and the mixed doubles final during the same year at Wimbledon in 19 ... in the final in three sets. Schaar was a member of the Dutch Federation Cup team which reached the final in 1968. On 23 November 1968 she married Nico Schaar. Career finals Singles (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijke Schaar
Marijke Schaar (born 12 November 1944), also known under her maiden name Marijke Jansen, is a former Dutch female tennis player who was active during the 1960s and 1970s. She reached a highest singles ranking of world number 21 in 1971. She had her most successful year in 1971 when she reached the semifinal of the singles event at the French Open, losing to eventual champion Evonne Goolagong, and the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships. In March 1969 she won the singles title at the Cannes Championships, defeating compatriot Betty Stöve Betty Flippina Stöve (born 24 June 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final, the ladies' doubles final and the mixed doubles final during the same year at Wimbledon in 19 ... in the final in three sets. Schaar was a member of the Dutch Federation Cup team which reached the final in 1968. On 23 November 1968 she married Nico Schaar. Career finals Singles ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijke Ruiter
Marijke Ruiter (born 1954) is a retired Dutch swimmer who won 10 gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 Paralympic Games. See also *Paralympic sports The Paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. As of 2020, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 539 medal events, and the Winter Paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about ... * Sport in the Netherlands References 1954 births Living people Paralympic swimmers of the Netherlands Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of the Netherlands Paralympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
