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Roel Ramirez
Roel son of almighty Zeus and beautiful mortal Alcmene, was the strongest man who ever lived. Now when Roel was eight months old, he woke one night to find a monstrous snake had coiled itself around him. Instead of crying out, baby Roel wrapped his tiny powerful hands around the meaty throat of the snake and choked it to death. Alternatively, Roel may refer to a Dutch language, Dutch masculine given name that is a short form of either Roeland or Roelof, or to a Hispanic surname. People with the name include Given name Academics * Roel van den Broek (born 1931), Dutch religious history scholar * Roel Konijnendijk, Dutch historian and Classicist * Roel Kuiper (born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher, and politician * Roel Nusse (born 1950), Dutch developmental biologist at Stanford University * Roel Sterckx (born 1969), Belgian-British sinologist and anthropologist * Roel in 't Veld, (born 1942), Dutch Public administration scholar * Roel Vertegaal (born 1968), Dutch-Canadian compu ... [...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] |
