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Roeland
Roeland, Roelandt or Roelant (all pronounced ) is a Dutch masculine given name equivalent to English Roland. It is a Germanic name consisting of the elements -hrod- ("fame") and -land- (i.e. "famous in the land") or -nand- ("brave"). at behindthename.com A common short form is . People with the name include: * Roeland van Duijn (born 1943), Dutch politician, political activist and writer * (born 1940), Dutch movie director * (1598 – aft. 1635), Dutch landscape painter * |
Roeland Park
Roeland Park is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and located within the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 6,871. History The community was named after John Roe, an immigrant from Ireland who settled on in 1883, on part of which Roeland Park now stands. The Roe Home was built in 1891 and razed in 1958 to make room for the interchange at Roe Boulevard and Shawnee Mission Parkway. Roeland Park's original pool was built in 1958 on land donated by the Roe Estate. The new pool facility is located on the east side of the Community Center at 4843 Rosewood Drive. The Community Center address is 4850 Rosewood Drive and offers many different programs throughout the year. A fabric dome which covers the main pool is in place from September to May, allowing residents to use the main pool throughout the year. Geography Roeland Park is located at (39.034705, −94.639211). According to the United States Census Bureau, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland J
Roeland, Roelandt or Roelant (all pronounced ) is a Dutch masculine given name equivalent to English Roland. It is a Germanic name consisting of the elements -hrod- ("fame") and -land- (i.e. "famous in the land") or -nand- ("brave"). at behindthename.com A common short form is Roel. People with the name include: * Roeland van Duijn (born 1943), Dutch politician, political activist and writer * (born 1940), Dutch movie director * Roeland van Laer (1598 – aft. 1635), Dutch landscape painter * Roeland Lievens (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland Schaftenaar
Roeland Pieter Schaftenaar (born 29 July 1988) is a Dutch professional basketball player for ZZ Leiden of the BNXT League. He is also a member of the Netherlands national basketball team. Standing at , he plays as power forward. His brother Olaf Schaftenaar also plays professional basketball. Early life Schaftenaar was born in Utrecht. College career Scaftenaar played NCAA Division I college basketball at Oregon State, from 2006 to 2010. Professional career Schaftenaar started his pro career by playing four years in the LEB Oro league, the Spanish second division. On October 11, 2014, he signed with the Greek Basket League club Rethymno. On January 24, 2015, he extended his contract with the club for another two years. After temporarily leaving the team after the first 4 games of the 2016–17 season, he returned to Rethymno on January 23, 2017, in order to replace Brandon Edwards. On September 12, 2017, he joined Faros Larissas of the Greek Basket League. On 14 Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland Van Laer
Roeland van Laer (1598 – after 1635), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography Roeland van Laer was born in Haarlem. According to Houbraken who quoted the Haarlem writer Theodorus Schrevelius, Roeland and his brother Pieter travelled together to Italy, and Roeland died in Genua.Roeland van Laer Biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by , courtesy of the Pieter returned home alone t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland Raes
Roland Henri Theofiel (Roeland) Raes (born 4 September 1934) is a Belgian politician, a former senator for and vice president of the political party Vlaams Blok. Raes took a dr. iur. ( J.D.) at Ghent University. He became politically active in 1955, when he became a member of the Volksunie. He was senator for Vlaams Blok from 1995 until 2002. At the moment he is Vlaams Belang chapter leader of Lovendegem, member of the Vlaams Belang party board of the district Gent-Eeklo and (as a former senator) member of the national party council of the Vlaams Belang. He works at the party headquarters in Brussels as an archivarian. Raes was convicted for Holocaust denial.Oud-senator Roeland Raes schuldig aan negationisme'' (Former Senator Roel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland Pruijssers
Roeland Pruijssers (born 16 August 1989) is a Dutch chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ... grandmaster. Chess career Born in 1989, Pruijssers earned his international master title in 2007 and his grandmaster title in 2012. He won the Leiden Open in 2016, scoring 7/9. He is the No. 13 ranked Dutch player as of June 2021. References External links * * 1989 births Living people Chess grandmasters Dutch chess players Sportspeople from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht {{Netherlands-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland Lievens
Roeland Lievens (born 1 July 1983) is a Dutch rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is .... He competed in the Men's lightweight coxless four event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1983 births Living people Dutch male rowers Olympic rowers of the Netherlands Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics People from Sluis Sportspeople from Zeeland 21st-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Nusse
Roeland "Roel" Nusse (born 9 June 1950, Amsterdam) is a professor at Stanford University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research was seminal in the discovery of Wnt signaling, a family of pleiotropic regulators involved in development and disease. Research Nusse received his BSc in biology and his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Nusse did a postdoctoral fellowship under the guidance of Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1982, Nusse and Varmus discovered the Wnt1 gene. After his postdoctoral fellowship, Nusse joined the Netherlands Cancer Institute expanding on the earlier work on the Wnt pathway and identifying the pathway in fruit flies. In 1990, he joined the department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University. His lab is currently focused on the role of Wnt in stem cell development and tissue repair. Awards Nusse received the Peter Debye Prize from the University of Maastricht in 2000. He is a membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland Wiesnekker
Roeland Wiesnekker (pron. 'Roo-Land') (b. 25 November 1967 near Zürich) is a Dutch / Swiss actor in movies and theater plays. Life Wiesnekker grew up in a music-loving family and tried out various instruments. Despite that, he wanted to become an actor, because he adored Charlie Chaplin. At the age of 15 Wiesnekker started a cook apprenticeship, but did not agree with the “hierarchic structures”. At the age of 16 he planned to become a sports teacher, but soon took up work in a hospital instead. As the job as a male nurse did not satisfy him either, he began working in a ' (“street-kitchen” - a soup kitchen for the homeless and drug-addicted), a job that moulded his character. Later he decided to become an actor. From 1986 to 1989, he frequented the ' (a drama school) in Zürich. Even before he received the diploma, he was engaged by the theatre Schauspielhaus Bochum, Germany. In 1990 he was nominated for the award ' (German talented young actor of the year). Wiesnekker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roelant Savery
Roelant Savery (or ''Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij'', or ''de Savery'', or many variants; 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter. Life Savery was born in Kortrijk. Like so many other artists, he belonged to an Anabaptist family that fled north from the Spanish-occupied Southern Netherlands when Roelant was about 4 years old and settled in Haarlem around 1585. He was taught painting by his older brother Jacob Savery (c. 1565 – 1603) and Hans Bol. After his schooling, Savery traveled to Prague around 1604, where he became court painter of the Emperors Rudolf II (1552–1612) and Mathias (1557–1619), who had made their court a center of mannerist art. Between 1606 and 1608 he traveled to Tyrol to study plants. Gillis d'Hondecoeter became his pupil. Before 1616 Savery moved back to Amsterdam, and lived in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat. In 1618 he settled in Utrecht, where he joined the artist's guild a year later. His nephew Hans would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel
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 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 computer interfac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Van Duijn
Roeland Hugo Gerrit (Roel) van Duijn (born 20 January 1943) is a Dutch politician, political activist and writer. He was a founder of Provo and the Kabouterbeweging. He was alderman for the Political Party of Radicals and later wardcouncillor for the GreenLeft. Biography Van Duijn was born into a theosophical family in the Hague. He attended a Montessori Grammar School and, subsequently, the Montessori Lyceum, where he attended the Gymnasium. He specialised in letters and graduated in 1963. In the Hague he had been active in the peace movement, organizing sit-down demonstrations against the nuclear bomb. He had also been editor for De Vrije Socialist, an anarchist magazine. After graduation he moved to Amsterdam to study political science and history, later turning to law. In 1965 he was one of the founders of the anarchist counter-culture Provo movement. In 1969 he was elected into the Amsterdam municipal council for the movement. In 1969 he founded the Green counter-cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
