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Snoek (surname)
Snoek is a Dutch surname. Meaning "pike" in Dutch, it may be a metaphorical name or metonymic occupational surname (referring to a fisherman). However, in Zeeland ''Snoek'' was also a common given name in the Middle Ages and the name may be patronymic in origin. Varian forms are ''Snoeck'' and ''Snoeks''. at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. People with the surname include: * Andries Snoek (1766–1829), Dutch tragedy actor * (1910–2001), Dutch dancer, choreographer and ballet director * (1902–1950), Dutch physicist and crystallographer, known e.g. for the * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Surname
Dutch names consist of one or more given names and a surname. The given name is usually gender-specific. Dutch given names A Dutch child's birth and given name(s) must be officially registered by the parents within 3 days after birth. It is not uncommon to give a child several given names. Usually the first one is for daily use, often in a diminutive form. Traditionally, Catholics often chose Latinisation of names, Latinized names for their children, such as ''Catharina'' and ''Wilhelmus'', while Protestants more commonly chose simple Dutch forms such as ''Trijntje'' and ''Willem''. In both cases, names were often shortened for everyday use (''Wilhelmus'' and ''Willem'' became ''Wim''). In 2014 39% of Dutch children received one name, another 38% were given two names, 20% had three names, 2% got four names and only a few hundred children had five or more given names. Dutch (Netherlands) naming law (given names) The Dutch people, Dutch naming legislation allows nearly all given na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Snoek
Edmond André Coralie Schietekat (17 December 1933 – 19 October 1981) pseudonym Paul Snoek, was a Belgian poet. He was a son of Omer William Schietekat, a textile manufacturer, and Paula Sylvia Snoeck. In 1961, he married Maria Magdalena Vereecke (Mylène), and together they had three children, a twin Jan and Paul in 1963 and in 1966 Sophie. He died in a car accident in Egem. Early life and education At the Nuns Catholic School in Berkenboom he was considered a mediocre student. He went to high school at the ''Sint-Lievenscollege'' in Antwerp and the ''Sint-Jozef Klein Seminarie'' in Sint-Niklaas, where he had Anton van Wilderode as a teacher. As a young boy he already showed interest in nature and painting. During the war his father earned a living making paintings that he sold to the local farmers or exchanged for food. For a while he studied law and philology at the University of Ghent. In 1955, together with Hugues C. Pernath, he founded the avant-garde journal the ''Gard S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snook (other)
Snook, Snooks, or Snoek may refer to: Fishes * Family Centropomidae (snooks) ** Common snook * Family Esocidae (pikes) ** '' Haplochromis insidiae'' ** Northern pike * Family Gempylidae (snake mackerels) ** Blacksail snake mackerel or black snoek ** ''Thyrsites'' ("snoek", popular in the Cape region of South Africa, this was also consumed in the United Kingdom during World War II) * Family Muraenesocidae (pike congers) ** Pike eel * Family Percidae (perches) * Family Scombridae (mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae ** Kanadi kingfish ** Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, ''Scomberomorus commerson'' * Barracuda ** Australian barracuda, ''Sphyraena novaehollandiae'' * Cutlassfish ** Silver scabbardfish * ''Petenia splendida'', bay snook * Southern sennet, ''Sphyraena picudilla'' * Snook shark or Caribbean sharpnose shark, ''Rhizoprionodon porosus'' Places United States * Rancho San Bernardo (Snook), a Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California * Sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
