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Van Der Laan
Van der Laan is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from/of the lane". There are also a number of small settlements in the Netherlands specifically named "De Laan" that could be at a family's origin.Laan, van der at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Abroad the name is often written as VanderLaan or Vander Laan. People with this name include: * (born 1969), Dutch former footballer and current manager * Cristoffel van der Laan (van der Laemen) (1607–1651), Flemis ... [...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] |
Lousewies Van Der Laan
Louse Wies Sija Anne Lilly Berthe "Lousewies" van der Laan (born 18 February 1966) is a retired Netherlands, Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and jurist. Life before politics In her youth, Van der Laan lived in Belgium, Germany, and the United States. She finished high school at the German School in Washington, DC. She obtained the International Baccalaureate at Armand Hammer United World College of the American West (In Montezuma, New Mexico, Montezuma, New Mexico). After graduating in 1984, Van der Laan moved to Netherlands, the Netherlands to study law at the University of Leiden. She specialized in International Law, International and European Law and graduated in 1990. Between 1990 and 1991 she studied international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University at Bologna. After an internship at Greenpeace in Brussels, she became Traineeship scheme of the European Commission, an intern at the Cabinet (Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch-language Surnames
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 countryw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Van Der Laan
Chasselas or Chasselas blanc is a wine grape variety grown mainly in Switzerland, France, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, New Zealand, Croatia and Chile. Chasselas is mostly vinified to be a full, dry and fruity white wine. It is also suitable as a table grape, grown widely for this purpose in Turkey and Hungary. History Genetic analyses made in 2009 in a laboratory of the University of Dieppe showed that Chasselas is a grape variety originating in western Switzerland.J. F. VOUILLAMOZ et C. ARNOLEtude historico-génétique de l’origine du ‘Chasselas’ (PDF), Université de Neuchâtel, NCCR Plant Survival, 2009. Its name was first mentioned in the 16th century. In 1940, Chasselas was crossed with Silvaner to produce the white grape variety Nobling.J. Robinson ''Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes'', p. 129. Oxford University Press 1996 . Wine regions Chasselas is widely grown in Switzerland, where it has several regional synonym names, the main one being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2823 Van Der Laan
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Van Der Laan
Robertus Petrus van der Laan (born 5 September 1968) is a Dutch football manager of Northern Premier League Division One South club Newcastle Town, and a former player. He began his playing career in his native the Netherlands with Eerste Divisie club Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging in 1987, before moving on to Wageningen in 1990. In 1991, he moved to England to play for Port Vale, where after four seasons as one of the club's key players he was sold on to Derby County. He won the League Trophy with Vale in 1993, and won promotion out of the Second Division in 1993–94. He also won promotion out of the First Division with Derby in 1995–96. In 1998, he transferred to Barnsley, where he saw out his professional playing career until his retirement due to injury in 2001. He made a total of 315 appearances in a ten-year career in the English Football League. As a coach he worked as the director of his own football school in Canada and as a senior coach for Manchester United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert VanderLaan
Robert "Robbie" VanderLaan (c. 1930-November 1, 2015) was a former majority leader of the Michigan State Senate. A Republican, he ran to replace Gerald Ford as representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district in a 1974 special election, but was defeated by Democrat Richard Vander Veen. It was seen as a stunning upset; VanderLaan had previously never lost an election and the district had long been considered a Republican stronghold. He served in the Senate for 20 years in total; after retirement he joined Democrat Bobby Crim in forming a lobbying In politics, lobbying, persuasion or interest representation is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying, which ... firm; he also had a career as a lawyer. References 1930s births 2015 deaths American people of Dutch descent Republican Party Michigan state senators Michigan lawyers Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Van Der Laan
Nico van der Laan (25 August 1908 – 20 September 1986) was a Dutch architect, as were his father Leo van der Laan and his brothers Jan and Hans, with whom he was closely associated. Life and work Nico van der Laan was born in Leiden, son of the architect Leo van der Laan. He studied to 1937 at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft. His eldest brother Jan took over their father's architectural practice in Leiden. Together with his brother Hans, who in 1927 became a Benedictine monk at Oosterhout Abbey, Nico immersed himself in the theory of the origins of architecture. After World War II, with his brother Hans, he led a course in Church Architecture in the Kruithuis in 's-Hertogenbosch, using the early Christian basilica as an example, for training architects in the post-war reconstruction of ecclesiastical buildings. From these courses arose the Bossche School, a name given by opponents of the Van der Laan brothers and their followers. One of his most notable building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick VanderLaan
Nicholas James VanderLaan (born October 27, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. He played three seasons of NCAA Division I, Division I college basketball for California Golden Bears men's basketball, California and Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball, Virginia before completing his college career at Concordia University Irvine, Concordia-Irvine in 2004. As a senior in 2003–04, he was named an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NAIA All-American First Team honoree. He played professionally for three seasons, spending time in the American Basketball Association (2000–present), American Basketball Association (ABA), Continental Basketball Association (CBA), NBA Development League and in the Liga Española de Baloncesto, Spanish second-tier league (LEB). His best season came in 2007, when he led the CBA in rebounding and helped Bàsquet Manresa, Ricoh Manresa win the LEB championship. High school career Born in Long Beach, California, VanderL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medy Van Der Laan
Medy Catharina van der Laan (born 14 August 1968) is a Dutch businesswoman, former civil servant and retired politician who served as State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in charge of culture, media and art under Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's second cabinet (2003–2006). A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, which she joined in 1994, she previously was an assistant to State Secretary Jacob Kohnstamm at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Van der Laan first joined the Ministry of the Interior in 1991 as a civil servant. Career A native of Spijkenisse, Medy van der Laan studied Dutch law at Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ... (then Catholic University Nijmegen), where she graduated in 1990. She t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martijn Van Der Laan
Martijn van der Laan (born 29 July 1988 in Hoogezand) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre back for SC Genemuiden. He formerly played for BV Veendam and SC Cambuur. Career In January 2019 it was confirmed, that van der Laan would join SC Genemuiden from the upcoming 2019–20 season. rtvoost.nl, 17 January 2019 References External links at '' |
Mark Van Der Laan
Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference. He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood estimation methodology. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference. Education He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1993 with a dissertation titled "Efficient and Inefficient Estimation in Semiparametric Models". Career and research He received the COPSS Presidents' Award The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generally ... in 2005, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2004, and the van Dantzig Award in 2005. Publications * * * References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
