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Van Den Berg
Van den Berg is a Dutch-language toponymic surname meaning " of/from the mountain/slope". With 58,562 people carrying the name, it was the fourth most common surname in The Netherlands in 2007. at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Variants are ''Van de Berg'', ''Van der Berg'', ''Van den Berge''. , Van den Berghe and Van den Berghen. Anglicised forms are general ... [...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] |
Hugo Van Den Berg
Hugo van den Berg is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer from the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl .... Career statistics By season Races by year References External links Profile on motogp.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Berg, Hugo van den 1990 births Living people Dutch motorcycle racers 125cc World Championship riders 21st-century Dutch people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helma Van Den Berg
Helma Everdina van den Berg (May 26, 1965 – November 11, 2003) was a Dutch-born linguist specializing in Caucasian languages. Life and work Van den Berg was born and raised in Veenendaal, the Netherlands. She earned her PhD from Leiden University from 1983 to 1988. In addition to being a linguist, van den Berg was an accredited translator of Russian and Polish. After earning her doctorate, she remained in Leiden as research fellow from 1995 to 2000, studying the verbal morphology and syntax of Dargi, another East Caucasian language. In 2000, Helma joined the Linguistics Department of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, where she became recognized as the resident specialist in Caucasian, especially Daghestanian, languages, some of which remain unwritten. Van den Berg did field work on several under-documented East Caucasian languages, especially Hunzib and Dargi. She produced a Hunzib reference grammar and a collec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harman Van Den Berg
Harman van den Berg (21 March 1918 – 6 August 2006) was a South African footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ... who played as a midfielder. ReferencesLFC History profile 1918 births 2006 deaths South African men's soccer players Liverpool F.C. players Soccer players from Cape Town Men's association football midfielders {{SouthAfrica-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Van Den Berg
Han van den Berg (17 February 1925 – 7 December 2015)Han van den Berg's obituary was a Dutch rower who competed in the . He was born in Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
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Gillian Van Den Berg
Gillian van den Berg (born 8 September 1971, in Gouda) is a water polo player of the Netherlands who represents the Dutch national team in international competitions.Athlete biography: Gillian van den Berg beijing2008.cn, ret: 16 August 2008. van den Berg was part of the team that won the gold medal at the as well as the 1993 FINA Women's Water Polo Worl ...
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Gert Van Den Berg (politician)
Gerrit "Gert" van den Berg (born 10 October 1935 in Rotterdam) is a former Netherlands, Dutch politician. As a member of the Reformed Political Party (SGP) he was a member of the Senate of the Netherlands, Dutch Senate from 1995 to 2011. Van den Berg is a member of the Reformed Congregations. References *Parlement.com biography 1935 births Living people Mayors in Zeeland Mayors in Overijssel Members of the Senate (Netherlands) Politicians from Rotterdam Dutch Calvinist and Reformed Christians Reformed Political Party politicians {{Netherlands-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Van Den Berg (cyclist)
Gerrit "Gert" van den Berg (24 May 1903 – ?) was a Dutch cyclist who won a bronze medal in the road race at the 1925 World Championships. References 1903 births Year of death missing Dutch male cyclists Cyclists from Amsterdam UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard J
Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this case, those constituents are ''gari'' > ''ger-'' (meaning 'spear') and -''hard'' (meaning 'hard/strong/brave'). Common forms of the name are Gerard (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Polish and Catalan); Gerrard (English, Scottish, Irish); Gerardo (Italian, and Spanish); Geraldo (Portuguese); Gherardo (Italian); Gherardi (Northern Italian, now only a surname); Gérard (variant forms ''Girard'' and ''Guérard'', now only surnames, French); Gearóid (Irish); Gerhardt and Gerhart/Gerhard/Gerhardus (German, Dutch, and Afrikaans); Gellért ( Hungarian); Gerardas ( Lithuanian) and Gerards/Ģirts ( Latvian); Γεράρδης (Greece). A few abbreviated forms are Gerry and Jerry (English); Gerd (German) and Gert (Afrikaans and Dutch); Gerrit (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Van Den Berg
Gerhardus Johannes "Gerard" van den Berg (born 1962) is a Dutch econometrician. He is professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Bristol. He was awarded the 2009 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at the University of Mannheim. His research lies in the fields of health economics and labour markets. Career Van den Berg was born in 1962. He obtained a BA in econometrics at the University of Groningen in 1983, the next year he also obtained a BA in philosophy. He obtained a further MA in econometrics at the same university in 1985. Van den Berg earned his doctorate at Tilburg University in either 1988 or 1990. After completing his studies Van den Berg was an assistant professor at the University of Groningen until 1993. Afterwards he moved to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where he was an associate professor until 1996 and subsequently a full professor. In 2009 he won the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center For Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a US nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal, as well as to fight the influence of religion in government. History The Center for Inquiry was established in 1991 by atheist philosopher and author Paul Kurtz. It brought together two organizations: the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (founded by Kurtz in 1976) and the Council for Secular Humanism (founded by Kurtz in 1980). In January 2016, CFI announced that it was merging with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. In June 2009, Kurtz left CFI over a conflict with then-CEO Ronald A. Lindsay. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Through the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and its journal, ''Skeptical Inquirer'' magazine, published by the Center for Inquiry, CSI examines evidential claims of the paranormal or supernormal, including psychics, ghosts, telepathy, clairvoyance, UFOs, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
