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De Zwart
de Zwart is a Dutch surname, meaning "the black (one)", usually having referred to dark hair. at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands. Variant forms include ''De Swart'', ''De Swarte'' and ''De Zwarte''. People with these names include: ;De Zwart * Erik de Zwart (born 1957), Dutch media entrepreneur * Martijn de Zwart (born 1990), Dutch footballer * (born 1944), Dutch Olympic sailor * [...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] |
Erik De Zwart
Erik de Zwart (born 16 June 1957 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch broadcaster, former D.J., former Music Box, The Music Factory and MTV V.J. and media entrepreneur. He was co-founder and shareholder of Radio 538 (1992) and The Music Factory (1995). Presently, Erik is chairman of ''Stichting Nederlandse Top 40'', the body that owns and exerts all broadcasting and publishing rights of the Dutch Top 40, the nation's flagship music chart and its spin-offs. Among his current major investments and interests is the media technology company Mobilaria / Tunin.FM that offers mobile streaming audio in high quality over small bandwidth GPRS mobile networks using highly advanced compression technologies. As of April 2008, Erik de Zwart also is the station voice of Radio Veronica, the present day successor of the legendary offshore pirate station under the same name. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martijn De Zwart
Martijn de Zwart (; born 8 November 1990) is a Dutch Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Dutch Tweede Divisie club Quick Boys, where he is also the current Coach (sport), goalkeeping coach. Career A prospect of Quick Boys, De Zwart moved to ADO Den Haag in July 2011. At ADO, he was mostly a backup for Gino Coutinho and Robert Zwinkels, but he managed to make his professional debut on 9 March 2013 in a 1–1 draw in the Eredivisie match against AZ Alkmaar, AZ. In June 2013, he signed a one-year contract extension with the club. After the expiration of his contract on 30 June 2014, De Zwart returned to childhood club Quick Boys. After six years at Quick Boys, where he mainly played as a backup in the later years, De Zwart became Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeepers coach in July 2020, while continuing as a backup to starter Paul van der Helm. Honours Quick Boys * Hoofdklasse: 2015–16 Hoofdklasse, 2015–16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter De Zwart
Pieter de Zwart (16 March 1944, Utrecht) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Acapulco. De Zwart, as crew on the Dutch Dragon, took 10th place with helmsman Cor Groot and fellow crew member Jan Bol Jan Bol (March 4, 1924-February 11, 2010) was a Dutch sailor who represented his country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Acapulco. Bol, as crew on the Dutch Dragon, took the 10th place with helmsman Cor Groot Cornelis "Cor" Groot (21 January 19 .... Sources * * * * * * * * * * * Living people 1944 births Dutch male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of the Netherlands Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Dragon Sportspeople from Utrecht (city) {{Netherlands-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem De Zwart
Wilhelmus "Willem" Hendrikus Petrus Johannes de Zwart (16 May 1862 The Hague – 11 December 1931 The Hague) was a Dutch painter, engraver, and watercolorist with many connections to the Hague School and later associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. Biography Willem de Zwart was born in The Hague on 16 May 1862, the eldest of eight children. His youngest brother, Pieter, would also become a painter. His father painted carriages for a living, and in 1875 the fourteen-year-old Willem was apprenticed to a carriage maker to learn the same trade. In his spare time, he copied prints he found in magazines, and a year later he enrolled in the evening class at the Royal Academy of Visual Art in The Hague. The following year, he was admitted at the studio of Jacob Maris. In the three years that he remained here, it is probable that he got to know many of the leading lights of the Hague School. Maris also sent De Zwart on a journey to the coast, without drawing materials ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette De Swart
Henriëtte Elisabeth de Swart (born 15 May 1961, in Doetinchem) is a Dutch linguist. Education and research She earned her PhD at Groningen University in 1991. She was a research fellow at Groningen University and assistant professor at Stanford University. She is currently a Professor in French linguistics and semantics at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic variation in meaning particularly in regards to tense and aspect, negation, bare nominals and indefinite noun phrases. She has also investigated the role of semantics in language evolution, and was involved in the development of bidirectional optimality theory In linguistics, Optimality Theory (frequently abbreviated OT) is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the optimal satisfaction of conflicting constraints. OT differs from other approaches to phonological .... Honors and distinctions She has been the director of the Netherlands Graduate Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle De Swarte
Michelle de Swarte (born 1980) is an English actress, comedian, presenter, and former model. She starred in the Netflix series ''The Duchess (TV series), The Duchess''. Early life De Swarte was born in Lewisham, South London to a Jewish mother and a Jamaican father and grew up in Brixton. She left school at 14. De Swarte was diagnosed with Dyslexia, dyslexia as a child. Career De Swarte was scouted by a modeling agency at 19 while working at a bar in Clapham. She landed gigs in New York where she would discover comedy. She has appeared on a number of panel shows for Channel 4, BBC, ITV and Comedy Central. She recorded an Edinburgh Fringe Festival audiobook for Penguin Books. Her other TV credits include presenting Emmy nominated series Woman with Gloria Steinem, The Fashion Show on ITV2, BBC Three current affairs debate show Free Speech and appearances on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now! on ITV. She also hosted the celebrity gossip show Dirty Digest on E4, which she co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent De Swarte
Vincent de Swarte (15 June 1963 – 24 April 2006) was a French writer author of varied novels ranging from books for youth (''Le Carrousel des mers'') to crime fictions (''Pharricide''). Biography After studying political science in Bordeaux, he worked more than a decade in advertising. In 1996, he published a first book for young people entitled ''Le Carrousel des mers''. Two years later appeared ''Pharricide'', a novel centered on a lighthouse keeper adept at taxidermy. In 1999, the writer received a special mention of the Prix Wepler for his novel ''Requiem pour un sauvage''. He evokes the Chernobyl disaster in ''Le Paradis existe'' (2001), chronicle of a village in Ukraine. He then tries to autofiction tinged with fantasy in ''Elle et moi'' (2005). He was carried away by cancer at the age of 43. Works *1996: ''Le Carrousel des mers'', littérature jeunesse, Éditions Gallimard *1998: ''Pharricide'', roman, Calmann-Lévy *1999: ''Requiem pour un sauvage'', novel, , Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet De Zwarte
Pieter ("Piet") Karel de Zwarte (born 16 February 1948 in Renkum) is a former Dutch water polo player, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch Men's Team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. See also * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won sixteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament. There are fifty-nine male athletes who have ... External links * 1948 births Living people Dutch male water polo players Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands in water polo Water polo players at the 1976 Summer Olympics People from Renkum Sportspeople from Gelderland Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-waterpolo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
