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Noord Hollands Blauw, Kuikens, 6 Weken
Noord () is a town and region in Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands). This town is known for its low rise and high rise hotels, restaurants, beaches, malls, the California Lighthouse, and other places of attraction. Places of interest in Noord include Alto Vista Chapel, Bubali Bird Sanctuary, California Lighthouse, Palm Beach and Arashi Beach. Tanki Flip The town of Tanki Flip is home to an Amerindian settlement whose remains date from 1000 to 1500. The village contained several '' malocas'' (long houses) with several smaller round houses and a central hut surrounded by an open plaza. The village was fenced off and inhabited by Caquetio people. Cas Tan Tin Cas Tan Tin is a ''cunucu'' (rural) house in Noord. It was built by Mario and Johanna Tromp in the early 20th century. They raised nine children and grew fruits and vegetables at Cas Tan Tin. Nowadays it is located in the suburban sprawl. In 2019, it was bought by the , because it is a traditional house in ...
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Region
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in human geography, where Jurisdiction (area), jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law. More confined or well bounded portions are called ''locations'' or ''places''. Apart from the Earth, global continental regions, there are also hydrosphere, hydrospheric and atmosphere, atmospheric regions that cover the oceans, and discrete climates above the land mass, land and water mass, water masses of the planet. The land and water global regions are divided into subregions geographically bounded by large geological feature ...
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Caquetio
Caquetío are natives of northwestern Venezuela, living along the shores of Lake Maracaibo at the time of the Spanish conquest. They moved inland to avoid enslavement by the Spaniards, while their numbers were drastically affected by colonial warfare, as were their neighbours, the Quiriquire and the Jirajara. The Caquetíos were also present in Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire when these islands were first colonized by Alonso de Ojeda in 1499. The occupants of this region were known as Caquetíos by the Spaniards and their language ('' Caquetío'') belongs to the Arawakan family of languages. The Caquetío and the Jirajara spoke the same language, and their cultures were quite similar. The Arawakan or Caquetío language is termed a "ghost" language because virtually no trace of it survives. Only the name remains, saved in 17th-century texts. Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire When the Spanish arrived in Aruba around 1500 they found the Caquetío in Aruba, living much as they did in t ...
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Noord
Noord () is a town and region in Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands). This town is known for its low rise and high rise hotels, restaurants, beaches, malls, the California Lighthouse, and other places of attraction. Places of interest in Noord include Alto Vista Chapel, Bubali Bird Sanctuary, California Lighthouse, Palm Beach, Aruba, Palm Beach and Arashi Beach. Tanki Flip The town of Tanki Flip is home to an Amerindian settlement whose remains date from 1000 to 1500. The village contained several ''malocas'' (long houses) with several smaller round houses and a central hut surrounded by an open plaza. The village was fenced off and inhabited by Caquetio people. Cas Tan Tin Cas Tan Tin is a ''cunucu'' (rural) house in Noord. It was built by Mario and Johanna Tromp in the early 20th century. They raised nine children and grew fruits and vegetables at Cas Tan Tin. Nowadays it is located in the suburban sprawl. In 2019, it was bought by the , because it is a tradition ...
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Chadwick Tromp
Chadwick Chandler Tromp (born March 21, 1995) is an Aruban professional baseball catcher in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants and Atlanta Braves. In 2013 he signed with the Cincinnati Reds organization as an international free agent. Early life Tromp was raised in Palm Beach, Aruba, and began playing catcher at the age of 11. Career Cincinnati Reds On May 24, 2013, Tromp signed with the Cincinnati Reds organization as an international free agent. He was assigned to the rookie-level Arizona League Reds, where he spent the season. In 2014, Tromp spent time between the AZL Reds and the Single-A Dayton Dragons. He batted .311/.345/.472 with three home runs and 13 RBI in 106 at-bats. In 2015, Tromp played for Dayton and a game for the Triple-A Louisville Bats. In 2016, Tromp played the entire season for the High–A Daytona Tortugas. Tromp spent 2017 with Daytona and the Double-A Pensacola Blue ...
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional baseball league in the world. Each team plays 162 games per season, with Opening Day traditionally held during the first week of April. Six teams in each league then advance to a four-round Major League Baseball postseason, postseason tournament in October, culminating in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions first played in 1903. MLB is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Formed in 1876 and 1901, respectively, the NL and AL cemented their cooperation with the National Agreement in 1903, making MLB the oldest major professional sports league in the world. They remained le ...
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Sidney Ponson
Sidney Alton Ponson (; born November 2, 1976) is an Aruban former Major League Baseball pitcher. As a player, Ponson stood at tall and weighed . He threw right-handed with a fastball that clocked out at 95 mph. When he made his major league debut for the Baltimore Orioles in , he became the third player from Aruba to play in the major leagues. In , he was decorated as a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau, along with fellow Aruban former Baltimore Orioles players Eugene Kingsale and Calvin Maduro. Baltimore Orioles Ponson played most of his career with the Baltimore Orioles. His best season came in when he went 14–6 with a 3.77 ERA. Because Baltimore was not in contention for a playoff spot and Ponson was in the last year of his contract, the Orioles traded Ponson that season to the San Francisco Giants at the trading deadline for three players: Kurt Ainsworth, Damian Moss, and prospect Ryan Hannaman. That offseason, Ponson returned to the Orioles on a three-year, $ ...
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Olga Orman
Olga Orman (9 November 1943 – 7 March 2021) was a Dutch-Aruban writer, poet and storyteller. She wrote both in Papiamento and Dutch language, Dutch. Orman introduced ''kamishibai'', a Japanese form of storytelling, to the Netherlands and the ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), ABC islands. Biography Orman was born on 9 November 1943 in Noord, Aruba. At the age of 14, she left for the Netherlands. She received her teaching degree in Etten-Leur, and worked as an elementary school teacher in Curaçao for five years. Orman returned to the Netherlands, and started to teach in Amsterdam Bijlmermeer, a multi-cultural high-rise neighbourhood from the 1970s. In 1994, Orman made her debut as a children's book writer with ''E biaha largo pa djeipei/De lange reis van hier tot om de hoek''. She became known for two picture books about the spider Anansi. Omar started to write poetry for herself in the 1980s, and is best known for the 2014 poetry collection ''Cas di biento / Doorwaaiwoning''. As ...
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Jean-Marc Antersijn
Jean-Marc Antersijn (born 5 January 1996) is an Aruban professional football goalkeeper. Club career Following an internship with PEC Zwolle, Antersijn moved to Haaglandia to replace Jan Vermolen. International career Antersijn won the Golden Glove Award for his superlative performances at the 2014 CFU U-20 Tournament. Aruba were awarded the Fair Play award as well. Despite hoping to represent Aruba in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, Antersijn only won one senior cap for his country, a friendly against Guam. In 2017, he signed for TEC. Before the 2021 season, he signed for FC Arlanda. In 2021, Antersijn signed for Atlantic City FC. Coaching career At the same time Antersijn played in Sweden, he coached goakeepers. In 2021, he started JM Academy International, a goalkeeping academy based in Aruba. Personal life Antersijn was born in Aruba to a Chilean mother and a Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Ki ...
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Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company () was a Dutch chartered company that was founded in 1621 and went defunct in 1792. Among its founders were Reynier Pauw, Willem Usselincx (1567–1647), and Jessé de Forest (1576–1624). On 3 June 1621, it was granted a :wikisource:Charter of the Dutch West India Company, charter for a trade monopoly in the Dutch West Indies by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over Dutch participation in the Atlantic slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America. The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Cape of Good Hope) and the Americas, which included the Pacific Ocean and ended east of the Maluku Islands, according to the Treaty of Tordesillas. The intended purpose of the charter was to eliminate competition, particularly Spanish or Portuguese, between the various trading posts established by the merchants. The company became instrumental in the largely eph ...
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Maloca
A maloca is an ancestral long house built by Indigenous people of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil. Each community has a single maloca with its distinct characteristics. Several families with patrilineal or matrilineal relations live together in a maloca, distributed around the long house in different compartments. In general, the chief of the local descent group lives in the compartment nearest to the back wall of the long house. As well, each family has its own hearth. During festivals and in formal ceremonies, which involve dances for males, the long house space is rearranged; the centre of the long house is the most important area where the dance takes place. Each maloca has two entrances, one for men and one for women. Married men and women sleep together, and unmarried men and women sleep separately. A maloca is traditionally surrounded by two gardens: the inner called the kitchen gardens (growing plants such as bananas, papaya, mango, and pineapple) and the ...
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Alto Vista Chapel
Alto Vista Chapel is a small Catholic chapel that stands on the hills above the north shore of the sea and to the northeast of the town of Noord, on the island of Aruba, 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela. The church, painted on the outside in stark bright yellow, makes it a conspicuous religious monument for people to visit. The present Chapel of Alto Vista was completed in 1952 and stands in the same location as the original chapel, which was built by Domingo Silvestre, the Venezuelan missionary from Santa Ana de Coro, Venezuela, in 1750. The Alto Vista Chapel was stated to be the location where conversion of Aruban Indians to Christianity started. Geography The chapel located on the Aruba Island is situated close to Noord at its northeastern corner, and from the California Lighthouse. Queen Beatrix International Airport is at Oranjestad, from where the entire island is connected by a network of roads. Bike tours are also a popular way of visiting the natural wonders i ...
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