Famous Dutchmen

ivanhoe

General

22 Jan 04

rwingett

Ming the Merciless

Royal Oak, MI

Joined: 09 Sep 01
Moves: 27626

24 Jan 04

Anne Frank. She was Dutch.

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

Joined: 15 Dec 02
Moves: 50145

24 Jan 04

Originally posted by royalchicken
Christiaan Huygens

http://www.wmw.utwente.nl/ges/gb/ch.htm

http://www.surveyor.in-berlin.de/himmel/astro/Huygens-e.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/huygens_christiaan.shtml

The next site is : "An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation"

You can find Huygens on the list of authors but also others (!).

http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

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24 Jan 04

Originally posted by fjord
erasmus, multatuli, tinbergen

http://www.ciger.be/erasmus/

http://home.zonnet.nl/multatuli-museum/

http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1973/tinbergen-autobio.html

http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1969/

Acolyte

Now With Added BA

Loughborough

Joined: 04 Jul 02
Moves: 3790

24 Jan 04

Baruch Spinoza

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

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26 Jan 04

Originally posted by rwingett
Anne Frank. She was Dutch.

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/af/htmlsite/

rwingett

Ming the Merciless

Royal Oak, MI

Joined: 09 Sep 01
Moves: 27626

26 Jan 04

Speaking of things Dutch, I saw The Girl With The Pearl Earring today. In addition to being an excellent movie, it provided a fascinating glimpse into 17th century Dutch life.

ivanhoe

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26 Jan 04

Originally posted by Acolyte
Baruch Spinoza

http://www.friesian.com/spinoza.htm

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

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26 Jan 04

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Originally posted by rwingett
Speaking of things Dutch, I saw The Girl With The Pearl Earring today. In addition to being an excellent movie, it provided a fascinating glimpse into 17th century Dutch life.

Thanks for telling me. I hope the movie will soon cross the big pond.
Seems very interesting.

http://www.girlwithapearlearringmovie.com/ (about the movie)

http://www.tchevalier.com/gwape/ (about the novel)

http://girl-with-a-pearl-earring.20m.com/ (about the painting)

SkipSlot

Joined: 27 Aug 02
Moves: 17178

26 Jan 04

Ric Smits - Former Indiana Pacers' basketball center, 7 feet 4 inches tall, known as the Dunking Dutchman.

ivanhoe

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26 Jan 04

Originally posted by SkipSlot
Ric Smits - Former Indiana Pacers' basketball center, 7 feet 4 inches tall, known as the Dunking Dutchman.

http://www.canoe.ca/NBAPlayoffs99/jun5_daniels.html

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

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26 Jan 04

Originally posted by Acolyte
Baruch Spinoza

http://www.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/spinoza.new.html

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/spinoza.htm

Varg

Thinking...

Odersfelt

Joined: 20 Jan 03
Moves: 14580

27 Jan 04

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Yes, a truly great Dutch and European politician:

http://www.cuci.nl/~pattie/HOL.htm

I was thinking more of this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England

ivanhoe

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27 Jan 04

Originally posted by Varg
I was thinking more of this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England

I understand. If you mention the name William of Orange in the Netherlands, people always think of the man that brought us independence from Spain a long long time ago.