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Bookmate was created in 2007 by three former employees of the Russian edition of Look At Me - programmers Andrei Zotov and Egor Khmelev and designer Kirill Ten. In its first version, Bookmate was an aggregator and search engine for bookstores, offering the user the best price. In 2009, the creators relaunched it as a book reading app with ...
Tandernaken. Tandernaken, al op den Rijn (also spelled: T'Andernaken, al op den Rijn) was once a very popular Middle Dutch song about two girls who in Andernach, a city in Germany on the left Rhine bank, were spied on by the lover of one of the girls, who was listening to their conversation on love affairs from a distance.
Op den Graeff is a German and American family of Dutch origin. [1] They were one of the first families of the Mennonite faith in Krefeld at the beginning of the 17th century. Various family members belonged to Original 13, the first organized immigration of a closed group of Germans to America in 1683. There the family had a long history in ...
Tussenvoegsel. A tussenvoegsel ( [ˈtʏsə (ɱ)ˌvuxsəl]; lit. 'intersertion, that which is interserted') in a Dutch name is a family name affix positioned between a person's given name and the main part of their family name. [1] There are similar concepts in many languages, such as Celtic family name prefixes, French particles, and the German ...
The Dutch Language Union ( Dutch: Nederlandse Taalunie ⓘ, NTU) is an international regulatory institution that governs issues regarding the Dutch language. It is best known for its spelling reforms which are promulgated by member states, grammar books, the Green Booklet and its support of Dutch language courses and studies worldwide. It was ...
The Letter for the King (Dutch: De brief voor de koning, pronounced [də ˈbrifoːr də ˈkoːnɪŋ]) is a book by the Dutch writer Tonke Dragt, first published in 1962.. Proceeding, The Secrets of the Wild Wood (Dutch: Geheim van het Wilde Woud), was published in 1965, and a collection of follow-up short stories, The Dangerous Window and other stories (Dutch: Het Gevaarlijke Venster en andere ...
Statistics Netherlands, founded in 1899, is a Dutch governmental institution that gathers statistical information about the Netherlands. In Dutch it is known as the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek ( Central Agency for Statistics ), often abbreviated to CBS. It is located in The Hague and Heerlen. Since 3 January 2004, Statistics Netherlands ...
Mentioned in dispatches. Lieutenant Herbert Denham Brotheridge (8 December 1915 – 6 June 1944) was a British Army officer who served with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) during the Second World War. He is often considered to be the first Allied soldier to be killed in action on D-Day, 6 June 1944. [2]