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Berkhout is a town in the northwest Netherlands. It is in the municipality of Koggenland, North Holland, about 5 km (3 mi) west of Hoorn.
Erik van der Luijt is a Dutch jazz pianist / keyboard player, arranger, composer, record producer and band leader.
Slavink is a Dutch meat dish consisting usually of ground meat called "half and half" wrapped in bacon, and cooked in butter or vegetable oil for about 15 minutes. A variation of the dish called blinde vink is made by wrapping ground veal in a thin veal cutlet. Slavinken and blinde vinken are usually prepared and bought at the butchery or the supermarket; a standard slavink, before cooking, weighs around 100 grams. The bacon is "glued" to the filling with transglutaminase, an enzyme that bonds proteins.
Dutch names consist of one or more given names and a surname. The given name, as in English, is usually gender-specific.
Koggenland is a municipality in North Holland province and the region of West-Frisia of the Netherlands. It came into existence on 1 January 2007 upon the merger of the two former municipalities of Obdam and Wester-Koggenland.
Jan Wijn is a Dutch pianist and piano pedagogue.
The Netherlands competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. This was announced in an official statement on the NOC*NSF website. In the statement they named the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games as a highlight in sports to which a lot of sportspeople, coaches and the Dutch sports fans would look forward. The Netherlands aimed for a top 10 nations ranking in the Olympics as well as a top 25 ranking in the Paralympics; they ended up ranking 12th at the Games.
Lobke Berkhout is a sailor from the Netherlands who represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao. With helmsman Marcelien de Koning Berkhout took the Silver medal as crew in the Women's 470. Berkhout returned as crew member to the 2012 Olympic regatta's in Weymouth in the 470. With helmsman Lisa Westerhof Berkhout took the Bronze medal in the Women's 470.
Marcelien Bos-de Koning is a Dutch sports sailor. who represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao. With crew member Lobke Berkhout Bos-de Koning took the Silver medal as helmsman in the Women's 470. Bos-de Koning returned as crew member to the 2012 Olympic match regatta's in Weymouth in the Elliott 6m. With helmsman Renee Groeneveld and fellow crew member Annemieke Bes Bos-de Koning took 8th place.
Lodewijck Huygens was a Dutch diplomat.
De Hulk is a village and nature reserve in the municipalities of Koggenland and Hoorn in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Netherlands competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 95 athletes, 53 men and 42 women. Competitors from Netherlands won 29 medals, including 5 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze to finish 27th in the medal table.
Lisa Laetitia Westerhof is a sailor from the Netherlands. Westerhof represented her country for the first time at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. With crew Margriet Matthijsse took Westerhof 9th place as helmsman in the Dutch Women's 470. Westerhof's second Olympic appearance was during the 2012 Olympics in Weymouth again as helmsman in the Women's 470. Now with Lobke Berkhout as crew Westerhof took the Bronze.
Hendrik Peter "Henk" Jonker was a Dutch photographer. During World War II, he documented the impact of the German occupation of the Netherlands and after the war he started a press agency. Praised for portraying "ordinary people and small moments", his work appeared internationally in publications such as Time and Der Spiegel and was included in the 1955 exhibition The Family of Man; particularly notable are his photographs taken during the North Sea Flood of 1953.
Nina Berkhout is a Canadian poet and novelist who won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2013 for Elseworlds, a volume of poetry. She is the author of The Gallery of Lost Species, a novel.
Bosma is a West Frisian toponymic surname meaning "from/of the forest". Variants are Boschma, Boskma and Bossema. Notable people with the surname include:
