Oosterhout is a municipality and a city in the southern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of 56,206 in 2021.
Ghent University is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium.
Antonius is a masculine given name, as well as a surname. Antonius is a Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Latin, Norwegian, and Swedish name used in Greenland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, part of the Republic of Karelia, Estonia, Belgium, Netherlands, Suriname, South Africa, Namibia, and Indonesia, while Antoníus is an Icelandic name used in Iceland. It is also the source of the English personal name Anthony, as well as a number of similar names in various European languages.
Van de Velde, Vande Velde, or Vandevelde is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the field". Van de Velde is the 32nd most common name in Belgium, with 8,903 people in 2008, while in 2007 there were 3,319 people named "Van de Velde" in The Netherlands. Among other variations on this name are Van der Velde, Vandevelde, Van Velde, Van de Velden, and Van der Velden.
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist. He is considered to be the founding father of Bogor Botanical Garden in Indonesia.
The L'Innovation fire was a fire that took place at the À L'Innovation department store on the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat in central Brussels, Belgium, on 22 May 1967. More than 150 firefighters were mobilised to fight it, 325 people were killed, 80 injured, and the department store itself, the work of the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta, was destroyed.
Dampiera is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae, all of which are endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Dampiera are subshrubs or herbs with sessile leaves, flowers with five small sepals and blue, violet or pink, rarely white, two-lipped flowers.
Smet is a Dutch occupational surname. Smet is a regional form of Smid ("Smith") and is equivalent to the more abundant surname Smit. It is common in East Flanders. People named Smet include:
Simon Binnendijk was a Dutch gardener and botanist.
Willem Hendrik de Vriese was a Dutch botanist and physician born in Oosterhout, North Brabant.
De Clercq or de Clercq is a surname of Dutch origin. People with the name include:
Dampiera diversifolia is a subshrub in the family Goodeniaceae from the southwest of Western Australia.
Angiopteris evecta, commonly known as the king fern, giant fern, elephant fern, oriental vessel fern, Madagascar tree fern, or mule's Foot fern, is a very large rainforest fern in the family Marattiaceae native to most parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania. It has a history dating back about 300 million years, and is believed to have the longest fronds of any fern in the world.
Emmerik De Vriese is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Antonia in the Belgian Provincial Leagues.
Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar was a Dutch botanist. His son, Jan Valckenier Suringar (1864–1932), was also a botanist.
Wahlenbergia preissii is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to Western Australia.
Bertha De Vriese was a Belgian physician. When she earned her degree as a doctor of medicine at Ghent University, where she was the first woman to conduct research and the first woman physician to graduate from the school. Although she was not allowed to pursue an academic career, De Vriese opened a private pediatric clinic and served as the director of the Children's Ward at the Bijloke Hospital in Ghent. In 1914, she married Josef Vercouillie, also a physician.
Events in the year 1877 in Belgium.
Scaevola repens is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae, endemic to the south west of Western Australia.
Dirk De Vriese is a Belgian footballer. He played in one match for the Belgium national football team in 1984.