Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiology in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics/semiology.
Marco Roberto Borsato is a Dutch singer. Born in Alkmaar, North Holland, he started performing in Italian before switching to Dutch in 1994. He has consistently been one of the most successful and biggest grossing artists in the Netherlands for the past twenty years.
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40. It started as a radio program titled "Veronica Top 40", on the offshore station Radio Veronica in 1965. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting. Joost den Draaijer was the initiator of the top 40 in the Netherlands.
Synchrony and diachrony are two different and complementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis. A synchronic approach considers a language at a moment in time without taking its history into account. Synchronic linguistics aims at describing a language at a specific point of time, usually the present. By contrast, a diachronic approach considers the development and evolution of a language through history. Historical linguistics is typically a diachronic study.
The Silent Army is a recut, international version of the 2008 Dutch drama film Wit Licht directed by Jean van de Velde about the hardships of child soldiers in Africa. It marks the acting debut of singer Marco Borsato. On December 29, 2008 it was reported that, despite bad reviews, the film had received a gold certification. More than 100,000 people went to see the film in two weeks time. In April 2009, it was announced that the film would be shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Katamenes is a genus of potter wasps with species distributed in Europe and Africa. When originally named by Edmund Meade-Waldo, Katemenes was monotypic, containing only K. watsoni, but other species have since been moved from Eumenes to Katamenes.
Hypodynerus is a South American, primarily Andean, genus of potter wasps with most of its described species inhabiting Chile. The species included in Hypodynerus include:
Ischnocoelia is an Australian genus of potter wasps. The species currently recognised under this genus are:
Cyrteumenes is a Malagasy genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:
Deuterodiscoelius is an Australian genus of potter wasps.It contains the following species:
Epsilon is an Indomalayan and Australasian genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:
Stenodyneriellus is an Australasian and Indomalayan genus of potter wasps.
Cyphodynerus is an Afrotropical and Palearctic genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:
Eustenancistrocerus is an Afrotropical, Palearctic and Oriental genus of potter wasps. The species in this genus include:
Elimus is an Australian genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:
Pseudalastor is an Australian genus of potter wasps.
Pseudepipona is a genus of potter wasps found in the Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropical and Australian regions.
Ubirodynerus is a monotypic Australian genus of potter wasps. The sole species, Ubirodynerus excavatus, is regarded as a synonym of Delta excavata.
Katamenes arbustorum is a species of potter wasp in the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae.
The Matapalo broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus matapalensis, is a species of leaf-nosed bat described in 2005. It is found in South America.
