Antwerp Province is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region,also called Flanders,and of Belgium. It borders on the North Brabant province of the Netherlands to the north and the Belgian provinces of Limburg,Flemish Brabant and East Flanders. Its capital is Antwerp,which includes the Port of Antwerp,the second-largest seaport in Europe. It has an area of 2,876 km2 (1,110 sq mi),and with over 1.85 million inhabitants as of January 2019,is the country's most populous province. The province consists of three arrondissements:Antwerp,Mechelen and Turnhout. The eastern part of the province comprises the main part of the Campine region.
Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder.
Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland province,Midden-Zeeland,it has a population of about 48,000. The city lies as the crow flies about 75 km south west of Rotterdam,60 km north west of Antwerp and 40 km north east of Bruges.
Valkenswaard is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands,in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven of the province of North Brabant. The municipality had a population of 30,910 in 2019 and spans an area of 56.50 km2 (21.81 sq mi) of which 1.58 km2 (0.61 sq mi) is water.
Geel is a city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp,which acquired city status in the 1980s. It comprises Central-Geel which is constituted of 4 old parishes a/o towns:Sint-Amand,Sint-Dimpna,Holven and Elsum. Further on around the center are the parish-towns of Ten Aard (N),Bel (E),Winkelomheide (SE),Stelen,Oosterlo and Zammel (S),Punt (SW) and Larum (W). In 2021,Geel had a total population of 40,781. The total area is 109.85 km2 (42 sq mi). Geel’s patron saint,the Irish Saint Dymphna,inspired the town’s pioneering de-institutionalized method of care for the mentally ill.
Gabriël Metsu (1629–1667) was a Dutch painter of history paintings,still lifes,portraits,and genre works. He was "a highly eclectic artist,who did not adhere to a consistent style,technique,or one type of subject for long periods". Only 14 of his 133 works are dated.
Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and historian.
Matheus Wilhelmus Theodorus "Theo" Laseroms was a Dutch football defender who made a name for himself when he played for Feijenoord. He gained six caps for the Netherlands national team.
Cornelis Pieter "Cees" Geel is a Dutch television,radio and film actor. His notable credits include in the TV miniseries Anne Frank:The Whole Story (2001) and in the film Simon (2004). He won the Golden Calf for Best Actor award for his role in Simon.
Geertruida "Ruud" Maria Geels is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker and attacking midfielder. He obtained 20 caps for the Netherlands national team,scoring eleven goals,in the 1970s.
The Ministry of Housing,Spatial Planning and the Environment was a Dutch ministry. It was responsible for policies on public housing,spatial planning,the environment and the housing of national government agencies. It was merged with the Ministry of Transport,Public Works and Water Management into the new Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment on 14 October 2010.
Joost van Geel,was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter in the style of Gabriel Metsu.
The Dagblad van het Noorden,abbreviated as DvhN,is a Dutch regional daily newspaper that is published and circulated in the provinces of Groningen and Drenthe in the northeastern Netherlands. The newspaper is owned by NDC Mediagroep. Erik Wijnholds has been editor-in-chief since 2017. It had a circulation of 96,515 copies in 2015.
Van Geel or van Geel is a Dutch toponymic surname. It means "of Geel". It may refer to the following people:
Pieter Scheemaeckers,Pieter Scheemackers,Pieter Scheemaeckers I or Pieter Scheemaeckers the Elder was a Flemish sculptor who played an important role in the development of Baroque church sculpture in the late 17th-century Habsburg Netherlands. He was also known for his marble funerary monuments an small scale ivory works. He was the father of Peter Scheemakers who became a leading sculptor of portraits and church monuments in 18th century London.
Kapitein Rob was a Dutch adventure comic strip,created and drawn by Pieter Kuhn and written by journalist Evert Werkman. The series ran from December 11,1945 until January 21,1966. Together with Marten Toonder's Tom Poes and Hans G. Kresse's Eric de Noorman it is considered to be the among the Big Three in the history of Dutch comics.
The Theological University of Apeldoorn (TUA) is the Dutch theological university of the Christian Reformed Churches. More than 130 students study at the university in Apeldoorn. The theological course lasts six years. The student is in the bachelor's program for the first three years. This has a more orientating character,and includes the languages Classic Greek and Koine Greek,Latin and Biblical Hebrew. In the three-year master's program that follows,further studies and specialization are discussed. The training is specifically aimed at educating pastors. Furthermore,one tries to keep together the reformed character of the faith and the church and the scientific level of the university. The syllabus consists of subjects such as ethics,apologetics,Old and New Testament,canonical studies,dogmatics,church history,church law and civil subjects.
Sándor Popovics was a Hungarian-Dutch association football manager and a professional footballer in the position of forward.
The Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Ambachts- en Nijverheidskunst (V.A.N.K.) was founded in 1904. It was founded by Jacob Pieter van den Bosch,Herman Hana,Klaas van Leeuwen,Theo Molkenboer,and Willem Penaat. At the turn of the century the idea of artist-craftsmen was emerging. The existing Dutch societies and clubs for painters and architects did not adequately represent these artisans and they formed V.A.N.K.,the first society for designers in the Netherlands.
Jan Frans van Geel was a Flemish sculptor,draugthsman and art educator. He is mainly known for his church furniture,statues of saints,mythological ensembles and allegorical figures. He was a teacher and director at the Academy of Arts of Mechelen and teacher of sculpture at the Academy of Arts of Antwerp. He was one of the last Flemish sculptors who worked in the Flemish Baroque style in sculpture,which was popular in the Habsburg Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries.
