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The Pedir Expedition (Dutch: Pedir-expeditie) was a punitive expedition of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army against Pedir (Acheh) in 1897 and 1898.
Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV Belgica, it was the first Belgian Antarctic expedition and is considered the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Among its members were Frederick Cook and Roald Amundsen, explorers who would later attempt the respective conquests of the North and South Poles.
Het Schip is a building complex in the Spaarndammerbuurt neighbourhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The complex in the architectural style of the Amsterdam School was designed by Michel de Klerk in 1919. It originally contained 102 homes for the working class, a small meeting hall, a post office, and an elementary school. Since 2001, the former school and post office are used as a museum about the Amsterdam School.
Michel de Klerk was a Dutch architect. Born to a Jewish family, he was one of the founding architects of the movement Amsterdam School
Max Carl Wilhelm Weber van Bosse or Max Wilhelm Carl Weber was a German-Dutch zoologist and biogeographer.
Ir. Henri Eduard Beunke was a Dutch writer, known for his literary regionalistic work set in his home province of Zeeland.
Gerardus Petrus Booms was a Dutch military leader, author, and politician.
Willem Rooseboom was a Dutch Major General and politician. He was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1899 until 1904.
The Edi expedition was an 1890 Dutch colonial expedition to Edi, a small state on the east coast of Aceh.
Henri Karel Frederik van Teijn was a Dutch general, knight and officer in the Military William Order, civil and military governor of Aceh and Dependencies.
The Kerinci Expedition was a punitive expedition of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to Kerinci, on the west coast of Sumatra, from 12 May to 4 September 1903.
The Central New Guinea Expedition (1920–1922) was a Dutch scientific expedition which was seeking from the north coast of the island to reach snow-covered Wilhelminatop of the Central Plateau of Dutch New Guinea. The expedition was organized and financed by the Indies Committee for Scientific Investigations.
Salomon Leonardus Verveer was a Dutch marinist and landscape painter. He was one of the most versatile and successful artists at the time of the Dutch romance, both at home and abroad. His sepia gouache and drawings are much appreciated. He is buried at the old Scheveningseweg Jewish cemetery in The Hague. His tomb, a large sarcophagus resting on a catafalque, is one of the most striking monuments in this historic cemetery.
Charles William Meredith van de Velde was a Dutch lieutenant-at-sea second class, painter, cartographer, honorary member of the Red Cross and missionary.
Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht was a Dutch painter and illustrator, famed for his military art.
Djaoeh Dimata is a 1948 film from what is now Indonesia written and directed by Andjar Asmara for the South Pacific Film Corporation (SPFC). Starring Ratna Asmara and Ali Joego, it follows a woman who moves to Jakarta to find work after her husband is blinded in an accident. SPFC's first production, Djaoeh Dimata took two to three months to film and cost almost 130,000 gulden.
In the Colonies and Boer Republics which became the Union of South Africa in 1910, several unofficial military decorations and medals were instituted and awarded during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Johannesburg Vrijwilliger Corps Medal is an unofficial private campaign medal which was instituted in 1899 by Lieutenant Colonel S.H. van Diggelen, the founder and Commanding Officer of the Johannesburg Vrijwilliger Corps, for award to the officers and men of his unit.
Ronell Langston Plasschaert, known professionally as Ronnie Flex, is a Dutch hip hop performer and rapper.
Euretinae is a subfamily of glass sponges in the family Euretidae.
Betty Holtrop-van Gelder was a Dutch actress and teacher.