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Dorus received his nickname Grandpa (Dutch: Opa) while still a young man: he had married Neeltje Huisman, a fisherman's widow who already had six children.Shortly after the marriage, the oldest of Neeltje's daughters had a child of her own, and so at only 23 years old Dorus became known as "Opa" in Den Helder where he lived.
"Opa" exclaimed by a waiter in a Greek restaurant in Chicago while lighting saganaki on fire. Opa (Greek: ώπα) is a common Mediterranean, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian, Latin American, and Hebrew emotional expression. It is frequently used during celebrations such as weddings or traditional dancing. [1]
This legend is the Dutch adaptation of the Latin, Dialogus Miraculorum of 1223 and Libri Octo Miraculorum of 1237. [12] Mariken van Nieumeghen is an early 16th century Dutch text that tells the story of Mariken who is seduced by the devil (named Moenen). He promises to teach her all the languages of the world and the 7 arts (music, arithmetic ...
Eyck is ancient Dutch word for oak (the modern spelling is 'Eik')that has become a popular Dutch surname. There is notable ambiguity in the tale if the Moss Maiden and Trintje were tree fairies, or a wood elf and tree elf, respectively. As elves, they communicate the trees' promise to humans to "stand upside down" for the Dutch people.
Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
Opa (Swedish band), a pop/folk band formed in 2012; Opa (Uruguayan band), a 1969-1977 US-based jazz fusion group "Opa" (song), by Giorgos Alkaios, representing Greece at Eurovision 2010 "Opa Opa", a 1992 song by Notis Sfakianakis; covered by Antique (1999) and Despina Vandi (2004) Opa Opa, or Mera Me Ti Mera, by Antique, 1999
Ietsism (Dutch: ietsisme, pronounced [itsˈɪsmə] ⓘ) is an unspecified belief in an undetermined transcendent reality. It is a Dutch term for a range of beliefs held by people who, on the one hand, inwardly suspect – or indeed believe – that "there must be something undefined beyond the mundane which may or may not be possible to be known or proven", but on the other hand do not accept ...
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (/ ˈ j ɑː n ˈ p iː t ər s oʊ n ˈ s w eɪ l ɪ ŋ k / YAHN PEE-tər-sohn SWAY-link; [1] April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.