- Pier
Gerlofs Donia (c. 1480 – 28
October 1520) was a
Frisian farmer,
rebel leader, and pirate. He is best
known by his West
Frisian nickname Grutte Pier...
-
Gerlof Fokko Mees (16 June 1926 – 31
March 2013) was a
Dutch ichthyologist,
ornithologist and
museum curator.
During 1946 to 1949 he took part as a conscript...
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Gerlof Johannes Jukema (born 1958) is a
Dutch doctor and
former politician for the Pim
Fortuyn List (LPF).
Jukema was born in
Nijverdal in 1958. He studied...
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Gerlof van
Vloten (1866–1903), was a
Dutch orientalist,
writer and translator. He was the
editor of the 1895
edition of the
Arabic encyclopedia Mafātīḥ...
- also had to
contend with the
rebellion of
Frisian peasants (led by Pier
Gerlofs Donia and
Wijard Jelckama). The
rebels were
initially successful but after...
-
Halsall 2006a, p. 35.
Heather 2006, p. 247.
Henri J. M. Claessen,
Jarich Gerlof Oosten (1996).
Ideology and the
Formation of
Early States. BRILL. p. 222...
- over 6 feet (1.8 m) long, with the one
ascribed to
Frisian warrior Pier
Gerlofs Donia being 7 feet (2.13 m) long. The
gigantic blade length was perfectly...
-
Italian unification Davy Crockett, an
American folk hero
Statue of Pier
Gerlofs Donia, a
Frisian folk hero
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a
Turkish national hero...
- the Lord Howe boobook, Lord Howe
Island (east of Australia)
extinct Both
Gerlof Fokko Mees and
Ernst Mayr
regarded the
taxonomy of the
boobook owl as extremely...
-
Master of the Long Sword) by the Mark Brotherhood.
Frisian hero Pier
Gerlofs Donia is
reputed to have
wielded a Zweihänder with such skill, strength...
