Pieter Van Den Hoogenband

Pieter Van Den Hoogenband

Pieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband (born 14 March 1978) is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.

Read more about Pieter Van Den Hoogenband:  Personal Life, Swimming Career

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    “The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
    The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
    They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
    Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
    Dieman’s Land.”
    —Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)

    “Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.””
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 19:45,46.