Peter Minuit Peter Minuit Peter Minuit, Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit, or Peter Minnewit (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves. His surname means "midnight" in French. He was the 4th Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland. He founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware Peninsula in 1638. Minuit is generally credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island for the Dutch from the Lenape Native Americans. Manhattan
My Native Land (film) My Native Land (film) My Native Land (), also called China, My Native Land, is a Mandarin-language film, released in 1980 by Ta Chung Motion Picture Corporation () in Taiwan. It is a biographical film about the Hakka writer Chung Li-ho. The songs of the 1980 soundtrack album are sung by Teresa Teng. It was released as yuan xiangren () by Polydor Records and yuan xiangqing nong () by Kolin Records (). The songs written by Zhuang Nu () and Tony Wong () and "Evening Wind and Flower Scent" () are heard in the film. The soundtrack was re-released in