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6 unusual facts about Diemen


D-Men

They picked the name that sound like their home town Diemen.

Diemen

The three public schools are De Octopus, De Venser, and 't Palet.

Jewish Cemetery of Diemen

The Jewish Cemetery of Diemen, or Joodse Begraafplaats Diemen in Diemen, is owned by the Jewish community of Amsterdam, which is a subsection of the "Nederlands Israƫlitisch Kerkgenootschap".

San Luca feud

On March 12, 2009, Dutch police arrested Giovanni Strangio and his brother-in-law, Francesco Romeo, in an apartment in Diemen near Amsterdam, after German police learned that they were hiding there by following clues found in Nirta's flat after his arrest.

Trams in Amsterdam

The main Amsterdam tram workshop has been based since May 2005 in Diemen-Zuid.

Also in 1990, line 9 to the Watergraafsmeer was extended to Diemen (Sniep).


David Shterenberg

In the same year he wrote an essay for the catalogue of the First Russian Art Exhibition at the Gallery van Diemen, in Berlin.

James Backhouse Walker

"The French in Van Diemen's Land" (Hobart, 1889); "The Settlement of Tasmania, comprising Papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania" (Hobart, 1890); "The Discovery and Occupation of Port Dalrymple" (Hobart, 1890).

NZR WF class

Today, the last remnant of the DS class (other than the New Zealand Railways builders' plates) is the superheated boiler from DS 8 (WF 392), owned by the Van Diemen's Light Railway Society and stored at their Don River Railway.

Van Diemen

The cars for the L2 class were not Van Diemen built but a West WX10 and later WR1000.

Van Diemen's Land Company

The Van Diemen's Land Company introduced bounties on the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) from as early as 1830 thereby being implicit in their extinction by relentless bounty hunting.


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