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unusual facts about Flushing, Netherlands



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Currently the Caribbean Netherlands use the former Netherlands Antilles's ccTLD, .an, which is being phased out.

2009 Zuiderduin Masters

The 2009 Zuiderduin Masters was a British Darts Organisation darts tournament that took place on December 11–13, in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.

A-Film

A-Film distributed films produced both in the Netherlands, such as Phileine Says Sorry and Black Book, and outside of the Netherlands, such as Hello Kitty videos, A Fistful of Dollars, The Pianist, Dances with Wolves and Bowling for Columbine for the Benelux.

Alessandro Mendini

As architect, he designed several buildings; for example the Alessi residence in Omegna, Italy; the theater complex "Teatrino della Bicchieraia" in the Tuscan city of Arezzo; the Forum Museum of Omegna, a memorial tower in Hiroshima, Japan; the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands and the Arosa Casino in Switzerland.

ArmaLite AR-18

A production license was granted to Nederlandsche Wapen-en Munitiefabriek (NWM) of Den Bosch, the Netherlands, but it is doubtful that any AR-18 rifles were actually produced there.

Arnold de Jode

He worked in the Netherlands and in Spain, and was in England in 1666, the year of the great fire in London, and in 1667.

Art in Paris

The exhibits in the museum are the former with the prized tapestry cycle The Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la Licorne), Netherlands tapestries of the late-15th-century, and gold, ivory and enamel artifacts including manuscripts which are lighted.

Aruba at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Netherlands-born Jan Roodzant was the only Aruban swimmer to participate in the Beijing Summer Olympics.

Bombing of the Bezuidenhout

At the time, the neighbourhood was more densely populated than usual with evacuees from The Hague and Wassenaar; tens of thousands were left homeless and had to be quartered in the Eastern and Central Netherlands.

Brunstad Christian Church

From the 1950s, the church began to spread throughout Western Europe, most notably in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, after several church leaders were invited to participate in the Pentecostal conferences held at Leonberg during the 1950s.

ChampionChip

ChampionChip was a Nijmegen, Netherlands based company, started in 1993 by a group of students to improve the time tracking in the Zevenheuvelenloop.

Click Asia Summit

The speaker lineup comprised various experts in the field of online and social marketing from across the globe, including Dr. Shashi Tharoor (Indian Parliament), Bingham Willis, Lucy McCabe (Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore), Nick Decrock (Yento!, Belgium), Aditya Anupkumar (Saatchi & Saatchi, India), Namrita Sehgal (Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India), Ramon Vullings (new shoes today, Netherlands), and Ankit Fadia (eSecure Solutions, India).

Crailo

Crailo (Huizen), a village in the Netherlands in the municipality of Huizen

Danny Rombley

Rombley was selected by coach Robert Eenhoorn in the team that represents the Netherlands at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Der Fahnder

In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985.

Domino Kirke

"The Guard" was produced by Domino, Timo Ellis (Cibo Matto and The Netherlands) Jorge Elbrecht (Lansing-Dreiden and Violens) and was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Dordrecht Lions

The Dordrecht Lions are an ice hockey team in Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

Flush toilet

1924-1927: Philip Haas of Dayton, Ohio, designed and improved a water closet flushing and recycling mechanism similar to those in use today, incorporated in US Patents 1,576,600, 1,601,210, 1,605,939, 1,623,109, 1,629,914, 1,638,395, 1,639,997, 1,660,922.

French National Monotype 1924

It might originate (or vice versa) as the Scheldejol a Class originated in Antwerp, Belgium and also used in The Netherlands but is a little different at certain measurements.

G. J. Renier

Gustaaf Johannes Petrus Renier (25 September 1892, Flushing – 1 September 1962, Twickenham) was professor of Dutch History at University College London.

Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg

Living in the Netherlands, they became acquainted with Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and entered into lengthy negotiations with Elizabeth's Court to obtain support for his cause; these efforts failed to garner assistance for renewing the war either from the English queen or in any other quarter.

George Frederik Willem Borel

George Frederik Willem Borel (Maastricht, Netherlands 22 August 1837 to Bad Nauheim, Germany, 4 August 1907) was a major general in the Netherlands, notable for his involvement in the Banjarmasin and Aceh Wars.

Goede tijden, slechte tijden

Many former actors who once were part of the cast are now well known in the Netherlands and Europe, such as Katja Schuurman, Reinout Oerlemans and Antonie Kamerling.

Grenzlandring

The Grenzlandring (German for "border-region ring"), sometimes Grenzland-Ring written, is a former high-speed race track oval in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, around the town of Wegberg, located close to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch town of Roermond.

Hand evaluation

Proponents (e.g. Bep Vriend, Netherlands) of this idea suggest that HCP should be deducted from hands where negative combinations occur.

Henk Terlingen

He became notable in the Netherlands as the presenter of the Apollo lunar missions in the late 1960s, which he presented with Chriet Titulaer.

Hitoshi Imamura

Imamura adopted an unusually lenient policy towards the local population of the former Netherlands East Indies, often in conflict with senior staff of the Southern Army and Imperial General Headquarters.

Human rights in Finland

Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said the Netherlands had applied to the UN's Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which resolves maritime disputes between states.

Interoute

Interoute's offices: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, plus a Network Operations Centre in Sofia and a Customer Service Centre in Prague and Luleå.

Ivan Karizna

He had numerous performances in other countries of the world including Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and France where he played at such concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Parisian City of Music and Salle Pleyel as well as Brussels's Centre for Fine Arts where he performed together with a pianist Eliane Reyes.

Joseph Wijnkoop

Joseph David Wijnkoop (Amsterdam, 14 August 1842 - Amsterdam, 1 October 1910) was a Dutch rabbi and scholar in Jewish studies.

King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

KSAU-HS has a number of licensing agreements to develop its academic programs with prestigious universities worldwide: University of Sydney (Australia); University of Liverpool (UK); South Alabama University (USA); Flinders University (Australia); Arkansas University (USA), Thomas Jefferson University (USA) University of Maryland (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), The University of Oklahoma (USA) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA).

La Belle Alliance

Blücher, the Prussian commander, suggested that the battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor.

Laurensberg

Beyond the German border, the district borders the Belgian town of Kelmis, in the Province of Liège, as well as the Dutch communities of Vaals, Wittem and Simpelveld, all contained with the Dutch Province of Limburg.

Leonard Retel Helmrich

After Indonesian independence the Helmrich family repatriated to the Netherlands during the Indo diaspora.

Lotte Spira

During the Second World War she signed a statement swearing that Fritz Spira was not the real father of her actress daughter Camilla Spira, who was being held at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

Malle Babbe

In the Netherlands, Malle Babbe is also the subject of a well-known eponymous song, written by Boudewijn de Groot and Lennaert Nijgh and performed in 1973 by Rob de Nijs.

Nick Theslof

Stevens, impressed with Theslof's potential, offered him a youth contract at PSV, which Theslof accepted and moved from his home in Columbus to Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Nicolette van Dam

After finishing high school at the havo level at the age of 18, Van Dam went to study at HBO.

Octagonal churches in Norway

In the Netherlands the reformed church in Willemstad, North Brabant, Koepelkerk (Domed Church) (1607), the first Protestant church building in the Netherlands, was given an octagonal shape according to Calvinism's focus on the sermon.

Oeki Hoekema

Uilke Piebe ("Oeki") Hoekema (born 28 January 1949 in Leeuwarden) is a retired Dutch football player who played for Go Ahead Eagles, PSV, De Graafschap, Lierse SK, ADO Den Haag and FC Wageningen, as well as the Dutch national side.

Ottawa Valley

Among the well-known people who hail from the Ottawa Valley, are former governor-general and broadcaser Adrienne Clarkson, Alanis Morissette, Margaret Atwood, Lorne Greene, Bryan Murray, Terry Murray, Frank Finnigan, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Matthew Perry, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Redman, Tom Green, Rich Little, Paul Anka, Alan Verch and Princess Margriet, sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

PCJ

PCJJ, a Netherlands based shortwave radio station also known as PCJ which broadcast from 1927 until 1947.

Plague Recordings

Artists included Maarten van der Vleuten (Netherlands), Scanner (UK), The Caretaker (UK/Germany), vidnaObmana (Belgium), Moljebka Pvlse (Sweden), Ondo (Sweden), Machinist & Mendel Kaelen (Netherlands).

Rajiman Wediodiningrat

Maneuver at the time led the Budi Utomo which proposed the establishment of a people's militia in every region in Indonesia (awareness of having an army of people) answered the Netherlands with compensation form People's Council and dr .

Rück's Blue Flycatcher

Two specimens, an immature and adult male were last recorded and collected around 1917-1918 in secondary lowland forests in Medan area of North Sumatra province by the Dutch collector, August van Heijst.

Stan Storimans

Stanislaus N.I.M. (Stan) Storimans (January 8, 1969 Tilburg – August 12, 2008 Gori, Georgia) was a Dutch RTL TV veteran cameraman.

The Walls Fell Down

"The Walls Fell Down" is a third single by the English rock duo The Marbles, Lead vocals by Graham Bonnet it was released in March 1969, and it was written and produced by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, and was also produced by Robert Stigwood, It reached #28 in the United Kingdom, but in the Netherlands it reached #3.

Thesis circle

Thesis circles have been set up, for example, in Maastricht University, Tilburg University, University of Utrecht, Eindhoven University of Technology, Open University of the Netherlands, University of Twente, Rotterdam School of Management and Fontys University of Applied Sciences.

United Kingdom of the Netherlands

This state, a large part of which still exists today as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was made up of the former Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands) to the north, the former Austrian Netherlands to the south, and the former Prince-Bishopric of Liège.


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