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15 unusual facts about Netherland


Bhutan Olympic Committee

Bhutan and the Netherlands have been involved in an active cooperation programme since 2001.

Despedida

Not been as widespread as the first but it appears on MTV UK, Spain, Denmark, Netherland among other countries in Europe as in Latin America VH1.

Ealdwulf of East Anglia

The pieces attributed to East Anglian production are found alongside others mainly of Kentish, East Saxon, and Frisian or Netherlandish types, reflecting external communications with those centres.

Elektor

Elektor is a monthly magazine about all aspects of electronics, first published as "Elektuur" in the Netherlands in 1960, and now published worldwide in many languages including English, German, Dutch, French, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese (native and Brazilian) and Italian with distribution in over 50 countries.

Jón Kristinsson

The project altered the building tradition in the Netherlands.

Lee Man Fong

Sukarno then knew that Man Fong was given a Malino scholarship from Van Mook, the Netherland lieutenant-governor general.

Patrick Bantamoi

He made his international debut for Sierra Leone on November 16, 2009 in friendly international friendly match against Dutch club Willem II in Tilburg, Netherland.

Peter Candid

Peter Candid (c. 1548 – 1628), also known as Peter de Witt or Peter de Witte, was a Netherlandish Mannerist painter and architect.

Pol-Mot

Among them are 5 car dealers (makes: Fiat, Iveco, Piaggio, Skoda, MG, Rover), 5 agricultural machinery factories cooperating with Indian Escorts, Swedish Alfa-Laval Agri, Dutch Netagco, and 2 automotive components factories (mechanical car jacks, electrical harnesses, brake & washer fluid reservoirs).

Royal Harmonie Sainte Cécile Eijsden

Royal Harmonie Sainte Cécile Eijsden (Koninklijke Harmonie Sainte Cécile Eijsden) is a concert band in Eijsden, Netherland was founded in 1880.

Saad Nomani

He has also travelled extensively to other parts of the world including USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Netherland, Belgium, Italy, South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei and other Gulf States.

The Sherry-Netherland

The site had been occupied since the early 1890s by the Hotel Netherland, designed by William Hume for William Waldorf Astor, a member of the prominent Astor family.

There Will Never Be Another Tonight

Although "There Will Never Be Another Tonight" reached the top twenty in Ireland, it was a moderate top thirty success in Netherland and the top thirty in Australia and Sweden.

Tielman Susato

In 1543, he founded the first music publishing house using movable music type in the Netherlands.

World Para Table Tennis Championships

The first edition was held in 1990 in Assen, Netherland, the second in 1998, from that the championships was held every four years.


Adriaen van der Donck

Van der Donck is a central figure in Russell Shorto's The Island at the Center of the World, which argues, based on newly translated records from the colony, that he was a great early American patriot, forgotten by history because of the eventual English conquest of New Netherland.

Cape Henlopen

From August until November 1616, the New Netherland Company, which had an exclusive trading patent for the New Netherland territory between 40° and 45° latitude, had tried unsuccessfully to obtain an exclusive patent from the States General of the Dutch Republic for the territory between 38° and 40° latitude.

Those settlers were subsequently spread out onto Verhulsten Island (Burlington Island) in the Delaware, at Fort Orange (now Albany) in the Hudson River and at the mouth of the Connecticut River in order to finalize the claim to New Netherland as a North American province according to the Law of Nations (Hugo Grotius).

Cortelyou

Jacques Cortelyou (c. 1625 – 1693), Surveyor General of New Netherland

Cryn

Cryn Fredericks, chief engineer of the New Netherland colony in 1625 and 1626.

Delaware Bay

After the British took title to the New Netherland colony in 1667 at the Treaty of Breda the bay came into their possession and was renamed with the river Delaware, after the first Governor of Virginia Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.

Donck

Adriaen van der Donck (1618–1655), lawyer and landowner in New Netherland

Dutch Empire

The last Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, Pieter Stuyvesant, has bequeathed his name to a street, a neighborhood and a few schools in New York City, and the town of Stuyvesant.

Fort Amsterdam

The building of the fort commenced in 1625, under the direction of Willem Verhulst, the second director of the New Netherland colony and his chief engineer Cryn Fredericks.

Franciscus van den Enden

In 1990 Marc Bedjai and Wim Klever, independently from each other, established that Van den Enden was the author of two anonymous pamphlets, the Kort Verhael van Nieuw Nederland (Brief Account of New Netherland) and the Vrye Politijke Stellingen (Free Political Proposals).

Henry Y. Satterlee

He was also a descendant of Jellis Douwese Fonda, who emigrated in 1642 to the Dutch colony of New Netherland (New York).

Johannes Narssius

After the general exile of Remonstrants from the Netherland he was at the Arminian colony of Friedrichstadt in Holstein.

John Netherland

In October 1852, Netherland was badly injured in a wagon accident while travelling to Calhoun, Tennessee, with Gustavus Henry and Charles McClung McGhee to stump for Scott.

Knickerbocker Handicap

The Knickerbocker is named for a fictional character, Diedrich Knickerbocker, from Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of New York a spoof on the imagined colony of New Netherland.

Matthew Monahan

Monahan has shown his sculptures at various galleries, collections, and museums, including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, Bureau Stedelijk in Amsterdam, The National Center for Art in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Royal Academy and the Saatchi Gallery in London, and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Stedelijk Museum and the Fries Museum, all in the Netherlands.

Megalena crassa

Specimens of this species are stored in collections in Europe: Germany (Senckenberg Museum, Institute of Zoology and Museum of Zoology of University of Hamburg), Poland (Institute of Zoology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warszawa) and in Netherland.

Sevince

The song was performed twelfth on the night, following Netherland's Harmony with "'t Is OK" and preceding Germany's Ireen Sheer with "Feuer".

Steak Diane

By the 1940s, Steak Diane was a common item on the menus of restaurants popular with Café Society, including the restaurants at the Drake and Sherry-Netherland hotels and The Colony.

University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law

He has also taught comparative media law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Cyber law at The University of Netherland, Antilles in Curacao, and U.S. Constitutional and copyright law at Shandong University, China.