This is not to say that the Dutch have wasted their time reclaiming land across the centuries. |
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She makes up for it by insisting on going Dutch on less formal occasions and making us dinner at her place fairly often. |
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An optional dazzling Dutch capital tour gives you the best of the city's sights with a canal cruise included and a visit to a diamond factory. |
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The tournament was set alight by a brilliant Dutch team playing Total Football. |
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Regulars will know of this column's admiration for the uncritical omnivorousness of the Dutch site. |
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I had arrived to assist Mongolian and Dutch conservation groups with the reintroduction of endangered Przewalski's horses to their native land. |
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But this Dutch was very rapidly developing away from the standard form of the language emerging at the time in Holland. |
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Gracious Cape Dutch homesteads harmoniously dot the landscape add a rich historical and architectural tradition. |
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Mostly the Dutch just got started earlier, so they snapped up some of the choice cargoes. |
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In the immediate term, hiding Dutch politicians in safe houses to protect them from assassination is probably necessary. |
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He also gave an interview with a Dutch radio station, the web audio transcript of which a Dutch friend kindly located for me. |
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He fought in the war as a British sailor and cannoneer for six years before he was seriously wounded during an engagement with a Dutch vessel. |
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New Amsterdam's incorporation as a municipality in 1653 accelerated its transformation into a city consciously modeled on Dutch prototypes. |
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The French and Dutch results were punishment for political failure on a grand scale. |
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Victory in a one-sided match will have sharpened up the Dutch for the knockout contests ahead. |
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We have more Dutch in the last 5 generations than English, though considering we're Tassies that's no great surprise. |
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The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she was educated at private schools in England and the Netherlands. |
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The French and Dutch left see today's EU project as a means used by their governments to privatise and delocalise the economy. |
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He had urged Charles to dissolve Parliament and continue the third Dutch War in alliance with France. |
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Milan may be steeped in Champions League experience but in both encounters with the Dutch side they looked ordinary and takeable. |
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The Dutch rulers recruited army personnel from the Manadonese and Ambonese ethnic groups. |
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I did receive a few positive reactions from mainly Dutch and German managers. |
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The British troops were seen, rightly as it turned out, to be the advance guard of a Dutch attempt to recolonise Indonesia. |
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Yesterday the Dutch women also earned a silver medal in the senior women's team competition. |
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He went on to paint Dutch scenes although with cowmen instead of goatherds among the weirs. |
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Until about 1720, Dutch ethnics married within the group, worshiped together, and joined hands for economic and political objectives. |
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The Dutch built military facilities and trade offices on both sides of the river. |
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However, the modern Dutch cow creamer is worth one-tenth the value of an 18th century English one. |
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The destruction of the Dutch fleet at Camperdown only confirmed the contempt felt in Paris for the ineffectiveness of the Batavians. |
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On the trip over, I see the bicycle-only highways between Dutch cities, and the canals that run parallel. |
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Mr. Cohen attempts a grand reawakening with help from Fedde Le Grand, a Dutch D.J. and producer whose deep house mixes have punchy finesse. |
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His contributions to the local paper became more critical of Dutch society. |
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Others were, briefly, inattentive, but generally we were well behaved and gave Old Dutch our rapt attention. |
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The Golden Age produced the works of Rembrandt, Vermeer and other Dutch masters. |
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Her vernacular Dutch writings reflect familiarity with Latin, rhetoric, numerology, Ptolemaic astronomy and music theory. |
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The beautifully carved tombstones, with inscriptions in the Dutch language, could have been carved in Holland and sent to India. |
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Here in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, the Amish need their quilts for more than just decoration. |
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He has played at Jazz festivals across Europe and the USA and in various Jazz quartets and trios and as a member of the Dutch Jazz Orchestra. |
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German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention. |
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Enjoy a drive down the oak-shaded Main Street of Paarl, a winelands town with tine Cape Dutch buildings. |
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This person is referred to in the Dutch press as being a moderate and reasonable politician! |
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A bon vivant who piloted his own plane and hosted the Dutch royal family aboard his yacht, Something Cool, Freddy had an adman's pizzazz. |
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The huge Dutch contingent in the crowd is in fine voice as their players stroke the ball around. |
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The Boers or Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch called themselves, ceded the Cape to Great Britain in an 1814 treaty. |
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For those reasons the board concluded the interests of stakeholders would be best served by a sale of the Dutch business. |
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Think of Cezanne's early, sexually driven expressionism, or Mondrian's romantic Dutch realism, or the design-based art nouveau of early Bonnard. |
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Thus perished one of the greatest statesmen of his age and of Dutch history. |
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Like all the veterans who fought in Holland, he has tremendous affection for the Dutch people. |
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Such an organisational alliance with the populist right would be unthinkable for progressive French and Dutch campaigners. |
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Only the Dutch and German governments were actively canvassing such changes. |
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In 1642, the Dutch navigator, A. J. Tasman, reached New Zealand where Polynesian Maoris were inhabitants. |
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It took Dutch farmers some two years to make their case in Brussels, however the EU juggernaut is revving up at this stage. |
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The Dutch police were well aware of the problem before the game, but they failed to resolve the situation and so the time bomb kept ticking. |
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I pass a rabble of rampant orange-clad Dutch fans dressed as boy scouts wearing huge cartoon clogs, larging it up, singing and laughing. |
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He expressed particular regard for Frans Hals, an acknowledged Golden Age master of the Dutch group portrait. |
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He traces the evolution of the major competition for young Dutch architects, now expanding internationally. |
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Lighthouses, for instance, have a certain romance about them, and Dutch windmills are considered highly picturesque. |
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His mother was of Dutch extraction, so he had not a drop of English blood in his veins. |
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What might be true of the Dutch might not apply to Italians or Africans or North Americans. |
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The Dutch will feature Oliver in their version of the series, in which jobless youngsters are trained in haute cuisine, but the French will not. |
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The Dutch Government wants to promote openness for public sector information systems. |
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Although 100 percent Dutch by lineage, Swimming World's male high school swimmer of the year, Matt Grevers, is a Yankee Doodle Dandy. |
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When the Dutch handed control over Aceh to Indonesia in 1949, so this version of history goes, this was yet another illegal act. |
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He accords far more importance to the Dutch materialist philosopher Spinoza than is customary. |
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Solicitors acting on behalf of a double murder suspect are to take an appeal against his extradition to the Dutch High Court in The Hague. |
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Most newly discovered comets seem to originate from an area in space known as the Oort cloud, named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort. |
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The Japanese also had their eye on the rubber plantations, mineral wealth and oil reserves of the Dutch East Indies. |
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We have Xhosa names, Khoi names, English and Scottish names, German, Dutch and Afrikaans names. |
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In 2002 Robert was commissioned by the Dutch broadcaster NPS to produce a radiophonic composition for their music program Supplement. |
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Stam has been recalled to the Dutch national squad for their friendly with Spain tomorrow night just weeks after returning from his doping ban. |
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The accession of the Dutch prince to the throne had agonized the Tories because it set aside both the reigning king and the Prince of Wales. |
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A stack of old-fashioned ginger pancakes with Dutch apple butter and a side of thick, salty bacon will power you through a morning there. |
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Holiday pastries flavored with almond paste are a major component of Dutch baked goods. |
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The pug was the Dutch national dog, and soon it became a national sensation in England. |
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The Dutch pilot decided to stay with the other aviators, and they began to look around the field. |
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In the 17th century, this region was one of the many targets of the Dutch trading company in its bid to take over and monopolize trading. |
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The prolific print publisher aimed his product at a broad public, and understood that Dutch culture was complex. |
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On the west, Dutch has the previously mentioned wye connecting two subdivisions and on the east a 12, 556 ft siding. |
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Pijfers investigated whether Dutch deaf children used an articulatory code or a sign code in reading and which code led to the best results. |
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To prepare her meat, she seared a 2-pound chuck roast and 4 country-style ribs in a large Dutch oven. |
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Isolation is one of the themes of this story of a South African tribeswoman who marries a Dutch settler at the end of the 17th century. |
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Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine. |
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When the British took formal control of the colony, the Dutch populace, about 8,000 people, struggled to retain their cultural identity. |
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He learnt Dutch and Afrikaans so as to translate accurately from diaries and clippings. |
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He had with him one Mr. Hanks, a Dutch businessman dealing in air filtration system, solar energy, metallurgical machinery and materials. |
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According to the preliminary official final result, the CDA won 43 of the 150 seats in the lower chamber of the Dutch parliament. |
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Other countries should follow the Dutch example of a decent, pure and just society. |
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They planted some of the saplings in Java, a Dutch colony already supplying Europe with pepper, nutmeg, and other spices. |
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One Dutch team and all four Spanish teams withdrew from a race that was reduced to a farce as the riders protested with go-slows. |
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By saying no, the French and Dutch certainly slowed the European juggernaut. |
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This explains why the region was under Dutch colonialism in the shortest period of time among the rest of what constitutes Indonesia. |
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Before long, the Dutch would be involved in developments far too federalist for their liking. |
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When the Dutch Fleet visited Australia in 1910 a large number of sailors jumped ship and at least twelve of them later settled in Adelaide. |
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Poultry vaccines can prevent healthy chickens from contracting deadly strains of avian influenza, Dutch researchers report. |
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As with Dutch still-life painting, the shadows rendered by this special lighting took on a strong visual presence. |
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In the century that followed, the Dutch established settlements and devised means to live off the land. |
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The corms of these African natives, which the Dutch sometimes call Abyssinian gladioli, should be planted after the last threat of frost is gone. |
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The Dutch make a distinction between relatives by marriage and relatives by blood. |
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I am sure the Dutch and the Latvians are disappointed about this but it's why there are squads of 23 players. |
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She marries a respectable Dutch merchant in London and subsequently lives as a person of consequence in Holland. |
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The commercial monopoly of the Dutch was highly advantageous to the character of the Javans. |
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Instead of showing the rich opulence of harvest that Dutch still life aimed to portray, his paintings outline our consumer culture. |
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The Dutch have made much of their fantastic flood preparedness compared to us. |
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The pubs used to shut at nine then and he came home drunk with these two Dutch sailors on shore leave. |
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Both the English and Dutch used heavy timbers to construct mortise and tenon frames. |
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This is a poor place in the draw for the rather raddled looking Dutch duo, who will struggle to be remembered by the end of the night. |
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Meanwhile, Dixie's younger brother Vinnie starts a street war with Dutch over the income from the numbers racket. |
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With its adobe walls and Dutch hip roof, the home borrows from both Sonoran and Territorial styles. |
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They had been in negotiations with race organisers with a view to Leith being the penultimate stopover, but the Dutch port has won the bid. |
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Appointed as secretary to the Dutch Embassy, he was sent to England in 1715 to congratulate George I on has accession to the throne. |
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Exposure to radio signals from 3G cellphone base stations can cause headaches and nausea, finds new work from a Dutch research organisation. |
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Born in 1943, he is the youngest of four children in a family of Indian, Sinhalese, Dutch and English descent. |
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It is strange that brothel-scenes were so popular among the God-fearing Dutch burghers. |
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All in Holland or with a Dutch national side which barely covered itself in glory. |
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Orange is a reference to the Dutch heritage of many Afrikaners. |
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The Dutch revolt against Spain in the sixteenth century broke the continuity of beguinages, even though some persisted through the nineteenth century. |
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There are also as many different places to eat along the way, serving steaks, mixed grills, seafood and chips, as well as more authentic Dutch food. |
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The accepted strategy of establishing colonies and controlling a lucrative trade to and from them never really worked for the Dutch in the Atlantic, at least not for long. |
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The comprehension of pronouns in Dutch and Spanish agrammatism. |
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Then again, he's probably terrified this will encourage other nice restaurants to adopt this practice, which means the end of going Dutch on dates. |
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Most of the coal trains are serving mines around Gillette, WY, but some of them originate north of Dutch and join the mainline at West Dutch via a wye. |
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Furthermore, the Lutherans felt very frustrated by the orthodox wing of the Dutch Reformed Church, which tried to minimize the Lutheran influence. |
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The Golden Girls The Dutch sure do take their glowing hairpieces and clip-on earrings seriously. |
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The Dutch advantage lay in a new technique, the Holland beater, that shredded fresh linen and that dispensed with the fermentation stage of the old technique. |
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Rembrandt, the 17 th-century Dutch master known for his skill in using light to carry perspective, may have been wall-eyed, a U.S. researcher proposed on Wednesday. |
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It is remarkable to see that the Dutch painter Ton Dubbeldam often chooses themes that beautifully come together with his impressionistic and pointillist techniques. |
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He came back, and within years, Dutch East India was doing business, because they could then quantify the risk. |
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By the beginning of the eighteenth century the British and the Dutch East India companies were delivering over a million pieces of Indian calico to Europe. |
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The Dutch clockmaker's discovery was all the more striking because he arrived at his results before the advent of the calculus of Newton and Leibniz. |
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Over the next 20 years his anecdotal paintings of peasant life, based on a close study of Dutch 17th-century genre painters, were universally admired. |
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On the other hand, the French and the Dutch probably haven't done done us Yanks any big favor, since the eventual bust is likely to be proportional to the size of the bubble. |
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She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child. |
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Return the Dutch oven to the stovetop and working in batches, brown the lamb shanks on all sides. |
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By the mid-eighteenth century the British were to turn the tables completely on the Dutch and win an unchallenged supremacy among Europeans in Asia. |
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The helpfulness of the Dutch points to one of the darkest statistics of the war. |
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The euro took a beating on all sides on Thursday from German budget woes, a Dutch government collapse and a looming referendum on European Union expansion plans. |
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To art historians trained in the Warburgian tradition this method would seem as old as art history itself, but it was a novelty for the history of Dutch painting. |
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Officials there quickly handed over the specimen to Dutch authorities who have assumed investigative responsibility in this case. |
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The company did some one-off orders for a client who wanted some of his speakers covered in faux lizard skin and others inlayed with precious Dutch wood. |
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Whimsically, he notes that the Dutch called the volcano Krakatau, and that English telegraphers and journalists misspelled the name for perpetuity. |
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She sees prospects for growth in the ties between the two countries, but at the same acknowledges that for many Dutch business people, Bulgaria is still terra incognita. |
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Most of these securities were financed by British and Dutch investors. |
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The figure of Santa Claus first begins to show up among the Pennsylvania Dutch in the mid 1820s in the form of Kris Kringle, or as he was also known, Belsnickle. |
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The network of canals, rivers and lakes in Holland is thousands of miles long, and since all the Dutch waterways are connected, it makes for the perfect boating holiday. |
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He was a huge fan of Dutch art, stuffed with incident and anecdote. |
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He is of mainly Dutch derivation, with some Japanese ancestry, as well. |
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In contrast to monarchies in which the king had the power to separate conflicting factions, any such higher authority was absent in the Dutch Republic. |
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According to Mr. Schaik, the influence of the Dutch was there in the Indian and Sri Lankan languages which had absorbed a few Dutch words in their lexis. |
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Meanwhile, heat the butter in a medium heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven, such as le Creuset. |
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In 1816 Saartje Bartman, a South African woman whose original name is unknown and whose Dutch name had been anglicized to Sarah Bartmann, died in Paris. |
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Rescuers managed to pluck the Dutch man from the stricken boat. |
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Afrikaans, the language spoken by Afrikaners, evolved as a dialect of Dutch spoken by settlers on the frontier during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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The look was inspired by Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and the World War I spy Mata Hari. |
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Since bursting on to the scene with Ajax, Davids has played in four Champions League finals, winning with the Dutch team in 1995, and has won 73 caps for his country. |
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Indeed, a common racial slur in Dutch is, precisely, roetmop, which means soot mop. |
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This trade became regularized by the 1640s, with Chinese junks bringing the product to Batavia, where it was purchased by the Dutch and shipped by them to Holland. |
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The Dutch missed out in consecutive finals in the 1970s, while Spain had never even been as far as the semis before Wednesday. |
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Dutch cabin crews from KLM and Martinair told their management that they would not work if BA tried to wet-lease an aircraft from a Dutch carrier. |
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I have no excuse but a lusty eye and a belly full of Dutch courage. |
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Dutch merchants and Dutch commercial capital poured into Londen after 1690 and went to play an important role in the re-export trade between England and the Continent. |
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In the terror which followed, the wealth of the prosperous merchants made them a particular target, and axe, rope, and fire consumed the natural leaders of Dutch society. |
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Both groups then joined together in a revolt against Dutch rule. |
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By 1650, two-thirds of the continent's coast were thus widely known not only in Europe, but also wherever Dutch charts, atlases, and globes were distributed. |
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The glossy white links to the kitchen cabinetry, and sets off simply carved Dutch antique chairs that Susie has been pushing under different tables for over 20 years. |
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The Dutch bought contraband cacao from Caracas producers, and shipped it to Amsterdam, which soon became the main supplier of cacao to Europe, including Spain itself. |
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The Netherlands' Council of Ministers consists of the Dutch cabinet and two ministers plenipotentiary, one representing Aruba and the other the Netherlands Antilles. |
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That in itself might seem extraordinary, considering the intimate connection between Dutch and Scottish painting, and the fact that the artist painted 3,000 pictures. |
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Traditional Dutch street organs are a familiar sight in Holland as you would expect, but Territorians don't have to travel overseas to see and hear them. |
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Greatly influenced by the Dutch style, and the Romantic concept of landscape, Crome, together with Cotman, is considered the major artist of the Norwich School. |
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The same day, Ebola panic struck the Glasgow airport after a passenger on a Dutch KLM flight fell ill. |
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The secret to the incomparable, natural and smooth taste of Landana is the creamiest milk, taken from healthy Dutch cows. |
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As a champion of neo-scholasticism and Aristotelianism, he became one of the main opponents of Rene Descartes and his Dutch followers. |
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Metrosexuals are out and butch men are back in, according to a new TV campaign from Dutch beer Bavaria. |
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That's what a leading Dutch artist achieved with his installation Table Dance, at the Museum Waterland, Purmerend, in The Netherlands. |
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This means that full competence in both Frisian and Dutch is aimed at all pupils in the province, whether they speak Frisian or Dutch at home. |
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A girl''s name, a pass made by a bullfighters cape and a Dutch radio station. |
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Sanitec is thought to be in merger talks with Keramic and is also thought to have approached Sphinx, a Dutch bathroom fittings manufacturer. |
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At the time Pouwer was a staff member of the 1959 Star Mountains expedition organised by the KNAG, the Royal Dutch Geographical Society. |
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There's the remains of the tiny Dutch Star Fort to visit if you have to stop off. |
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Korfball is a Dutch court based ball sport, with similar skills to both basketball and netball. |
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Fit Dutch chow down on the healthiest food based on nutrition and availability of grub, the Daily Star reported. |
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The first time they played in Amsterdam, the Dutch police were close to arresting the soundman due to the sound system reaching illegal volumes. |
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This year marks the quatercentenary of the Dutch arrival in Australia, when the ship Duyfken made landfall off Western Australia. |
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But that was not within the remit of the Dutch investigators. |
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With this mentality, the Dutch are very acceptive of foreign radio and television broadcasts from across their borders. |
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English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th century battle against the Spanish Armada. |
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Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door. |
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The start of the second half saw another Dutch attempt but the Costa Ricans were prepared to defend and launch their own offense. |
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The 23 carillon bells that need retuning will be removed from the Hoover Tower by crane and be sent to the Dutch bellfounder Royal Eijsbouts. |
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The Dutch people rallied to the French call and started the Batavian Revolution. |
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His journey stimulated Dutch interest, and the area became known as New Netherland. |
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In 1664, when war threatened, it was decided to completely replace the core Dutch fleet with still heavier ships. |
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White Zimbabweans are mostly of British origin, but there are also Afrikaner, Greek, Portuguese, French and Dutch communities. |
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In fact, many of the words for which Gerritsen suggests Dutch ancestry are reflexes of the most basic Pama-Nyungan vocabulary. |
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That year, ten English factors, resident in the Dutch fortress of Victoria on Ambon were executed by beheading on accusations of treason. |
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Though the attack failed, the Dutch in January 1665 allowed their ships to open fire on English warships in the colonies when threatened. |
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The Dutch also allegedly placed candles on the victims' bodies to demonstrate the translucence of the flesh. |
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The Netherlands Antilles is comprised of the islands of Curacao, Bonaire, Dutch Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius. |
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Elm is now far less common, due to the devastating effects of Dutch elm disease. |
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Gonzalo has already claimed its first fatality on the Dutch Caribbean territory of Sint Maarten. |
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The British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company inaugurated an expansive era of commerce and trade. |
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Charles II had reason to be nervous about the possibility of a Dutch invasion coordinated with an uprising within England. |
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In addition, many members of the English elite would gain personally if Dutch ships were captured. |
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Stamppot, a traditional Dutch meal, is based on mashed potatoes mixed with vegetables. |
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The working cats in the New York Dutch settlement of Litterbox are tired of being poor and working for pennies in the Cat's Cradle Company. |
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The Sultan Kutai concession was given in 1888 with the Dutch firm JH Meeten having found the Sanga-Sanga field. |
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Homestead is a cross between a Siberian elm and a complex hybrid of two Dutch elms. |
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In the ensuring competition between the European traders, the Dutch emerged as the winners. |
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When the Dutch arrived in Indonesia the Portuguese had long been in Banten. |
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In that year, the sultanate was abolished and transformed into a residency of the Dutch East Indies. |
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The London Company intended to claim the area explored by Hudson before the Dutch could become fully established. |
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Before the Dutch Revolt, Antwerp had played an important role as a distribution centre in northern Europe. |
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The official policy in the Dutch East India governors was to integrate the Huguenot and the Dutch communities. |
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However, within three generations French was replaced by Dutch as the home language of most of the Huguenot descendants. |
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Competing Dutch companies approached the congregation and discussed with them the possibility of settling in the Hudson River area. |
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A shift in Dutch politics ensued that would prove fateful for the Republic. |
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The civilians prevailed, and a very angry Frederick Henry had to order an ignominious retreat of the Dutch invading force. |
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Frederick Henry, sensing that the talks were going nowhere, proposed to put an ultimatum to the other side to accept the Dutch demands. |
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In 1580 the Portuguese crown was united in a personal union with the Spanish crown, with which the Dutch Republic was at war. |
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Well, New York was founded as New Amsterdam, with Dutch beginnings. |
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The Dutch gained an advantage over the Spanish because of their growing economic strength, in contrast to Philip's burgeoning economic troubles. |
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The war came to an end in 1648, when the Dutch Republic was recognised by Spain as independent. |
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The Portuguese Empire therefore became an appropriate target for Dutch military incursions. |
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Most of the Dutch immigrants of the 20th century quickly began to speak the language of their new country. |
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The Dutch language nevertheless had a significant impact on the region around New York. |
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General consensus among linguists is that the Dutch language has 28 main dialects. |
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Each of the seven Dutch provinces could separately elect its own Stadtholder and it did not have to be the same person in all of them. |
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Vietnam, Dutch New Guinea, Baghdad, Zimbabwe, et al, had their moments. |
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The Dutch provinces, though fighting alone now, for the first time in their history found themselves fighting a common enemy. |
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The document itself clearly distinguishes between the Dutch speaking and French speaking parts of the Seventeen Provinces. |
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While the cities were of great political importance, they also formed catalysts for medieval Dutch culture. |
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During the Republic the first series of large scale Dutch migrations outside of Europe took place. |
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In this debate 'typically Dutch traditions' have been put to the foreground. |
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For the first time in their history, the Dutch established their independence from foreign rule. |
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Large parts of the Dutch merchant fleet and navy came to consist of Norwegians and Danes. |
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It gradually replaced Dutch and Almains, the latter becoming mostly obsolete by the early 18th century. |
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Limburgish was spoken by the people in the provinces of modern Dutch and Belgian Limburg. |
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Additionally, several creoles, patois, and pidgins are based on Dutch and English as they were languages of colonial empires. |
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The high degree of urbanization characteristic of Dutch society was attained at a relatively early date. |
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Staschke has said that he draws inspiration from Dutch and Flemish Vanitas still-life painting. |
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The story takes place in the Dutch city of Haarlem, where a reward is offered to the first grower who can produce a truly black tulip. |
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These factors motivated Dutch merchants to enter the intercontinental spice trade themselves. |
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The Dutch Army considered its strategic situation to have become hopeless and feared further destruction of Dutch cities. |
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Even though some people want English to be used as an unofficial compromise language between Dutch and French, French remains the lingua franca. |
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As a West Germanic language, Dutch is related to other languages in that group such as West Frisian, English and German. |
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The Tasman map largely reveals the extent of understanding the Dutch had of the Australian continent at the time. |
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Emden was a very rich town during the 17th century, due to large numbers of Dutch immigrants such as Diederik Jansz. |
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All of them are lexically dependent on Dutch rather than German for neologisms. |
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That same year, the Dutch signed a treaty with Denmark with the intent to hurt English shipping. |
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Quaint Cape Dutch homesteads welcome you to join winetasting sessions or dine in spectacular surroundings like Lanzerac Hotel and Spa. |
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Grunnegs is so different from the rest of the Dutch Low Saxon varieties that it may be treated separately. |
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Taking a page out of the Dutch book the English reorganised each fleet into squadrons for greater tactical control. |
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Cape Dutch architecture was further constrained by the availability of materials. |
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The collection of scientific learning introduced from Europe became known in Japan as Rangaku or Dutch Learning. |
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This changed in the middle of the 19th century when Cape Dutch was adopted as the language of instruction. |
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From here the Dutch traded between China and Japan and paid tribute to the Shogun. |
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The Dutch share of European shipping tonnage was enormous, well over half during most of the period of their ascendancy. |
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This charming Cape Dutch hotel sets itself apart from the rest with its spectacular setting, stylish elegance and personalised service. |
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Hanseatic cities in Prussia, Livonia, supported the Dutch against the core cities of the Hansa in northern Germany. |
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The Dutch merchants aggressively challenged the Hansa and met with much success. |
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The Golden Age continued in peacetime during the Dutch Republic until the end of the century. |
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Which particular tragedy, or character, the Dutch TV previewer had in mind was beyond my non-existent Dutch. |
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Currently, the Belgian Naval Component is working closely together with the Dutch Navy under the command of the Admiral Benelux. |
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O'Rourke attribute part of the Dutch ascendancy to its Calvinistic ethic, which promoted thrift and education. |
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Bring broth, chicken, vegetables, tomatoes, water and bay leaves to a boil in a large saucepan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. |
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In the Netherlands, textiles were often inspired by batik patterns from the Dutch colonies in the East Indies. |
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In 1940, the Netherlands was invaded by Germany with Nijmegen being the first Dutch city to fall into German hands. |
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The French armies drove the Austrians, British, and Dutch beyond the Rhine, occupying Belgium, the Rhineland, and the south of the Netherlands. |
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The year opened with French forces in the process of attacking the Dutch Republic in the middle of winter. |
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The Dutch government has guaranteed that the people on the islands will be able to elect Senate members, and is considering options for this. |
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Since that date, Dutch legislation is projected to slowly replace Netherlands Antilles laws. |
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Von Dutch is responsible for creations such as the motorized rollerskate and putting VW engines in all makes of cars. |
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The brick relief was sculpted with 16,000 bricks by two Dutch bricklayers under Moore's supervision. |
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In addition to London, since 1997 McQueen has a home in Amsterdam, with his Dutch wife, cultural critic Bianca Stigter, and their two children. |
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In January, the Dutch had voted to ban burkas and other face-covering garments from public places. |
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The basis of Dutch apple pie is a crust on the bottom and around the edges. |
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In July 1941 Japan sent troops to southern Indochina, thus threatening British and Dutch possessions in the Far East. |
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The States General allowed the core regiments of the Dutch field army to participate under command of Marshall Schomberg. |
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The States ordered a Dutch fleet of 53 warships to escort the troop transports. |
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Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer. |
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The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring. |
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The special municipalities will be represented in the affairs of the Kingdom by the Netherlands, as they can vote for the Dutch parliament. |
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As a result of the Second Dutch War, Charles dismissed Lord Clarendon, whom he used as a scapegoat for the war. |
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To lay foundations for a new beginning, envoys of the States General appeared in November 1660 with the Dutch Gift. |
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During the period of Dutch colonization in South Africa, a distinctive type of architecture, known as Cape Dutch architecture, was developed. |
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The Dutch style buildings are especially visible in Willemstad, with its steeply pitched gables, large windows and soaring finials. |
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In the former Dutch capital of Cape Town, nearly nothing from the VOC era have survived except the Castle of Good Hope. |
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While the Dutch prefer to stick with French spelling, as it differentiates Dutch more from the neighbouring German. |
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The country name New Zealand originated with Dutch cartographers, who called the islands Nova Zeelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. |
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The Schuylkill river that flows into the Delaware at Philadelphia is also a Dutch name meaning hidden or skulking river. |
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He first named the island Anthony van Diemen's Land after his sponsor Anthony van Diemen, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. |
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The century and half of Dutch rule in Ceylon and southern India left few to no traces of the Dutch language. |
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The Burgher people of Sri Lanka and the Indo people of Indonesia as well as the Creoles of Suriname are mixed race people of Dutch descent. |
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Nassau County, one of the four that make up Long Island, is also of Dutch origin. |
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In the Surinamese Capital of Paramaribo, the Dutch Fort Zeelandia still stands today. |
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Subsequently, colonial history is not featured prominently in Dutch schoolbooks. |
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In some Dutch colonies there are major ethnic groups of Dutch ancestry descending from emigrated Dutch settlers. |
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In the centre of Malacca, Malaysia, the Stadthuys Building and Christ Church still stand as a reminder of Dutch occupation. |
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In the meantime the aim of choking Dutch shipping was carried out by the Dunkirkers with considerable success. |
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The Dutch surrendered two months later in Java, with Indonesians initially welcoming the Japanese as liberators. |
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