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  Encyclopedia: Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River (Maas) in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.
The Counter-Reformation or the Catholic Reformation was a strong reaffirmation of the doctrine and structure of the Catholic Church, climaxing at the Council of Trent, partly in reaction to the growth of Protestantism.
Dutch policies on recreational drugs, prostitution, same-sex marriage and euthanasia are among the most liberal in the world.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Netherlands   (7578 words)

  
 Dutch (disambiguation) biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Dutch language ('Nederlands' in the native tongue), spoken and official language in the Netherlands, Flanders (the Northern part of Belgium), Brussels (the capital of Belgium), Sint Maarten, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba and Suriname.
Dutch was also a nickname of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and the title of a controversial 1999 biography of Reagan by Edmund Morris.
Dutch is often confused with Deutsch, the German word for German.
dutch.biography.ms   (215 words)

  
 Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Dutch governments always consist of a coalition, as there is not (and has never been) a single political party large enough to get the majority vote.
In addition to Dutch and Frisian, several dialects of Low Saxon are spoken in much of the north; they are recognized as 'regional languages', as protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
Dutch policies on recreational drugs, prostitution, same-sex marriage and euthanasia are amongst the most liberal in the world.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_Netherlands   (3383 words)

  
 Netherlands article - Netherlands Dutch (disambiguation) Dutch European Kingdom the Netherlands - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy.
The 17th century, when the Dutch republic was prosperous, was the age of the "Dutch Masters" such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen and many others.
Famous Dutch painters of the 19th and 20th century are Vincent van Gogh and Piet Mondriaan.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Dutch   (1771 words)

  
 Dutch (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dutch gold, a popular beer in the Republic of Ireland
"Dutch" is a nickname of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch   (87 words)

  
 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
These suspicions seemed to be confirmed when the Dutch refused to take its side in the war against France even though the Republic was obliged by treaty (1678) to do so.
Also the Dutch claimed the British had no right searching their ships for weapons for the rebels, as "contraband" should be interpreted in the narrow sense of goods belonging to the enemy.
The Dutch hadn't at all expected such a severe reaction; they had in their folly given the British a perfect pretext to diminish Dutch power even more.
www.kiwipedia.com /en/fourth-anglo-dutch-war.html   (527 words)

  
 Abstract: Alpino: Wide-coverage Computational Analysis of Dutch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Alpino is a wide-coverage computational analyzer of Dutch which aims at accurate, full, parsing of unrestricted text.
Important aspects of wide-coverage parsing are robustness, efficiency and disambiguation.
It is shown that this model performs well on the task, despite the small size of the training data that is used to train the model.
www.clsp.jhu.edu /seminars/abstracts/S2002/vannoord.shtml   (225 words)

  
 Flanders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The principal and official language spoken of all Flemish institutions is Dutch, although with some distinction from the dutch spoken in the Netherlands.
It was the iconoclasm of 1566 (the Beeldenstorm) – the demolition of statues and paintings depicting saints – that caused the final ire of the catholics.
The Dutch (as they later became known) had managed to reclaim enough of Spanish king-controlled Flanders to close of the river the Scheldt, effectively closing Antwerp off from a significant trade route.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Flanders   (2624 words)

  
 Dutch (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Dutch language ('Nederlands' in the native tongue), spoken and official language in the Netherlands, Flanders (the Northern part of Belgium), (the most northern part of the French region Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Sint Maarten, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba and Suriname.
Dutch was also a nickname of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and the title of a controversial 1999 biography of Reagan by Edmund Morris, ISBN 0394555082.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Dutch   (335 words)

  
 Belgium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Belgium is at a cultural crossroad between Germanic Europe (with Dutch speakers in the North, the Flemings, and German speakers in the East) and Romance Europe (with French speakers in the South, the Walloons), which is reflected in its complex institutions and political history.
Belgium is divided into three communities, the Flemish community, the French-speaking community and the German-speaking community, and in three regions: Brussels (mainly Dutch- and French-speaking, with a population of 980,000), Flanders (mainly Dutch-speaking, with a population of 6,000,000), and Wallonia (mainly French-speaking, with a population of 3,360,000).
Both the Dutch spoken in Belgium as Belgian French have small vocabulary differences from the varieties spoken in the Netherlands and France, but are mutually intelligible with their respective neighbouring dialects.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/be/Belgium.htm   (2849 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dutch (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Dutch language, a Germanic language spoken primarily in the Netherlands and Belgium
Dutch gold, a popular lager beer sold in the Republic of Ireland, common slang for said drink is "Dutch".
Dutch (Nederlands[?]) is a West Germanic, Low German language spoken by around 24 million people, mostly in the Netherlands and Belgium.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dutch-(disambiguation)   (336 words)

  
 Netherlands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the era, referred to as the (Click link for more info and facts about Dutch Golden Age) Dutch Golden Age, colonies and (A retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise) trading posts were established all over the globe.
After the war, the Dutch economy prospered again, being a member of the (A customs union comprising BElgium and NEtherlands and LUXembourg) Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) and (An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members) European Economic Community unions.
Famous Dutch painters of the (Click link for more info and facts about 19th) 19th and (Click link for more info and facts about 20th century) 20th century are (Dutch postimpressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890)) Vincent van Gogh and (Click link for more info and facts about Piet Mondriaan) Piet Mondriaan.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/Ne/Netherlands.htm   (3874 words)

  
 Elm - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Camperdown Elm, a contorted weeping cultivar of the Wych Elm Ulmus glabra 'Camperdown', grafted on a standard Wych Elm trunk to give a wide, spreading and weeping fountain shape in large garden spaces.
Because of its geographical isolation, Australia has so far been unaffected by Dutch Elm Disease, and as such retains some of the world's best stands of elms; the long avenues of Royal Parade and St Kilda Road in
Dutch elm disease has been devastating to elms throughout Europe and North America.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Elm   (693 words)

  
 Flanders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Today, Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen, French: Flandre or Flandres) is a nation and a region in western Europe and its inhabitants, the Flemish or Flemings, a people of over six million, living mainly in the northern part of Belgium.
The Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium are often referred together as Flemish (Vlaams in Dutch), although the standard language used in Flanders is the same as in the Netherlands, i.e.
Dutch was dominant in the Belgian population but nearly absent from the nobility and haute-bourgeoisie who dominated early political life (with its only 30,000 census-voters out of 3 million Belgians in 1830).
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/fl/Flanders.htm   (2211 words)

  
 New Amsterdam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Founded in 1625 by the Dutch West India Company, the city was located on the strategic, fortifiable southern tip of the island of Manhattan and intended to defend the company's fur trade opeartions in the Hudson Valley.
Since the colony was intended strictly as a profit-making enterprise, and not as a means to transplant Dutch culture.
While the fort was being constructed, the growing Mohawk-Mohican War in the Hudson Valley lead the company to relocate the settlers there to the vicinity of the new Fort Amsterdam.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/n/ne/new_amsterdam.html   (1058 words)

  
 NEW AMSTERDAM FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New_York_Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of Henry_Hudson, who was attempting to find the Northwest_Passage for the Dutch East India Company.
In 1667, the Dutch withdrew their claims on New Netherland in the Treaty_of_Breda, including an exhange with the tiny Island of Run in North_Maluku, rich in nutmegs and the garantee for the rights to Suriname in return.
However, in a subsequent war between the English and the Dutch, the Dutch recaptured New Netherland in August 1673 before handing it over for good after the third Anglo–Dutch war upon the signing of the Treaty of Westminster in November, 1674.
www.bellabuds.com /New_Amsterdam   (1352 words)

  
 Dutch (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Dutch language ('Nederlands' in the native tongue), spoken and official language in the Netherlands and in Flanders, the Flemish, northern part of Belgium
Dutch was also the nickname of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and the title of his biography
Because Dutch is disliked by some inhabitants of the Netherlands, the term is sometimes replaced by Netherlandic of identical meaning.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/dutch__disambiguation_   (354 words)

  
 Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After being incorporated in the French empire under Napoleon, a Dutch kingdom was formed with present-day Belgium and Luxembourg in 1815.
After the war, the Dutch economy prospered again, being a member of the economic Benelux and European Economic Community unions.
There are two official languages, Dutch and Frisian, both of which are Germanic languages.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/netherlands   (1594 words)

  
 Dutch (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The word Dutch when used alone, has several possible meanings in the (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English language.
Dutch is often confused with (Click link for more info and facts about Deutsch) Deutsch, the German word for (A person of German nationality) German.
This is why the German immigrants to (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Pennsylvania are also called the (A dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland) Pennsylvania Dutch.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Du/Dutch_(disambiguation).htm   (492 words)

  
 Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For other uses of the word Dutch, see Dutch (disambiguation).
The Hague is the administrative capital (the seat of government), the home of the Queen, and the location for most of the embassies.
Their image abroad is mainly based on trade, tulips, windmills, wooden shoess, cheese and Delftware pottery.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/n/ne/netherlands.html   (1551 words)

  
 Dietsch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Dietsch (Diets in modern Dutch) is a term used to distinguish the southern dialects in the Middle Dutch language.
'Diets' is often confused with 'Duits', the modern Dutch word for German, and indeed in the Dutch language of the 16th and 17th centuries 'duits' and 'diets' were variant spellings of the same word, which usually is translated as Dutch (of the Dutch people) in modern Dutch.
Another reason 'Diets' is no longer used in modern Dutch is that the term was abused by 20th century fascists of the NSB and other nationalists, usually in the terms 'Diets', 'Nederdiets', or 'Nederduits' to refer to the shared heritage of the Dutch and German people.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dietsch.htm   (475 words)

  
 The Flying Dutchman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
If she is hailed by another ship, her crew will often try to send messages to land, to people long since dead.
According to some, the story is originally Dutch, while others claim it is based on the English play The Flying Dutchman (1826) by and the novel The Phantom Ship (1837) by Frederick Marryat, later adapted into the Dutch story Het Vliegend Schip (The Flying Ship) by the Dutch clergyman A.H.C. Römer.
According to some sources, the 17th century Dutch captain Bernard Fokke, who was renowned for the uncanny speed of his trips from Holland to Java, and was suspected of being in league with the devil because of it, is the model for the captain of the ghost ship.
www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_Flying_Dutchman   (604 words)

  
 Dutch (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Dutch language ('Nederlands' in the native tongue), spoken andofficial language in the Netherlands and in Flanders, the Flemish, northern part of Belgium
This is why the German immigrants to Pennsylvania are alsocalled the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Because Dutch is disliked by some inhabitants of the Netherlands, the term is sometimes replaced byNetherlandic of identical meaning.
www.therfcc.org /dutch-disambiguation--73257.html   (288 words)

  
 ILK Demos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
MBLEM is a lemmatizer for English, German, and Dutch.
Word Sense Disambiguation refers to predicting which meaning of the used word is intended in a particular context.
This demo visualises the degree of surprise in Dutch text: which words are expected to be in eachother's neighbourhood, and which are not.
ilk.kub.nl /demos.html   (316 words)

  
 Royal Dutch/Shell
Its headquarters are split between the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom and The Hague, Netherlands.
This was not possible under the relevant laws in 1907, and the form of organisation, although durable, have come under criticism in recent years.
Under the old capital structure, its ADRs are currently traded on the New York Stock Exchange under RD (Royal Dutch) and SC (Shell).
www.kiwipedia.com /en/royal-dutch-shell-1.html   (179 words)

  
 New_Amsterdam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
While the fort was being constructed, the growing Mohawk-Mahican War in the Hudson Valley led the company to relocate the settlers from there to the vicinity of the new Fort Amsterdam.
On April 20, 1657, New Amsterdam granted freedom of religion to Jews; many Sephardic Jews arrived there fleeing from Portuguese reconquest of the Dutch possessions in Brazil.
In the Second Anglo-Dutch War, between England and the United Netherlands, the New Netherlands were seized by the English, with director general Peter Stuyvesant surrendering New Amsterdam on September 24, 1664.
www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=New_Amsterdam   (1165 words)

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