The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated and geographically low-lying countries in the world (its name literally means "Low-lands") and is famous for its dikes, windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, bicycles and social tolerance.
The Netherlands has been a parliamentary democracy since 1848 and a constitutional monarchy since 1815; before that it had been a republic from 1581 to 1806 (it was occupied by France between 1806 and 1815).
Political scientists consider The Netherlands a classic example of a consociational state, at least in part caused by the necessity in the Netherlands since the middle ages for different cities to cooperate in order to fight the water (different cities were at the time like different countries by today's standards, and often at war).
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The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated and geographically low-lying countries in the world (its name literally means "Low-lands") and is famous for its dikes, windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, bicycles and perceived social tolerance.
The name Holland is widely used as being equivalent to The Netherlands; its use is similar to that of England incorrectly being used instead of the United Kingdom, or Russia instead of the defunct Soviet Union.
The Netherlands has been a constitutional monarchy since 1815; before that it had been a republic from 1581 to 1806 (it was occupied by France between 1806 and 1815).
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A semi-mechanical analogue television system was first demonstrated in London in February 1924 by John Logie Baird with an image of Felix the Cat and a moving picture by Baird on October 30, 1925.
The earliest television sets were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube with a mechanically spinning disk (the Nipkow disk, invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) that produced a red postage-stamp size image.
Television in its original and still most popular form involves sending images and sound over radio waves in the VHF and UHF bands, which are received by a receiver (a television set).
Mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image.
Television's first prime time network color series was The Marriage, a situation comedy broadcast live by NBC in the summer of 1954.
Paralleling television's growing primacy in family life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists and parents are raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium.
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During the 19th_century, The Netherlands was slow to industrialise compared to neighbouring countries, mainly due to its unique infrastructure of waterways and reliance on windpower.
At the end of the Eighty_Years'_War that formed the Netherlands, these regions were made part of the new Republic, but the people had already returned to catholicism as a result of the Counter-Reformation, while the rest of the Netherlands, the ruling class in particular, had largely turned Calvinist.
This is illustrated by the quick rise (and fall) of the LPF, whose leader, Pim_Fortuyn was murdered, because he was at the time the best known icon of xenophobia in the Netherlands, which is on the rise, partly inspired by Muslim extremism in other countries and the ensuing war_on_terrorism.
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Radio Netherlands A multimedia organization sharing issues being discussed in Holland with the rest of the world, in Dutch and several foreign languages.
Netherlands Press Fund Aims at increasing the freedom of press by financially strengthening the position of print media.
The Windmill Herald Serving the Netherlands language community since 1954 as Hollandia News, since 1958 as Goed Nieuws, and from 1971 as the Windmill Herald, our newspaper is a vital link between those who adopted Canada or the U.S.A. as the country of their choice and the Low Countries from where they originated.
Subjects discussed are the growing transmission capacity of the networks and the integration of the current forms of telecommunications into the Digital Highway.
Nowadays, the broadcasting of radio and television on the air is primarily useful on behalf of car radios and households that do not have a connection to the cable network.
The network has a large number of server computers that support the communication and the various forms of services in the network.
The Netherlands is both a destination and transit country for trafficking in persons, predominantly women and girls, from all parts of the world, including Nigeria, Thailand, the Philippines, Russia, Bulgaria, China, South America and Central and Eastern Europe.
The Government of the Netherlands fully complies with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, including making serious and sustained efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons with respect to law enforcement, protection of victims, and prevention of trafficking.
In an attempt to prevent trafficking, the Nigerian authorities have engaged in the questionable practice of parading the victims and the traffickers on television and in the communities.
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The Netherlands was one of the first EU member states to qualify for Economic and Monetary Union in May, 1998, and Dutch budget deficit and stock of public debt are converging below or closer to EMU deficit and debt criteria.
The Netherlands was among the initial wave of EU member states qualifying for Economic and Monetary Union in May of 1998.
The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with an average of 958 inhabitants per square mile.
In the Netherlands there are three public TV networks that transmit their signals via terrestrial transmitters.
The commercial networks are currently more popular than the public ones in the Netherlands (especially among the younger generation) because they offer a better variety of programs.
In addition to the public and commercial networks (most of which are based in Hilversum) there are local TV networks.
In the late 1940s, regional television stations started sending electronic signals called electromagnetic waves from their transmitters into the airwaves to carry television programs to home antennas But nowadays over-the-air broadcasting is just one of several methods used to distribute television programming.
Television has been around long enough to seem ordinary, but the box that brings TV shows into your home is an amazing device.
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Mijn naam is Maaike, and I’m back bringing you news from my home country; the Netherlands.
Besides that, like a lot of other countries, our most famous Dutch singers and bands made a single together, and we had a fundraising show on Dutch television, which made commercial and public networks cooperate as an exception.
The woman can now be sued for attempted manslaughter, and of course this has raised even more questions and discussions among both native and ethnic groups.
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About 3,400 miles from Vermont, physician-assisted suicide is again in the news in the Netherlands, the world's euthanasia trailblazer.
How do parents decide what entertainment is appropriate for their children in the age of videocassettes, DVD's, computer games and cable television?
Plans to broadcast a London musical that features a nappy-wearing Jesus who admits he is "a bit gay," have sparked a record 5,500 complaints, a television watchdog said (AFP)
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RTV Channel is the music entertainment industry online live television source for music business news, information, videoclips and the popular Music Charts.
Regional TV station wich broadcasts the NOS journaal live.
More than 5500 links to recorded streams containing Dutch television programs.
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