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Ways to discover the depth of a very rich Dutch heritage
Reconnection through castles, monasteries and barges
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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In an age of global village concepts and intercontinental travel, numerous villages and small towns in the Netherlands are begging rediscovery and integration into both travel itineraries and family history books and journals. Will those wh...
Descendants of U.S. immigrant rabbi reconnect with ancestral Leeuwarden
After an absence of nearly 200 years
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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LEEUWARDEN – "So here walked the father of the father of my father." This muttering was one of a number expressing awe and surprise as nineteen of the descendants of Leeuwarden-born rabbi Samuel Isaacs walked towards the door of their ...
Historic barges off to the annual skutsjes race in Friesland
Intense competition for the championship
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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GROU - The annual traditional skűtsje (canal barge sailing) competition on the lakes and waterways of the northern Dutch province of Friesland has many sailing enthusiasts in the Netherlands and beyond look on in amazement at the intensity ...
Four-Day Walking event now history for 94th time
Over 36,000 crossed finish line
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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NIJMEGEN - More than 36,000 participants from dozens of different countries completed the 94th Nijmegen Four-Day March recently, and were given their much coveted brightly-coloured medals.
Welcomed by tens of thousands of cheering s...
KB posts one of eight million newspaper pages
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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AMSTERDAM – The Royal Library of the Netherlands (KB) has launched a website on which it plans to post eight million newspaper pages, covering the period of 1618-1995. The project includes about ten percent of the pages ever published and r...
Dutch sports teams claim more world titles
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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AMSTERDAM – While Oranje, the Dutch national soccer team may have missed out on the World Cup, other Dutch individuals and teams regularly come home with a world title or championship. One such sports woman is Linsy Heister, who claimed a w...
Veterans reaching more students with in-class talks
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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DOORN – The number of so-called veterans’ courses in Dutch schools has more than doubled over the past year. According to the Dutch Veterans Institute, the former soldiers and resistance members taught about 6,000 students, up from 2,500 th...
Training center Koesignalen offers farmers courses
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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BERGHAREN – Farmers ought to be able to read the body language of their animals. They then will be able to treat their livestock when suffering illnesses and better care for their wellbeing, said Dutch minister of agriculture Gerda Verburg,...
Police to step up control of waterways during Sail 2010
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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AMSTERDAM – To accommodate busy traffic on the waterways around Amsterdam, authorities plan to enact one-way traffic rules during Sail 2010, the hugely popular event that returns every five years to the Dutch capital. Organizers anticipate ...
Remains of Smilde resistance leader traced to mass grave
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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HEILOO – It took 66 years but concerned friends finally brought home the remains of a Dutch resistance man who perished in a German concentration camp in 1944. Bertus de Raaf was serving as the leader of a small resistance commando group in...
Dutch yearn for the guilder slowly declining
Publish Date: Aug 09, 2010
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AMSTERDAM – The Dutch, a new report suggests, have gotten used to the euro as their currency. The yearning for the return of the guilder has subsided and the number of people who still convert current prices into guilders to gauge acceptabl...