When did the Dutch East India Company cease to exist? When did the Byzantine Empire start? When did Ireland become part of the British Empire? When did the Sasanian Empire fall? When did the Czarist Russian Empire end? When did the Teutonic Order collapse?
When did the French begin to settle colonies in North America?Question:When did the French begin to settle colonies in North America?Colonial North America:North America was a prize for European imperialism. The British, Dutch, French and other powers competed for the opportunity to establis...
So if I were to take the paid option, I would also have to delete a lot of the content, which would then obviate the need to change plans in the first place. Catch-22. So the only viable option is to end at a point when, in any event, there isn’t much more left to cover:...
In doing so, we assign a key role to normative and motivational structures, building on Schatzki’s [18] seminal work. The theoretical discussion starts an elaboration of what is meant by ‘energy system’, followed by an assessment of emerging objectives in the Dutch energy system. Then we ...
“value” is defined. Belgium, for example, famously banned loot boxes because they determined that it didn’t matter whether the prize offered was monetary or not, it was gambling. The Dutch did the same but for a different reason—here it was the fact that the prize had a market value...
Stella Vita isn’t the Dutch team’s first solar car since it was set up ten years ago. The team has created different types of solar cars. The team members are working to introduce this green way of traveling. Let’s hope that in the future, we can all travel “by” the sun!1....
“I spent 15 years qualifying to be a pilot, including training in Australia for my commercial pilot’s licence,” says the father of two. “As a pilot you get used to mastering everything—suddenly I’m changing my path.” “I’m a big fan of SpaceX. The rockets and even the fanc...
‘Felix relishes being a hillbilly moving into a high-class neighborhood, putting a car up on cinder blocks, and embarrassing everyone else on the block,” says Mark Golin, who used to work as an editor for Dennis. Embarrassing everyone on the block is just what Felix Dennis did in 1997...
The current study is the first to explore the role of linguistic metaconcepts in the grammatical reasoning of university students of Dutch Language and Literature. Its goal was to gain a better understanding of the characteristics of students’ grammatical conceptual knowledge and reasoning and to ...
This year I resolved to do the usual things: lose weight; step up the exercise; no more eating potato chips (I even did the farewell ritual recommended by certain therapists: “I love you very much, fried salty things, but I can’t have you in my life anymore”). I did, however,...