Why did the Dutch take over Brazil?Dutch Brazil:The northeastern corner of modern-day Brazil was a Dutch colony named New Holland from 1630 until 1654. Its capital was Mauritsstad, now Recife. The Dutch formally handed over New Holland to Portugal in 1661....
“The World Health Organisation did not encourage immediate travel restriction because evidence shows that travel restriction has not necessarily stopped the spread of variants and if you look at the variants that have emerged over time, they started from one country or the other and got to every ...
Customers are more likely to book their next trip with you again if they had a great time. Messaging apps give you options to make the trip more exciting and engaging than e-mail or SMS ever could. Take for instance the Dutch airline KLM. It’s the first airline in the world to allow...
On Feb. 16, 1942, Japanese troops herded 23 Australian women into the surf from a beach on Bangka Island in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). All but one of the women were army nurses, captured after Japanese bombers sank the ship on which they were attempting escape from Si...
make the ESG leaderboard, and unsustainable but high-scoring companies like Royal Dutch Shell (which is rated against its peers) may score higher. Some greenwashing does skew the scores, but with the SEC’s new disclosure requirements regarding climate risks, it will be harder to game the ...
Wonga Ah, Wonga. What a word. Believe it or not, this little wonder is Romany for “coal”, which was slang for money in the 18th to 19th century. How did it make its way over to the UK? No idea, but we’re glad it did....
A couple of years ago, there was an Italian. You didn’t think I kept going back to Italy just for the pasta, did you? OK, fair enough, the pasta actually is that good.He ended up ghosting meafter months of daily conversations and international rendezvous. I was over the relationship...
Dutch Education Council Suggests Govt to Reconsider Plans to Reduce Int’l Student Numbers The Education Council of the Netherlands said that the government should reconsider its plans to reduce the number of international students at Dutch universities.The council said the government needs to especially...
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In total, 40.1% of the Dutch respondents that answered that question (n = 152) indicated that this would be mostly a reason for them to change their media use. Furthermore, ‘It is creepy’ (t(2 9 3) = 3.16, p =.002), ‘it is an invasion of my privacy’ (t(2 9 4) = ...