It is a self-made country, the Dutch national character shaped by the ongoing battle to keep the water out - from the love of dairy and beer to the attitude to nature and the famous tolerance.Ben Coates investigates what makes the Dutch the Dutch, why the Netherlands is much more than ...
Why Dutch swear words are so poxy English insults often refer to sex; Dutch ones, to disease IN MOST LANGUAGES, if someone said you had cancer, it would be a diagnosis. In Dutch, it is more likely to be an insult. Kankerlijer (“cancer-sufferer”) is one of a long list of Dutch ...
New Netherlands was founded to trade furs with the Native Americans, especially the Mohawks. The colony was actually established by the Dutch West... Learn more about this topic: New Amsterdam Colony | History, Settlements & Significance
In the Netherlands, the median age at which people first have intercourse rose from 17.1 in 2012 to 18.6 in 2017, and other types of physical contact also got pushed back, even kissing. This news was greeted not with universal relief, as in the United States, but with some concern. The ...
The theory that socks can help men (and women) achieve orgasm begins with a 2015 study by thesometimes-controversialneuroscientist Gert Holstege. While working at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, Holstege a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner to look at brain activity during...
The closest language to English is one calledFrisian, which is a Germanic language spoken by a small population of about 480,000 people. There are three separate dialects of the language, and it's only spoken at the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. ...
This is why it’s interesting now that Jens Stoltenberg is stepping down. You have now the former prime minister of Netherlands, Mark Rutte, who will take over. And again, I follow the Dutch media quite a lot as well, as I’m also a dual citizen, I’m also...
Early Origins of “Going Dutch” Many phrases similar to “going Dutch” can be traced back to the 17thcentury, during the cold war betweenEnglandand the then-Dutch Republic (nowNetherlands). Both countries were competing for naval superiority, a rivalry that eventually culminated in theAnglo-Dut...
Trusted allies of the USA: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Adversaries of the US or nations under arms embargo: Belarus, Burma, China...
“Because of this predominance, both the Republic and the present Kingdom of the Netherlands are often called ‘Holland,’” according toEncyclopedia Britannica. But the Dutch government wants visitors to know there is more to the country than its two most famous provinces—particularly a...