Index : N : Netherlands

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Netherlands

• Is its official name The Netherlands or Holland? ( goto )



• In which Netherlands province is Amsterdam located? ( goto )



• Why is Holland also known as The Netherlands? ( goto )



• What exactly is the difference between Holland and The Netherlands, or are they interchangable? ( goto )



• Vincent Van Gogh was born in what city in the Netherlands? ( goto )



• Did the area of New York City once belong to the Kingdom of the Netherlands? ( goto )



• Although the tulip is the national symbol of the Netherlands, where did the flower originate? ( goto )



• Did Franklin Roosevelt and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands ever meet in person? ( goto )



• I heard somewhere that people in the Netherlands are, on average, the tallest people of any country, just what about the Netherlands makes them taller than the rest? ( goto )



• Name the first country to ban bodily punishment in schools (Poland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, or South Africa)? ( goto )



• Whose ghost did Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands claim she saw during a 1945 stay at the White House? ( goto )



• Why is al fresco painting better suited to countries like Italy and Spain than to countries such as Britain and the Netherlands? ( goto )



• What is the connection between an important American architect, a structure commonly associated with The Netherlands, and Shakespeare's most romantic play? ( goto )



• In the Netherlands it is legal to smoke marijuana and hashish (or at least you won't get in trouble for it)--are there any other places in the world that are similarly permissive? ( goto )



• Which country has recently declared Bermuda shorts to be acceptable dress in the halls of parliament: Britain, Netherlands, Denmark or Costa Rica? ( goto )



• What other "tricolour" had, until 1937, the same rights as "national flag of the Netherlands" as the present red-white-and-blue Dutch flag? ( goto )



• Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was apparently quoted as saying "I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it." What was the "it" that she is talking about? ( goto )



• Of what Welsh town could all of the following towns be considered to be some kind of cultural clones: Wigtown, Scotland; Atherstone, England; Fjaerland, Norway; Redu, Belgium; Bredevoort in the Netherlands; and Stillwater in the United States? ( goto )



• I need a website that lists the country letter displayed on cars from that (European) country i.e. N for Netherlands, B for Belguim. I did find it once but can't find it again. Can anyone help please ? ( goto )



• How were international telephone dialing codes assigned and how come the US and Canada, two huge countries, share one code (1) when much smaller countries with a lot in common, such as the UK and Ireland, or Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, have different codes? ( goto )