ENGLISH: The History of Holland

How the European kingdoms divided the continent America among each other // how the Dutch still control the USA ... ... It all started with Columbus.... He found the new continent but since he did not bring back gold to the Spanish ...

... The real story of the Dutch kingdom…… ... The republic of The Netherlands was a sanctuary for jews and Dutch reformed christians. In The Netherlands they were safe from ROME's inquisition…. From 1500 The Pruisian kingdom (later called the Dutc...

Sure and certain! Leo Fuld is the greatest of all the Yiddish Singers of the Old World! His very best album, The Legend, is called the Sgt. Pepper of Yiddish Music. More about Leo Fuld on the website http://ww...

Just like to let you know there is a great site about those great Dutch Streetorgans of the Perlee Company om http://www.gperlee.com/...

Dutch Pride World Wide! Think the way the Dutch have their coffeeshops is the best in the world.

... Language purification or "purism" are the terms used for the attempts to "purify" a language from all words which originally did not belong to that language. "Barbarisms" and loan words must, according to the purists, be banished from the langua...

... The Scheldt boundary, which since 925 AD separated West and East Francia, was already by that time the boundary between the Celtic tribes and the Roman civitates. West Francia rapidly disintegrated, thanks to the increasing feudal powers....

... The so-called "mayors", ruling in the name of the kings, gained more power now and knew exactly how to use it to their own advantage. One of the most powerful of such families were the Pippins. When, in 751 AD, the pope was threatened by the Lan...

... In the year 406 AD the Germans invaded Gaul. The Franks followed the river Scheldt towards the south. As a result there was an extensive bilingual area occupied by Gallo-roman natives and Frankish invaders. After the collapse of the Roman Empire...

... Frisian is a West Germanic language which is spoken by about 400,000 people in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. It is closely related to Dutch but also shows a number of striking similarities to English, especially at the lexi...

... Celts, Romans and Germans ... The presence of Germanic tribes has been attested in the area covered by the Netherlands since the second century before Christ, when they were taking part in a migration towards the west. This was part of the so...

... Jan Vermeer was the master of painting simple tasks, often performed by women, and make the viewer see new and intense things in their everyday life. This way of painting was unique at the time and was described as “daringly original”. With a fe...

... The Dutch has their very own tradition in December, Sinterklaas. This man should not be mistaken for Santa Claus even if they do have kind of the same job. Sinterklaas does not come from the North Pole and he does not have reindeers, brownies or...

... Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Zundert, a village in Brabant. He was the oldest son of Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia née Carbentus. In 1864 Vincent went to school in Zevenbergen and studied French, English...

... Frans Hals was one of the first to make profit from the Italian painter Caravaggios style when it became popular in northern Europe. He was born 1580 in Antwerp, Belgium, but his family moved to Haarlem in 1591. He was twice married, had at leas...

During the Golden Age culture and art were flourishing in whole western Europe. The most popular style was the Baroque that was popular in Rome and Italy and had been introduced to the Dutch by Rubens, a painter from Flanders. In most countries there...

... The Tulip were originally a wild flower growing in the Central Asia and were first cultivated by the Turks as early as 1,000 AD. The flower were introduced in the westen Europe and the Netherlands in the 17th century by Carolus Clusius, a famous...

... Holland means "Woodland" in old Dutch, but is also the Viking name of a region in Sweden, called "Halland". The Vikings often visited this part of Europe until the 10th century. Those that stayed in Holland kept the lion in their weapon shields....

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