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Dutch efforts to decapitate Pirate Bay could end up before ECJ
Legal eagle: Euro court must decide if TPB is breaking the law.
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Netherlands loses landmark global warming case, ordered to cut emissions
Ruling could set a very important precedent in Europe and around the world.
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Dutch Government Moves To Let Intelligence Community Have More Hacking & Mass Surveillance Powers
The Dutch government is looking to expand its surveillance powers, something which would seemingly be at odds with the current public antipathy towards mass surveillance, but of course isn't, because governments are expanding powers even while...
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The Radical Reason This Dutch City Is Doling Out Free Money
The Dutch city of Utrecht is giving welfare recipients a no-strings-attached "basic income" as part of an economic experiment.
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This Woman Has Been on Vacation for Three Years
"I'm sure that everyone who is working away in an office, enviously looking at my Facebook albums, could live the exact same life. I don't understand why more people don't do what I do."
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Netherlands Company Introduces Plastic Roads That Are More Durable, Climate Friendly Than Asphalt
The company behind the idea says plastic roads could cut down on asphalt-related CO2 emissions.
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Volunteers have made a replica of Vincent van Gogh's selfportrait with flowers
This article in Dutch, but it details about how people (who also make floats with dahlia flowers) have built a replica of Van Gogh's selfportrait today in Amsterdam with dahlias.
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Watch this white-knuckle jumbo jet landing in tenacious Amsterdam wind storm
The Boeing 777 landed in Amsterdam on Saturday during the Netherlands' worst July storm on record.
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The Geometric Beauty Of Fort Bourtange in The Netherlands
This picturesque star fort is located in the small village of Bourtange, Groningen, the Netherlands. It was built in 1593 with the sole purpose of controlling the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen, which was controlled by Spain during the eighty years’ war.
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How Groningen invented a cycling template for cities all over the world
Motorists woke up one mid-70s morning to find new one-way streets made direct crosstown journeys impossible by car. Forty years later Groningen boasts two-thirds of all trips made by bike … and the cleanest air of any big Dutch city.
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Dutch Crane Collapse Crushes Houses, Injures 20
At least 20 people were injured Monday when two cranes and a section of a bridge collapsed onto a row of houses in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, according to a Reuters report citing a Dutch broadcaster
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4th August 1944 - Anne Frank captured
Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.
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Crazy paving: Rotterdam to consider trialling plastic roads
Dutch city could be first to pave its streets with recycled plastic bottles, a surface claimed to be greener, quicker to lay and more reliable than asphalt
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Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraud
Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. Article dates from 2013.
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Hoorn, the Netherlands.
This was taken in Hoorn, in the Netherlands. More of my pictures can be found on the same blog.
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Dutch football clubs experiment with fewer police and fences
Six Dutch local authority areas are to experiment with reduced policing at football matches, a spokesman for football association KNVB told the NRC.
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Sail Amsterdam
Sail Amsterdam is one of the biggest attractions in Amsterdam and the greatest nautical spectacle in the world where scores of tall ships and hundreds of other historical ships gather along the river IJ for an amazing parade.
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Schippers wins 200 meters gold at world championships
BEIJING (Reuters) - Dutch flier Dafne Schippers pipped Jamaica's Elaine Thompson by three hundredths of a second to win the women's 200 meters at the world championships on Friday. The former heptathlete, who won silver in the 100 meters behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Monday, surged to the line in 21.63 seconds, the fastest time in 17 years in the half-lap sprint. Thompson took silver in a personal best time of 21.66, while bronze went to twice Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown.
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The Netherlands plans to have a 100% wind-powered railway system by 2018
With each passing week, renewable energy makes greater and greater strides in supplying more power for our lives, and a lot of that innovation is happening in transport. The Netherlands is the latest country to set the pace for adopting alternative energy sources: the companies in charge of the country's railways are looking to move the entire network over to wind power in the next three years.
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The world's biggest manmade wave - BBC News
Scientists in the Netherlands have built a vast new machine that can create the world's largest artificial wave to put flood defences to the test.
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