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| When you visit Holland try a typical Holland food product called "Hollandse Nieuwe", it's raw herring. The Dutch eat it with onions and pickles, and sometimes on a bread. |
| Dutchman Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), one of the most important European botanists, met a Flemish diplomat called Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq in Constantinopel (now: Istanbul, Turkey). He sent many tulip bulbs to this friends in Holland. That's how the tulip came to Holland. |
| The songtext of the famous classic song "Tulpen uit Amsterdam", "Tulips from Amsterdam". |
| This is a well-known painting by Frans Hals, a laughing, jolly drinker. |
| At the end of the busy Kalverstreet is a charming old Dutch Court called "Begijnen Hof" (Beguine Court). |
| In the 17th century the city of Amsterdam and the country Holland experienced a "Golden Age". |
| The contract between Hendrick (or Henry) Hudson and the Gentlemen of the Dutch East Indian Company. |
| In the year 754 the Frisians (province Friesland, northern part of Holland) killed the Christian missionary Boniface with a sword. |
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