Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of his collaborations with Edin Karamazov, and Jan Akkerman released two albums of lute music in the 1970s while he was a guitarist in the Dutch rock band Focus.

* Rollo, a crab fishing boat in the fleet at Dutch Harbor, during the late 1970s and early 1980s

Nederpop is a Dutch term that was invented by the mid-1970s to describe the Dutch pop music scene of the 1960s and 1970s that was gaining worldwide attention, exemplified by bands such as Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and Focus.

Until the 1970s Bavaria only concentrated on the Dutch market but it now sells products in up to 100 countries.

Because of the changes the 1960s and 1970s had brought to Dutch society and culture, the strongly conservative Luns decided not to return to his home country but settled in Brussels to spend his remaining years in retirement.

Unhappily, enthusiasm for the newer clones often remains low owing to the poor performance of earlier, supposedly disease-resistant Dutch trees released in the 1960s and 1970s.

Jan Timman ( born 14 December 1951 ) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.

* Focus ( band ), 1970s Dutch band

Luyendyk started racing in the early 1970s, winning a number of Dutch national titles.

Once known as " The City of Trees ," the town was thickly forested until the 1970s, when Dutch elm disease caused many old trees to be cut down.

By the 20th century it had become well-wooded with many large trees, but most of them were lost to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s.

The interest rates on prime credits in the late 1970s and early 1980s were far higher than had been recorded – higher than previous US peaks since 1800, than British peaks since 1700, or than Dutch peaks since 1600 ; " since modern capital markets came into existence, there have never been such high long-term rates " as in this period.

Rinus Michels, who played under Reynolds, later went on to become manager of Ajax himself and refined the concept into what is known today as " Total Football " ( Totaalvoetbal in Dutch ), using it in his training for the Ajax squad and the Netherlands national team in the 1970s.

With Dutch funding, the Bangladeshi government began to help develop older chars in the late 1970s, and the effort has since become a multiagency operation building roads, culverts, embankments, cyclone shelters, toilets and ponds, as well as distributing land to settlers.

In Toronto, 80 % of the elm trees have been lost to Dutch elm disease ; many more fell victim in Ottawa, Montreal and other cities during the 1970s and 1980s.

Lignasan BLP ( carbendazim phosphate ), introduced in the 1970s, was the first fungicide used to control Dutch elm disease.

In the 1970s, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines started flights to Stavanger from Amsterdam.

The Daffodil, and other similar vehicles which were made until the 1970s by the Dutch company DAF, had a type of transmission that used an arrangement of belts and pulleys to provide an infinite number of gear ratios.

In the 1970s the Dutch city of Delft began restricting private car traffic from crossing the city centre.

In the late 1970s, however, it experienced a resurgence of interest, largely due to Dutch artists like Joost Swarte and Theo van den Boogaard, who had come up through the Dutch underground comics scene, as well as the French artist Jacques Tardi.

Subsequent generations of Dutch cabaret artists, and the theater critics of the 1970s and 1980s, were not much impressed by Toon Hermans ' unpretentious, politically and socially disengaged entertainment, but his fan base remained very large and his road shows continued to attract very large crowds.

A study of the eggs of Dutch Eurasian Sparrowhawks found that contamination with Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene ( DDE ) – a " very persistent compound " produced when DDT breaks down – continued into the 1980s, though a decline in the number of clutches with broken eggs during the 1970s suggested decreasing levels of the chemical.

During the 1960s and 1970s German mathematician Heinrich Heesch developed methods of using computers to search for a proof.

Modern stealth aircraft first became possible when Denys Overholser, a mathematician working for Lockheed Aircraft during the 1970s, adopted a mathematical model developed by Petr Ufimtsev, a Russian scientist, to develop a computer program called Echo 1.

Catastrophe theory, which originated with the work of the French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s, and became very popular due to the efforts of Christopher Zeeman in the 1970s, considers the special case where the long-run stable equilibrium can be identified with the minimum of a smooth, well-defined potential function ( Lyapunov function ).

* The slide rule is invented by William Oughtred ( 1574-1660 ), an English mathematician, and later becomes the calculating tool of choice until the electronic calculator takes over in the early 1970s.

He became a famous mathematician and a alpinist in the 1970s.

Uriah Fuller is a pen name that Martin Gardner, a notable American skeptic, recreational mathematician, author, and amateur magician, used for two booklets he wrote in the 1970s showing how purported psychics such as Uri Geller do their " seemingly impossible paranormal feats " such as bending spoons and apparently reading minds.

Budrio is the birthplace of Giuseppe Barilli, better known under his false name of Quirico Filopanti, a famous Italian mathematician and politician. It is also the birthplace of Zenobio, a famous comedian of the 1970s.

Matest M. Agrest ( July 20, 1915-September 20, 2005 ) was a Russian ethnologist and mathematician known chiefly for being an early proponent of the existence of ancient astronauts, which reached its peak of popularity in the 1970s.

In the 1970s, in the Dutch Floris series, Donia was a major character played by actor Hans Boskamp.

In the late 1970s, the Continuing Anglican movement produced a number of new church bodies in opposition to women's ordination, prayer book changes, and the new understandings concerning marriage.

All of these programs were produced by Koenig at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht in the 1970s.

" Hybrid " television sets produced in the early to mid 1970s made use of a combination of tubes ( typically Compactrons ), transistors, and integrated circuits in the same set.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

The punk rock scene of the 1970s produced The Stranglers, whose keyboard player Dave Greenfield used a Hammond on the band's early albums.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

Berry began to sing again in the early 1970s, and he arranged and produced a number of singles ( both solo and as Jan & Dean ) between 1972 and 1978 on the Ode and A & M labels, facilitated by friend and former manager Lou Adler.

The project, codenamed " Project Lapponia ", was headed by Simo Vuorio, and towards the end of the 1970s, a working prototype was produced based on the Saab 99 GL.

The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.

Hoffmann-La Roche then licensed the invention to the Swiss manufacturer Brown, Boveri & Cie who produced displays for wristwatches during the 1970s and also to Japanese electronics industry, which soon produced the first digital quartz wrist watches with TN-LCDs and numerous other products.

* In March 2004, a Libyan official stated that the country has never produced anti-personnel mines, but is known to have laid land mines in the 1970s and 1980s.

The first evidence of this type was produced in the late 1970s by British parapsychologist Keith Hearne.

In the 1970s commercially successful LED devices at less than five cents each were produced by Fairchild Optoelectronics.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the most visible presence of martial arts films was the hundreds of English dubbed kung fu and ninja films produced by the Shaw Brothers, Godfrey Ho, Joseph Lai, and other Hong Kong producers.

Despite the success of these musicals, Hollywood also produced a series of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste.

Following the " kung fu wave " in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s, a number of mainstream films produced during the 1980s contributed significantly to the perception of martial arts in western popular culture.

Some of the best-selling books in the 1970s and early 1980s included those produced by Vladimir Koziakin, Rick and Glory Brightfield, Dave Phillips, Larry Evans, and Greg Bright.

Several manufacturers produced mainframe computers from the late 1950s through the 1970s.

* Chris Blackwell, Island Records ' founder who produced the band before hitting his production stride in the 1970s with Bob Marley

Paramount's association with the comedian Jerry Lewis, whose York Pictures Productions produced The Nutty Professor among other films, ended in the 1970s, and the rights to these films were given back to Lewis.

Hewlett Packard and Tektronix produced small, desktop-sized flatbed plotters in the late 1960s and 1970s.

While under his leadership Naval construction yards produced fewer ships than the 1970s, greater emphasis was placed on technology and qualitative improvement.