Perhaps the Aster computer inspired another Dutch computer firm to name their computer after another typical Dutch flower — the Tulip's Tulip System-1 which appeared about the same time Aster folded.

A good illustration of the risk of DLC arbitrage is the position in Royal Dutch Shell — which had a DLC structure until 2005 — by the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management ( LTCM, see also the discussion below ).

For the Bandanese, on the other hand, although they welcomed another competitor purchaser for their spices, the items of trade offered by the Dutch — heavy woollens, and damasks, unwanted manufactured goods, for example — were usually unsuitable in comparison to traditional trade products.

Many Dutch people subscribe every year to an event called fietsvierdaagse — four days of organised cycling through the local environment.

Two paintings ( both dated 1565 ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling — Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf.

In many European languages, words derived from this root take after the first meaning — English being a notable exception ( e. g. French and Dutch concurrent, German Konkurrent and Russian конкурент translate as " competitor " in English ).

The Dutch Republic was born, a nation with Protestants, Catholics and Jews — and an unusual policy of tolerance.

The next to arrive were the Dutch, the British — who set up a trading post in the west coast port of Surat in 1619 — and the French.

The captains of these ships — Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout on the Gouden Cath ( Golden Cat ) and Jacob de Gouwenaer on the Orangienboom ( Orange Tree )— named it Mr. Joris Eylant after the Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on board and mapped the island.

The government had to fight smuggling — which became a favorite American technique in the 18th century to circumvent the restrictions on trading with the French, Spanish or Dutch.

Van Buren was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president not of British or Irish descent — his family was Dutch.

At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with the Dutch ruler — he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the Dauphin Louis, thus allying his realms with Catholic France and strengthening the odds of a Catholic successor in Britain ; but later, under pressure from Parliament and with a coalition with the Catholic French no longer politically favourable, he approved the union.

Queen Wilhelmina had promised in a 1942 speech to offer autonomy to the overseas territories of the Netherlands, and British and American occupation — with consent by the Dutch government — of the islands during the war led to increasing demands for autonomy within the population as well.

In the federal ( bicameral ) kingdom of Belgium, there is a curious asymmetrical constellation serving as directly elected legislatures for three " territorial " regions — Flanders ( Dutch ), Brussels ( bilingual, certain peculiarities of competence, also the only region not comprising any of the 10 provinces ) and Wallonia ( French )— and three cultural communities — Flemish ( Dutch, competent in Flanders and for the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Brussels ), Francophone ( French, for Wallonia and for Francophones in Brussels ) and German ( for speakers of that language in a few designated municipalities in the east of the Walloon Region, living alongside Francophones but under two different regimes )

* Patrick Kinser-Lau — Shogun's Companion, Girl, Dutch Admiral, British Sailor

* Please Hello — Abe, Reciter, American, British, Dutch, Russian and French Admirals )

If the Africans were not much interested in acquiring slaves, the Portuguese — as well as the Dutch, French, and English who arrived later — certainly were.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

The Boer quest for independence manifested in a tradition of declaring republics, which predates the arrival of the British ; when the British arrived, Boer republics had already been declared and were in rebellion from the VOC ( Dutch East India Company ).

The Boer nation is mainly descended from Dutch, German and French Huguenots, who migrated to South Africa during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries.

In contemporary South Africa and due to Broederbond propaganda, Boer and Afrikaner have been used interchangeably despite the fact that the Boers are the smaller segment within the Afrikaner designation as the Afrikaners of Cape Dutch origin are larger.

De Krisgsgevangenewas, a censored Dutch newspaper, was published for Boer prisoners from 1901.

After the retreat of Mzilikazi's Ndebele, many Boer farmers trekked across the Vaal and occupied parts of the Transvaal, bringing with them the laws of their Dutch forebears.

* May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant

The Second Boer War (, or Tweede Boereoorlog ) was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic ( Transvaal Republic ) and the Orange Free State.

Dennis Nicolaas Bergkamp (; born 10 May 1969 ) was a Dutch professional footballer and now is the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax.

He even entertained a peace treaty proposed by Botha and the other Boer leaders that would have maintained the sovereignty of the South African Republican and the Orange Free State while requiring them to sign a perpetual treaty of alliance with the UK and grant major concessions to the UK such as equal rights for English with Dutch in their countries, voting rights for Uitlanders, and a customs and railway union with the Cape Colony and Natal, although he knew the government in the UK would reject the offer.

* The Republic of the Orange Free State ( Dutch: Oranje-Vrijstaat ) was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.

The first " Commando Law " was instated by the original Dutch East India Company chartered settlements and similar laws were maintained through the independent Boer Orange Free State and South African Republic.

There were thus now three Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa — the Afrikaner Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk ( the Cape Synod ), the Boer Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk, which was the State Church of the South African Republic, and the Boer Gereformeerde Kerk, the smallest of the three, led by Rev.

Three years later Adriann Boer, Ernest Loeb, Johan Huijsen and others founded the Dutch Club for Art Photography ( Nederlandsche Club voor Foto-Kunst ), which amassed an important collection of pictorial photography now housed at Leiden University.

The Bond, on its side, sought to draw closer to Het Volk, the Boer organization in the Transvaal, and similar bodies, and at its 1906 congress, held in March that year at Ceres, a resolution with that aim was passed, the design being to unify, in accordance with the original conception of the Bond, Dutch sentiment and action throughout South Africa.

After the war, there was a general reconciliation between Afrikaners and Britain, culminating in the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, under the leadership of former Boer fighters such as Louis Botha and Jan Smuts ( who was of Cape Dutch origin fighting on the side of the Boers ).

Stellaland, officially known as the Republic of Stellaland ( Dutch: Republiek Stellaland ) from 1882 – 1883 and, after unification with the neighbouring State of Goshen, as the United States of Stellaland ( Dutch: Verenigde Staten van Stellaland ) from 1883 – 1885, was a Boer republic located in an area of Bechuanaland, west of the Transvaal.

* 1820 – Multatuli ( Eduard Douwes Dekker ), Dutch writer ( d. 1887 )

* 1901 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor ( d. 1959 )

* February 19 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer ( b. 1820 )

* March 2 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer ( d. 1887 )

After a period with no principal conductor, the orchestra engaged the Dutch conductor Eduard van Beinum in 1947.

* Dutch: Eduard

* Glück ( Happiness ), 1891, ( translated into Dutch by Eduard Fimmen, 1903 ).

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala ( 20 April 1871 – 5 February 1922 ) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Polish-Jewish and Dutch ethnicity.

Eduard Penkala was born in Liptovský Mikuláš ( in what is now Slovakia ), to Franciszek Pękała, who was of Polish heritage, and Maria Pękała ( née Hannel ), who was of Dutch heritage.

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company () is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli ( the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker ) ( 1820-1887 ) which was to play a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Eduard Douwes Dekker ( 2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887 ), better known by his pen name Multatuli ( from Latin multa tuli, " I have carried much "), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar ( 1860 ), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies ( today's Indonesia ).

Jan Eduard de Quay ( August 26, 1901-July 4, 1985 ) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party ( KVP ) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ).

At first called Roburnial the name was changed on 5 July 1882 to Amsterdam, after the Dutch city where the State Secretary, Eduard Bok, was born, and out of gratitude for Dutch sympathy during the First Anglo-Boer War ( 1880-1881 ).

Throughout the fifties and sixties Lex van Delden became one of the most widely heard Dutch composers of his generation, and a large number of his pieces were commissioned ( by the Dutch government, the City of Amsterdam, Dutch radio and others ) and enjoyed acclaimed performances by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra under such renowned conductors as George Szell, Charles Münch, Eduard van Beinum, Eugen Jochum, Willem van Otterloo and Bernard Haitink, and by numerous other prominent ensembles and soloists.

Van der Mey was a student of Eduard Cuypers from 1898, won the Dutch version of the Prix de Rome in 1906, and got a job with the city of Amsterdam as an " Aesthetic Advisor ".

Edward William Bok ( born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok ) ( October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930 ) was a Dutch born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis ( 28 October 1892, Tilburg – 18 May 1965, De Bilt ) was a Dutch historian of science.