In speech, the Dutch seldom use the formal &# 39 ; s-Hertogenbosch but rather the colloquial Den Bosch.

In the mid &# 8209 ; 17th century Augustine Herman, a mapmaker and Prague native who had served as an envoy for the Dutch, observed that two great bodies of water, the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay, were separated only by a narrow strip of land.

Other transliterations include Tschaikowski ( German ) &# x10C ; ajkovskij or Ciajkovskij ( Italian ), Chaikovski ( Spanish ), Tsjaikovski ( Dutch ) and Tjajkovskij ( Swedish ).

These replicas were built for the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Railways in 1938 – 39.

Hellevoetsluis () ( population: 39, 559 in November 2011, source CBS ( Dutch )) is a small city and municipality on Voorne-Putten Island in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.

He declined a new contract to leave for Milan on a Bosman transfer in 1997, by which time he had scored 39 goals from 70 games in the Dutch league over three seasons.

Møller – Mærsk A / S ( 39 %), a subcompany of Royal Dutch Shell ( 46 %) and Chevron Denmark Inc. ( 15 %).

On February 2, 1595, at the age of 39, Maria finally married Philip of Hohenlohe in Buren, in the Dutch Reformed Church.

" No One Knows " is also the band's highest charting single on the Dutch Singles Chart ( where it reached number 39 ) and on the Irish Singles Chart, ( where it peaked at number 26 ).

For that purpose, it maintains 39 lifeboat stations along the Dutch coast of the North Sea and Wadden Sea and on the IJsselmeer.

He worked for the Royal Dutch Shell companies in various countries for 39 years, after the war.

The single peaked at # 39 in the Dutch Top 40 but did better in the Megacharts Top 50, peaking at # 17.

In 1971, 39 % of the Dutch population were members of the Roman Catholic Church ; by 2007, their share of the population had dropped to 26 % ( KASKI data ).

In the Dutch municipal elections of 2006, Nawijn managed, with his own new party, to gather 5 out of 39 seats in his hometown Zoetermeer.

The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;

or to Lancaster, Pa., the center of the Pennsylvania Dutch country ; ;

In 1972, they completed the European treble by winning the Dutch Eredivisie, KNVB Cup, and the European Cup ; to date, they are the only team to keep the European Cup and accomplish the European treble.

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.

Opgezwolle, a group from Zwolle's latest album, Eigen Wereld ( Own World ) appeared in the ' Album Top 100 ' at number 4 ; the highest notation of a Dutch rap album ever.

Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

The assault consisted of 12 battalions of Dutch infantry commanded by Major Generals Schultz and Spaar ; two brigades of Saxons under Count Schulenburg ; a Scottish brigade in Dutch service led by the 2nd Duke of Argyle ; and a small brigade of Protestant Swiss.

In the end England and the Dutch Republic took control of the newly won territory for the duration of the war ; after which it was to be handed over to the direct rule of ‘ Charles III ’, subject to the reservation of a Dutch Barrier, the extent and nature of which had yet to be settled.

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 allure of such profits saw an increasing number of Dutch expeditions ; it was soon seen that in trade with the East Indies, competition from each would eat into all their profits.

At the time nutmeg was one of the " fine spices " kept expensive in Europe by disciplined manipulation of the market, but a desirable commodity for Dutch traders in the ports of India as well ; economic historian Fernand Braudel notes that India consumed twice as much as Europe.

The Bandanese soon grew tired of the Dutch actions ; the low prices, the useless trade items, and the enforcement of Dutch sole rights to the purchase of the coveted spices.

Hermanus " Herman " Brood ( pronounced " Hairmon Broat " / bro: t /; November 5, 1946 – July 11, 2001 ) was a Dutch musician, painter, actor, poet and media personality.

*' t Gulden Zeepaert, a ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company

Subsequent addition of the terminal " t " in the spelling " veldt " seems to have been mainly an English confusion with the already obsolete Dutch usage ; it never was an Afrikaans form.

He wrote music for many Dutch TV-shows, including Ja zuster, nee zuster, t Schaep met de 5 poten, Sesamstraat, and De Stratemakeropzeeshow.

Two laws governing the osmotic pressure of a dilute solution were discovered by the German botanist W. F. P. Pfeffer and the Dutch chemist J. H. van ’ t Hoff:

This is a characteristic of Dutch and German as well and involves positional neutralization of voicing contrast in the coda position for obstruents ( i. e. t = d at the end of a syllable.

The book has also been translated into German ( by Eugen Helmlé as Anton Voyls Fortgang, 1986 ), Spanish ( El secuestro, 1997 ), Turkish ( by Cemal Yardımcı as Kayboluş, 2006 ), Swedish ( by Sture Pyk as Försvinna, 2000 ), Russian ( by Valeriy Kislow as Исчезание, 2005 ) and Dutch ( by Guido van de Wiel as t Manco, 2009 ) and Romanian ( Serban Foarta as Disparitia, editura Art, 2010 ).

Six decades after the foundation of the English and Dutch East India companies ( in 1600 and 1602 respectively ), and at a time when both companies were multiplying factories on the shores of India, the French still didn ’ t have a viable trading company and a single permanent establishment in the East.

Despite this, Svärdet was ignited by accident or misunderstanding by the Dutch fireship t ' Hoen.

She is most notable for being the original for the fictional yacht Goblin in Ransome ’ s book We Didn ’ t Mean to Go to Sea ( 1937 ) which recounts a voyage across the North Sea to the Dutch port of Flushing.

( Outside formal settings Vollenhoven always preferred to be addressed simply as " Theo ," pronounced in his native Dutch with only a " t " sound, but spelled " Th " in deference to the Theta-sound in the Greek origins of the name.

In German, West Germanic * d shifted to / t / in what may be thought of as a chain shift, but in Dutch, * þ, * đ and * d merged into a single / d /.

The Dutch were in contact with the Kandyan court as early as 1602, but it wasn ’ t until 1632 that the Kandyan monarch, Raja Sinha II, invited Dutch cooperation in expelling the Portuguese from the island.

In 1983, Griggs released a solo recording of The Beatles ' song " You Won ’ t See Me ", with the help of a Dutch recording studio and record company, Dureco in Weesp.

This apparent division may have been fortuitous, as on other Dutch maps of this period Terra Australis or t ' Zuid Landt (" the South Land ") appears with the name, Hollandia Nova as an alternative name for the whole country.