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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer ForMemRS (; February 27, 1881 – December 2, 1966 ), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (; Deventer, April or May, 1562 – Amsterdam, 16 October 1621 ) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.

* 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam ( later New York City ).

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The 2001 verdict of the Amsterdam district court is an important precedent.

* 1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

While some argued for the seat of government to move to Berlin, others advocated leaving it in Bonn — a situation roughly analogous to that of the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital but The Hague is the seat of government.

It is the oldest north – south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement.

In cities such as Amsterdam, Haarlem, and also Moscow, this pattern is still clearly visible.

There is a flight on Mondays from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Sal and on Thursdays from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport via Munich-Riem Airport to Sal.

As with most public transport in Cuba, the vehicles used are second hand, and the flagship Tren Francés (" French train ") between Havana and Santiago de Cuba is operated by coaches originally used in Europe between Paris and Amsterdam on the ex-TEE express.

As the first public bank to " offer accounts not directly convertible to coin ", the Bank of Amsterdam established in 1609 is considered to be the precursor to modern central banks.

Following the December 2009 opening of HSL Zuid, a London – Amsterdam journey is estimated to take 4hrs 16mins.

Wouter J. Hanegraaff is Professor of “ History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents ” at the University of Amsterdam ( 1999 ).

The Universiteit van Amsterdam ( UvA ) is the world's first academic institution to have created a complete program for research and teaching in the field of Western Esotericism.

* 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.

A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.

* 1653 – New Amsterdam ( later renamed The City of New York ) is incorporated.

The InterCityExpress or ICE is a type of high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn in Germany and large cities in neighbouring countries, such as Zurich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The English outbreak is thought to have spread from the Netherlands, where the bubonic plague had been occurring intermittently since 1599, with the initial contagion arriving with Dutch trading ships carrying bales of cotton from Amsterdam.

His art is best described as pop-art, often very colorful and graffiti-inspired screen prints, and he achieved some commercial success and notoriety by, for instance, creating murals in various public spaces in and around Amsterdam.

* 1945 – The General Dutch Youth League ( ANJV ) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

She eventually amassed more than 90 van Gogh paintings and 185 drawings, one of the world's largest collections of the artist's work, second only to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Schiphol, the Amsterdam airport, is the main airport in the Netherlands, and the fourth largest in Europe.

With a population of 500, 000 inhabitants ( as of 1 September 2011 ), and more than one million inhabitants including the suburbs, it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

* August 22 – Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what will be the second largest urban Jewish community in history, that of New York City.

* 1287 – December 14 – A fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake in Holland collapses during a heavy storm, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

Located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City ( between West 110th Street, which is also known as " Cathedral Parkway ", and 113th Street ) in Manhattan's Morningside Heights, the cathedral disputes with Liverpool Anglican Cathedral the title of the largest cathedral and Anglican church and fourth largest Christian church in the world.

** In the Netherlands, a fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake collapses, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

During the Dutch Golden Era, Leiden was the second largest city of Holland, after Amsterdam.

The largest exchange points in the world are DE-CIX in Frankfurt, AMS-IX in Amsterdam, LINX in London, the Moscow Internet Exchange, Equinix Ashburn in Washington D. C., and JPNAP in Tokyo.

The two clubs share a long history together and matches between the two clubs are called the Klassieker ( The Classic ) The rivalry is not only between the two teams, but also a confrontation between the two largest cities of the country, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, two cities with extreme differences in attitude and culture.

34. 6 m tall and 4. 4 m in girth, this Ulmus × hollandica ' Belgica ' in Oudemanhuispoort, Amsterdam, planted in 1895, is the largest elm in the Netherlands.

The port of Terneuzen is the third largest in the Netherlands, after those of Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

In 1940 Winschoten had the second largest Jewish community in The Netherlands after Amsterdam.

Banking offices were usually located near centers of trade, and in the late 17th century, the largest centers for commerce were the ports of Amsterdam, London, and Hamburg.

Amsterdam is the capital and largest city known for its many canals, historic buildings, red light district ( De Wallen ) and cannabis coffee shops.

The NS covers most of the country, with almost all cities connected, mostly with a service frequency of two trains an hour or more ( and at least four trains per hour between all of the largest 5 cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven as well as some larger cities: Nijmegen, Amersfoort, Arnhem ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Dordrecht and Leiden ).

The largest concentrations of mature elms in Europe are now in Amsterdam and The Hague.

The largest surviving urban forest of elm trees in North America is believed to be in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, where close to 200, 000 elms remain-at least double that of Amsterdam, the " Elm City of Europe ".

The largest institution in Fort George is Yeshiva University, whose main campus sits east of Amsterdam Avenue in Highbridge Park.

There have been retrospectives and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art ( 1995 ) and the Guggenheim Museum ( 1996 ) in New York, and the principal museums of Rome ( 1996 ), Valencia ( 1996 ), Madrid ( 1997 ), Zurich ( 1998 ), St. Louis — which holds the largest public collection of Beckmann paintings in the world —( 1998 ), Munich ( 2000 ), Frankfurt ( 2006 ) and Amsterdam ( 2007 ).

Amsterdam is the largest city in and titular capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

De Wallen or De Walletjes is the largest, and best-known, red-light district in Amsterdam and a major tourist attraction.

In the Netherlands, the feral population in the four largest urban areas ( Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and especially in The Hague ) has been estimated at more than 10, 000 birds, more than double the number of birds estimated in 2004.