* ABCD line, a Japanese term for embargoes placed against Japan by the Americans, British, Chinese and Dutch, as well as other countries.

Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.

While the Dutch raid was a major concern in itself, Pepys was personally placed under a different kind of pressure: the Navy Board, and his role as Clerk of the Acts, came under scrutiny from the public and from parliament.

At 18, Margaretha answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod ( 1 March 1856 – 9 January 1928 ) who was living in the then Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) and was looking for a wife.

This was significant as the marriage enabled her to move into the Dutch upper class and her finances were placed on a sound footing.

Following some skirmishes between Indonesian and Dutch forces, an agreement was reached and the territory was placed under United Nations administration in October 1962.

In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

The Dutch also allegedly placed candles on the victims ' bodies to demonstrate the translucence of the flesh.

In June 2009, the Wadden Sea ( comprising the Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area and the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) was placed on the World Heritage list by UNESCO.

Later again the charge was exploded by paper tubes ( sometimes called Dutch tubes ) filled with powder and placed in the vent and ignited by a port-fire.

The Dutch first line of infantry was placed in a strong defensive position, on top of a stretch of dunes, with guns covering both flanks with enfilade fire.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

His earliest governesses were the wives of a tailor and a vintner from the Dutch settlement ; a sailor called Norman taught him the rudiments of navigation ; and, when he grew older, he was placed under the care of a Hungarian refugee, Janos Zeikin, who seems to have been a conscientious teacher.

The Dutch entry into the war placed further strains on the French treasury, as they searched for finances to support the Dutch war effort.

Over the next 20 years the emphasis was placed on saving historic buildings, such as The Falcon Inn, Dutch Houses and Kings Buildings.

Major supply and ammunition depot magazines were set up for the British by General Ligonier at Ghent, Oudenarde and Tournai, while the Dutch General Vander – Duyn placed theirs at Mons, Charleroi and Tournai.

With each Regent is placed a Dutch Resident, or Assistant Resident, who is considered to be his " elder brother ," and whose " orders " take the form of " recommendations ," which are, however, implicitly obeyed.

In the Netherlands media literacy was placed in the agenda by the Dutch government in 2006 as an important subject for the Dutch society.

The Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland placed Raising Arizonas bank robbery scene second, on their list of " The 5 best bank robberies in film history ", behind a bank robbery scene from the 1995 thriller Heat.

In 1948, Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder predicted the existence of a tiny repulsive force between closely placed metal plates due to resonances in the vacuum energy in the space between them.

A camping, cowboy, or chuckwagon Dutch oven has three legs, a wire bail handle, and a slightly concave, rimmed lid so that coals from the cooking fire can be placed on top as well as below.

She argues that slavery allowed white society to stereotype white women as the pure goddess virgin and move black women to the seductive whore stereotype formerly placed on all women.

Children were often placed at the front of this enclosure and the area had a distinctive white picket fence to keep fans off the pitch ( up until the 70's ).

A white / gray / white stripe are on each sleeve as well as the collared V-neck, and a Cowboys star logo is placed upon the stripes.

The team's helmets are also a unique silver with a tint of blue known as " Metallic Silver Blue " ( PMS 8240 C ) and have a blue / white / blue vertical stripe placed upon the center of the crown.

The Cowboys also include a unique, if subtle, feature on the back of the helmet: a blue strip of Dymo tape with the player's name embossed, placed on the white portion of the stripe at the back of the helmet.

Mass public support for the captured ' rebels ' in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the first instituted political democracy in Australia.

It is bordered on all sides by a white line indicating its beginning and end points, with orange, square pylons placed at each of the four corners as a visual aid.

Also called Gobang or Five in a Row, it is traditionally played with Go pieces ( black and white stones ) on a go board ( 19x19 intersections ); however, because once placed, pieces are not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper and pencil game.

The stamp, designed by Howard Paine, displays the book with its original dust jacket, a white Magnolia blossom, and a hilt placed against a background of green velvet.

Using a glass wall for the entrance, similar in appearance to his Louvre pyramid, Pei coated the exterior of the main building in white metal, and placed a large cylinder on a narrow perch to serve as a performance space.

A white cube decorated with a black square was placed on his tomb.

* EL-WLED: The LCD panel is lit by a row of white LEDs placed at one or more edges of the screen.

* WLED array: The LCD panel is lit by a full array of white LEDs placed behind a diffuser behind the panel.

This was part of a response to an Aboriginal Stolen Generations inquiry, which found widespread suffering had taken place amongst Australian Aboriginal children forcibly placed into the care of white parents in a little-publicised state government scheme.

The Chardonay from Le Clos Jordanne placed first out of the 14 white wines, some of which were notable international wines, including: Chateau Montelena, Mer Soleil, Kumeu River, an aged reserve wine from Rosemount Estates, and a number of Burgundian entrants from producers such as Drouhin, Lamy, Boisset, Jadot and others.

They were originally marked by wooden numbers cut from plywood, painted white, and placed in gaps where the ivy was not allowed to grow.

The Nice is symbolized by a red eagle on white background, placed on three mountains, which can be described in French heraldic language as " d ' argent à une aigle de gueule posée sur trois coupeaux ".

The board is always placed so that the rightmost square on the row nearest each player is a " white " square.

He placed blacks and Jews at the very bottom of the ladder, while at the very top stood the white or " Aryan " race.

But the strong lights placed on either side of my face made my blue eyes look almost white, and by nearly eliminating my nose, made me seem cross-eyed.

The United States did not pass a law, but instead placed a " punitive tax " on white phosphorus-based matches, one so high as to render their manufacture financially impractical, in 1913.

All remaining white pieces are placed randomly on the first rank, with the following restrictions:

For example, if the white king is randomly determined to start on f1, then the black king is placed on f8.