The only survivors of the vicinal / buurtspoor system are the Kusttram ( covering almost the entire coast from France to the Netherlands, being the longest tram line in the world ) and some sections of the Charleroi Pre-metro.

The only difference is that in the chorus, instead of singing " These are men, America's best ", they sing " These are men, The Netherlands ' best ".

There are process and product guidelines in Europe that date to the early 1980s ( Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland ) and only more recently in the UK and the US.

DirkJan became known nationally when the then only commercial comics magazine of the Netherlands SjoSji ( now defunct ) started publishing the strip.

The university was the second of its kind in the Netherlands, only Delft University of Technology existed previously.

It was the second institute of its kind in the Netherlands, preceded only by the Delft University of Technology.

The only rail carrier to formally propose and secure permission for such a service up to now is Deutsche Bahn, which intends to run services between London and Germany and the Netherlands.

She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France and Ireland.

He was immensely popular not only in Germany but in the rest of Europe as well: orders for editions of Telemann's music came from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and Spain.

Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs and only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France and Ireland.

Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.

The sometimes cloudy, cold, wet weather of the Netherlands allowed him to focus intently on his works, and only during 1962, when he underwent surgery, was there a time when no new images were created.

The racemic hydrochloride is the only form available in most countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium, France and in the United States, as of March 2008.

The Netherlands is the only country which uses PAC this extensively, and the goal is to cover 100 % of the motorways with PAC.

However, a Dutch prosecutor claims that he is free to prosecute the father and may well do that, and that the Dutch have only retracted the international request to arrest him outside the Netherlands.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

The Socialist Party, the Green Party and Labour have a solid two-thirds majority in City Council, making Nijmegen the only major city in the Netherlands with a solely Left-wing government.

Leefwerkschool Eigenwijs has its roots in the local activist movement of the early 1980s and is the only school of its kind recognised in the Netherlands.

Examples include the flags of Monaco and of Indonesia, which differ only slightly in proportion ; of the Netherlands and of Luxembourg, which differ in proportion as well as in the tint of blue used ; and of Romania and of Chad, which differ only in the tint of blue.

However, nations with proportional voting may differ in that some emphasize the individuals within the parties, such as the system in the Netherlands, while other nations only allow voting for parties, such as in the Italian electoral system.

Some nations with proportional elections, like Israel and the Netherlands, have one electoral district only: the entire nation, and the entire pie is cut up according to the entire outcome.

Frits Philips, the son of Anton, was the only Philips family member to stay in the Netherlands.

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

USA 25. 7 %, China 14. 1 %, Netherlands 10. 9 %, UK 6. 3 %, Mexico 5 % ( 2007 )

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With 2, 000 congregations and a membership of some 1. 8 million ( or 10. 8 % of the Dutch population, 2009 ), it is the second largest church in the Netherlands after the Roman Catholic Church.

Only those congregations belonging to the former Reformed Churches in the Netherlands have the legal right to secede from the PKN without losing its property and church during a transition period of 10 years.

Figures from the CIA World Factbook show the main export markets in 2006 were United Kingdom 30. 8 %, Spain 22. 7 %, Germany 13. 7 %, Turkmenistan 10. 4 %, Switzerland 8. 3 %, Italy 6. 7 % while the corresponding figures for imports are Spain 23. 4 %, Russia 12. 3 %, Italy 12 %, UK 9 %, France 8. 9 %, Netherlands 6. 8 % and United States 4. 7 %.

This model was said to be found in EU core countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, and it is also mirrored and emulated to some extent in the institutions of the EU, due to the relative weight that these countries had in the EU until the EU expansion by the inclusion of 10 new Eastern European member states in 2004.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

This includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Australia 4, Austria 6, Bangladesh 1, Belgium 3, Bulgaria 19, Canada 2, China 16, Croatia 14, Cuba 1, Cyprus 7, Denmark 3, Estonia 5, Finland 1, Germany 54, Greece 627, Hong Kong 12, Iceland 3, India 10, Iran 2, Israel 26, Italy 36, Japan 2, Latvia 24, Lebanon 6, Monaco 29, Netherlands 10, Nigeria 2, Norway 43, Poland 29, Portugal 2, Romania 15, Russia 85, Saudi Arabia 1, Slovenia 2, South Korea 5, Spain 1, Switzerland 54, Syria 4, Turkey 84, Ukraine 25, United Arab Emirates 3, United Kingdom 4, United States 10 ( 2002 est.

The rest of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010, with Curaçao and Sint Maarten becoming two new constituent countries and with the other islands becoming special municipalities within the Netherlands.

The coalition campaigning for this option became the Party for the Restructured Antilles, which ruled the Netherlands Antilles for much of the time until its dissolution on 10 October 2010.

The government of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010.

* 1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10, 000 people.

UK 21. 1 %, France 19. 1 %, Mauritius 10. 1 %, Japan 7. 9 %, Italy 7. 8 %, Netherlands 6 % ( 2008 )

* Paard van Troje is located in The Hague and is one of the 10 biggest music venues in the Netherlands focused on popular music.

Germany invaded France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg on 10 May 1940.

* June 10 – Treaty of Compiègne, signed between France and the Netherlands

* In 1916, the Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods the lowlands and kills 10, 000 people.

* The Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods the lowlands and kills 10, 000 people.

* March 10 – Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.

* February 10 – François, Duke of Anjou, arrives in the Netherlands, where he is personally welcomed by William the Silent.