According to the Dutch Central Statistical Bureau, Bloemendaal is the wealthiest place in the Netherlands.

In Netherlands, the Bureau of the Dutch Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings in 2005 estimated that there are from 1, 000 to 7, 000 trafficking victims a year.

Both the Bureau of National Security, the Department of Justice and the Dutch Embassy in Paris all claimed authority for Netherlands Security Service.

In Dutch it is known as the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek ( Central Agency for Statistics ), often abbreviated to CBS.

Operation Jedburgh was a clandestine operation during World War II, in which personnel of the British Special Operations Executive, the U. S. Office of Strategic Services, the Free French Bureau Central de Renseignements et d ' Action (" Intelligence and operations central bureau ") and the Dutch and Belgian Armies were dropped by parachute into Nazi-occupied France, Holland, and Belgium to conduct sabotage and guerilla warfare, and to lead the local resistance forces in actions against the Germans.

***** Major General Okamoto: Chief of the Second Bureau ( Intelligence ) at the time of the outbreak of Japan's War against the United States and the British and Dutch Empires

An important role in this process was played by the Dutch Central Planning Bureau ( CPB ) originally founded by Jan Tinbergen.

In 1990 the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics ( CBS ) registered the number of first-generation Indos living in the Netherlands at around 180, 000 people.

In 1998, when MEP Nel van Dijk left the European Parliament to become chairperson of the Dutch Bureau against Age Discrimination, he suddenly became MEP.

The Pennsylvania Dutch Convention & Visitors Bureau and other observers in Lancaster County, PA, note that the whoopie pie comes from the area ’ s Amish and Pennsylvania German culture – origins that are unlikely to leave an official paper trail – and has been handed down through generations.

The International Korfball Federation ( IKF ) was founded in Antwerp ( Belgium ) on the June 11, 1933 as a continuation of the International Korfball Bureau established in 1924 by the Dutch and Belgian Associations.

* Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, the Dutch research centre for genealogy

Johannes Camphuys ( registered as Kamphuis, Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie ) ( Haarlem, July 18 1634-Batavia ( Jakarta ), July 18 1695 ) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691.

Voorburg hosted CBS " Centraal Bureau voor de Statistieken " Statistics Netherlands, the Dutch census office until mid 2008 when it moved to a new office in The Hague – Leidschenveen.

The Dutch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek ( CBS ) uses the definition that at least one of the parents is not born in the Netherlands.

* Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, the Dutch national institute of statistics

He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.

Benched at Tulsa in 1955, he told manager Dutch Meyer: `` I can't play for you.

* 1572 – In the Eighty Years ' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

* 1969 – Martyn LeNoble, Dutch bassist ( Porno for Pyros )

Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

The Slogger Turbo Board was a professionally fitted upgrade whereas the Elektuur modification was described in an article in Dutch Electronics magazine Elektuur and intended for users to perform at home.

The Aster CT-80, an early home / personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP ( later renamed to Aster Computers ), was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists.

The aster was chosen for Dutch schools by the Dutch ministry of education, in a set-up with eight disk-less Asters, and one Aster with high capacity floppy drives all connected by a LAN based on the Asters high-speed serial port hardware, and special cables that permitted that any single computer on the LAN could broadcast to all other computers.

About a thousand of such systems were sold for many hundreds of Dutch schools.

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

* 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.

The club is also particularly famous for its renowned youth program that has produced many Dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruijff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, national team top scorer Patrick Kluivert, and former national team coach Marco van Basten.

Dutch national first-team players Ryan Babel, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart, Maarten Stekelenburg, Eljero Elia, André Ooijer, John Heitinga and Nigel de Jong had also came through the ranks at Ajax and all are now playing for top-flight clubs.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Cuyp ( 1594 – 1651 / 52 ), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light.

Even Arnold Houbraken, a noted historian of Dutch Golden Age paintings and the sole authority on Cuyp for the hundred years following his death, paints a very thin biographical picture.

Cuyp was one of the first Dutch painters to appreciate this new leap forward in style and while his own Both-inspired phase was quite short ( limited to the mid 1640s ) he did, more than any other contemporary Dutch artist, maximize the full chromatic scale for sunsets and sunrises.

After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

Discrimination of the Dutch language started to lessen from the end of the 19th century onwards and came to a complete end in 1967, the year in which the Belgian Constitution got an official Dutch version.

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

He trailed Ludie to the baseball game in the lot on Kingston Street near the Dutch Reformed.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius ( 1560 – 1609 ) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a soteriological sect of Protestant Christianity.

Dutch Reformed theologian Herman Ridderbos says " certainty of salvation does not rest on the fact that the church belongs to a certain " number ", but that it belongs to Christ, from before the foundation of the world.

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

* 1989 – Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in the North Sea by British and Dutch governments.

After his victory, Arnulf built a new castle on an island in the Dijle river ( Dutch: Dijle, English and French: Dyle ).

The Macedonian phalanx of Aelian had many points of resemblance to the solid masses of pikemen and the squadrons of cavalry of the Spanish and Dutch systems, and the translations made in the 16th century formed the groundwork of numerous books on drill and tactics.

Known as the Dutch equivalent of Claude Lorrain, this landscape artist went on to inherit a considerable fortune.

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

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 Dutch established a permanent settlement on the island of Tortola by 1648.

From 1950 to 1970, Boerhaave's image was printed on Dutch 25-guilder banknotes.

Marlborough ( who had crossed the Nebel on a makeshift bridge to take personal control ), ordered Hulsen's Hanoverian battalions to support the Dutch infantry.

The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.