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.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

Bevrijdingspop is a music festival to celebrate the Dutch liberation from the Nazis after World War II.

Other local attractions include: the Martin House Museum, Heritage Canyon, the Dutch Days festival held annually on the first weekend of May, and of course its great view of the river.

The Dutch festival of Sinterklaas was celebrated as “ St Nick ’ s Day ” ( December 5 ).

Little Chute has celebrated the Dutch festival of Kermis annually since 1981-after a long hiatus dating back to the early twentieth century-possibly the only such named event in the United States.

The festival commemorates the industry that shaped the area, namely cultivation of grapes ( Dutch druiven ).

In 2010, they performed at the Dutch festival Lowlands.

Stryper, for instance, although a commercial success at that time, received a hostile reception when they played at a Dutch metal festival in 1985.

* Fulton, Illinois's Dutch Days festival is held the first weekend of every May.

The two day festival highlights the area's Dutch heritage with parades filled with flowers, traditional song and dance, and Dutch markets.

For example, the central square ( French: Place Van Meenen, Dutch: Van Meenenplein ) hosts the annual festival of Brussels ' Portuguese community.

* Finalist with the orchestra piece at the Dutch Music Days festival ( 2002 )

In 1970 British singer Samantha Jones won the music festival held in Belgian Knokke-Heist with a version of " My Way ", which subsequently reached # 4 on the Dutch charts.

Until the 1990s the festival attracted mostly Flemish people, but in recent years it has become more and more international with an especially large influx of Dutch, French, Walloon, British and a notable Australian and South African contingent.

The crew of the Dutch ship Gelderland used the names " griff-eendt " and " kermisgans " for the Dodo in 1598, in reference to fowl fattened for the Kermesse festival, which was held the day after they anchored on Mauritius.

* Baroeg Open Air, a Dutch alternative music festival in Rotterdam, organized by Baroeg

However, this caused too much pressure on the Dutch infrastructure, and the festival had to shrink to a maximum of 60, 000 visitors for 1996.

Dutch traditional costumes displayed at a folklife festival.

For the 2008 festival the Dutch band Epica was invited to play.

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.

The first, Ocular Digital, includes a live show from their 2001 performance at a Dutch festival called Flevo, and a concert from 1991 in Escondido, California-the first Tourniquet concert ever.

Victorian hymns such as " We plough the fields and scatter ", " Come ye thankful people, come " and " All things bright and beautiful " but also Dutch and German harvest hymns in translation helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service.

The modern figure was derived from the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas, which, in turn, may have part of its basis in hagiographical tales concerning the historical figure of gift giver Saint Nicholas.

Although originally associated with adult feasting and drinking, since the Victorian era, Father Christmas has gradually merged with the pre-modern gift giver St Nicholas ( Dutch Sinterklaas, hence Santa Claus ) and associated folklore.

In the United States the original figure of Dutch Sinterklaas has merged with Father Christmas into Santa Claus.

Some Huguenot families have kept alive various traditions, such as the celebration and feast of their patron Saint Nicolas, similar to the Dutch Sint Nicolaas ( Sinterklaas ) feast.

This is Sinterklaas in Dutch or la Saint-Nicolas in French ( English: Saint Nicholas ).

In the Netherlands, Zwarte Piet ( Dutch for " Black Pete ") is a servant of Sinterklaas, who delivers bags of presents on the 5th of December and takes naugthy kids back in the now empty bags.

( Suriname was a Dutch colony and once it became independent of the Netherlands, " Sinterklaas ", which is a Dutch Christmas celebration, was removed.

* Saint ( film ), a 2010 Dutch dark comedy horror film about Sinterklaas, a character comparable to Santa Claus in English-speaking countries.

However, under the influence of Orthodox traditions, the character of Ded Moroz was completely transformed, later adopting certain traits from the Dutch Sinterklaas ( or Saint Nicholas ), the prototype of Santa Claus.

Charles found his nephew to be a dedicated Calvinist and patriotic Dutchman, and reconsidered his desire to show him the Secret treaty of Dover with France, directed at destroying the Dutch Republic and installing William as " sovereign " of a Dutch rump state.

* Play draughts online on http :// draughtsserver. kndb. nl, developed by the Royal Dutch Draughts Federation dedicated to 10x10 draughts

This Bosatlas van Fryslân is completely dedicated to the Dutch province of Friesland, with historical and modern maps, aerophotography and background information on hundreds of topics.

The Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs monthly magazine " IS-International Samenwerking " ( International Cooperation ) dedicated almost an entire page of its October 1999 number to the project, Universal Esperanto Association wrote in a press release in October 1999.

The Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, and the Middle High German romance Diu Crône by Heinrich von dem Türlin are both dedicated primarily to Gawain, and in Wirnt von Grafenberg ’ s Middle High German Wigalois he is the father of the protagonist.

Haswell-Smith ( 2004 ) notes that the full name St Kilda first appears on a Dutch map dated 1666, and that it may have been derived from Norse sunt kelda (" sweet wellwater ") or from a mistaken Dutch assumption that the spring Tobar Childa was dedicated to a saint.

The Dutch navy suffered from years of underfunding and came illprepared to face a technically and organizationally extremely well prepared, powerful and dedicated enemy, that also brought more and heavier ships with better weapons into battle, among others the Long Lance-torpedo, with which the cruiser Haguro downed the light cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter.

As Education Secretary, he had fights with the Dutch Reformed Church, of which he had once been a dedicated member, who demanded Calvinist teachings in schools.

The Portuguese appeared again on the island in 1648, replacing the Dutch Company with one of their own, also dedicated to slave trading and established in its neighbour island Corisco.

Like all Dutch public broadcasters, the VPRO does not have its own dedicated channel.

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( In Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW ) is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.

St. Rumbold's Cathedral ( or Sint-Romboutskathedraal, in Dutch ) is the Belgian metropolitan archiepiscopal cathedral in Mechelen, dedicated to an assumedly Irish or Scottish

Very Necessary for all Generalles and Captaines, as wel by Sea as by Land to Howard and Robert Norman dedicated to Howard his 1584 translations of two Dutch guides to North Sea coastlines.

* Journal of Dutch Literature Open Access academic journal dedicated to the study of Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the present day

Dutch labels dedicated to the " new rage " appeared such as Babyboom, Pengo, Waxweazle and Elstak's own Forze Records.

* Dutch Dakota Association, a Dutch organisation dedicated to preserving and operating classic aircraft.

Oldehove is also the name of an artificial mound (" terp " in Dutch ) on which in the late 9th century a ( Catholic ) church dedicated to Saint Vitus was built.

A fluyt, fluit, or flute () is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed as a dedicated cargo vessel.

De Wit ( assisted by longtime collaborator Hanco Kolk ) dedicated one episode to short gag-strips varying from two frames to one page and revealed that he had designed a United States-influenced newspaper comic under the working title Mensch, durf te leeven ( ancient Dutch for Life, be in it ).

* Dutch East Indies, website dedicated to Dutch-Indonesian community