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.

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.

The Dutch festival of Sinterklaas ( dedicated to Saint Nicholas, celebrating his name day ) is held on 5 December.

* 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.

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

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

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance ( 1610 ), a theological statement signed by 45 ministers and submitted to the States-General of the Netherlands.

Jacobus Arminius was a Dutch pastor and theologian in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

This Synod of Dort was open primarily to Dutch Calvinists ( Arminians were excluded ) with Calvinist representatives from other countries, and in 1618 published a condemnation of Arminius and his followers as heretics.

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

( 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.

A book was released to coincide with the exhibition, containing sections in French, Dutch and English.

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.

It was the first commercially available Dutch personal / home computer.

Remarkably " Aster " was also the name given to a Dutch Supercomputer much later, in 2002.

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.

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).