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Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

In the Netherlands, the company TNO has designed Bioaerosol Single Particle Recognition eQuipment ( BiosparQ ).

The Netherlands has been most advanced in adopting a census using administrative data.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has adopted the English spelling of commodore for an equivalent rank.

This optional protocol has been ratified by all EU states except five ( namely Belgium, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom ).

The Netherlands has hosted an annual domino toppling exhibition called Domino Day since 1986.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, where euthanasia has been legalized, it still remains homicide although it is not prosecuted and not punishable if the perpetrator ( the doctor ) meets certain legal exceptions.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

A 13 year long observation performed by the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, on 120, 000 subjects between 55 and 70, has shown that increased intake of acrylamide ( formed when potatoes are baked or fried ) is correlated with a 60 % higher rate of kidney cancer.

In the Netherlands Fox News has been carried by cable providers UPC and CASEMA and satellite provider Canaldigitaal ; all have dropped the channel in recent years.

The phenomenon has spread to other European countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

The Netherlands has introduced a new system of health care insurance based on risk equalization through a risk equalization pool.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

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 concentration of broadcasters in Hilversum has given it its enduring status as the media city for The Netherlands.

For example, a dedication has been found as far away as Woerden ( Netherlands ).

In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that IKEA's money — the three per cent collection from each store — does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said.

This has led to some national policies such as fuel and emission taxes for domestic air travel in the Netherlands and Norway, respectively.

The tour has also traveled to Australia several times, Aarhus University in Denmark in April 2009, Italy and The Netherlands.

The Netherlands has one of the most advanced motorway networks in the world, with Variable Message Signs and electronic signalization across most of the network.

The Dutch motorway network is one of the densest in the world, but many motorways are lacking sufficient capacity, and many bottlenecks of 4-lane motorways are present throughout the Netherlands.

The busiest 4-lane motorway in the Netherlands is the A10 in the Coen Tunnel in Amsterdam with 110. 000 vehicles per day.

Winschoten has a railway station on the line from Groningen to Leer ( in Germany ) and a road connection to the rest of the Netherlands via the A7 motorway.

* A38 motorway ( Netherlands )

* A44 motorway ( Netherlands ), a motorway in the Netherlands

* A77 motorway ( Netherlands )

* A30 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting the A12 motorway near Ede with the A1 near Barneveld

A tunnel for the Betuweroute near highway A15 motorway ( Netherlands ) | A15

* A27 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting Breda and the Almere

* A31 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting Harlingen and Leeuwarden

* A59 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting Willemstad and Oss

* A35 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting Enschede and Wierden

* A58 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting Eindhoven and Breda

* A28 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting Utrecht and Groningen

* A37 motorway ( Netherlands ), a road connecting Hoogeveen with Emmen and the German border near Zwartemeer

* A65 motorway ( Netherlands )

The Randstad, like much of the Netherlands, has a large number of waterways, and motorway tunnels and bridges are usually the only way to cross major bodies of water.

* Elks coach-A4 motorway, Netherlands