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Straight talk deeply ingrained in Dutch culture
Why are the Dutch so impolite? The German-born historian Christoph Driessen proposes a couple of hypotheses in yesterday’s NRC (Dutch). The Calvinist is interested in the essence of things. Everything...
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Anti-monarchal society almost doubles in size
One of the two Dutch republican societies has seen an increase in membership from 1200 to 2000 since January, AD writes. The Nieuw Republikeins Genootschap (New Republican Society) wants to replace the...
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The gruesome murder of the De Witt brothers was 344 years ago today
The year was 1672. The 80-year war of independence of the United Provinces against Spain had been hard fought, but had also ushered in a golden age in which trade, science and arts blossomed. Now that...
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