The largest city in the Netherlands. It is officially the capital city, Den Haag (The Hague) is just the seat of government. Famous for its canals, rich cultural heritage and its red light district and dope smoking cafes.
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Amsterdam 700th Anniversary
These gardens were renamed Rembrandt Gardens on 2 May 1975 to commemorate the...
The two stations are at either end of the Dutchflyer rail-ferry service, via ...
Construction company with origins in the Netherlands.
Politician. Born Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy near Sneek in the Netherlands. He was a professor at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in 1930 and entered politics later in the decade, becoming Minister ...
Dantzig was a Dutch Jew who came to London to study. She returned to the Netherlands intending to help her family flee the Nazis. Instead she was captured and killed in Auschwitz, Poland, with most...
Poet, writer and school inspector. Born at Laleham-on-Thames, Middlesex, son of Thomas Arnold. He won the Newdigate prize in 1843 with a poem on Cromwell. Appointed a lay inspector of schools in 1...
Fourteen niches on the West Front remained empty since the Abbey was built until 1998 when they were filled. The lower four are filled wi...
Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.
Living at Manchester Terrace, Islington (now the east side of Liverpool Road, either side of College Cross) she wrote her will on 31 May 1854, leaving £9,000 to the MBSA. Andrew Behan's researches...
Alfred Edward Housman. Born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. Classical scholar, lyrical poet. On his twelfth birthday his mother died. He initially failed his degree at Oxford but went on to be a...
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