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Some Dutch history


• The unpopular visit of Pope John Paul II, 1985...

• Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie — a precision military flood boundary...

• Stelling van Amsterdam — a "city wall made of water"...

• Americans bomb Nijmegen...

• Polders — keeping feet dry below the water table...

• The boezemstelsel, a dispersed reservoir between polders and sea...

• Nijmegen is the oldest city in NL - with an asterisk...

• Sloterplas, a man-made lake where there had been a lake...

• The "New Spelling" of 1996...

• "Peperduur" - as expensive as pepper...