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    The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent...
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  • lists some of the events that took place in the Netherlands in 2006. Monarch: Beatrix of the Netherlands Prime Minister: Jan Peter Balkenende January 1:...
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    Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years...
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    system; social expenditure stood at roughly 25.3% of GDP. The Netherlands has a prosperous and open economy, which depends heavily on foreign trade. The economy...
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    The Netherlands armed forces (Dutch: Nederlandse krijgsmacht) are the military forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (mainland Netherlands in Europe...
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  • The 2006 Dutch Open in badminton was held in Den Bosch, Netherlands, from November 8, 2006 to November 12, 2006. Full results from TournamentSoftware...
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    Prostitution in the Netherlands is legal and regulated. Operating a brothel is also legal. De Wallen, the largest and best-known Red-light district in...
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  • world premiere on 1 September 2006 at the Venice Film Festival and its public release on 14 September 2006 in the Netherlands. It is the first film that...
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    the Netherlands, after Christianity, and is practised by 5% of the population according to 2018 estimates. The majority of Muslims in the Netherlands belong...
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    In the Netherlands, coffeeshops are a type of cannabis retail outlet, establishments where the sale of cannabis for personal consumption by the public...
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    Utrecht (redirect from Utrecht, Netherlands)
    Utrecht dialect: Ut(e)reg [ˈyt(ə)ʁɛχ]) is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the province of...
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    February 6, 2006. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2009. Associated Press (February 10, 2006). "Winter Games open in Turin"...
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    Despite Dutch neutrality, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing...
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  • The 2006 Ordina Open was the 2006 edition of the Ordina Open tennis tournament. It was the 17th edition of the tournament and was played on outdoor grass...
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    Netherlands as the 16th best in the world as of 2018. The Netherlands' educational standing compared to other nations has been declining since 2006,...
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    The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and...
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    Approximately 5 million of the 17 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds...
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    such basic care. The Netherlands has a network of 160 acute primary care centres, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, making an open clinic within easy...
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    The monarchy of the Netherlands is governed by the country's constitution, roughly a third of which explains the mechanics of succession, accession, and...
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    The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For...
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    The Netherlands is a parliamentary representative democracy. A constitutional monarchy, the country is organised as a decentralised unitary state. The...
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  • The 2006 European Judo Open Championships were the 3rd edition of the European Judo Open Championships, and were held in Novi Sad, Serbia on 9 December...
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    The United States diplomatic mission to the Netherlands consists of the embassy located in The Hague and a consular office located in Amsterdam. In 1782...
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    Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF; Dutch: Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu), "Royal Air Force") is the military aviation branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces...
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    lit. 'The Dam on the River Rotte') is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the province of South...
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    open-face sandwiches as they were of disposable crockery.[citation needed] A direct precursor to the English sandwich may be found in the Netherlands...
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  • environment, make Netherlands one of the most open economies in the world for multinational corporations (MNCs). Corporate tax in the Netherlands deals with...
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  • The Dutch Open (or Dutch Open Tennis) originally known as the International Championships of the Netherlands was a tennis tournament played on outdoor...
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  • Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands since 1 April 2001. A bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriage was passed in the House of Representatives...
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    80 per month by early 2006. 2014 Amsterdam drug deaths Arguments for and against drug prohibition Cannabis in the Netherlands Designer drug Drug liberalization...
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