Netherlands

Yes. There is water between Britain and Holland. It's called the North Sea.

In the first place he discovered the region while sailing under the command of the Dutch West India Company (West-Indische Compagnie), one of the first stock-exchanged companies in the world. The settlement of New Amsterdam (which became known as New York City when the English gained control over the area after the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War) was originally set up as a trading post for beaver-skins. When other countries in Europe started to colonize the America's, the Dutch could not stay behind and started settling as well. But that is another story.

Long story short; he claimed the area scoping for suitable ports for the West India Company. The area was later handed over to the Dutch government, in exchange for tax exemptions and investments in the financially unstable company.

No, he was not from the Netherlands. He was from Asia MInor (Turkey).

"The main food crops are barley, corn, potatoes, sugar beets, and wheat."

The Netherlands produces a variety of other crops, including tomatoes and other warm-weather foods which are grown in hothouses. In addition to crops, the Netherlands produces dairy products, beef, poultry, lamb, and pork.

It seems not too much. Maybe because people are used to being with the whole family and most of the time expat families are the ones away from home. They might be occupied with the Dutch festivities, such as Sinterklaas. Since the kids must pick that up from school, maybe it all becomes too much? I think it would be great if people would join and celebrate even more than when they would at home. Maybe one can be a bit more creative on the content, since it is never the same as at home, but it can still be fun! I remember we had a palm tree as a Christmas tree in the Caribbean!

Thanksgiving is a US holiday.

Holland (North and South) is a province in The Netherlands.

The Netherlands is located:

To the West of Germany

To the North of Belgium

To the East of the United Kingdom, separated by the North Sea

To the South of Norway, also separated by the North Sea

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag(The Haugue), Eindhoven, Tilburg, Groningen, Nijmegen, Leiden, Zwolle, Venlo. there are many beautiful cities in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Maastricht, Ijmuiden, Delft, Den Haag, Breda, Vrouwenpolder, Nijmegen Utrecht, Haarlem, Zaandam...

I'd say Rutte.

New Brighton is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota. New Hope is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in Minnesota.

FOOTBALL (soccer)

HOCKEY

KORFBALL

SWIMMING

BIKING

SAILING

ROWING

The channel tunnel is, on average, 45m below the seabed. (1)

The ocean depth between Dover and Calais is, on average, 50m. (2)

Hence it can be guestimated that the tunnel is, on average, roughly 100m below sealevel for the undersea section of the tunnel.

(1) http://www.channeltunnel.co.uk/Faqs.asp

(2) http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/englishchannel.htm

Now there are 12 province

Limburg,

Gelderland,

Noord Holland,

Zuid Holland,

Noord Brabant,

Zeeland,

Groningen,

Friesland,

Utrecht,

Flevoland,

Overijsel,

Drente

1.They wear pretty much the same thing you and I wear. They aren't people who wear dresses, bonnets, and clogs. They don't even wear traditional Dutch outfits for special occasions. They wear blue jeans, t-shirts, sweaters, stuff like that. The people over there are just like us. Well, except for most of them speak Dutch (and at least English).

2.Actually, I have done a project on Holland and they do wear the same thing as us, but they also do not wear clogs unless you are a farmer and the clogs keep your feet form being drenched in water and soil. You may never wear you clogs inside, it is very disrespectful! THEY DO NOT WEAR BONNETS! They sometimes wear hats, such as a bennie. The are exactly like us, own heritage, own culture, and our style but they have different traditions so they have a different idea of old style! That is it! NOTHING ELSE!

On Christmas eve we go to church, even people who don't go the rest of the year. On Christmas eve or day presents are commonly presented to each other (family). Lot's of nice meals are coocked from breakfast to brunch/lunch and dinner. We visit relatives. We have a second Christmas day (Boxing day En.) on which lots of big stores are open again for business. In fact a lot of used car dealers want to push sales before the end of the year. Ofcourse family visits and more lovely meals are more common. Christmas is mostly about being together in the Netherlands.

Ik hou van jou is 'I love you' in Dutch.
Ik hou van jou

Labor unions have been a part of Nigerian industry since 1912, when government employees formed a civil service union. In 1914 this organization became the Nigerian Union of Civil Servants after the merger of the protectorates of Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria. In 1931 two other major unions were founded--the Nigerian Railway Workers Union and the Nigerian Union of Teachers (which included private-school teachers). Legalization of unions in 1938 was followed by rapid labor organization during World War II as a result of passage by the British government of the Colonial Development and Welfare Act of 1940, which encouraged the establishment of unions in the colonies. The defense regulation of October 1942 made strikes and lockouts illegal for the duration of the war and denied African workers the cost-of-living allowances that European civil servants received. In addition, the colonial government increased wages only modestly, although the cost of living rose 74 percent from September 1939 to October 1943. In June and July of 1945, 43,000 workers, most of whom were performing services indispensable to the country's economic and administrative life, went on a strike that lasted more than forty days. In large part as a result of the strike's success, the labor movement grew steadily and by 1950 there were 144 unions with more than 144,000 members. Although the labor movement was federated in 1941, the period from the end of World War II to 1964 was characterized by numerous splits, regroupings, and further fragmentation. Factionalism was rampant, engendered by the reluctance of the Colonial Office to strengthen union rights, dependence on foreign financial support, the thwarting of labor's political objectives by nationalist leaders, and intramural ideological differences. The most visible manifestation of labor problems was the dispute over whether to affiliate with the East European socialistoriented World Federation of Trade Unions, based in Prague, or the more capitalist-oriented International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, headquartered in Brussels. In 1963 union members numbered 300,000, or 1.6 percent of the labor force. Despite this low level of organization, labor discontent worsened as the gap widened between the wages of white-collar and those of blue-collar workers. In FY 1964, supervisors were paid thirty-three times as much as daily-wage workers and semiskilled workers in public service. After independence, many workers had begun to feel that the political leadership was making no effort to reduce the inequalities of the colonial wage and benefit structure. Corruption and conspicuous consumption were perceived to be widespread among politicians. An April 1963 pay raise for ministers and members of parliament further fueled labor resentment because rank-and-file civil servants had been doing without raises since 1960. The five superordinate central labor organizations consequently formed the Joint Action Committee (JAC) to pressure the government to raise wages. Numerous delays in the publication of a government commission report on wages and salaries provided partial impetus for a JAC-mobilized general strike of 800,000 supporters, most of them nonunionists, which lasted twelve days in June 1964. Although the strike demonstrated the government's fragility, the JAC could not translate its victory into permanent political strength; labor unity disintegrated in the face of overtures by political parties to segments of organized labor as the federal elections of December 1964 neared. Political parties and communal associations were banned during the military rule of the late 1960s, so labor unions posed a potential organized threat to the government. The military government's decree in 1969 forbidding strikes was repeatedly defied during the next four years, most notably in 1973, when the regime gave in to demands by striking postal and telecommunications workers, about one-fifth of the federal civil service. Labor activities and internal strife among four central labor organizations continued up to 1975, when the military government attempted, unsuccessfully at first, to merge the four bodies into one unit, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). The government dissolved the four central unions, prohibited union affiliations with international labor organizations, and in 1977 banned eleven labor leaders from further union activity. Under terms of a 1978 labor decree amendment, the more than 1,000 previously existing unions were reorganized into 70 registered industrial unions under the NLC, now the sole central labor organization. In the early 1980s, the civilian government found itself losing control of organized labor. Numerous wildcat strikes occurred in 1980-81, and in May 1981, the NLC mobilized 700,000 of 1 million unionized Nigerian workers for a two-day strike, despite the opposition of a government-supported faction. Working days lost through strikes declined from 9.6 million in 1982 to 200,000 in 1985 in the midst of a decline in national income that had begun in 1983. Industrial unrest resulted, however, in demands by larger number of workers for payments of salary arrears and fringe benefits as real wages fell by almost 60 percent. The causes of the decline in real wages were the World Bank-advised SAP and the unfavorable terms of trade that resulted from the collapse of the world oil market between 1986 and 1989.

Austria is in central Europe, and would be regarded as being part of western Europe.

It depends on how the question is read to say "yes" or "no". Suffice it to say, Netherlands and France are two distinct countries and one is not part of the other.

Netherlands and France are two separate countries. They are both located in western Europe, but there is a third country (Belgium) in between them.
However, they have a common border running in the middle of the island of St-Martin (Dutch: St Marteen) in the Carribbean.

Traditionally, it's told the Netherlands revolted because of religion. In the 16th century the Protestant Netherlands were part of Catholic Spain.

Another view is that the Dutch (nobles) became Protestant so they could revolt, and that they actually had economic motives for the revolt.

The 1963 census indicated that 26 percent of Nigerians were Muslim, 62 percent Christian, and 14 percent members of local indigenous congregations.

2009 Survey consented it's in the main Christian.

Christians constitute 48.2% of the Nigerian population. Based on 2009 National Religious survey, Protestants make up 15% of the Nigerian population, Catholics 13.7%,and other Christians 19.6%

The areas of the Netherlands that were once under water and now are land are called "polders". These are protected from being flooded with seawater by a system of dikes, canals, and windmills. There is a saying in the Netherlands that "God made the earth, but the Dutch made the Netherlands". Many people in the Netherlands live on land that is younger than they are.

The Netherlands is in the Northern hemisphere.

Depends what you mean. There are signs of population from 250.000 years ago, but real population began from about 8000 years B.C. with hunter-gatherer groups, of which we found real archaeological evidence (a campment)

But for most countries HISTORY starts with written sources. In the Netherlands they came with the Romans, around 58 BC when Julius Caesar came.

Koninklijk Paleis, dam square, Amsterdam, Netherlands