Keyword search recipes or articles
Recent News
Clergy lost role in pushing for volunteerism
Publish Date: Oct 23, 2009
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
THE HAGUE – Foundation De Zonnebloem, which has its roots in a Roman Catholic constituency, boasts in its current sixtieth anniversary year a volunteer base of 40,000 people, making it the largest in the country. The group’s volun...
Century-old district once home to relocated city farmers
Publish Date: Oct 23, 2009
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
HARDERWIJK – If one walks with an observing eye through well-preserved centuries-old Dutch cities, it will not be long before one spots buildings which look much like historic farmsteads in the rural areas of the country. In many ...
Dorestad suffered from Viking invasions and climate change
Publish Date: Oct 23, 2009
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
LEIDEN – The role of the Netherlands in foreign trade goes a long way back, if an exhibit on the pre-medieval town of Dorestad is any indication. Numerous artifacts, unearthed during excavations and other archeological work during...
New initiative to take profit out of crime
Publish Date: Oct 23, 2009
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
ZWOLLE – Welfare recipients in the Netherlands, who drive around in high-priced sports cars and utility vehicles and spend money on expensive luxury items, can expect to be called to explain why their possessions exceed their leve...
De Rijke guided country’s modernization along with dams and ports
Unlicensed engineer Deputy Minister in Japan
Publish Date: Oct 23, 2009
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
Dutch engineers, who were invited by the Meiji government in the nineteenth century, assisted in building and developing Japan’s ports and various other water-control projects throughout this mountainous country. C.J. van Doorn wa...
Rolls of Bouwman designed Olympic coins come with random surprise
Third commission for Royal Canadian Mint
Publish Date: Oct 23, 2009
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
BURLINGTON, Ontario - They may not realize it, but millions of Canadian could soon have an opportunity to touch Jason Bouwman’s work of art when they pass along one or more of the recently released 25-cent coins that celebrate the...
Coalition party wants to an end to 'father unknown' option
Right to know for children
Publish Date: Oct 23, 2009
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
THE HAGUE - Junior member of the ruling Dutch coalition, the Christian Union, is pushing for the mandatory registration of fathers on birth certificates. The party wants to put a stop to people simply ticking off the ‘father unkno...