North Holland

And so you said that you're based in the Netherlands? Can I ask you actually a very, very quick question? And feel free to completely ignore it.

But what's the difference between the Netherlands and Holland? It's like, when do you use one and when do you use the other?

Yeah, this is a good question, actually, because most people don't know this, right? So the Netherlands is like the whole country.

And then you say, I'm from Holland when you're from the north of Holland or the south of Holland.

So within the Netherlands, you have different regions.

And you have the north and south, and then you're from Holland, basically, North Holland, South Holland.

But yeah, normally you say I'm from the Netherlands, or I'm from, well, I actually live in the north of Holland.

So I could say I'm from Holland, or I'm from the Netherlands, either way works for me.

what's the difference between the friesian and the dutch friesian

there there isn't oh they're the same thing yeah yeah from friesland In North Holland.

So that's where they get their name from.

And the Friesian cow.

You know, if you go back in Dutch Reformed Church history, again, I've translated some magnum opuses in that regard.

Amsterdam, and more broadly, the province of Noord-Holland, where Amsterdam was always the biggest city, was the seat of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Not so much the scholarship, but the weight of the money because of the mercantile clout that was there.

To be a preacher in Amsterdam was the pinnacle of any clergyman's career, and many really sound and stalwart men were in the pulpits there.

You know, if you go back in Dutch Reformed Church history, again, I've translated some magnum opuses in that regard.

Amsterdam, and more broadly, the province of Noord-Holland, where Amsterdam was always the biggest city, was the seat of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Not so much the scholarship, but the weight of the money because of the mercantile clout that was there.

To be a preacher in Amsterdam was the pinnacle of any clergyman's career.

Whilst in London, the young diplomatist received from his court his nomination to the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague.

the passage to the continent was difficult as a french fleet was in the channel metternich proceeded then with the sanction of the king to see the english fleet which had assembled at portsmouth to sail under admiral soon to become lord howe against the enemy the sight of this fleet and of a large convoy of merchant ships under its wing from the top of the hill behind cowes on which metternich had posted himself was he relates the most beautiful sight i have ever seen i might say indeed the most beautiful that human eyes have ever beheld so impressed was he that he requested the admiral to allow him to remain on board his ship to see the impending fight but the admiral would not two days later was fought the famous battle of the first of june The journey of Metternich to the continent was accompanied by many circumstances attended with danger, but he finally reached Holland, visited Amsterdam, part of North Holland and The Hague, and thence proceeded to the lower Rhine to take up his post, the French armies having rendered a prolonged stay in the Netherlands impossible.

the progress of the french arms continuing and the metternich estates on the rhine having been confiscated metternich was called by his father to vienna and a little later was sent to bohemia to manage the family property in that kingdom the only property remaining to them After settling this property, he

returned to Vienna, where he found his parents busily engaged in arranging for his marriage with the granddaughter of the famous Prince Kaunitz.

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The 10th of May, 1940, World War II, The Netherlands.

Nazi Germany invades Holland, and the German air forces, the Luftwaffe, use paratroopers in the capture of tactical points and to assist in the advance of ground troops across the country.

The invasion is accompanied by heavy aerial bombardment of Rotterdam, and culminates on the 14th of May with the destruction of its entire historic center.

Because the Germans threaten to bomb the city of Utrecht in the same way, the Dutch forces surrender one day later.

Following this, Bonnecombe went into hiding and devoted himself entirely to the resistance.

He first worked as a political officer, but soon focused entirely on armed resistance.

In autumn 1943, Willem Ragout, a fanatical Nazi collaborator, was appointed chief of police in Zandam in North Holland.

He worked for the SD, a Nazi secret service, and in that capacity, he was responsible for the arrest of several resistance fighters.

Where was it from?

So we got the data in January, and it was onshore North Holland platform.

Onshore what?

North Holland platform in the Netherlands.

Oh, the Netherlands.

Mm-hmm.

... yeah, it's a, it's a rough place, wild place.

Something else than, uh, than the pretty, uh, designed province of North Holland, where you're originally from in the Netherlands.

Yeah.

It's sort of the opposite.