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There was a time when the Spanish Inquisition condemned the entire nation of the Netherlands to death for heresy. Sinterklaas and Santa Claus are not the same person!
Sinterklaas , his white horse and his helpers Zwarte Pieten or Black Petes arrive from the south of Spain on a steamboat. Since January 1, , one has to be aged 18 or older to purchase alcohol, cigarettes or soft drugs. As a rule, public consumption of soft drugs is unacceptable. Dutch police are not obliged to grant a phone call to those they detain. The Dutch were the first to officially recognise nationhood of the United States.
One third of the Dutch territory, roughly speaking, is actually below sea level, while another one third is very close to the official zero-measuring NAP level. Normal Amsterdam Level is the level between average high tide and average low tide, and the standard to which all lows and highs in the country are measured.
Most windmills were simply wind-driven pumps. Nowadays, they been replaced by electric pumping stations but still almost 1. Dikes were made of soil and later from rock especially basalt.
Today, even though modern materials concrete, asphalt etc. If a dike breaks, only a restricted area - a so-called "dike ring" - would be flooded. But if for some reason, all dikes would break simultaneously, roughly one half of the Netherlands would be flooded. To find out if your home is below sea level, and by how much, you can visit the Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland AHN and enter your postcode.
Downtown Amsterdam lies some 2 metres 6,5 ft above sea level. In fact, the NS station at Schiphol lies 10 metres 32 feet below sea level. The main purpose of ditches is drainage. Of course, they are meant for dividing fields and properties, and keeping cattle in place too.
Ditches are connected to a wider water mass and eventually, the water will be discharged into a river or canal and hence to the sea.
At least half of the Netherlands could not even exist without those ditches. Statistically there are days per year without a drop of rain anywhere in the country. Per person, the Dutch use litres 26 gallons of clean water everyday for various reasons. Dutch drinking water goes through some 20 steps of purification before reaching your tap. In the past, the miller and his family could communicate news birth, death, marriage etc.
Usually wooden shoes were made of willow trees. Dutch farmers ofter wore a kind of inside-shoe in them; pluck or straw for the poor, but soft and flexible goat leather "clog socks" for the well-to-do. Most types of bridges can be found in the Netherlands, the main exception being rope-bridges. The Dutch tend to call any elevation in their flat environment a berg or at least a bergje - a small mountain or rather a mound, also when it is just one meter 3,3 ft high.
No matter the economic climate, cutting the budget for maintenance of dikes in never ever debated. The mix of sand and clay was known to be perfect for agriculture when tulips were introduced to the Dutch Republic in the 17th century. On cycling paths in sandy areas all over the country, seashells are used for "pavement. The Dutch use the word "sea" zee , and not "ocean. That is why admission is restricted in most places.
On the beach, semi-nudity is widely accepted. Of course, there are also official nude beaches with signs saying "Naaktstrand. Too little water can also be a problem; with many old dikes built of clay and peat drought can cause a dike to dry out and start cracking.
In Dutch, bricks are called baksteen bake-stone , and that is what they are: baked from river clay. The Elfstedentocht, the "Eleven City Tour," is a one-day skating event that starts and end in the provincial capital of Leeuwarden.
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