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Armin van Buuren and Tiesto, some of the world's leading Trance DJ's hail from the Netherlands and frequently perform in Amsterdam. Each year in October, the city hosts the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) which is one of the leading electronic music conferences and one of the biggest club festivals for electronic music in the world, attracting over ...
Fox Weather 38 minutes ago 2024 Atlantic hurricane season drawing to a close as among costliest on record. The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was marked by an unusual pattern of storm activity.
These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in April 2017. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/April 2017#1]] for April 1).
1 October – Mark Rutte becomes Secretary-General of NATO. [32] 30 October – The Northern Netherlands District Court imposes a daily fine of 50,000 euros ($54,000) on the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers for failing to reduce overcrowding in a migrant reception center in Ter Apel that houses more 2,000 people. [33]
Overview of the Amsterdam Grachtengordel with the river IJ near the top.. The Grachtengordel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɣrɑxtə(ŋ)ˈɣɔrdəl] ⓘ, lit. ' canal belt/girdle '), known in English as the Canal District, is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district.
Keukenhof is located in the province of South Holland, south of Haarlem and southwest of Amsterdam in the area called the "Dune and Bulb Region" (Duin- en Bollenstreek). It is accessible by bus from Haarlem and Leiden train stations as well as Schiphol.
1 April – Piet Tekelenburg, footballer (b. 1894) 15 April – Joannes Cassianus Pompe, pathologist (b. 1901) 17 April – Hannie Schaft, communist resistance fighter during World War II (b. 1920) 28 May – Lothar van Gogh, footballer (b. 1888) 16 August – Nico Richter, composer (b. 1915) 25 August – Henriëtte van der Meij, feminist (b ...
The Westerpark (English: Western Park) is a public urban park in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The former borough of Westerpark is named after the park, as is the current neighborhood. The verdant space of the former Westergasfabriek gasworks along Haarlemmerweg has become a place for cultural avant-garde businesses and events.