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    Genetic study The Roman Military Community as a Melting Pot: Biomolecular Evidence from the Lower Rhine Limes

    A new preprint from De Coster at al. Study Objective The research investigates the demographic makeup of Roman military communities stationed along the empire's frontier, known as the Lower Rhine Limes. To understand the origins of these populations, the authors utilized ancient DNA (aDNA) and...
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    Immigration Non-Western immigrants to the Netherlands cost the government between 500,000 and one million euro per immigrant

    The Dutch government has just released the official statistics on how much immigrants from each country contribute to or cost society over their lifetime. The results are shocking. Each immigrant from the horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia) or Sudan costs the government in average...
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    Economy World's oldest perpetual bond turns 400

    This is rather mind-boggling when you think about it. This Dutch bond has been paying interests non-stop for the last 400 years! Perplexity News: Oldest Bond Turns 400 "The world's oldest perpetual bond, issued in 1624 by the Dutch water authority Hoogheemraadschap Lekdijk Bovendams, recently...
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    Infrastructure Are roads in the Netherlands the best in the world?

    I've been following this YouTube channel for a while and every video I watch about Dutch roads, be it for cars, bicycles or pedestrians, all indicate that this may be the best country in the world for road infrastructure. Not only is the road quality exceptionally good, everything appears to be...
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    Culture shock Why the Dutch always say what they mean

    Communication between Europeans is much more complicated than between, say, Americans. Obviously Europe has a lot of different languages. But even if everybody speaks the same language, for example English, misunderstandings often result from cultural differences in the way people express...
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    Thomas Edison probably belonged to haplogroup R1b-L151>S1194>S1200

    The great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) appears to have belonged to R1b-L151>S1194>S1200>S14328>SZ5489>Y28597>S10242 according to the Edison Y-DNA project (lineage 1). He is descended from John Edison and Sarah Ogden from the Netherlands. This branch of R1b is found in...
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    World's first floating dairy farm to open in the Netherlands

    With the global population set to reach 10 billion around 2050, new ways are needed to produce food in a sustainable manner. As 55% of the world population currently lives in cities and this will rise to 70% in 2050, producing foods inside cities will reduce transportation costs and the...
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    Amsterdam or Rotterdam?

    Hey you guys.. I m new here ..this is actually my first post..:cool-v: anyways.. so i need some dutch help here.. i want to study in holland.. but i m not sure about the city.. there are so many schools i m interested in.. i ve also searched for the university rankings.. soo.. here s the deal ...
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    Moving to the UK

    Hey guys, I'm just curious as to how difficult it is to find a house in the UK. (preferably London). And what is the average cost of a studio (something between 20 - 40 sq meters) I lived all my life in the USA with my parents, but i was born of Dutch nationality (The netherlands), and trying...
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