| June 10, 2009 | - Farmers in the Netherlands were using pig excrement to generate electricity.
| Source:
National Geographic
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| May 26, 2007 | -
Dutch television made plans to air “The Big Donor Show,” in which three patients will compete for a dying woman's kidney.
| Source:
News.com.au
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| May 21, 2007 | - A gorilla named Bokito ran amok at a Rotterdam zoo, biting a woman and breaking her arm. “He is and remains,” said the woman from her hospital bed, “my darling.”
| Source 1:
The Guardian
Source 2:
Reuters
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| April 12, 2007 | - The Amsterdam chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang organized a benefit to raise money for legal costs.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 28, 2007 | - Pollution was cited as the reason that the Dutch are now taller than Americans.
| Source:
Daily Kent Stater
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| February 26, 2007 | - Jurists in The Hague ruled that a genocide occurred when Bosnian Serbs massacred Bosnian Muslims at Srebrinca in 1995. Serbia, said the court, was responsible for not preventing the genocide—but not directly responsible for the genocide itself—and is thus absolved of any obligation to pay reparations.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 14, 2007 | - After studying 21 industrialized nations, the U.N. concluded that Dutch children were the most happy, and British and American children the least.
| Source:
BBC
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| November 3, 2006 | - Rising floodwaters trapped a herd of 100 horses on a Netherlands islet.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 24, 2006 | - A Northwest Airlines flight out of Amsterdam landed twenty minutes after takeoff when several passengers were observed exchanging cell phones and unbuckling their seat belts.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 30, 2006 | -
Dutch
pedophiles founded a political party that will push to lower the Netherlands' age of consent from 16 to 12, and eventually to scrap it altogether. “A ban,” said a party co-founder, “just makes children curious.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 15, 2006 | - At a zoo in the Netherlands three bears ate a monkey. "The macaque," said an eyewitness, "was shrieking and resisting."
| Source:
Breitbart.com
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| April 24, 2006 | - In the Netherlands authorities fined an advertiser for placing advertisements on sheep blankets. “If we start with sheep,” said Bert Kuiper, the mayor of Skarsterlan, “then next it's the cows and horses.”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| March 16, 2006 | - In the Netherlands organizers were planning to encourage tolerance by holding a soccer game matching homosexuals against Muslims. Gay Muslims, said organizers, will be able to choose which team they will join.
| Source:
Seattle PI
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| March 13, 2006 | -
Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in prison at the Hague; it was unclear whether his death was a murder, a suicide, or from natural causes.
| Source:
Bloomberg News
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| March 6, 2006 | - A Dutch
study found that 50 percent of the products returned to stores for malfunctions actually work fine but are just too complicated to use.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 11, 2005 | - It was announced that the Dutch
sparrow that was shot and killed after it knocked down 23,000 dominoes will be preserved and displayed at Rotterdam's Natural History museum, perched atop a box of dominoes.
| Source:
BBC News
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| November 24, 2005 | - The Netherlands threatened to withdraw its support for U.S. military missions if the United States continued to refuse to acknowledge its network of secret Eastern European prisons. “The U.S. should stop hiding,” said Netherlands Foreign Minister Ben Bot. “It will all come out sooner or later.”
| Source:
Al Jazeera
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| November 15, 2005 | - At a convention center in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, a sparrow flew in through an open window and knocked over 23,000 dominoes. The sparrow cowered in a corner until it was shot and killed.
| Source:
USA Today
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| November 8, 2005 | - The Dutch Ministry of Culture agreed to return a mummified Maori head to New Zealand.
| Source:
AP
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| September 13, 2005 | - The Dutch government announced that it would track every citizen from birth in an electronic database.
| Source:
AP
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| June 29, 2005 | - A woman in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands, turned one hundred and fifteen.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 13, 2005 | - A man in Holland was being tried on charges that he killed his mother, skinned her, dressed up in her skin, and then went out to direct traffic and recite Bible verses. “He loved her so much,” said his lawyer.
| Source:
Daily Record
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| August 7, 2004 | -
Dutch lawmakers called for a ban on unsolicited toe licking.
| Source:
Newsday
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| January 28, 2004 | -
Dutch
researchers found that some migraines are caused by brain disease.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 10, 2003 | - A shoplifter in Amsterdam was kicked to death by supermarket employees.
| Source:
Scotsman.com
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| November 6, 2001 | -
Amsterdam installed condom machines in its taxis.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Prostitutes in Amsterdam were organizing a trade union.
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| July 17, 2001 | - A Kazakhstani contortionist in the Netherlands National Circus got stuck with his right foot over his left shoulder.
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| May 15, 2001 | - An enraged passenger attacked a tram driver in Amsterdam and bit off part of his finger.
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| April 24, 2001 | - A barber in Amsterdam who stabbed a violent customer to death with a pair of scissors was released after it was found that he acted in self-defense.
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| March 27, 2001 | - Foot-and-mouth disease spread to the Netherlands and Ireland.
Britain was planning to destroy over 500,000 cows. American researchers suggested using napalm.
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| October 24, 2000 | -
Russian
space experts said that it was time to bring down the Mir space station before it crashed into a populated area; a spokesman for MirCorp, an Amsterdam company that plans to send tourists and game-show contestants to the station, said that Mir was just fine.
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| October 10, 2000 | - Hippies threw smoke bombs at police in Amsterdam outside a conference attended by the president of the World Bank.
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