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The British, French, German and Dutch European edition releases though, were handled by Time-Life themselves through their in 1976 established subsidiary branch "Time-Life International (Nederland) B.V." (renamed to "Time-Life Books B.V." in the early-1980s and located at the time at Ottho Heldringstraat 5, 1066 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands [27 ...
By the time the Dutch colony was seized by the British in 1806, it had grown into an established settlement with 25,000 slaves, 20,000 white colonists, 15,000 Khoisan, and 1,000 freed black slaves. Outside Cape Town and the immediate hinterland, isolated black and white pastoralists populated the country.
Contrary to the French and Dutch editions though, which only saw one print run each, but like in the USA, the series was a popular one in the German-speaking territories (Germany having been the birthplace of the Brothers Grimm after all, having their folk tales featured heavily in the Time-Life release in edited form), enjoying multiple ...
When the post-war baby boom children grew up, they led the revolt in the 1960s against all rigidities in Dutch life. [26] The 1960s and 1970s were a time of great social and cultural change, such as rapid de- pillarization leading to the erosion of the old divisions along class and religious lines. [ 51 ]
The only known other-language edition had been the 2008-09 Spanish-language El III Reich y Hitler series released by Time-Life Books' regular go-to licensee in Spain, Barcelona-based Ediciones Folio, S.A. [6] likewise fully licensed by "Direct Holdings Holland B.V." (the Dutch branch of the worldwide holding company that had acquired Time Life ...
From 1934 onward the Dutch government also experimented with a Labour Fund (Dutch: Werkfonds) to provide subsidised workplaces for the unemployed, often on large scale public works (comparable with the New Deal in the United States). The scale of these government interventions was however too small to really change the situation.
Share prices of Dutch Bros (NYSE: BROS) have been racing higher, more than doubling over the past 12 months. It could help set investors up for life if the growth continues, but there's an ...
However, both Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish spread across the Dutch-German border and belong to a common Dutch-Low German dialect continuum. There is a tradition of learning foreign languages in the Netherlands: about 89% of the total population have a good knowledge of English , 70% of German , 29% of French and 5% of Spanish .