The Netherlands Headquarters

This group was awarded the Great Group Award

This lens was started because I just got tired of all the groups out there that just aren't great. So this is dedicated to groups that ARE great. These groups are ALL great - but within the collection I would advise anybody to join especially t...

Lenses about the Netherlands (aka Nederland) 

Little known facts about The Netherlands

Learn about working women in The Netherlands, our royalty, or relationship with water, some history and a lot more. Like: isn't your country called 'Holland'? Well sort of, I'll explain below... Isn't half the country below sea l...

Emigration from The Netherlands

From the New Netherland settlement to the post-war mass emigration to Canada and Australia, for almost 400 years Dutch emigrants have tried to find a better life in the New World. Reasons to emigrate were diverse - fleeing the law (or the in-laws), s...

What tourists love to see 

Keukenhof Gardens in Holland

Each year over 7,000,000 bulbs are hand-planted to create the world's largest flower garden in the small town of Lisse (about 15 miles south of Amsterdam in the Netherlands). The mere mention of Keukenhof makes the hearts of gardeners (such as me) sk...

Dutch cities 

Leiden, university town in The Netherlands

Culture, shopping, poetry on the walls, European Dutch old town architecture, fairs and more. This lens shows you a bit of the history of Leiden, some pictures of the sights and a view into the local culture. Do take a look at the statistics so you k...

Visit Amsterdam

By Sharon Stajda, Visiting the Netherlands means plenty of gorgeous scenery and friendly people, but the small world-class city known as Amsterdam has many of its own features not to be missed by travelers. Many visitors book a trip to this northern E...

Korte Vlietpad - my favorite walk in Leiden

Giant squids were asked, as our final assignment of our summer school 2009, to make a lens about our favorite haunt this summer. Well, I've been living in my 'new' apartment for a year now, but it's only in the last few months that I've discovered t...

Top 10 Things To Do in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is an interesting melting pot that has all the advantages of a big city with its diverse culture and world-reknowned art museums. However, in some aspects such as traffic and ambience, it is more like a small city with small alleys and of c...

Dutch people 

Anne Frank -- A True Superhero

It is incomprehensible to imagine what Anne Frank endured in her young and short life nor is it possible to comprehend the terror that her family experienced. To me Anne Frank is without a doubt a true superhero of immeasurable proportions.

Anton Corbijn - in black & white

Anton Corbijn started his career as a photographer in the 70's with portraits of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel and Joy Division. It was Corbijn who created the public image of U2 in the 80's and he still continues to shape it. F...

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, the artist is known today to so many of us. His art speaks volumes -- what other artist sacrified an ear for his work? I am an art enthusiast and count Vincent Van Gogh as one of my favorites. Did you know that there is also a line...

Frans Hals

Frans Hals (1580-1666) was a famous Dutch portrait painter. He painted many individual portraits (including The Laughing Cavalier and Gypsy Girl) and many group portraits. Hals used bold and loose brush strokes in his paintings which helped give th...

Dutch music 

So What - Rock Band from the Netherlands

So What are a young Dutch Pop Punk band. So What consists of four band members; Vincent van Heese plays the bass, Bram Wesdorp sings and plays guitar, Joeri Gordijn plays drums and Alex van den Kleyenberg plays lead guitar. They have raised $50,000...

Art in the Netherlands 

Delft Pottery - History and Delft Marks

By Sharon Stajda, Old Delftware , was made as early as the 16th century. It was originally a low-fired earthenware, that was coated in a very thin opaque tin glaze with painted on blue or polychrome design. It was in the last half of the 19th century...

Dutch curiosities 

Bikes in The Netherlands, about Dutch Bikes

There is no country in the world where biking is so normal as it is in The Netherlands - except China. This is a tribute to Dutch Bikes. Yes, we really do a lot of bicycling - and we've got the bikes to show for it. [A reader told me the people of D...

Genealogy 

Peize (Drenthe) on a wiki

Residents of Peize (near Groningen) have created 2,100 wiki articles about the people who have lived in their town since about 1660. Anyone who has found that relatives lived in or near Peize should search the free website. (Image is a GFDL version...

Dutch relationships abroad 

The Canadian Tulip Festival Or The Ottawa Tulip Festival

The Canadian Tulip Festival (sometimes called the Ottawa Tulip Festival) has become the world's largest tulip festival and takes place in May each year with more than three million tulips in bloom. It runs for three weeks every spring a...

A Bloom Of Friendship, The Canadian Tulip Festival Children's Book Review

A non-fiction, children's picture book written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Ashley Spires, A Bloom Of Friendship: The Story Of The Canadian Tulip Festival tells the story of the history behind the world's largest tulip festival held every spring...

Related groups 

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More by me on squidoo 

Spirituality's Lensography of lensographies

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Spirituality Squidoo Groups

Just a lensography of all my groups on squidoo. And no: they aren't all about religion and spirituality. There's humor and insomnia as well. And just a bit more about my native land: the Netherlands (aka Holland). Lenses in my groups have a greater...