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Before globalization, there was trade. Some ports, like Hong Kong or New York, began by handling tea or opium, then progressed to manufacturing and finance. Others, like Alexandria or Pulau Run (one of the Indonesian Spice Islands that, in 1667, the Dutch swapped with the English for Manhattan) failed to move with the times...
...world's gelato machines. In Valli's more than 20 years as a gelato master, he has acquiesced to some rather strange requests, including creating a tasty salmon gelato, a pesto gelato for an Indian chef and three different kinds of beer gelato for a German gelateria. An aspiring Dutch gelato maker in a recent class at Gelato U. suggested that she might like to learn how to make hash-flavored gelato (with all the taste but without the intoxicant). (See pictures of Gelato University...
...year-old boy, Jakov Lind (who died in 2007) fled from the Nazi-occupied Vienna to Holland and survived the Holocaust by assuming a Dutch identity. After the war he moved around, living in Israel and returning to Vienna for a while, but finally settled in London. Lind began his literary career by publishing a collection of short stories “Soul of Wood” and continued to write in both German and English...
...district, an ensemble of museums, theaters and an opera house designed by marquee-name architects. And last weekend Dallas celebrated the opening of two of the final big pieces of the puzzle. One of them, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, is the product of a collaboration between the Dutch architect-polemicist Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX Architects. The other, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, is from the mighty office of the British architect Lord Norman Foster. The buildings are so unlike each other they're barely on speaking terms, but in their different ways...
...Brittany’s heritage: “Oh, I know the Dutch are famous for being a cold people, but that’s no excuse for [Will] treating you like some half-priced hooker in Amsterdam’s famous red-light district...