Word: hollander
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...Holland's worst air crash triggers a probe...
...explosion. The final toll will probably never be known. Many illegal immigrants resided in the complex, and chances are that relatives and friends of the victims may not report them missing for fear of being deported themselves at a time when hostility toward immigrants is on the rise in Holland. Along with Fuchs, the first officer, the flight engineer, and the plane's only passenger, the wife of an El Al security officer, died in the crash...
...investigators from Holland, Israel and the U.S. examined what was left of the 13-year-old aircraft, mostly twisted metal shards, shock gave way to question upon question. Some answers may come from the badly damaged flight- data recorder, which searchers unearthed in the rubble and dispatched for analysis, first to Britain, then...
...effect, international currencies. But banking and Catholicism were then uneasy partners: the church condemned usury -- defined then as any interest on loans -- in language harsher than bishops today use to denounce contraception. The reformers were more lenient. Gradually Europe's great centers of commerce were established in predominantly Protestant Holland and England. Innovation followed upon fiscal innovation. Grain futures were traded in Amsterdam in the 16th century. Paper currency began to replace metal coins. The first check may have been written in London...
...Joseph de Maistre. The ) Mongol invasion (1237-1480) and its aftermath of cruel autocracy had isolated Russians totally from Western developments, particularly the Renaissance and the Reformation. That long isolation embraced every aspect of Russian life. Russia's first modern technology, in the 17th century, was all imported from Holland and Germany. Russia didn't have even a single university until...