Word: utrecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of Katwijk was in high holiday mood. For seven days last week, stolid shopkeepers and sturdy burghers from Friesland to Limburg, from Gelderland to the sea put by their staid reserve to celebrate a golden jubilee and say farewell to a Queen and a friend. In medieval Utrecht parading clowns made boisterous sport of laughing huisvrouwen. In southern 's Hertogenbosch ragamuffin children romped through the streets in false faces...
...Edinburgh Conference of 1910 - the first great ecumenical meeting - addressed the opening service in the Nieuwe Kerk, which was spruced up for Princess Juliana's investiture as Queen of The Netherlands on Sept. 6. He movingly recalled "the preparatory stages" at Jerusalem, Madras, Stockholm, Lausanne, Oxford, Edinburgh and Utrecht "which have brought us to this hour...
...Utrecht, goldsmiths were fashioning another special award: a richly jeweled sword which Queen Wilhelmina will present to General Eisenhower. The Dutch newspaper Het Binnenhoj rhapsodized: "It will be a sword as worn by the kings of fairyland, and it is well earned...
Probably half the matter in the "home" or Milky Way galaxy is not in its stars at all but in tiny solid grains or separate atoms. This is what stars are formed from. According to Dr. H. C. van de Hulst from Utrecht, The Netherlands, the average cosmic particle is about one hundred thousandth of a centimeter in radius and deadly cold, only a few degrees above absolute zero ( -459.72°F.). When wandering atoms strike such particles, they freeze and stick tight...
...pair of green woolen gloves. The once socially aloof Wilhelmina invited a Miss Marianne Tellegen to be head of her personal cabinet. Miss Tellegen had no social standing whatever; she had merely been a heroine of the Dutch resistance, living for four years next door to Gestapo headquarters in Utrecht...