The concept of capitalism was developed by the Dutch as was the first equity
market upon which the modern stock markets are based. They are very
innovative people. Now we tend to associate the Netherlands with dikes,
tulips, bordellos and liberal recreational drug policies. Images can get
distorted sometimes.
/jnm
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Lau
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:12 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] Re: [OT] Dutch/Danish (was "Solvang")
On Wed, 1 May 2002 10:04, "Olaf Greve" <o.greve@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Many excellent elaborations have already been given...
>-Regarding the usage of the words "Holland" vs. "The Netherlands":
> Often it is much easier when abroad to
>simply use the word Holland as more people tend to recognise that. I found
>that especially in Hispanic countries the word "Holanda" is used a lot,
>>snip
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