Holland
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Holland is a European country. Holland is also called The Netherlands because parts of the country are below sea level. Holland is noted for windmills, tulips, dykes (both of the water-blocking sort and of the homosexual sort), and pleasant people. The people are called the Dutch people. The Dutch language is similar to German and the Dutch have a Germanic culture. Hitler, however, prevented the Dutch from having a strong sense of kinship with Germany.
The Dutch resisted when Spain conquered them and tried to impose Roman Catholicism. After Holland became independent the majority of the Dutch people became Calvinist Protestants. The Dutch were tolerant of minorities and religious groups that moved there to escape persecution in their own countries.
Since the 1960s Christianity has declined in Holland. Only a minority today believe in a personal god. The Dutch are also a liberal country. They allow euthanasia with safeguards, and they tolerate “soft drugs” which are not considered worse than alcohol.
In 2001, Holland became the first country in the world to recognize gender-neutral marriage.
There are problems with theist extremism because theists have immigrated to Holland. [1]
[edit] Hollandaise sauce
- "They said, 'fly to Amsterdam', where the people laughed but the press went mad" - Complete Control, The Clash.
- Jools Holland is a piano playing kind of musician.
- The Holland Tunnel goes nowhere near Holland, but it does go below sea level.
- Eggs Benedict.
- "In Amsterdam there lived a maid...who was always takin' a sailor's pay/I'll go no more a-roamin' with you, fair maid." Traditional (English) Morris Song
- Back of an envelope - H.O.L.L.A.N.D. - Hope our love lasts and never dies (See Norwich)
