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New Amsterdam

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

New Amsterdam Dutch settlement at the mouth of the Hudson River and on the southern end of Manhattan island; est. 1624. It was the capital of the colony of New Netherland from 1626 to 1664, when it was captured by the British and renamed New York . Author not available, NEW AMSTERDAM. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Amsterdam
Amsterdam , city (1994 pop. 724,096), constitutional capital and...of the North." Because of the underlying soft ground, Amsterdam is built on wooden and concrete piles. The many old and...now mostly offices and warehouses. The main streets of Amsterdam are the Dam, on which stand the Nieuwe Kerk ... Read more

Amsterdam
Amsterdam, France, The Netherlands, USA 1. The Netherlands: founded in 1270 as a small fishing village in...nominal capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1806, but not the seat of government.2. USA (New York): named by a Dutch settler after the Amsterdam in The Netherlands. It originated in 1783 ... Read more

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	'Amsterdam' is ambitious ; "New Amsterdam" tries to be a lot of things to what...in 1642, he was a Dutch soldier in the New Amsterdam colony who tried to keep his fellow soldier...There are things to really like about "New Amsterdam." Coster- Waldau is appealing in the... Read more
	There are many villains in the death of Amsterdam's ; ...union-busting Reaganaut yuppie to lament the demise of Amsterdam's, a Back Bay bar and grill, after 14 months on the local...amusement of the aborigines, not to mention the tourists. But Amsterdam's got killed instead of cultivated, and its high-profile...The shame of it all demands mention. From the start, ... Read more
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