Netherlands

Coffee is currently most popular in Europe, Australia, and North and Central America. The top ten coffee consumers per capita are all located in Europe, and The Netherlands consume the most coffee per capita worldwide, at an average of 2.41 cups per person a day in 2013 (Statista). Coffee is expected to grow in popularity the most in Asia, which has developed a newfound appreciation for the drink in the past 25 years…

After all of this world war was officially declared. The sides were called the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. The allied powers were made up of China, Poland, United Kingdom, France, British Empire, India, Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Norway, United States, Brazil, Japan, Argentina, and United Nations. These countries knew what was supposed to be the right outcome for the war. The opposing group to the allied powers was the Central Powers. This group consisted…

Portrait painting thrived in the Netherlands with the increase in production driven by interest in the idea of personhood and the definition of the individual self. Portraits help document the development of a personal identity as it connects factors like marital status, class, and profession. A common portrait genre produced during the seventeenth century portrays their subjects with an impassive demeanor with little vigor. At first, the paintings may be evaluated as lacking “personality” or…

As discussed above, all available evidence indicates that criminalization of cannabis use is ineffective, costly, and constitutes poor public policy. Globally, there is growing debate about the efficacy of criminalizing drugs such as cannabis, in particular that the health, social, economic and criminal harms of this approach outweighs any intended benefits (Chandra, 2014). As such, there are three main alternatives to full cannabis prohibition: decriminalization, partial prohibition and…

beliefs that contradicted their own, including Communism and violence. Fortunately, due to the collaboration of several Jewish organizations, these specific refugees were eventually able to secure visas in four European countries, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, and were spread out relatively equally among the…

and sometimes flowers in their work and I really like it. Steenwyck also uses skulls, old books, shells, with occasional animals and fish. Harmen Steenwyck, was a Dutch painter of still life, notably fruit. He was born in Delft, in 1612, in the Netherlands. His birth year is unknown but it is rough estimate based on his appearance of his first painting in 1633. His brother is Pieter Steenwyck, who is also a still life painter, both men were sent by their father to their uncle David Bailly in…

This is to certify that I strongly support Vania Beatrice Liwandouw to do her graduate education studies and to get the Scholarship she is applying at Radboud University. Vania is a young and promising intellectual student at the Faculty of Information Technology, Satya Wacana Christian University. I have known her since she took my Mathematic class. Since then she became Assistant lecturer at some courses such as discrete mathematics, Linear algebra and matrix, and a few programming courses.…

people an ideal ruler, and a model for other rulers. Charlemagne, also known as Charles I, was the son of King Pepin the Short. Later when he became King of the Franks, his country already occupied nearly all of modern France, all of Belgium and the Netherlands, most of Switzerland, and large areas of Germany. To expand the country even more he added Saxony, Bavaria, large parts of Austria, the Kingdom of Lombardy, which was all of northern Italy, and an area of Spain. His country was the…

United States and 11 other Western nations were afraid the further Communist expansion, so they created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Its original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark,France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. THE WARSAW PACT The Soviet Union and its Communist nations in Eastern they created an alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. The formation of the Warsaw Pact was a response from…

With the aggression of the dictators in Europe the Democratic European leaders wanted to find a solution to the growing problem. Hitler and Mussolini violated the Treaty of Versailles and built up their armies to invade other countries. Italy invaded Ethiopia to start another Italian empire. Germany built up its army, created a new air force, the Luftwaffe, and sent troops into the Rhineland. Japan left the League of Nations and invaded Manchuria. By the time European leaders wanted to take…