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		hollerith 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprint... Interesting. Do Brits (still) call the inhabitants of the Netherlands the Dutch like Americans do? If so, what does the Netherlands think of that?

jacquesm 9 months ago [–]

We don't give a damn. But the bureau of tourism does, that's how all the 'Holland' nonsense got started because they though 'the Netherlands' is too hard for the tourists. Ironically, 'Holland' only refers to a small fraction of 'The Netherlands'.

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