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Amsterdam
[ am-ster-dam; Dutch ahm-stuhr-dahm ]
noun
- a city in and the official capital of the Netherlands. Compare The Hague.
- a city in E New York.
Amsterdam
/ ɑmstərˈdɑm; ˌæmstəˈdæm /
noun
- the commercial capital of the Netherlands, a major industrial centre and port on the IJsselmeer, connected with the North Sea by canal: built on about 100 islands within a network of canals. Pop: 737 000 (2003 est)
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Banks grew up far from the trailer park—up on 152nd St. and Amsterdam in Harlem.
Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.
He was in awe of Tel Aviv, a gay-friendly city with Pride parades rivaling those in Berlin and Amsterdam.
After Cuba turned them away, they returned to Amsterdam, which was soon captured by the Nazis.
But as he worked on the epidemic locally in Amsterdam and Western Europe, Lange also was thinking globally.
But she did not succeed in finding a suitable studio, neither an instructor who pleased her, and she returned to Amsterdam.
In 1883 she served with many distinguished artists on the art jury of the International Exhibition at Amsterdam.
The theatre at Amsterdam, in Holland, took fire and burned to death 31 persons.
At this crisis the inhabitants of Amsterdam opened the sluices and laid the country under water.
The wealth which was collected within five miles of the Stadthouse of Amsterdam would purchase the fee simple of Scotland.
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