Amsterdam
a city in and the official capital of the Netherlands.: Compare The Hague.
a city in E New York.
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Ushakov is in Amsterdam, co-founder Eugene Molodkin is in St.
Undermyfork scores $400K seed for its diabetes tracking app and US launch | Steve O'Hear | August 28, 2020 | TechCrunchIt has found an audience among reformers, and now the city of Amsterdam is going whole doughnut.
Again, only because I perhaps wrongly think of Amsterdam and the Netherlands as pretty progressive when it comes to clean energy and pollution and so on.
So, we have quite high standards for building companies who want to build in Amsterdam when it comes to energy use, when it comes to materials that they use, the kind of circularity that they put into their buildings.
Thanks to Marieke van Doorninck for speaking with us from Amsterdam.
Banks grew up far from the trailer park—up on 152nd St. and Amsterdam in Harlem.
Azealia Banks Opens Up About Her Journey from Stripping to Rap Stardom | Marlow Stern | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOutposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.
The Life and Art of Radical Provocateur—and Commune Leader—Otto Muehl | Anthony Haden-Guest | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe 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.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementIn 1883 she served with many distinguished artists on the art jury of the International Exhibition at Amsterdam.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThe theatre at Amsterdam, in Holland, took fire and burned to death 31 persons.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellAt this crisis the inhabitants of Amsterdam opened the sluices and laid the country under water.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThe wealth which was collected within five miles of the Stadthouse of Amsterdam would purchase the fee simple of Scotland.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for Amsterdam
/ (ˌæmstəˈdæm, Dutch ɑmstərˈdɑm) /
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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Cultural definitions for Amsterdam
Capital of The Netherlands, located in the west-central region of the country.
Notes for Amsterdam
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