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And finally: Welcome to Madurodam, a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague in the Netherlands.
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I have read that the word Scheveningen was used during World War II to distinguish between native Dutch and German speakers, as the Germans couldn’t quite get their tongue around it, but there’s no recorded ...
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I have read that the word Scheveningen was used during World War II to distinguish between native Dutch and German speakers, as the Germans couldn’t quite get their tongue around it, but there’s no recorded proof of this, it’s just common knowledge amongst a particular generation.
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When the marshal heard this, he looked blacker than ever; and the first thing he did next morning was to send off messengers in every direction to inquire for a village called Scheveningen, and a man named Dirk Hogan.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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The match is a 'Scheveningen' team event between China team and Russia team.
ChessBase News 2010
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The two teams play a 'Scheveningen' tournament, which means that each player of one team plays against each of the players of the other team.
ChessVibes 2010
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Pro-Mladic supporters display the Serbian national flag during the transfer of the former general to the UN Detention centre in Scheveningen.
Ratko Mladic arrival in Holland draws crowds to sleepy seaside town 2011
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A convoy of police vans then drove Mr. Gbagbo to the Scheveningen detention center in a suburb of The Hague where former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic moved in earlier this year, joining his onetime political partner, Radovan Karadzic.
Gbagbo Appears at International Court Reuters 2011
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On an autumn evening in 1940 one of our most secret agents was landed on the seafront at Scheveningen in the occupied Netherlands wearing full evening dress and smelling of alcohol, Hennessy XO brandy, to enhance his "party-goer image".
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery Robert McCrum 2010
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At 9.20pm the calm of a spectacular sunset over the North Sea in the well-to-do Dutch resort of Scheveningen was shattered by a police helicopter, as it swooped over the town jail and hovered over the dunes.
Ratko Mladic arrival in Holland draws crowds to sleepy seaside town 2011
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