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• the Eneabba Stone Arrangement is an Aboriginal stone arrangement once thought to have been associated with survivors of the Vergulde Draeck, a Dutch galleon wrecked on the coast of Australia in 1656?
• the first Dutch satellite, the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it?
• when the Nazis began requiring all Jews in the occupied Netherlands to wear the yellow badge, Dutch Christian Casper ten Boom voluntarily wore one also?
• the Dutch delicacy Croquet is rumored to contain offal?
• Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas?
• Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse, a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines"?
• Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971?
• Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth?
• Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?