Almost all his items are pocket-sized since they had to be secretly smuggled into the Dutch trading house by his Japanese assistant (who would have risked a death sentence if found giving them to a westerner).

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Sleep in Colombo's colonial era Park Street Hotel, bed down at the immaculately restored Illuketia estate near Galle, or, if urges for the beach are simply too strong to ignore, opt for an extended stay at the Dutch colonial Beach House bungalow near Tangalle, where, amid antiques and attentive staff and a personal stretch of private beach, you can experience history and hedonism in equal, enchanting measure.

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He is also the chief curator of the "House of Slaves, " built by the Dutch in 1776, and is the last slave house remaining on the island and Coly has painstakingly preserved its history.

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The Dutch have reached a halfway house.

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George Washington's troops were defeated here in 1776 by the British, who used as their base an old Dutch farmhouse now known as the Old Stone House.

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After a classified briefing in the House intelligence committee on Wednesday, Democratic Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger said he believed the FBI was not at fault.

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Worn by Marie de Medici during her 1610 coronation as the queen of France, it later passed on to the House of Orange-Nassau, now the Dutch royal family, and then to the collection of the queen of England before arriving in Prussia in 1702.

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The house, cold, empty and boarded up, was a wooden Dutch Colonial at the edge of the water.

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Clinton said she intends for the five-bedroom Dutch Colonial home to be her primary residence, but the president's primary residence will remain the White House until his administration ends.

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