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...that Sir Edward Tomkins, British Ambassador to the Netherlands and then France in the 1970s, owned Winslow Hall, a house often attributed to Christopher Wren, for nearly 50 years?
...that Wetsens station on the North Friesland Railway, which served a sparsely populated part of Friesland, Netherlands, closed in 1902, less than eight months after opening?
...that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract?

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