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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Netherland's Crown Prince Willem Alexander holds Princess Ariane on his shoulders as he and his wife Princess Maxima, along with Princess Amalia (front right) and Princess Alexia (front left) visit a beach near Wassenaar, Netherlands, during the summer in 2009. Princess Maxima is so popular in the Netherlands that an exhibition at the former royal palace Het Loo has opened to mark her first 10 years in the country.
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Fittonia plants are seen as they grow in in a special darkened room illuminated by blue and red LED's in Den Bosch, central Netherlands, Monday March 28, 2011. Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise, a Siberian bunker, or a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Injured people are carried out of a shopping mall after a shooting in Alpen aan den Rijn, 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, April 9, 2011. A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon at a shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least four people dead and wounding 16 others, Dutch officials said. (AP Photo/www.regio15.nl)
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Illustration by Schot NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, a cameraman films a row of wind turbines of the dike near Urk, Netherlands. In a land that prides itself as an advocate of green, it may be surprising that a spat over the wind park on the dike of the Ijssel Lake has gone to the nation's Cabinet and threatens to land at the country's highest court. It also is perhaps ironic that Holland, the land of the windmills, should be engulfed in a dispute over windmills. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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In this photo provided by World Press Photo, the 2nd Prize Portraits Single of the 2011 World Press Photo Contest by Joost van den Broek, the Netherlands, de Volkskrant shows Kirill Lewerski, a cadet on the Russian tall ship Kruzenshtern. (AP Photo/Joost van den Broek/De Volkskrant)
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In this photo released by World Press Photo, the 1st Prize Sport Single of the 2011 World Press Photo contest by Mike Hutchings, South Africa, Reuters, shows Netherlands' Demy de Zeeuw being kicked in the face by Uruguay's Martin Ceceres during their World Cup semifinal soccer match in Cape Town, South Africa, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Hutchings/Reuters)
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In this photo released by World Press Photo, the 1st Prize Daily Life Stories of the 2011 World Press Photo Contest by Martin Roemers, The Netherlands, Panos Pictures. Metropolis. (AP Photo/Martin Roemers/Panos Pictures)
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his war crimes trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool)
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Dutch players hug Klaas Jan Huntelaar, right, of the Netherlands after he scored 1- 0 against Turkey during their international friendly soccer match at ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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New Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte wields the gavel after receiving it from his predecessor, Jan Peter Balkenende, in The Hague on Thursday. Mr. Rutte's minority government pledged budgetary austerity and a crackdown on immigration. (Associated Press)
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Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, center, and his lawyer, Bram Moszkowicz, left, await the start of his trial inside the courtroom in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcel Antonisse, Pool)
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Liverpool's Martin Ronald Kelly, right, intercepts infront of Utrecht's Jacob Mulenga, left, during the Group K Europa League soccer match at Galgenwaard stadium in Utrecht, Netherlands, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Liverpool's Fernando Torres screams after missing a chance to score during the Group K Europa League soccer match, Utrecht against Liverpool at Galgenwaard stadium in Utrecht, Netherlands, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Actress Mia Farrow is seen in an image taken from TV as she testifies at the Charles Taylor war crimes trial in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone via APTN)
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In this image made from television model Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Special Court for Sierra Leone, via APTN)
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Laura Dekker waves to the media as she stands on her boat in Den Osse, southwest Netherlands, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Fourteen year-old Laura Dekker, who hopes to become the youngest person to sail around the world by herself, and her father Dick Dekker, have departed the harbor of Den Osse in her 38-foot (11.5-meter) yacht Guppy, bound for Portugal where she hopes to begin her solo attempt later this year. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)
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Associated Press Serbia's envoy to the Netherlands, Cedomir Radojkovic (left), and Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic (center) await a ruling on Kosovo's declaration of independence from the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Thursday.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama and Kurt Dykstra, mayor of Holland, Mich., sit in an electric Ford Focus on Thursday in Holland at the groundbreaking ceremony of Compact Power Inc., a battery plant and a subsidiary of LG Chem Ltd.
