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Photo's of The Hague

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Poem	Droste	The coat of arms of The Hague	binocular cleaner  top
The wishperer	The old goat	Dancing acadamy	Bataafsche Import Mij.    top
Elandslaagte	Oranjekazerne	Rijswijk	Rosarium   top
Wassenaar	Z.O. Binnensingel	Zuiderpark	top

Explanation:

The coat of arms of The Hague

The coat of arms of The Hague is a stork, standing at 1 legg and in his bill he has an eel.
Some more info can be found at the website below:
ngw.nl

The colours of The Hague are green and yellow and you will see these colours often in The Hague. (for instance the shirts the local footbalteam).

Flip de Fluiter (Flip the Wishperer

The man who's playing the harmonica is Flip "de Fluiter". This was a striking character and Flip made a living by playing songs for money. He usually went in front of a sidewalk cafe, played some songs and then shouted: "Everybode 5 cents" The people at the sidewalk cafe then gave him some money. Flip also helped another striking character with the nickname crazy Willem. Crazy Willem collected paper.

Flip was scaring the pretty ladies in The Hague, because when he passes a nice lady, he suddenly showed his tongue or shouted "Boe".

Bataafse Import Maatschappij

The oil company "Bataafse Import Maatschappij" was named at the Dutch provence "Batavie" in Indonesia. The name of this company later changed into Royal Shell