The Netherlands first competed at the Summer Olympic Games at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Famous quotes containing the words netherlands and/or summer:
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)
“As imperceptibly as Grief
The Summer lapsed away—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)