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Netherlands - MSN Encarta (1457 words) |
 | The Netherlands joined with Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg to form the Brussels Treaty Organization (see Western European Union) in 1948, and was a founding member of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952. |
| Meanwhile, The Netherlands lost a war against Indonesian nationalists in the East Indies, and in 1949 The Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty in the East Indies (excluding Netherlands New Guinea) to the Indonesian government. |
| During this period the island of Aruba reached an agreement with the government of The Netherlands separating the island from the Netherlands Antilles. |
| New Guinea: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (3259 words) |
| New Guinea has 284 species and six orders of mammals: (monotremes, three orders of marsupials, rodents and bats); 195 of the mammal species (69%) are endemic. |
| Netherlands New Guinea and the Australian territories were invaded in 1942 by the Japanese. |
| New Guinea is well-known in the popular imagination for supposed ritual cannibalism that was apparently practiced by some (but far from all) ethnic groups. |
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