* In Memphis, people live on Dokkum Drive, Deventer Cove and Polder Drive. There is an entire neighborhood brimming with Dutch street names, including Volendam, Ransdorp, Petten, the Amstel river, Harlingen and more.
* Holmen in Wisconsin has a Spakenburg Road and a Staphorst Lane.
* There is a Queen Wilhelmina State Park in Arkansas and a Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden in San Francisco. She was popular in America over a hundred years ago. She was the youngest queen in the world, and Americans thought she had as much say in the Netherlands as Victoria, the oldest queen, had in England.
* Connecticut’s capital, Hartford, was founded by Jaap Korlaar of Bunschoten. He built Fort de Goede Hoop there. Hartford still has a Dutch neighborhood, Dutch Point, with Dutch street names.
* Eleven presidents had Dutch ancestors: Van Buren, Lincoln, Grant, both Roosevelts, Harding, Ford, Carter, both Bushes, Obama.
* BlueTooth is an invention of Jaap Haartsen from Hardenberg, WiFi comes from the hands of Cees Links from Maarssen, the cloud we owe to Werner Vogels from Ermelo, and Eindhoven’s Joop Sinjou gave mankind the CD and the DVD.
* Humphrey Bogart, as did Michael Douglas and Philip Seymour Hoffman, hailed from Amsterdam, Jane Seymour from Dordrecht, Shirley Temple from Zaltbommel, Doris Day from Delfzijl, Marlon Brando from Utrecht, Cecil B. DeMille from Haarlem, Robert de Niro from Schoorl, Clint Eastwood from Stevensweert, Julia Roberts from Breda, George Clooney from Vianen, Audrey Hepburn from Velp, Angelina Jolie from Gouda, Paul Giamatti from Ruinen, Steve Buscemi from Schouwen Duiveland, Cher from Hoorn, and Jane Fonda from Kollum.
