The Kennemerland, a Dutch East India Company merchant ship that was outward bound from Holland to the East Indies.
When in the second world war the Japanese occupied the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, they were happy to drink Heineken beer.
In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" -- the East India Company.
When Kidd's activities in the East Indies, as it was then known, threatened the East India Company's business interests, they secured his downfall, said Wareham.
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Certainly the island was a pristine paradise when Portuguese explorer Diogo Fernandes Pereira happened upon it in February of 1507, while pioneering a new route to the East Indies.
Indonesia, it is argued, is an artificial construct, with a bewildering collection of languages, religions and ethnic groups whose only common denominator is that the jigsaw once made up the Dutch East Indies.
Through historical examples including the Dutch East Indies Company and financial regulation passed in 1811 that clarified limited liability and democratized corporations, Shiller put the focus on Dodd-Frank and what it needs to accomplish.
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The museum said the blocks, which were about 12in (30cm) by 14in (35cm) had the letters "TJIPETIR", which was believed to be the name of a rubber plantation in the Dutch East Indies in the 19th Century.
In the late 16th century Dutchmen Cornelius and Frederik Houtman tried to swipe the key to Portugal's trade monopoly in the East Indies--detailed maps of that part of the globe--and landed in jail for a brief time.
Some countries are based on language, some on ethnicity, some on religion: Indonesia is based on the principle, odd in the mouths of nationalists, that whatever was administered as the Dutch East Indies in the 19th and early 20th centuries is now Indonesia.
Unlike East Timor, which was a former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and has now won the right to independence, Aceh was long administered as a part of the Dutch East Indies before the entire archipelago, or most of it, became Indonesia in 1949.
The First Statistical Account of Scotland published between 1791 and 1799 records how the climate of the area was pleasant enough for "natives of the East and West Indies" to live there.
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