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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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VOLLENDAM , a small fishing

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VILLAGE

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Holland in the

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North Holland, adjoining

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EDAM

Edam on the shores of the Zuider Zee . It is remarkable for the quaintness of the buildings and the picturesque

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costume of the villagers, who are of a singularly dark and robust type . Many artists have been attracted to

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settle here . Vollendam has its origin in the

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BUILDING

building of the

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GREAT

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DAM

dam for the new waterway to Edam in the

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MIDDLE

middle of the 14th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . On the seaward

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side of the

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DIKE, or DYKE (Old Eng. dic, a word which appears in various forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch dijk, German Teich, Danish dige, and in French, derived from Teutonic, digue; it is the same word as " ditch " and is ultimately connected with the ro

dike are some houses built on piles in the

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lake dwellings .

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