12) Waal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rhine River, 52 mi (84 km) long, branching off the Rhine near the German border and flowing W through central Netherlands, past Nijmegen to join the Maas (Meuse)...

13) Dordrecht. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Dort (dort) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 113,394), South Holland prov., SW Netherlands, at the point where the Lower Merwede divides to form the Noord and Oude Maas (Old...

14) Limburg, province, Netherlands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Belgium in the west and south and Germany in the east. Maastricht, on the Meuse (Maas) River, is the province's capital and chief industrial center. Regional industries...

15) North Brabant. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Belgium in the south and on Germany in the east. The capital is 's Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch); other cities include Tilburg, Eindhoven, and Breda. The province has...

16) Kleist, Heinrich von. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...German Romantic writers. Kleist served (1792-99) in the Prussian army and led an unhappy life that ended in suicide. His comedies include Der zerbrochene Krug (1806,...

17) Dowson, Ernest Christopher. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Queens College, Oxford, but left in 1888 without taking a degree. Dowson's life was tragic. In 1894 his father died, and his mother committed suicide six months later....

18) Netherlands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Nederland or Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, officially Kingdom of the Netherlands, constitutional monarchy (1994 est. pop. 15,341,600), 15,963 sq mi (41,344 sq km),...

19) Mafia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sicilian brigands in the 19th and 20th cent. Unlike the Camorra in Naples, the Mafia had no hierarchic organization; each group operated on its own. The Mafia originated...

20) organized crime. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The American tradition of daring desperadoes like Jesse James and John Dillinger, has been superseded by the corporate criminal organization. Firmly rooted in the...