• Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?

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Amsterdam

• Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals around it?
• Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution?
• Jan Wils won a gold medal in architectural design in art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics for his design of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam?
• Dutch mannerist painter Cornelis Ketel began to paint with his toes towards the end of a successful career as a portraitist, (example, right) in Elizabethan London and Amsterdam?
• The Faun, a rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin, displayed for a decade by the Art Institute of Chicago and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh?
• notable former residents of Zwanenburgwal (pictured), a canal and street in the centre of Amsterdam, include Dutch painter Rembrandt and philosopher Baruch Spinoza?
• the 3,500 items owned by Amsterdam's Museum of Bags and Purses make it the world's largest collection of handbags and accessories?
• the City of Amsterdam spent €160,000 on an unsuccessful soil sanitation program to save the Anne Frank Tree, one of the oldest chestnut trees in the area?
• the Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam, which used to be an industrial harbor area, now attracts trendy professionals and young families with children?
• the Homomonument in Amsterdam commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation?