The Dutch West India Company was so eager to increase the population of its New Amsterdam colony that it encouraged cultural diversity.
The New Amsterdam Limited is now departing from Platform 12.
In all innocence, the morphing began with the Dutch Christians of New Amsterdam, who remembered St. Nicholas from the old country and called him Sinte Klaas.
Fifteen years later, the area was claimed by the Dutch, who established a colony there named New Amsterdam.
The Netherlands still retains an interest in its former New Amsterdam.
In September 1664, the British renamed New Amsterdam "New York, " for the Duke of York, the king's brother, who now ran the colony.
There would be friction with other aliens in New Amsterdam.
New Amsterdam does not have the attitudes of old Amsterdam.
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