1.   Dutch settlers, after all, brought the sport to the New World by bowling in the open space now known as Bowling Green Park.

2.   Dutch settlers took their Sinterklaas tradition to America, where he merged with the English Father Christmas and became Santa Claus.

3.   Purchased from its native occupants by its Dutch settlers for no other reason than to make a few guilders, New York today remains loyal to its mercenary origins.

4.   Afrikaners are the descendants of Dutch settlers who speak Afrikaans.

5.   Afrikaners are the descendants of the original Dutch settlers and other Europeans in what is now South Africa.

6.   Chafing under British colonial rule and seeking more space, Boers, the descendants of Dutch settlers, packed up their ox wagons and headed into the African interior.

7.   For Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch settlers and the backbone of National Party support, the moment mixes pragmatism with a twinge of nostalgia.

8.   Language is a controversial issue in South Africa, especially among white Afrikaners, the descendents of Dutch settlers who dominated apartheid governments.

9.   Long a bastion of Afrikaners, the white descendants of Dutch settlers who ruled during decades of apartheid, rugby was hated by the majority of blacks.

10.   Rugby is hugely popular amongst Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch settlers who dominated apartheid governments.