You can begin play near the beginning of the 17th century, when Spain was still the dominant power in the region, and the English, French and Dutch were mere upstarts; in the midcentury "golden age of piracy"; or, toward the end, as national navies began to put most pirates out of business.
These beauts are limited to 500 and you can get your copy straight from the Dutch Hercules himself for a mere $190.
I was also pleased to see Gerard Reve's funny, shiftless and poignant debut novel, The Evenings (Pushkin £12.99), available in English a mere 71 years after appearing in the original Dutch.
And at a mere two minutes, the mordant hilarity and conceptual perfection of Dutch mortality study A Single Life exceeds what many films achieve in 90 or more.
The Netherlands' auction, which ended this week, raised a mere euro2.7 billion ($2.5 billion), less than a third of what the Dutch government had originally hoped.
Friesland's incorporation into the Dutch Republic in 1581 threatened to reduce Frisian to a mere peasant dialect.
Scholars have combed the Dutch city of Delft's civic records and found a mere smattering of facts, recently enhanced by the excellent website essentialvermeer.com.
Every child in the Netherlands should watch the Nuremberg-like rally held by the NSB, a mere month after the German conquest, in which they sanctimoniously mourn the fallen Dutch soldiers as "victims of treachery"—the treachery, that is, of the Dutch government and royal family, for sending them to fight against their German brothers.
Google already has its Euro HQ there, enabling it to perform the so-called "Double Irish" and "Dutch Sandwich" tax arrangements to lower its foreign tax rate to a mere 2.3percentnt.
The site launched just over two years ago and its founders – from Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad – raised €1m from 15,000 benefactors great and small in a mere eight days: a dynamic lesson in crowdfunding.
