LIST OF DUTCH INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dutch_inventions_and_discoveries#Medicine
I IMAGINE that the "list" for French and German achievements would be just as long, MAYBE even longer.
I DO think that if the "question man" were to ask Americans what the Dutch have done, they would probably say much the same. Maybe I'm wrong.
I once did a "canal cruise" along all those watery Amsterdam "highways." We stopped at two places: one for pizza for all on board and one for ICE CREAM.
WHAT a civilized way to see Amsterdam.
Dutch Elm disease?