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The Night the North Sea Drowned the Netherlands (1953)

On a winter night in nineteen fifty-three, the sea broke into a country famous for holding it back, and by morning nearly two thousand people were gone. It was the last night of January. A great storm in the North Sea drove the water higher and higher against the coast of the Netherlands, just as a spring tide pulled it the very same way.

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