"We were told that this will be the last time Apeldoorn holds a parade on this scale. But that's what they said last time, on the 50th anniversary in 1995.
Organizers were forced to change their minds after townspeople demanded another parade."
You guys rock.
"The Canadian Tulip Festival has grown into the largest tulip festival in the world from a gift of thanks given five decades ago. In the fall of 1945, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands presented Ottawa with 100,000 tulip bulbs. The gift was given in appreciation of the safe haven which Holland's exiled royal family received during the Second World War and in recognition of the role which Canadian troops played in liberating the Netherlands."
http://www.tulipfestival.ca/en/FestivalHistory/
