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May 30

Travel connection: Duesseldorf to Schiphol Airport

On the last Monday of August, I'm plotting a route leaving an event in Duesseldorf ca. 1300 and flying out of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport at 21:00 (international flight, check-in 2 hours earlier?). There's an organized group traveling to Koeln (to catch a charter flight) - would it be easier to join them as far as Koeln and then go on to Schiphol from there, or just head straight from Duesseldorf? And what are the approximate travel times and advisable connections (train? tram?). -- Deborahjay (talk) 03:53, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to go by train, from Düsseldorf to Amsterdam Centraal by ICE train is about 2 hours 10 minutes. The German railways timetable server, bahn.hafas.de, shows departures from Düsseldorf on that date at 13:14 and at 15:14, which would do nicely for you. (The next one is at 18:14.) There are several trains an hour from Centraal to Schiphol, which is a short trip, so even if your train from Germany was late there would be no problem getting onward to the airport. (For the 13:14 departure the timetable server shows you can get to the airport a bit faster by changing at Utrecht instead of going into Amsterdam.) --Anonymous, 04:53 UTC, May 30, 2010.

There is an excellent route planning web site run by the German train company [1]. From looking at that, it would appear that trains from Cologne get to Amsterdam via Dusseldorf, so I can't see that there would be any advantage to be had by going to Cologne first. --Phil Holmes (talk) 11:12, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Netherlandish online communities?

Does anyone know about any online communities from Netherland? With the with the sole aim to make new friends and networking, not pure dating sites. Are there any big communities like that? Thanks :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.215.165.169 (talk) 20:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hyves seems to be the most popular. Marco polo (talk) 00:49, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The word you're missing is Dutch. --Ouro (blah blah) 12:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Soldiers rescued at Argonne Forest

During the World War 1 at the Argonne Forest, France only 194 were rescued. Is there any way I can find out the names of the soldiers rescued. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.79.12.80 (talk) 22:28, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would start by contacting the Imperial War Museum, London, who keep huge amounts of records of this kind. If they don't have them they can probably tell you who has. Caesar's Daddy (talk) 07:59, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the OP is referring to the Lost Battalion Affair[2], part of the US contribution to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Maybe a US source would be more helpful than the IWM? (The names of the 31 soldiers who were awarded medals are on the Wikipedea page linked above.)Alansplodge (talk) 14:46, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, indeed. All the information you'll need. Caesar's Daddy (talk) 16:02, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Look here[3]... Alansplodge (talk) 12:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]