4. Climate The city has a mild climate, under strong influence of the Atlantic Ocean The winters are usually cold, but not extreme, but temperatures below zero are quite common. It usually snows two or three days a year. Summers are hot with temperatures around 25 degrees
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7. Other institutions include a university art academy, the De Rietveld academie, and two high schools, De Hogeschool van Amsterdam and the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. The Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
8. Cycling Amsterdam is famous for the huge number of bicycles and is the world center of the bicycle culture. Almost all the main streets have bike paths, and you can leave your bike anywhere in Amsterdam there are about 700,000 riders
9. Airport Schiphol Airport is about 3 meters below sea level, making it the busiest airport in the world and the fifth in Europe (after London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Madrid-Barajas) Airport and is the tenth of the world.
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18. Inventors Holland has also given many famous inventors. The electronics company Philips invented the compact disc or CD , an invention of our time. The first CD released in 1982. The scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) became famous for inventing the pendulum clock . This is a clock that moves by the regular movement of a pendulum. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) discovered the microscope . He more than half, with plates of copper or silver and lens manufacturing. We also found evidence of bacteria.