The age-old craft of using windmills to to drain lowlands, saw lumber or grind grain is enjoying a renaissance in the Netherlands, a nation famous for the windmills dotting its landscape ZAANDIJK ...

when islanders used wind power to grind grain. There are six windmills on this site, and while they are no longer operational, stand as a monument to early innovation. The views here are ...

ZAANDIJK, Netherlands — A wintry gust of wind raises hopes that the giant sails of a centuries-old windmill near Amsterdam will start turning. On the mill's cutting floor, six blades briefly ...

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ZAANDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — A wintry gust of wind raises hopes that the giant sails of a centuries-old windmill near Amsterdam will start turning. On the mill’s cutting floor, six blades ...