De Bilt is a small village in The Netherlands. It isn’t famous at all, except that the Dutch weather institute has its main office there and therefore several times a year the village is mentioned in the main Dutch media when some kind of a record is broken in either temperatures, draught or rain fall. I wouldn’t tell you this were it not that one of the main baseball colleges in the U.S. is called Vanderbilt, named after the man who made a gift to build the school, apparently to heal some wounds left open after the American Civil War.