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Today on my morning bicycle ride, I passed this windmill called De Rooie Wip (The Red Wip). As the name suggests, the ‘Rooie Wip’ is a type of windmill called a “wipmolen,” which is derived from the “standerdmolen,” the oldest windmill type in our country.  For the origin of the name “wipmolen,” two explanations are…