Easter Sunday and Easter Monday will be celebrated this year on Sunday, April 5 and Monday, April 6, 2026. At Easter, Christians commemorate Jesus' resurrection from the dead, after he had died on the cross two days earlier. Easter falls annually between 22...
In 2024, it will be 150 years since Claude Monet's *Impression, soleil levant* (1872, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris) prompted a critic to write disparagingly about 'The exhibition of the Impressionists'. With this, an important art-historical event took place: 'the...
EIS Knowledge Centre Insects, together with Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Wasp Foundation, the Dutch Entomological Society, and the youth organizations JNM and NJN, took the initiative for the Year of the Wasp. Through public and research activities (e.g. lectures, excursions, and wasp counts), they aim to...
The major Vermeer exhibition was held from 10 February to 4 June 2023. More than 650.000 people saw the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. This makes it the best-attended exhibition ever at the Amsterdam museum. From...
Yesterday I watched the first match of the World Cup. Result Qatar - Ecuador 0 - 2. Today the 'Orange Lions' play their first match in the same group against Senegal. We analyze Group A. Have the other countries (Qatar, Ecuador and Senegal)...
Saint Martin is the patron saint of Utrecht. He shared his cloak with a beggar, and the diagonally cut red and white can be seen everywhere in the municipality, for example in the city flag, the municipal coat of arms, and the shirts of FC Utrecht....
The Union's website received a facelift in 2011, but has hardly been updated since. That is one of the reasons the Union is now attempting another 'digitalization push'. The website as it looks now...
In February, six major sporting events are being held: American Football, the Alpine Skiing World Championships, the Australian Open (tennis), the World Speed Skating Championships (Heerenveen), the Men's Water Polo Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Rotterdam), and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (cycling). Four events are discussed in this blog. We are all looking for the sports channels for...
The 2021 sports calendar is packed due to the sporting events that did not take place in 2020. For athletes, this means choosing which event to participate in, but there are also plenty of choices for sports enthusiasts. All in front of the TV, or would you rather watch the sport 'live'?...
We saw one of the best exhibitions of 2020 at the Museum Prinsenhof Delft. Until February 16, 2020, you can still enjoy 37 masterpieces yourself, 29 of which are by painter Pieter de Hooch. Never before have...
From January 25, 2020, to February 11, 2021, the Year of the Rat is celebrated according to the Chinese zodiac. We take a brief look back at the Year of the Pig. That was not a good year for China with African swine fever...
The 106th Tour de France will be held from July 6 to 28, 2019. The whole of France is turning yellow, and not just because of the workers in the yellow vests. The following themes are central to this 2019 edition: 100 years of yellow...
The Spanish Civil War had a dramatic effect on the artist Pablo Picasso’s outlook on life. Not having previously been a man interested in politics, the 1936 Franco uprising in Spain was an event that dragged him out of this...
There is a website blog on Facebook that deals with philatelic paleoanthropology, the philately that concerns itself with the prehistoric origins of mankind and its ancestors. I am a member of it too, and the group searches...
As a young boy collecting stamps I was often more attracted to those with colour and shape rather than rarity. Diamond-shaped stamps from Hungary, Monaco and the Burundi particularly caught my eye. The stamp on the left is from Hungary...
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