Malmedy

Carnival: the festival of fools and jesters (February 23 to 25, 2020)

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • 21 February 2020

Carnival is an exuberant, three-day folk festival from February 23 to 25, 2020. Originally held only in the south of the Netherlands, it is now celebrated in other parts of the country as well. During the Carnival days, there are parties...

Malmedy

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • June 5, 2013

Belgium history history

That Belgium is trilingual is well known to everyone. And that the German-speaking area concerns the towns of Eupen and Malmedy is also fairly common knowledge. But why is Malmedy Belgian territory? In my collection of postcards from the Deutsches Reich, there are...

Sjaak Van Tiel over 40 Years of Collecting Postage Stamps (1986): I have many old stamps (strips), mainly from municipalities (including some that no longer exist) and a few from – I think – the royal family. Perhaps also Veldp…

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Peter over Delta Works: The Netherlands and water with climate adaptation: Thank you very much for the nice explanation of the design.

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Annet Hogendoorn over The piss-pots of Tilburg: Another super fun blog post, and educational :)

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Lars over Delft Blue Ceramic stamp a 'deception stamp': Now just get those blueprints out of the catalog..

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Erik Boeré over Delft Blue Ceramic stamp a 'deception stamp': The best solution is probably to ignore the ceramics stamp altogether. Fortunately, as the NVPH/Catalog Committee, we already have…

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Yvonne Kruse over The piss-pots of Tilburg: What a nice article, Willem!

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