Every year, the month of October is filled with activities of the Month of History. This year's theme is: Eureka! A theme with an emphasis on science. More than 100 organizations are organizing lectures, exhibitions, walks, and more in all provinces...
The news is dominated by future hydrogen applications, such as hydrogen instead of gas flowing through our current gas pipelines. This is possible with some modifications to your central heating boiler. But there have also been successful hydrogen applications in the past that we have forgotten....
T.S. Eliot was an American-British playwright, poet, philosopher, and literary critic. Eliot was an important figure in modernist literature, best known for his poem 'The Waste Land' (1922). Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most important lyric poets in the...
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce published in 1922. Generally, Ulysses, along with the poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, also published in 1922, is regarded as the most important exponent of modernist literature. James Joyce...
On November 18, 2022, it was one hundred years since Marcel Proust passed away. Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and critic. His greatest work, 'À la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time), completed in 1922,...
Idyllic landscapes with horsemen and cows in misty sunlight. The long-awaited exhibition on Dordrecht's most famous painter, Aelbert Cuyp, is now on view: 'In the Light of Cuyp. Aelbert Cuyp, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, and William Turner'. Four masterpieces on display...
Auschwitz concentration camp is the most notorious Nazi extermination camp of World War II. In no other concentration camp were so many people murdered. How did Auschwitz become the symbol of the Holocaust? World leaders and heads of state gathered in...
Okay, it doesn’t yet exist. But had the Nicaraguan Post not made a mistake in issuing a certain stamp, it may well have been in place for a hundred years! Although building is due to start shortly on a new...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in Barcelona in 1992. The residence of the then IOC President J.A. Samaranch was chosen over Amsterdam, Belgrade, Birmingham, Brisbane, and Paris. The ceremonies and athletics took place in the Estadi Olimpic...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles in 1984. No other cities had submitted bids to host these Games. It was the second time Los Angeles hosted the Games, after 1932.
Cycling is one of the Olympic sports practiced at the Olympic Games. The sport has been on the program continuously since the first edition of the modern Summer Olympic Games. An Olympic victory is seen worldwide as the most...
As previously reported on this blog by Cees Janssen, Commissioner Maigret was “created” in Delfzijl. In Cees’s article, you can also see 3 beautiful Simenon stamps. This prompted me to delve deeper into (philatelic) history...
Previously, we “cycled through” the cycling events of the continents: Europe and Africa. In this episode, we are taking a “cyclatelistic” tour through America. Will you cycle along with me again? You will be amazed by the many events where cycling takes place. We start with...
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