When you see the advertisements and the decorations on the streets and in the shops, the emphasis is on Christmas and not on the Sinterklaas celebration. Do you still celebrate Sinterklaas with your (grand)children or have you already put up the Christmas tree...
The Holiday Fair with the theme 'Around the world in one day' was held from January 10 to 14, 2024, in the Jaarbeurshallen Utrecht. Did you miss much if you hadn't been to this fair? I don't think so, because...
The Christmas star or the Star of Bethlehem can be traced directly back to the Christmas story as described in the Gospel according to Matthew. The Star of Bethlehem indicated the place where the King of the Jews was to be born....
First of all, thank you for the many stars at the bottom of my previous 349 blogs. My 350th blog is about real stars that you can see every day if you look up late at night: the starry sky. On September 25, 2022 between 22:00...
Today I am writing my 275th blog post. I had wanted to write about a different theme, but a friend advised me to choose World Umbrella Day. This day is celebrated on February 10, 2022. Today, the weather is also cooperating to...
Diwali is a Hindu festival and is also known as 'the festival of light'. During the festival, lights are lit throughout the house and in the yards. Diwali is symbolically meant as 'the victory of good...
We now take email and the internet for granted, just like water from the tap. But didn't you work with 8, 5¼, and 3½-inch floppy disks or floppy disks on standalone PCs in the early days of the PC era? Who was...
In 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated June 14 as World Blood Donor Day. A special day on which attention is drawn worldwide to the importance of voluntary and unpaid blood donation. On this day, special attention is given to those who donate their blood...
A full conjunction of the two planets Jupiter and Saturn is very rare. The last times this natural phenomenon occurred were in 1226 and 1623. Watch on December 21, 2020 between 17:30 and 18:00 or on December 22 around...
On March 12, 2020, there was a first: Irma Sluis (now the National Sign Language Interpreter for the Netherlands) of Dutch Sign Language (NGT) was deployed at the press conference regarding the measures to be taken against the spread of COVID-19. It is of great...
More and more countries are issuing COVID-19 tokens. Some designs are original and others predictable. Not all tokens have been confirmed by postal administrations. So watch out for 'HOAX'/fake tokens being offered via the internet. In this 15th blog: China, India, Sri Lanka,...
We have been in an intellectual lockdown since March 16. We now find many difficult English words 'normal': social distancing, flatten the curve, triage, R0. If you are already tired of corona, then write another blog yourself. In this 12th blog, we are going to...
On Saturday, December 14, 2019, from 15:00 PM to 19:30 PM, a large Swedish family Christmas party will be held in the center of The Hague. Immerse yourself and your whole family in Swedish winter coziness. Let yourself be swept away by the most beautiful stories...
When searching for specific postmark impressions, one sometimes comes across names that make you look up in surprise. Never heard of it! What a strange name! This was also the case with a postmark on a letter from Jamaica. A letter from 1949,...
You start a themed collection of bicycles and later realize that many cycling events were and are organized... indeed, boundless and worldwide. Previously, we “cycled through” the cycling events of the continents: Europe, Africa, and America...
On May 21, the 'I have' of Taurus gives way to the 'I think' of Gemini. The Gemini zodiac sign is a true thinker. In addition, he is very curious and eager to learn. He is always looking for new experiences...
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