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Dutch history and culture
Photos
I'm not a great photographer, but I think I know a story or two about Amsterdam. Go here.Articles
- What's in a name: Holland or Netherlands?
- "A Nearly Fatal Throat Disease": The Dutch language
- Too old to die: Nicholas of Myra, Sinterklaas, Santa Claus
- Horror stories - ancient and less ancient
- Artist, discoverer, traveller, spy: Life and times of Cornelis de Bruijn (1652-1727)
Essays
- The Dutch Crisis I: Why the Dutch are becoming restless
- The Dutch Crisis II: How not to sell Europe to a skeptical nation (Aristotle for beginners)
- Dutch Archaeology is like commercial television (by Marcel Hulspas)
Offsite
- The Netherlands. The BBC fact sheet
- The UnDutchables™. Expats explain the Netherlands.
- Dutch Culture.
In Dutch
Here are several stories, all written in Dutch, about Dutch daily life in the twentieth and twenty-first century..Culture of Consultation: A history of the Netherlands
- The translation of my book will be put online.
Germania Inferior
Go here or here for my collection of articles on Holland, Belgium and a part of Germany in Antiquity. It covers the period between, say, 100 BCE and 500 CE. An important part of it is the story of the Batavian revolt.The Global Village
My American friend Bill Thayer maintains a similar website. He offers information about- Italy; I am especially fond of his section on Umbria.
- The United States, which includes sections on Louisiana and Kentucky.
Livius.Org, 2006
Revision: 23 Dec. 2007
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