by Jeffrey Meyers As a college student I’d been traveling alone for a month through Greece, Yugoslavia and Germany, where I didn’t know the languages,…
Posts tagged as “Amsterdam”
By Dan Geddes
AMSTERDAM – Jan Smit, 44, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), proposed yesterday that Dutch should become the new official language of the EU after Brexit finally takes place next year.
“It can’t be German,” said Smit, “for semi-obvious historical reasons. The French can pretend that others are willing to learn French, but most people are not. The French are just too annoying when they correct you, even when they do it in English. And everybody hates the French. You know it; I know it.”
High-Tech Saint Nick Saint Nicholas arrived in Amsterdam, aboard a shiny new ship, looking old as Father Abraham, after his long,…
Review by Dan Geddes See also: The Island at the Center of the World The Dutch Republic The First Salute Russell Shorto’s Amsterdam: A History…
By Dan Geddes Darkness. Rain. Punishing winds. Gray skies. “Oh God, when will it end?” These are some of the words that come to mind…
By Jonathan I. Israel See also: Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City The Island at the Center of the World The First…
By Dan Geddes This winter Amsterdam’s canals froze over for the first time since 1997. The ice was deemed safe enough to skate on, and…
By Dan Geddes 24 March 2012 AMSTERDAM–A recent Dutch law forbids the operation of any of Amsterdam’s world famous cannabis coffeeshops within 300 meters of…
The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman Review by Dan Geddes Summary: Barbara Tuchman’s compelling view on the American Revolution…
The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of the Founding of New York by Russell Shorto Review by Dan Geddes Historians…
by Dan Geddes Like many Amsterdam residents, my family does not have a back garden, and so during warm summer days, when we wish to…
The Career of Hans Donkerzijde, and His Amsterdam Portal Imaginary review by Dan Geddes One of the great what-ifs of Amsterdam “Golden Age” architecture was…
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