Posts Tagged ‘history’

A fake in the Rijksmuseum! Shocking!
Nope, it’s not a Rembrandt or Van Gogh… it’s a moon rock.
Or rather, it’s a fake moon rock.
According to curators, the rock - which was was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a visit from the Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969 - is nothing [...]

Ok, it’s true, I should have got this up last week… since it’s a story from last week’s show. However, here in the Netherlands, we’ve had a long run of holidays… so I’ve been avoiding my computer (plus the internet is down in my apartment - AAK - so I can’t do my usual workaholic [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
The Dutch need donors… sperm donors, that is. But Nederlanders aren’t exactly lining up to do their fatherly duty… and we’ll tell you why.
We’ll also take you to the Amsterdam Hilton, where, 40 years ago, John and Yoko held their bed-in for peace.
And we’ll tour a 250-year-old Dutch [...]

Last but certainly not least… the winner of the Quadricentennial essay contest for the senior division was Eva Fu-Yun Fan, a student at Townsend Harris High School, in New York, NY. (Read more about the state-wide contest - and why it’s Dutch related - here.)
Listen to my conversation with Eva here… and read her essay [...]

The essay contest winner for the junior division was Callie Kanim, a student at the Good Counsel Academy in White Plains, NY. (For more about the contest itself, read this previous blog entry.)
Click here to listen to our interview with Callie.
Here is a photo of Callie (on her way to school) and you can read [...]

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam in what is current-day New York.
Of course, there are all sort of festivities in NY and the Netherlands to celebrate the occasion… one of which has been an essay contest for students in New York State. The assignment was to “explore the New [...]