Dutch has borrowed all kinds of words from other languages, but the other way around, Dutch has also borrowed words. The Loan Word Bank contains more than 18,000 loan words. With this new application, you as a visitor can map out words and word fields yourself, giving you a quick insight into the la
For her masters thesis, Bareez Majid spent four months doing research in Amna Suraka in Iraq. This former prison is now a museum and memorial site for the genocide against the Kurds during Saddam Husseins regime. The museum offers little space for the trauma of the tortured prisoners, Majid discover
Who was Jesus? And what was the world in which he lived? These are the two questions that Fik Meijer, professor emeritus and author of a large stack of well-selling books about antiquity, wants to answer in his book Jesus and the fifth evangelist. Jesus and his world:it is a thorny subject. There a
Dutch patriots fled the country in 1787 after the restoration of the Orange regime. How did they endure their exile? The further they moved away, the more they clung to their old political and bourgeois ideals, according to their letters. In 1787, the Democratic patriotic uprising was crushed in th
People are tortured, raped and murdered or are killed by malnutrition and epidemics. Cities are besieged, starved and destroyed after being taken. Refugees seek refuge elsewhere. It is happening now, and it happened on a large scale in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. June 1635 French and D
For prehistoric coastal inhabitants, sea level change was common. In the Orkneys, the Stone Age people even built their shrines along lakes and seas with dynamic coastlines. Sea level rise is a real nightmare for us. But people must have been familiar with it as far back as prehistoric times, accor
In Leiden, the memory of the Eighty Years War seems more vivid than anywhere else. Every year, the city celebrates the Relief of Leiden on October 3, 1574. The city started that tradition right away that year. The core of the party was and is fraternization between all Leiden residents. This while b
Several politicians shouted during the General Reflections that the Dutch identity is under attack. But what is that, the Dutch identity? According to Maxima, she doesnt even exist. NEMO Kennislink surveys historical literary scholar Lotte Jensen, who recently completed her research on this subject.
The unexpected has happened:the political outsider Donald Trump is the new president of the United States. Historian Clemens van Herwaarden already foresaw this:he obtained his doctorate last week on the charismatic leadership of Pim Fortuyn, and the parallels with Trump are striking. Dissatisfied
Historical research on abrasive topics regularly leads to blind spots. When history touches the Dutch personally, we get on the defensive en masse. No guilt here as with our German neighbours. Murder, rape and torture? The Dutch dont do that. Recently I was amazed at a historic debate afternoon. Th
In migration history, researchers often look at the people who leave and their new environment. The laggards are less interesting, because little changes with them. But is that really so? And why do some people choose to emigrate and others stay? A Philosophical Look at Migration for History Month w
Capuchin monkeys in Brazil work stones in such a way that they look suspiciously like the stone tools of prehistoric humans. But they dont use them for anything, they just lick them. What does this mean for our interpretation of the stone objects that prehistoric man left behind? Many an archaeolog
Also this year, the Nobel Prize in Literature was another surprising dessert in the announcement of the Nobel Prizes. There was plenty of speculation, but no one anticipated that the award would go to Bob Dylan for his poetic expressions within American music history. Well-known writers such as Har
This month, the United Nations will vote on a global ban on nuclear weapons. In the run-up to this, the Dutch branch of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War organized (IPPNW) a meeting. The theme doesnt seem to really concern citizens. The fact that there are nuclear weapons on
Traveling in ancient times was no fun. The means of transport were uncomfortable, the roads often bad and bandits were lurking. Yet people went out for fun 2000 years ago and the sights they visited are still tourist attractions today. Travel is as old as humanity itself. In search of better farmla
Where did Hannibal cross the Alps? This question has fascinated people for centuries. Researchers believe they have found new evidence for the crossing via Col de la Traversette. The large amount of horse droppings found from the time of Hannibal could indicate the presence of his famous army of ele
Today begins Philosophy Month. A good time to reflect on the importance of the humanities or humanities. Because they are increasingly falling out of favor, because the practical use is less on the surface than in most practical studies. But precisely at a time when computers are taking more and mor
Chances are that when you hear the name Newton, you think of physics. Thats right. But it could also have been dark apocalyptic prophecies, or alchemy. For Newton studied it passionately all his life. He himself calculated that the Second Coming of Christ would take place around 2060. Contemporaries
Even if it can no longer talk, you can learn a lot about a corpse by carefully examining the body. Forensic pathologists and archaeologists are doing their best to find out what happened in those last living moments. Look, feel and record carefully Youre not dead until a doctor has declared it. Som
Italian scientists have used hydrated lime nanoparticles to re-adhere the ancient paint of Mayan murals. After only a week, the degradation process had not only stopped, but also partly reversed. They published about this in the magazine Chemistry, a European Journal. The murals in the Mexican Maya
The history of reading is among the most important strands of historical studies in the second half of the 20th century and represents a fertile field for understanding History. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe history da read became a very fruitful field of study from the 1970s, especially with the mat
A romantic evening with wine? Out of the question! Marriage acrobatics in the bedroom? Nothing of that! If you want to beget the perfect offspring, forget about sexual pleasures. Here is a handful of practical advice from ancient thinkers. The Greeks and Romans took many factors into account whe
The lust for power and the sense of impunity in Nazi Germany created a state program of murdering disabled children and euthanizing sick people, and then opened the way to bestial experiments on concentration camp prisoners. In the book Hitlers Doctors War Bartosz T. Wieliński describes the operatio
On January 18, 1968, a group of 31 North Korean commandos set out from Pyongyang. Three days later, they crossed the border. Soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the South Korean 26th Infantry Division, armed with American weapons and the relevant documents, cut a hole in the newly erected fence. How