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  • The Theory of Everything moves with impressive acting and is a film with little physics

    At 21, brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking is told that he has the crippling muscle disease ALS and has only two years to live. More than fifty years later, he is still with us, albeit completely paralyzed. His moving life story has now been filmed in The Theory of Everything, in which actor Eddie R

  • Michiel de Ruyter film using history and fiction

    What do you do when you make a film about the most famous seafarer in Dutch history? Shifting between fact and fiction. In Michiel de Ruyters case, this is not an issue, with a few exceptions. You can see that historical research was done, but also that choices had to be made to appeal to a wide aud

  • Successful tribute to Alan Turing who cracked the Nazis' Enigma in WWII The Imitation Game

    In the film The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the idiosyncratic mathematician Alan Turing, who was instrumental in cracking Germanys Enigma codes during World War II. A role he plays with verve in a tribute to the war hero. Relatively few people will know the British mathematician Alan

  • Pope Francis

    In his last Christmas message, Pope Francis bluntly stated that he wants to sweep through the corrupt clerical system, the Curia, with a broom. The meager applause that followed showed nicely what the cardinals present thought of this. I think it wise for the Pope to learn from the past. History doe

  • Humanoids in Turkey as early as 1.2 million years ago

    As early as 1.2 million years ago, hominids roamed western Turkey. This is apparent from the accidental discovery of a stone tool, which was left behind in an old riverbed by the ancient people of that time. In recent years there have been more indications that humans had been present in Turkey so

  • Bosatlas review of the cultural heritage and history of the Netherlands

    A special book was published at the end of 2014, if only because of its size:the enormous Forest Atlas of Cultural Heritage has 416 pages. Three years ago there was also the even thicker (576 pages) Forest atlas of the history of the Netherlands. Fortunately, no musts for the first graders who are a

  • Elizabeth Stuart and Amalia van Solms rivals at the Hague Court in the Golden Age

    A long row of two portraits side by side. Every pair seems identical:same pose, same decoration. Yet each time they are two different women:Elizabeth Stuart and Amalia van Solms. In the seventeenth century they fought out their rivalry at the court of The Hague, among other things by having portrait

  • Scientific research into our musical heritage and the fraternization through pop music at Top 2000

    With the Top 2000 just around the corner, the end of the year is really in sight. Many music lovers voted for their favorite songs and eagerly await this legendary music program. But why? Pop music influences our mood, evokes memories, provides support… Arno van der Hoeven researched our musical her

  • Christmas in the trenches during the First World War

    On Christmas Day 1914, English and German soldiers decided not to fight each other. That is how De Telegraaf and the NRC write about that year. The men shared chocolate and cigarettes. The cannon didnt shut up over Christmas, but on the western front the guns didnt go off here and there anyway. An

  • Solid, but slightly dated overview of WWI Elementary particle 1st World War, by Michael Howard

    Never before have so many new books about the First World War been published in one year. This year it was exactly 100 years ago that this devastating European war broke out. Amsterdam University Press also contributed with an elementary part about the war, a concise and accessible introduction to t

  • From Beowulf to Bilbo

    It will premiere on December 10, 2014:part three of The Hobbit. Tolkiens Middle-earth may seem magical to many, but it is largely based on reality. Tolkien drew inspiration from the language and literature of medieval England. Eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas :giants and elves and orcs. They are Old En

  • Angels &Demons. The Bernini Mystery:An Interview

    On May 13, Angels &Demons went. The Bernini Mystery premieres. The film covers many scientific themes, from the fundamental building blocks of the universe to a secret society of scientists known as the Illuminati. But where does the science end and the fantasy of the filmmakers begin? Opposite u

  • play war

    We have been waging war as long as we exist. Likewise in the Greek world in the Archaic period (c. 800 to ca. 500 B.C.). It is striking, however, that the interstate wars in the Greek motherland, on the Doric and Ionian islands and in the Greek coastal towns in Asia Minor had a limited character. Bu

  • Coxinga chased the Dutch from Formosa

    He wore his hair in a long, shiny black ponytail. Reason enough for the Dutch regents to label him as an effeminate Chinese pirate. What a mistake! Kuo Hsing Ye, aka Coxinga, was a formidable freedom fighter and a man of honour. His name is still pronounced with respect in present-day Taiwan. “You

  • For more than three hundred years, the Netherlands remained in charge

    When you think of the VOC, you think of our colonial history. For more than three hundred years, the Netherlands ruled the Indies. How could a handful of Dutchmen keep such an immense island kingdom under their thumb for centuries? “Do not disrespect, do not anger your enemies, there and there is n

  • The history of Sint-Nicolaas

    To save three poor sisters from prostitution, Sint-Nicolaas threw three purses of money through the window. That way the girls could still get married. Our Taai-Taai dolls and chocolate coins refer to this story. The veneration of the holy bishop Saint Nicholas has a long tradition. Whether Sint-Ni

  • World War II in the Netherlands

    New research results about the horrors of the Second World War surface with some regularity. Researcher Elias van der Plicht, co-author of the book Hunting the Resistance, shares his discoveries about alcohol abuse by Dutch people in German service with Kennislink. Nijmegen, summer 1942. After a nu

  • Archaeologists discover devastating burial ritual

    Research into a prehistoric burial mound in Oss has revealed a special burial ritual. During the ritual, the property of the dead was dismantled, after which they ended up on a pyre with the dead. Then the remains of it were overturned and some went into the grave. The mourners took certain parts an

  • Traditions of our throne

    Orange madness is not something of recent years. Around the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina, all kinds of orange knick-knacks were already for sale. And the brewers had their hands in their hair:too few beer taps for all those thirsty people! We have not had Oranges as king or queen for very long

  • Where do the Maya come from?

    Much about the once great empire of the Maya Indians in Central America is still shrouded in mystery. The sudden demise of their culture is a mystery, but so is how their civilization began. New research shows that the latter is much more complex than previously thought. The civilization of the May

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