August 2026
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The history of Sittard-Geleen is a bit of a complicated one. The city used to be 2 towns, but in 2001 the towns of Sittard and Geleen merged and are now known as Sittard-Geleen. On September 18, 1944 both towns were liberated. With the liberation of Sittard on 18 and 19 September 1944, the war…
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This post will contain little text. Instead, it has drawings by those who lived through the Holocaust. Above is “Arrival into the Auschwitz Camp.” Just behind the backs of the prisoners and to their left is the guard tower at the main entrance to the camp. (Illustration by Władysław Siwek) Next we see the entrance…
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Eddy de Neve occupies a unique place in the history of Dutch football. On 30 April 1905, he became the first great scoring hero of the Dutch national team, scoring all four goals in the Netherlands’ historic 4–1 victory over Belgium in Antwerp. For a brief moment, he seemed destined for sporting greatness. Eddy de…
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This is not a scientific fact it is solely based on my own observations. It seems to be that a lot ,if not all, dictators behave like a toddler. The whole world revolves around them and they get very cross if someone doesn’t want to play with them. Hitler was one of these toddler like…
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Herta Bothe was a German concentration camp guard during World War II. She was imprisoned for war crimes after the defeat of Nazi Germany and was subsequently released from prison early on 22 December 1951 as an act of leniency by the British government. She was 6ft 3in, which must have been quite intimidating for…
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You stole my childhood and took my life for one reason and one reason only. hate! Because of your hate you denied me to grow up to become a Doctor, who could have save your mother,your father or your child. Your hate stopped me from being an artist, whose paintings could have brought some much…
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On 24 August 1942, six hundred Jews from Limburg received a summons from the Dutch police, municipal police, or a local constable. They were all under the age of sixty and were ordered to report the following day at the assembly point near the public school on Professor Pieter Willemsstraat in Maastricht. Only half of…
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There are moments in history when the violence of an age becomes concentrated into the life of a single human being. Emmett Louis Till was fourteen years old when that happened to him. He was a child from Chicago who travelled south in the summer of 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi. He arrived carrying…
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It is funny sometimes how you are researching one thing and it leads you to something completely different.I was looking at the origin of a Dutch TV show called ‘Ter land.ter zee en in de lucht” which translates to on the land, in the sea and in the air. It was a light-hearted entertainment show…
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On August 28, 1830, an extraordinary contest took place on the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in Maryland. It was not a conventional horse race, nor was it a competition between two locomotives. Instead, a living horse found itself competing against one of the most remarkable inventions of the Industrial Revolution: Peter…
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