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In the year 1500 a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in Land Wursten, on the eastern banks of the...

Let’s go to the omega, the end of the Frisia Coast Trail. To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town of Scandinavia. A town...

This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland, and who founded the Scottish football...

Dockyards, terminals, pilots, warehouses, quays, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons, craftsmen, shipping companies, customs and...

Pagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More literally, it means paying the fee. It is an expression the Italian language...

'In the navy', is a song of village people. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...

The Battle of Tours in 732 was a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the biggest empires in...

The heart of western democracies is the joint assembly of parliament, cabinet and high councils of state. Its Germanic origin is the...

At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under supervision of the wisemen Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the...

In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...

“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...

If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...

Peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria...

Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...

When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...

New York City, the Capitol of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, The Big Apple, Empire City and Bagdad-on-the-Subway....

About 2,000 years ago a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-years-old girl, who suffered during her young life from scoliosis, was killed. Her...

The Pesse Canoe. The oldest water vessel of the world was found near the village of Pesse in province Drenthe, the Netherlands. It is...

In 2004, a unique discovery was made at the early-medieval grave field of Solleveld, just south of the city of The Hague: a boat grave....

When, on a moon-clear night, on top of the dike at Lauwersmeer (Lake Lauwers), you look out over the water, you just might see in the...