Hans Faber
A severe case of inattentional blindness: the Frisian tribe’s name
The name Frisii for the people living on the southern coast of the North Sea is old. Very old. It dates from the Late Antiquity. Today we...
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Hans Faber
- Jul 27, 2022
- 14 min
From Patriot to Insurgent: John Fries and the tax rebellions
On Facebook page ‘Frisian Americans‘ the question popped up what role certain Frisians played in the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania in...
Hans Faber
- May 28, 2022
- 9 min
Joan of Arc an inspiration for Land Wursten
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...
Hans Faber
- May 7, 2022
- 12 min
To the end where it all began: ribbon Ribe
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...
Hans Faber
- Apr 23, 2022
- 7 min
Dissolute Elisabeth and her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans Faber
- Apr 10, 2022
- 14 min
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This post isn't about Aindreas Ó CéirÃn (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans Faber
- Mar 20, 2022
- 69 min
Harbours, Hookers, Heroines and Women in Masquerade
Dockyards, quays, terminals, pilots, warehouses, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons, craftsmen, shipping companies, customs and...
Hans Faber
- Feb 19, 2022
- 7 min
Filmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raiders
Who doesn't know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the white screen in 1959? A movie in which masculine Hollywood actor, and civil...
Hans Faber
- Dec 12, 2021
- 6 min
A Horsewoman from Harlingen in the Scottish Highlands
May 2017. One of the Frisian bastards hiked the Cape Wrath Trail. A hike of about 300 kilometers through the remote Northwest Highlands...
Hans Faber
- Dec 10, 2021
- 14 min
Pagare il fio
Pagare il fio is Italian for 'paying the penalty'. More literally, it means 'paying the fee'. It is an expression the Italian language...
Hans Faber
- Nov 14, 2021
- 11 min
Rescuing the Rolling Sheep
Hiking needs careful preparation, including personal safety. What do you put in your First Aid Kit? Do you possess basic first aid skills...
Hans Faber
- Oct 31, 2021
- 9 min
♫ They want you as a new recruit ♫
'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...
Hans Faber
- Sep 10, 2021
- 12 min
Like Father, Unlike Son
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...
Hans Faber
- Sep 5, 2021
- 30 min
The Thing is ...
The heart of western democracies is the joint assembly of parliament, cabinet and high councils of state. Its Germanic origin is the...
Hans Faber
- Aug 9, 2021
- 49 min
A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders
At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the...
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