Hans FaberMar 10, 201911 minHow the Hero of Haarlem is actually a dragon in disguiseIt was a Yankee by the name Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. A story of life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans FaberJan 20, 20197 minKnow where to find your sweet potatoWe retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time the potato was exotic. Nowadays children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...
Hans FaberOct 14, 201812 minBurn Beacons Burn. A Coastal Inferno - NordfrieslandNordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of the region of Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the...
Hans FaberJun 20, 201821 minForeign Fighters returning from Viking war bandsFrom the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an estimated...
Hans FaberJun 1, 201817 minHaute couture from the salt marshesIt was not the city of Parisius. Nor that of Lundenwic. Believe or not, the early-medieval center for expensive cloth and chique clothing...
Hans FaberMay 23, 20189 minRacing the Wadden Sea with a Silt SledThe mud flats of the Wadden Sea are endless. But what to do with it? How do you give meaning to mud? Yes, one cubic-meter mud flat...
Hans FaberMay 13, 20189 minBil. A wasteland of non-integrated migrants?This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middle Sea was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...
Hans FaberJan 19, 201835 minPorcupines bore U.S. bucksOn May 5th, 2018, it was exactly two centuries ago that Karl Marx was born. When in 1867 the good man published the first part of Das...
Frans RiemersmaJan 13, 20186 minHalf a million deaths. A forgotten North Sea disaster...Did you know that between 328,770 and 502,190 people lost their lives around the North Sea? On the flip side: millions of possible...