Low Down

Ik heb soms lopen in Amsterdam. Maar goed, ik weet dat iedereen wandelingen maar ik kies altijd de weg van plaats A naar plaats B alleen maar om een beetje meer te zien. Vaak lijkt het een lange wandeling. Ik ben heel vaak boos op mezelf, vooral vanwege het feit dat wat was bedoeld als een leuke tijdverdrijf te zijn, was gewoon te veel voor mijn voeten. Ik hou van Amsterdam zo veel, dus ik het dichter ontmoet. Amsterdam West is een zeer jonge wijk, het was gebracht om te leven in 2010 als gevolg van een Marger. Het bestaat uit de volgende onderdelen: Oud West, Westerpark, De Baarsjes en Bos en Lommer. Het is het meest bevolkte deel van Amsterdam. In augustus besloot ik om gewoon een beetje Westpoort zien - Het ligt dicht bij waar ik woon Het is het belangrijkste industriegebied van Amterdam met veel schepen en veel scheepswerven. Surprasingly het gebied niet over een eigen gemeenteraad. Het wordt rechtstreeks geregeld door inhabitans. De noordgrens wordt gevormd door het Noordzeekanaal...

Dutch is the third Germanic language. It comes after English and German, but is spoken by far more people than Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Frisian. In fact, with its approximately twenty-two million speakers. Compared with most of the world's languages the history of Dutch is very well documented, and for this reason it gained attention very early on in international linguistics. Outside, however, not much is known about Dutch, certainly far less than is known about the Netherlands and Belgium , the countries where Dutch is the standard language. Many a tourist in the Low Countries is surprised to find that there is a Dutch language which is quite distinct from German or English. Needless to say   ‘Nederlands’, ‘Hollands’   and   ‘Vlaams’   are three separate names for the same language. This lack of clarity in terminology is sometimes confusing for foreigners, so confusing that it regularly leads to the misconception that the standard language in the Netherlands ...

James Brossman is someone I like, someone I met in Belgium at the beginning of 2013, when I was heading to Noord Brabant,  after a couple of days I decided to “escape” so I did it, and went to Belgium. What James does for a living for one may be outrageous, for me quite OK, he told me something interesting about so-called “fucking-business” He has definitely some distance – between, acting or performing and living his life. But he confessed he’s got some difficulties  to keep his private and professional life together. He admitted it is difficult, especially – love making, making love at home, every day, every night, distracts his performances. And it is the other way round. I asked him how it is, to perform a rough sex so often, how was it at the beginning of his porn acting, he told me it was difficult, the girls he was about to act with were more brave, and ready than he was. I asked him why – adult movies? His answer was very quick with a broad smile on his face, honest an...

Dutch   poet , the son of an  Amsterdam   physician . When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous and concentrated study. His parents were ardent partisans of the  House of Orange-Nassau , and Bilderdijk grew up with strong monarchical and  Calvinistic  convictions. After studying at  Leiden University , Bilderdijk obtained his doctorate in law in 1782, and began to practise as an advocate at  The Hague . Three years later he contracted an unhappy marriage with Rebecca Woesthoven. He refused in 1795 to take the oath to the administration of the new Batavian Republic , and was consequently obliged to leave the Netherlands. He went to  Hamburg , and then to  London , where his great learning procured him consideration. There he had as a pupil Katharina Wilhelmina Schweickhardt (1776-1830), the daughter of the Dutch painter  Heinrich Wilhelm Schweickhardt ...

A very interesting lecture - I didn't know some of the facts portrayed below - a nice reading. Hugo Grotius and the Origins of the Enlightenment in the Netherlands Marion Archer Truslow Rabun Gap Nacoochee School Rabun Gap, GA NEH Seminar 2007; The Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of Modern Society and a European World Economy Might the origins of the Enlightenment lie in the Netherlands instead of (or as well as) in England and France? During a discussion in our National Endowment for the Humanities seminar the week of July 16, 2007 on “The Dutch Republic and Great Britain in the Era of the Industrial Revolution,” Dr. Gerard Koot mentioned that possibility. John Locke, Thomas Paine, and David Hume along with Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Diderot do a great deal to explain the British and the French parts of the Enlightenment, but not the Netherlands’ experience, which could have had its origins in the Dutch “Golden Age.” Professor Koot’s insightful comment prompted me to examin...