Yearly archives: 2024
Garrett Speed shared this “This Afghani restaurant in ‘s-Hertogenbosch has a bread holder with a map of Afghanistan as the base”
Via Reinder “This fantastic piece of textile art by Miep van Riessen consists of embroidered names of victims, and is at the same time a quite adequate ‘geographical impression’ of the region where the disaster took place: the Dutch province of Zeeland. “
Reinder shared this “On the 1st of February 1953 a disastrous flood occurred in the southwest of The Netherlands. More than 1800 people lost their lives and an entire infrastructure was devastated. This is known as the Watersnood, and it is the topic of the Watersnoodmuseum in Ouwerkerk in the […]
How a mechanical issue leads to a new map in the wild. Back home, I had a problem with a lawn mower. I called a friend for help, who finally came with this fabulous T-shirt!
Tom MacWright shared this picture of the Panorama of the City of New York, an urban model of New York City and the centrepiece of the Queens Museum. For more information, click here.
This is literally what I thought when I saw this picture. The sentence makes sense for a French speaker; the English version would be: not mix apples and pears, but I also found apples and oranges. Always happy to learn the usage if you want to comment on our socials. […]