Summer Olympics Helsinki 1952
door At last in 1952 Finland got to organize the Olympics. Originally this was to have taken place twelve years earlier in 1940, but the 1940 Olympics were cancelled due to the start of the Second World War.
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Sarangan (Dutch East Indies) – Westwoud 1937
door In the years before the devastating Second World War and the Indonesian National Revolution in the 1940s, some previously economically inviable areas of the Indonesian archipelago began to thrive due to Dutch technological innovation in tropical agriculture and forestry. Apart from Java, the other islands …
The West Frisian Dialect
Wervershoof 30-05-1913. Mrs Maartje Hooijveld-Mantel sends a postcard to her niece who lives in the neighboring village of Andijk:
Curaçao Postal Stationery used in Medemblik?
This item lingered in my mind after I first saw it on Delcampe awhile ago. Not an extremely attractive entire I thought back then: a bit smudgy and bleak in a certain way. I scrolled on. For some reason I bumped into the cover again …