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Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Aug 25

Reading Dominion by Tom Holland and came across this anecdote: "a peasant, only a hundred miles from Cambrai, had dreamed that a swarm of bees entered his anus, and revealed to him the iniquities of the clergy." The 1000's were a wild time...

Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Aug 12

In preparation for Sail 2025 the Argentinian tall ship Ara Libertad visits Amsterdam

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Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Aug 6

As its eighty years ago today the first atomic bomb was used on Hiroshima here's a link to one of the best magazine articles of the twentieth century: www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

Hiroshima

A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.

www.newyorker.com

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Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Jun 24

In Charles V and Maria Theresa, countless dullards and not a few imbeciles and lunatics."

Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Jun 24

Kaplan quoting dame Rebecca West on the Habsburgs: this family, from the unlucky day in 2273 when the College of electors chose Rudolph of Habsburg to be king of the Romans, on account of his mediocrity, till the abdication of Charles II, in 1918, produced no genius, only two rulers of ability ⬇️

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Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Jun 24

In the Netherlands the version of Dutch spoken around Haarlem is designated standard Dutch. If you speak that accent it's considered as having no accent. Thats the accent mostly used on television and radio.

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Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Jun 24

Started reading this travelogue, which is quite dated as it was written based on travels before the Yugoslav war, but I think interesting nonetheless. Allegedly Bill Clinton read it and used it as an excuse not to intervene as his takeaway was that all the ethnic groups hated each other..

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Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · Jun 10

Visited the former NATO headquarters carved into the caves near Maastricht. Apparently they had their own house wine. Hard to say if this bottle was for the officers or the enlisted ranks — the complex had separate bars for both.

#wine
#coldwarhistory

A bottle of French table wine labeled “Joint Operations Centre – Catering Ops Site,” featuring the NATO emblem. Photographed inside the former NATO bunker complex near Maastricht, carved into a limestone cave system.

Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · May 24

Loved the #anselmkiefer exhibition in the Van Gogh & Stedelijk!

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Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · May 24

Don't think this is going to work. It'll just confuse people...

Raoul Revers @trivipedia.bsky.social · May 21

Otto English on British food: "You might have a roast on Sunday but the vegetables would be prepared in much the same way that Vesuvius 'prepared' the people of Pompeii in 79 CE"
#OttoEnglish
#Blueskyhistory

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