A crowd has gathered outside a bookshop and lottery agency in Amsterdam's Kalverstraat. It is 25 October, 1779, and the sale of lottery tickets for the 66th General Lottery has begun. Men, bent on obtaining a ticket, push and shove around the entrance....
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Days go By Fantastic Party the Love dance, I danced all night.I almost did not get there.I forgot my keys inside the lock and only remembered after closing the door behind me. So I had to find a way to get back in the house.No telephone and storming,...
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Title The Bodies of the De Witt Brothers, Hanged at Groene Zoodje on Vijverberg in The Hague Artist Jan de Baen The 'Groene zoodje' on Vijverberg in The Hague, was, for a few days in August 1672, silent witness to this gruesome scene. Two naked bodies...
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Patron Saint of Madeira Simbol of good health for me.I'm not religious but that is not a reason not to believe.
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