Karien meets often friends and relatives for coffee in
the Nature's PowerHouse, which is situated in the Botanic Gardens of Cooktown.
Every time I visited Cooktown in Queensland, Australia, I learned something new. There is a terrace outside the Nature's PowerHouse where you can have coffee or a meal and at the same time enjoy the vegetation of the Botanic Garden. My daughter often comes here to work on her computer or just relax. She often meets friends and other people she knows. I always join her when I happen to be in Cooktown.
At Nature's PowerHouse 2006
The Botanic Garden
Inside the Nature's Power House
The youngest grandson in 2006
Bookshop in Nature's PowerHouse
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New Facts about History seen through the eyes of children. I myself couldn't stop laughing when I read this for the first time, and I still think this is hilarious.!
The following were answers provided by 6th graders during a history
test. Watch the spelling! Some of the funniest answers are those that
are misspelled...
10 .It was an age of great inventions and
discoveries.Guttenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another
important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a
historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.
Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.
11
.The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was
born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much
money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,
comedies and hysterectomies all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo's last wish
was to be laid by Julia.
12 . Writing at the same time as
Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote " Donkey Hote." The next
great author was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost". Then his
wife died and he wrote "Paradise Regained."
13 . Delegates from
the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a
Virgin and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of
Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats
backward and declared: A horse divided against itself cannot
stand."Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
14 .Abraham
Lincoln became Americas greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in
infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own
hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation
Proclamation. On the night of April 14th , 1865, Lincoln went to the
theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving
picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a
supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
15 .Johann
Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of
children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept in
his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous
composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half
Italian and half English. He was very large.
16 .Beethoven wrote
music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He
took long walks in the forest even when everybody was calling for him.
Beethoven expired in1827 and later died for this.
17 .The
nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions.
People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.
The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.
Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of
hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits. Charles Darwin
was a naturalist who wrote the "Organ of the Species." Madman Curie
Discovered the radio. And Karl Marx became the first of the Marx
Brothers
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Welcome to Our World Tuesday! This meme
continues in memory of the work of Klaus Peter, whose "that's My World"
brought people together from around the world every Monday to share the
wonders therein--big and small.Please click on our logo for "Our
World Tuesday" in the sidebar. Thank you Team of O. W. T.!
We
didn't want to miss the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Although
this was not a place where Paul was present, but it showed us what
articles were used at his time.
The National Archaeological Museum in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity.
It is considered one of the greatest museums in the world and contains
the richest collection of artifacts from Greek antiquity worldwide.
Wikipedia:Gorgons were popular images in Greek mythology, appearing in the earliest of written records of Ancient Greek religious beliefs such as those of Homer,
which may date to as early as 1194–1184 BC. Because of their legendary
and powerful gaze that could turn one to stone, images of the Gorgons
were put upon objects and buildings for protection. An image of a Gorgon
holds the primary location at the pediment of the temple at Corfu, which is the oldest stone pediment in Greece, and is dated to c. 600 BC.
Gorgon
Mycenaean civilization originated and evolved from the society and
culture of the Early and Middle Helladic periods in mainland Greece. It emerged in circa 1600 BC when Helladic culture in mainland Greece was transformed under influences from Minoan Crete.
Here some examples of Mycenaean Art.
Other artefacts such as jewellery.
Ostracism. An interesting voting system!!
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The Great Church (Grote Kerk). The church is situated on the Markstraat and dates from the 15th century. Prior to the Protestant Reformation it was named for St Vitus.
It is one of the oldest surviving churches in The Netherlands, having
had the good fortune to survive the Spanish invasion of 1572 and the
subsequent burning of the town. The church has numerous wooden vaults
that are painted with scenes from the Old and New Testaments.
These were hidden for many years and were only rediscovered in a recent
restoration. The church is the venue for a number of cultural
activities such as organ music nights and the bi-annual Naarden Photo
festival.
Great Church Naarden
The city of Naarden is famous for its cathedral, where the annual performance of the St Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach takes place. This musical happening is so popular that in order to get to experience this, one has to buy a ticket years in advance. Naarden and Bach are so closely connected that the whole city is dedicated to this great composer and his musical sons. This year May I was so fortunate to attend the Magnificat by J.S.Bach.My daughter treated me to this concert. It was marvellous. Naarden is also the domicily of the Dutch Bach Society and they organise many more concerts every year. My daughter and her partner are members of this society.
Naarden itself is a very old and interesting place from a historical point of view.
The history of the City of Naarden dates back to about 936 - 968.
It was then not situated on the same spot as it is now.
Due to the rising water level the city was rebuilt on a safer place.
In the Eighty Years'War Naarden had chosen the side of the Protestant Prince of Orange, which caused a massacre on the first of December in 1572. The Spanish forces killed 700 inhabitants ,men, women and children, in front of the townhall, which is still in use and is called now The Spanish House.
Townhall Naarden
The massacre by the Spaniards in 1572
To punish the population even more the town walls were demolished. New fortifications were built, consisting of ramparts, moats and townwalls. They still exist.
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Welcome to Our World Tuesday! This meme
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World Tuesday" in the sidebar. Thank you Team of O. W. T.!
Saint Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin. Nicodemus, according to the Gospel of John, showed favour to Jesus. He appears three times in John. Nicodemus visits Jesus one night to discuss his teachings with him.(John 3:1–21); The second time Nicodemus is mentioned, is when he states the law concerning the arrest of Jesus during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (John 7:45–51). The last time Nicodemus appears in the Bible is Crucifixion, when he assists Joseph of Arimathea in preparing the corpse of Jesus for burial.(John 19:39–42)
And
there came also Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, and
brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds in weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews for burial.
Jesus and Nicodemus (John 3:1-21)
1
Now there came a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a
member of the council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said to him,
“Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one
could do the miraculous signs that you do unless God were with him.”
3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when
he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time,
can he?”
5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth,
unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom
of God. 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the
Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be
born from above.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the
sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going.
So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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After our time as p.o.w.'s in Japanese concentrationcamps, we were liberated by the British. Two months after the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we could escape a new danger. The Indonesian freedom fighters wanted to put us back in the camps, and kill us if possible. Fortunately we could sail to Singapore on British ships. There we waited for a ship to take us homeward, to the Netherlands.
On the fifth of December 1945 we went on board of the S.S.Nieuw Amsterdam , which was one of the five biggest ships of the world at that time. Four thousand Dutch men, women and children came on board. We also had a lot of British soldiers of the 14th regiment, who were longing to be reunited with their loved ones after their captivity in concentrationcamps. On 8th December we left the harbour of Singapore.
The ship was overcrowded, but we were used to that. There was, however an unexpected epidemic, of the measles, of which many children died, something my mum, sisters and I nor any of our fellow cabin passengers knew until now. It was so tragic because our mothers had done everything they could to keep their children alive in the camps, and here almost back home, some of them died.
I was twelve in December 1945, my sisters were 8 and 6.
I enjoyed this voyage immensely. I could walk wherever I wanted. I watched the sea. Sometines I saw dolphins or "Flying" fish. Once I saw beautifully coloured jellyfish, also known as the Portuguese man-of-war.
During this voyage we had a stop in Adabaya, where we got on a train that took us to Ataka, where we got our winter outfit. We were treated to coffee, tea, limonade and all kind of cakes. For the children there was a play ground and each child got a present. It was for us a great happening.
When we returned it was dark. We saw in the distance the enormous, illuminated Nieuw Amsterdam, lying in all her majesty, our ship!
The train that took us in the desert, where we got our winter clothes.
Bon voyage, pleasant journey!
Slowly we steamed through the Suez Canal. I watched a camel rider on the shore, who kept pace with us!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the 1938-built Nieuw Amsterdam. For other ships with the same name, see New Amsterdam .
1,220: 556 First Class, 455 Second Class, 209 Third Class
The Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch ocean liner built in Rotterdam for the Holland America Line. This Nieuw Amsterdam, the second of four Holland America ships with that name, is considered by many to have been Holland America's finest ship
When we arrived in Southampton we had to leave our ship, which had been our home for 23 days. It was NewYear's day 1946. We had to board a British boat : the Almanzora. An old vessel and extremely cold! On 3rd January we arrived in Amsterdam, where Princess Juliana welcomed us. She was shocked by the silent group of women, who bowed for her like we had to do for the Japanese soldiers.
My mum , sisters and I went by train to Rotterdam, where my father was reunited with us after four years. He had been at sea during the war.
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from her. For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the
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Welcome to Our World Tuesday! This meme
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World Tuesday" in the sidebar. Thank you Team of O. W. T.!
