by Mike | Apr 13, 2012 | Dutch News, Events Blog
BritSoc are celebrating the Penultimate Shakespeare’s Birthday at Ma Brown’s in Haarlem. This year will be the penultimate Shakespeare Birthday before Mike, our host, retires. Our broad imaginations will produce a hotchpotch of Shakespearean and other...
by Mike | Apr 9, 2012 | CADS Blog, Golf
http://youtu.be/z2zA0ppWfuc Louis Oosthuizen holes out for double eagle (albatross) on the Par 5 2nd hole for the first time on that hole and only the fourth time in the history of the tournament. In the blink of an eye, he went from 7 to 10 under par and surpassed...
by Mike | Apr 8, 2012 | Science, CADS Blog
A century after the ocean liner sank, an intriguing new artifact has risen to the surface: the iceberg that sank RMS Titanic. “Admittedly, it has shrunk to about the size of an ice-cube,” said its owner ‘Sir’ John Richardson in this exclusive...
by Mike | Apr 7, 2012 | CADS Blog, Dutch News, UK news
The “Flying Housewife” has landed a tube stop in London after all. Fanny Blankers-Koen, a Dutchwoman who was one of the biggest stars of the 1948 London Olympics, was originally left off a reinterpreted map of the London Underground dedicated to former Olympians,...
by Mike | Apr 6, 2012 | CADS Blog, Photography
When the famous ship hit the infamous iceberg nearly 100 years ago on April 15, 1912, the Titanic didn’t just send hundreds of its passengers to the bottom of the ocean—it also took all the evidence of what life was like on board for the ill-fated travelers. Or at...
