The dying humanities at Leiden University. Arabic has been taught at Leiden since 1586. Leiden holds the oldest continual chair of Arabic in Europe, established in 1613. Budget cuts from central government combined with faculty deficit (over 5million euros) will batter the

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Poor Ukraine.

Look into her eyes. The eyes of an Iranian woman – strong, courageous, defying tyranny where the world has looked away. A gaze that the Tehran regime has decided to extinguish, one morning, at the hour of their prayers. They are going to execute her. Her name is Varishe Moradi.

A section of a Roman road has been unearthed under Old Kent Road in south-east London. Known as Watling Street, the near 2,000-year-old road ran from the Roman port at Dover through London to the West Midlands. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Rellende boekhandelaren voor de 2e kamer. Tegen de voorgenomen BTW verhoging.

Geboren in #Deventer : de getalenteerde Gesina Ter Borch, zie dit draadja:

Dit hoort op NOS Nieuwsuur ANP RTL Nieuws WNL Vandaag NRC de Volkskrant Trouw etc etc etc

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Alex van Breemen, a Dutch businessman living in Romania, has just offered a REWARD of Euro 100.000 for information leading to the recovery of the precious Dacian objects, stolen last Saturday in the Netherlands. Please retweet

Leuk artikel van Martijn Ubels in de Stentor Deventer over een uniek boek uit 1483 dat we als Vrienden van de Athenaeumbibliotheek in de VS hebben aangekocht. Het gaat om een ‘zelfhulpboek’ - hoe je een beter Christen wordt. Mooie foto’s van Ronald Hissink!

Pixy Liao - fotografe vol humor in Museum MORE

Yalta but the US only invited Germany

First, take over the media, replace officials and judges with loyalists, silence the opposition, and then take over the military. I've never seen a country slide into authoritarianism this quickly before.

It's unfair to say that what Trump's doing is unprecedented. Ninety-five years ago, the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act helped turn a recession into the Great Depression.

Nature is Amazing ☘️ Look at how calm people are and slowly walking still wanting to take their video of Mt. Etna?

Ik laat de te drukke week van me afglijden op het terras van Talamini in de binnenstad van Deventer, koffie binnen handbereik en de laatste zonnestralen verdwijnen over de geveltoppen.