User:JopkeB

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One of the courses I liked the most was thesaurus construction and its application. So I like creating order from chaos. Because so many pictures need categories and so many categories can use an update, Wikimedia Commons feels like a Walhalla to me.

Here I place some of the gems I discover.

Gems[edit]

  • Peasant woman wearing a yoke (Leimuiden, 29-10-1953) - This is one of the rare pictures from the Netherlands of someone wearing a yoke ("juk" in Dutch)

  • Gable stone "Je Maintiendrai" on Central Station Amsterdam (June 2014) - This is where your visit to Amsterdam, and perhaps to the Netherlands, starts, whether you come from Schiphol Airport, Belgium or Germany. Before you go any further, look back to see this magnificant building

  • Baptism of princess Margriet of the Netherlands in Ottawa (29 June 1943)- Rare picture of this event

  • Families from Ouwerkerk could only go "home" in December 1953 after the North Sea flood of 1 Feb. 1953 - See more on Gallery Watersnoodramp 1953

  • Paviors in Amsterdam hang a bike in a lighting pole to be able to continue working (June 1975)

  • You can claim anything if you are not hindered by any form of acknowledgment

  • Balspelende kinderen (Arie van den Berg, 1959)

  • Dutch provinces as European countries by population - Or: some small European countries in comparison to the population of provinces in the Netherlands

  • Virgen de las Nieves (Sierra Nevada, Spain)

  • Ceiling church of Garton, Yorkshire

  • The National Monument at Amsterdam Dam Square before 1956

  • Castle Gaasbeek (Belgium) in the mirror

  • Milky Way from Big Bend National Park - We never see it this way in the Neterlands

  • Lyme Park - The exact place where Elizabeth saw Pemberly for the first time

  • World War II memorial in Jakabszallas park, Hungary

  • Scene of boar hunting, 4th century, Persia (zwijnenjacht) See for an explanationː https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_Bostan#Scene_of_boar_and_deer_hunting

  • Japanese woodblock print of crane (1860-1869) by Taguchi Tomoki

  • Mensen in de ruimte van Inka Klinckhard (Barneveld, 1995)

  • Ceredolo dei Coppi (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

  • Oval-leaf milkweed

  • Big Mertens Falls (Kimberly, Western Australia)

  • Marc groet 's morgens de dingen (2001, Alphen a/d Rijn) van Hans Kuyper, gebaseerd op het gedicht Marc groet 's morgens de dingen van Paul van Ostaijen

  • Wood carving on overmantel in Provinciehuis Groningen

  • Renaissance portal in town hall Nijmegen

  • Pyramid Mountain, Canada

  • Rail Road Parkː an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a restored, antique railroad car (Dunsmuir, California)

  • The Triumph of Caesar from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra - tapestry designed by the Flemish artist Joost van Egmont (± 1680)

  • Pastures in the Netherlands

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