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Silent famine
In 1884, the first correlation between beriberi and a dietary factor was made by Takaki Kanehiro, a Japanese Naval doctor.
The letter is formally addressed to Brussels, but it is aimed squarely at Jerusalem. Veldkamp gives Hamas a single vague line — calling for the release of hostages — and then devotes his legal outrage ...
Including: Sunderland unemployed activist acquitted after police fit-up, Dutch East Indies continued, Japan continued, ...
Dutch universities have inadvertently facilitated extremist fundraising under humanitarian pretenses. At Maastricht University, FPM’s fundraising explicitly benefited extremist-affiliated ...
Nobody could have suspected that it would end in extermination camps.” Those were the words of Jo Spier, a 24-year-old ...
Even Winston Churchill neglected to give their achievements sufficient weight in his magisterial account of the Second World ...
After the Second World War, the nascent state of Indonesia (formerly The Dutch East Indies) began to incorporate surrounding islands and territories into its fold. The territory of West Irian/West New ...
The Dutch Navy had ships in the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese invaded in 1941. The Japanese Army was ferocious in its attacks, as part of its broader plan to colonise most of the Pacific Ocean.
HOLLAND, MI -- This year marks the 90th anniversary of Dutch Dancing as part of the Tulip Time Festival in Holland. That’s nine decades of wooden clogs clomping and windmill arms flourishing ...
The Iranian foreign ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Tehran on Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported, a day after the Netherlands called in Iran's envoy over suspicions that Iran ...
“We may have taken it a bit too much for granted that we would always have freedom and peace,” the King said during his visit to the barracks, where the Dutch military trains Ukrainian soldiers.
Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...