Who was it who back then started about "Lebensraum"?
We live with 275 people on 1 square kilometre, they with 131 people.
ANNEXATION!!!
Lets not forget that it was very close or 'Broek in Waterland' (a town called Trousers in waterland, don't ask) would have been called Hose in Wasserland!
ANNEXATION!
What were they doing with us?
We were perfectly happy with the Brederode (castle) ruins, we didn't need the ruins of Rotterdam and Arnhem!
Don't we have good motives for annexation?
Thousands of Dutch farmers don't even have bad ground to work with!
ANNEXATION!!!
Because it is better to have a little front yard.
So the next Hitler won't suddenly stand in our hallway like in May 1940.
Are you afraid the next Hitler will be angry about that?
He's going to be angry with us anyway!
Afraid that we can't handle owning that big area?
Imagine if your great grandfather had thought like that back in 1625!
You know how it goes with bills!
Bill for the heirs Hitler for the damage done by you in 1940-45 of 18 billion guilders.
Ask again first of next month.
Promised to transfer payment.
Please return Monday
Sir wants to talk.
Because you can't pluck a frog, we'll have to take the meadow he's sitting on!
ANNEXATION!
ANNEXATION!!!
Or you should see your next tax bills!
Do you want your grandchildren to still sleep crooked?
(krom liggen, laying crooked is a Dutch phrase, perhaps better translated into breaking your back)
Your child will be born with Fl 2250 debt (roughly 13.000 Euros).
Our debts are their fault!
If the Germans don't want to come across the bridge (Dutch proverb) you'll have to keep using the ferry!
Right is right!
ANNEXATION!!!
There are just some dangerous birds that need to have their wings clipped now and then!
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Found another gem on the Dutch real estate website.
A lovely little church in the 'Amsterdamse School' style, built in 1926 and clearly inhabited by a fellow time traveller, just wait till you see inside. funda.nl/detail/koop/mu…
Decorated with respect to the design and character of the building but filled with lots of interesting and weird old stuff.
Yep.
Time traveller.
Sailors of HMS Rattlesnake bathing, drawing made by their captain Owen Stanley in the late 1840s while under orders to survey the inner route along the Great Barrier Reef and to chart the southern coast of New Guinea.
He made many drawings, a few in this thread:
This is how conspiracies are born.
Someone who doesn't understand old art (and may have problems seeing) thinks that this painting shows that Queen Mary I was brown and the painting later (literally) whitewashed to hide that but they forgot one hand... tiktok.com/@kingsmonologu…
Thinking that for a second is fine, but actually believing it and making a whole CSI video about it... that's daft.
Here's the biggest version of the painting I could find.
If we take a closer look at her brown hand...
We see that she's just wearing & holding a folded glove.
Claiming that famous historical figures, especially royals, were not the skin colour everybody thinks they had is quite popular online.
It's weird.
Nice to see an online paper that reaches so many people talk about this subject.
But seeing healthy people during the Black Death would have been very normal.
Not everyone looked sick right away or at the same time.
A thread.
I think this person describes these kind of ai videos very accurately, brilliant, what a wonderful insight, who is this wonderful lady, oh wait, hang on.
Sigh, the "It's not a documentary" excuse is so tiresome.
It's just a slightly less silly sounding way of saying "I couldn't bother to do research", "I don't really care about history" or "Ai do bleep bloop beep boop and its cool and I make money so yay".