George Maschke's Home Page » Netherlands http://www.georgemaschke.net Musings of an American in Holland Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:13:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Chinese Imperial Porcelain in The Hague http://www.georgemaschke.net/2011/08/03/chinese-imperial-porcelain-in-the-hague/ http://www.georgemaschke.net/2011/08/03/chinese-imperial-porcelain-in-the-hague/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:23:00 +0000 George Maschke http://www.georgemaschke.net/?p=248 The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague is exhibiting a collection of porcelain produced for the Chinese imperial court during the late Ming and Qing dynasties. The collection, on loan from the Shanghai Museum, will be on display through 23 October 2011. This is video I took during a recent visit:

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Sometimes, the North Sea coast at Scheveningen develops a frothy foam, as shown here in video recorded while on a stroll during my lunch hour on Tuesday, 13 April 2010.

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Public Election Billboard in The Hague

Elections for The Hague’s city council are to be held on 3 March 2010, and around the city, the municipality has erected temporary billboards on which each party fielding candidates in the election can place a poster putting its case to the voters.

I’ve never seen anything like this done in an American election. It’s not a bad idea, and something we might want to emulate, especially if publicly financed campaigns are to be embraced.

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