Tag: years
Chatham woman celebrates 50 years having a leader dog
News Local News Dogs quickly become part of the family in many homes, but for the past 50 years, dogs have provided Mickey Puddicomb with her independence, pride and dignity.…
A solution to store solar energy for years, regardless of location and weather
In the context of ongoing global warming, solar energy has many advantages. It is renewable. And it does not emit greenhouse gases. But its intermittency is a challenge to engineers.…
The competition between Tero Pitkämäki and Andreas Thorkildsen was badly interrupted – see how the mystery of the years is solved in a recent documentary
Tero Pitkämäki and Andreas Thorkildsen dominated men’s javelin throwing since the early 2000s. The winner of the mutual race was never found, but now the men have returned to the…
Disaster year in the Vecht region finally gets a face after 350 years thanks to Daan Wolfert
While the French under the leadership of Louis XIV conquered more and more land from the south, the States General immediately started negotiations. The time that was elapsed with this…
sixty years ago, the disappearance of Jean Amrouche, the mediator
The year 2022 marks sixty years since the end of the Algerian war. Among the tributes this year, that paid to a major actor of this period. Jean Amrouche, a…
Two Utrecht ruffs after 100 years together for the first time in 1 concert
A critic with a poisonous pen, a conductor with a traditional view of music and an orchestra of international stature that is threatened with destruction, the Utrechts Stedelijk Orkest. Those…
A mega-tsunami in Chile forced people to stay away from the coast for 1,000 years!
3,800 years ago, an earthquake of magnitude 9.5 would have generated a devastating mega-tsunami for the Chilean coasts. Prehistoric populations would have taken refuge inland, preserving the memory of this…
After six years, the former Scheer & Foppen building is still empty, the former owner blames the municipality for ‘suffering’
The large fragments present a sad sight. A residential-shop building on the corner of Vondellaan in the Utrecht Poet’s District is crumbling rapidly. The building, which previously housed the white…
The Notre-Dame fire: three years ago!
On this Good Friday, how can we not think of the terrible fire that ravaged the Gothic cathedral of Paris, just three years ago? We republish below the spectacular images…
[EN IMAGES] Three years ago to the day, Notre-Dame cathedral was on fire
On April 15, 2019, a gigantic fire ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris. A brazier to which the roof, but also part of the vault, the clock and…