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Oldest known Corona patient, 107-year-old Dutch woman, cured
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), The Netherlands’ ‘Tante Cor’ (‘Aunt Cor)’, real name Cornelia Ras from Goeree-Overflakkee, South Holland, is said to be the oldest Corona patient in...
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Wartime art: one hundred chairs for one hundred victims
At the end of WWII, 140 men were shot by the German occupiers at Rozenoord in Amsterdam South district, many of which were resistance fighters. The history of Rozenoord is particularly painful since...
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New wharf cellars discovered in Utrecht
According to Utrecht city council, some previously unknown 60 wharf cellars have been discovered in the city’s centre. The council says that there are some 200 addresses with cellars of which the...
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Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium removes misinterpreted statue
Much in the same way that the swastika went from being a religious symbol to being a Nazi one, the official olympic salute with extended arm stopped being used after WWII because it resembled the...
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Dutch efforts are retrieving the downed RAF BK716 bomber
After about 12 years of wondering what happened to the missing British Short Stirling Bomber BK716, it was finally found at the bottom of the Markermeer lake, near Amsterdam. In 2020 we’ve also...
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Why do old windmills turn left and new ones turn right?
Every once in a while it’s good to ask ourselves some deep questions, and this one popped up as news recently. Why do old Dutch windmills turn left and newer ones turn right? It has nothing to do with...
View ArticleSailing from Rotterdam to Amsterdam (time-lapse video)
In 2013 Shell had to transport an eight-story metal building from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. They hired a company called The Timewriters to create a time-lapse video of the transport, which has now been...
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Film about ‘homesick’ stone brought back to Finland
I recently asked a friend who is big on documentaries if they had any viewing suggestions, and I was told I should watch the 2019 Dutch documentary ‘Bart en de steen die terug naar huis ging’ (‘Bart...
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Zwolle liberator to get motorway named after him
On this day in 1945, Léo Major, the French Canadian soldier who single-handedly freed freed Zwolle, Overijssel, will have a 3.5 kilometre large section of motorway 371 in Québec named after him,...
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Some of 24 Oranges’ most memorable posts
We started 24 Oranges in February 2007 and in late January 2022 it will become a column over at DutchNews.nl, also called 24 Oranges. After 4,100 posts under our belts, we might feel the need to post...
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