New Netherland

En History Of Art, historia del arte el 2009.03.23

1638. In 1638 Minuit, who had already figured as governor of New Netherland, having offered his services to Sweden, was intrusted with the leadership of the first Swedish colony to America. After a few days' stay at Jamestown the new-comers finally reached their wished-for destination on the west shore of the Delaware Bay and River. Proceeding up the latter, one of their first acts was to build a fort on a little stream about two miles from its junction with the Delaware, which they named Fort...

En Old Song Lyrics el 2009.03.03

Album: A Night at the Opera Genre: Rock Writer: Freddy Mercury Released: October, 1975 Support The Band. Download Their Music Now!!! Bohemian Rhapsody has been considered for many people as the best song ever made. Unquestionable it is a legend not only from Queen but also of the rock history. The song was inducted into Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004. It is one of the most big sales in UK with more than 2,176,000 copies sold. The single was on the top ten positions in countries like UK, US, New...

En DE TODO UN POCO el 2009.02.19

Mira tv con tu música favorita: Selecciona el canal que quieras ver: MTV Brand New Pop Rock Punk music videos Kiss Tv Hits Pop, Música Pop. Spain Teleclub Colombia Pop Música Pop. Colombia Teleclub Colombia Guasca Música Popular. Colombia Tv Marti Canal general. Música variada. Americano-cubano CMTV Música variada. Argentina Beatone Video clips Música pop rock. Austria The Voice Video clips Música pop rock. Sweden Bigpond Music Video de Música...

En MOLESKINE el 2008.12.04

10 best books of 2008 covers. Fuente: NYT El romance entre Roberto Bolaño y el The New York Times sigue viento en popa y no parece tener cuándo acabar. En su lista reducida a The 10 Best Books of 2008, la lista más influyente de la literatura norteamericana, aparece en el honrosísimo cuarto lugar, es decir dentro del Top Five de libros de Ficción, con la novela 2666. Es el único traducido, además, compartiendo honores con monstruos literarios como el...

En social networks el 2008.10.27

Social Network giant MySpace has recently announced that it will shut down its office to the Netherland since the virtual members and site visitors are low, which has resulted to fewer advertisers and investors. In February, the company attempted to acquire the country?s leading social networking site Hyves which boasts over 5 million active users that is even more growing. According to the latest survey, more than 30 percent of the population is a registered member of the said social community....

En Osdia el 2008.10.07

El nuevo single de Britney Spears se prepara para ser número 1 mundial. Canada # 1 Spain # 1 Sweden #1 USA # 2 Italy # 3 Portugal # 3 New Zealand #5 France # 7 Norway # 9 Danmark # 10 Australia # 12 FInland # 12 Luxembourg #31 Austria # 37 Germany # 41 Netherland #54 Belgium # 62 creditos Slave4Britney...

En Spanish Pundit el 2008.02.15

Nadie se te sube a la espalda, si tú no te agachas. Martin Luther King. Dutch Catholics have re-branded the Lent fast as the "Christian Ramadan" in an attempt to appeal to young people who are more likely to know about Islam than Christianity. ..."The image of the Catholic Lent must be polished. The fact that we use a Muslim term is related to the fact that Ramadan is a better-known concept among young people than Lent," said Vastenaktie Director, Martin Van der Kuil.Happy Catholic: Lent "Re-Branded" as...

En Peru Food el 2008.02.04

Photo: Wiki Bonaire is a speck of an island in the Netherland Antilles, and thanks to Kathy at her blog, Gluten-Free Kathy's Weblog, we've learned of a new Peruvian restaurant, Plazita Lima, which she visited during a recent trip. Her blog is for those who "are wondering how to live an active life and get strong while on the gluten free diet". She also writes about eating quinoa. Read her post about Plazita Lima here, and her post about quinoa here. Peru.Food@gmail.com . . . Click here for the Peru Food...

En Zero-Stress el 2007.10.09

Biblioteca de St. Walburga, Zutphen, Netherland (Preservada desde el Siglo XVI) Hace algunos días atrás estuve leyendo acerca de una muy curiosa biblioteca que está contruida bajo tierra, La Biblioteca Estadal de Saxon en Dresden, Alemania y de esa forma ingeniosa que tiene el ser humano para lograr la eficiencia del espacio; esto me llevó a un sendero en el que encontré una serie de fotografías de las Bibliotecas más Curiosas del Mundo. Aquí les muestro algunas que me llamaron la atención en particular...

En The Devils' Excrement el 2007.08.03

On his Sunday program Alo Presidente, attempted to manipulate the truth using his customary convoluted logic he uses for everything to try to show that Venezuela's terrible performance at the Panamerican games in Brazil was actually a victory. His Chavezian argument suggested that Venezuela did better than arch-enemy the US because the number of medals per inhabitant was higher for Venezuelan than for the gringoes. Today Simon Bocanegra in Tal Cual takes Chavez to task with this fake news item on the...

En El arte de hacer radio el 2007.07.03

Medalla de Bronce en el New York Festivals Quiero compartir con los lectores y amigos de mi Blog esta buena noticia: El radiodocumental ?Cartas de una madre?, que realicé en el 2006, ha ganado la medalla bronce en la categoría ?Relaciones Humanas?, del Festival Internacional de Programas de Radio de Nueva York (New York Festivals 2007), el llamado 'Oscar' de la radio. Sigue... Las reflexiones de Frank Querido Juan: Cuantos sentimientos encontrados desde que recibí tu llamada el sábado por el premio del...