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Shipwrecked People of the Salt Marshes
Tidal marshlands and Frisians. A dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians ( Frisii  or Fresones ) had learned to adapt to this...
Hans Faber
Dec 1, 20198 min read


Giants of Twilight Land. Creatures of the Rim
At the intersection of land and sea, where it is difficult to tell what is land and what is not, life is rough. The corrosive salt of the...
Hans Faber
May 24, 20199 min read


Hero of Haarlem, or dragon in disguise? Rethinking sea-level rise strategies
It was a Yankee by the name of Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans Faber
Mar 10, 201914 min read


Know where to find your sweet potato. The cradle of home nursing, too
We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time when the potato was exotic. Nowadays, children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...
Hans Faber
Jan 20, 20199 min read


Burn Beacons Burn. A Coastal Inferno - Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of the region of Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the...
Hans Faber
Oct 14, 201813 min read


Foreign Fighters returning from Viking warbands
From the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from different European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an...
Hans Faber
Jun 20, 201823 min read


Haute couture from the salt marshes
It was not the city of Parisius  ('Paris'). Nor that of Londinium  ('London'). Believe it or not, the early-medieval center for expensive...
Hans Faber
Jun 1, 201818 min read


Racing the Wadden Sea with a Silt Sled
The mud flats of the Wadden Sea are endless. But what to do with them? How do you give meaning to mud? Yes, one cubic meter of mud flat...
Hans Faber
May 23, 201810 min read


Bil. A wasteland of non-integrated migrants?
This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middelzee was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...
Hans Faber
May 13, 201810 min read


Porcupines bore U.S. bucks. The Birth of Economic Liberalism
On May 5th, 2018, it was exactly two centuries ago that Karl Marx was born. When in 1867 the good man published the first part of Das...
Hans Faber
Jan 19, 201836 min read


Half a million deaths. A forgotten North Sea disaster...
Did you know that between 328,770 and 502,190 people lost their lives around the North Sea? On the flip side: millions of possible...
Frans Riemersma
Jan 13, 20186 min read


How a town drowned overnight. The case of Rungholt
Rungholt. A thriving and wealthy town that disappeared overnight in the year 1362. For six centuries only legends told us about what...
Hans Faber
May 7, 201717 min read


Terrorist Fighters from the Wadden Sea. The Era of the Crusades
When it comes to the deradicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Frisians – in this context, the modern regions of Ostfriesland and...
Hans Faber
May 1, 201725 min read


Walking on the Sea. Experience it! (with care)
The treacherous mudflats of the Wadden Sea. They are UNESCO protected, but you're not. Take good care when walking sea. Read and shiver!
Hans Faber
Apr 17, 20178 min read


How to bury your mother-in-law
Your mother-in-law probably chased your tail during life. When she dies, do not think you are free at last. If you're looking for advice...
Hans Faber
Apr 17, 20179 min read
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