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13 Nov 2023 — In 2025, Saturn's rings will be invisible from Earth for several months. Fortunately, this isn't a sign of a planetary apocalypse. Rather, it's a matter of ...

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Around 8 p.m. on a March 20, 1974, Princess Anne and her husband of four months were heading towards Buckingham Palace after attending a charity ...

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7 Mar 2016 — Bosch's art is known for its fantastical demons and hybrids and he's often discussed anachronistically in Surrealist terms, even though he died ...

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In the dead of the night, three hooded thieves appeared outside the Drents Museum in Assen, a city in the northeastern Netherlands.

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The Hague's Mauritshuis museum loaned out its crown jewel, Girl With a Pearl Earring, for a blockbuster Johannes Vermeer exhibition ...

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Hutspot is a favorite winter comfort food in Holland. She boils the carrots, potatoes (slightly more carrots than potatoes) and onions until soft.

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Using roughly 2,500 documents, photographs, films, sound recordings and other artifacts, the museum explores what life was like for Dutch Jews ...

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In 2023, researchers estimated Saturn's rings have somewhere between 15 million to 400 million years left before they disappear for good—and a ...

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The ancient Olympics were held in honor of Zeus, king of the Greek gods. By the mid-second century B.C.E., the Roman Empire had taken control ...

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... Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, home of the bog body known as Yde Girl. We may never get a clear answer, and it now seems unlikely that a single ...

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11 Oct 2024 — Johannes Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring has been on display at the Mauritshuis museum in the Hague since 1902.

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The Coubertin medal was first inaugurated in 1964, and is awarded for special gestures and acts that exemplify the spirit of the Olympic Games.

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With exhibitions spanning nearly 720,000 square feet, Russia's State Hermitage Museum is home to one of the largest known art collections.

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