Moderator Roberta Haar delivered the following introduction to Hendrik Meijer. Meijer spoke about Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who paved the way for the creation of NATO by putting the greater good of the country ahead of partisanship.
In the third episode of our blog series about the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, nicknamed 'The Golden Rock', we learn how the conquest of St. Eustatius by the British ended the American War of Independence, but not in the way they had envisioned.
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The Ravestijn Gallery hosts the exhibition Monsanto®: A Photographic Investigation by Mathieu Asselinin. The exhibition shows Asselin’s exhaustive project about the origins, methods and consequences of the destructive pesticides manufactured and used by the American chemical company Monsanto, in both a current and historical context. Until August 31.
