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  • A castle in the Al-Gharb as a symbol of power change

    On the road between Carvoeiro and Lagoa in the Algarve drivers are greeted by a sight that is simultaneously familiar and bewildering. On top of a hill, a pinkish Moorish castle is clearly visible. That is to say, there’s a building whose design and position clearly refers to such a castle. Closer inspection reveals it to be a holiday resort, the Aldeia do Poeta or “poet’s village”.

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    December 17, 2020
  • It’s raining cats and dogs – and during New Year’s Eve, birds too

    Shortly after New Year’s Eve this year, hundreds of dead starlings could be seen on the streets in the center of Rome. The birds hit buildings and power lines out of fear of the fireworks, and fell dead from the sky. This particularly happened on the famous Via Cavour, close to Rome’s central station, Termini.

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    February 18, 2021
  • How Rubbish Theory Turned the Dictator into a Mascot

    Walter Ulbricht, strongman of the German Democratic Republic between 1949 and 1971, was not a very nice man, by all accounts: a rigid bureaucrat with a relentless survival instinct that cost more than a few comrades dearly. He was responsible for the building of the Berlin Wall, intiated the East German police state, and wasted few tears when dealing with internal troubles. In 1971, he got deposed through a typical Eastern Bloc palace coup and was replaced by another not very nice man, Erich Honecker. Yet despite his questionable resumé, Ulbricht’s reputation today is much better than that of his successor’s. How is that even possible?

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    November 10, 2020
  • Peaceful Vegetarians and Totalitarian Alsatians: Why Forgery Rests on Expectation

    Successful forgeries generally have one thing in common: they fulfil a demand. This was also the basis of one of the most famous historical forgeries, and certainly one of the most profitable: the faking of Adolf Hitler’s “diaries” during the early 1980s. When the forgery came to light in 1983, its most astonishing aspect was the breathtaking gullibility on the part of people who more than anyone else should have been trusted to use their critical instincts: journalists. The German magazine Stern took years to overcome the debacle, which it never entirely succeeded in doing.

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    December 24, 2020

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    November 10, 2020
  • WAAT – A new platform for digital stories

    We have signed the contract! From December 2020, Quiosq is participating in the Erasmus + project WAAT. WAAT is a project aimed at adult educators, and seeks to promote both the exchange of good practices  and the development of new material to teach students about values ​​of cultural heritage across different European countries.

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    Biological Collections RUG

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  • Barack Obama’s memoirs, and the heritage of political apologetics

    What do Barack Obama, Admiral Mikós Horthy and the Persian Shah have in common? After today, they’ve all written autobiographies to shed light on their political career. And while Obama’s will be very different in most respects, we can also be sure that in other ways it won’t.

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    November 10, 2020

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  • Brussels and beer

    Many of us watched last week’s exciting US presidential elections: on CNN, we saw the screens and numbers move by at breakneck speed. We were reminded that the USA consisted not only of states, but of all kinds of counties, and zoomed literally and figuratively back and forth between those levels. It was a magical and sometimes alienating experience at the same time. But many will also have wondered why we didn’t actually have such a thing in our “country”, in Europe. We don’t really have that much of an idea ​​what is happening in Brussels and we don’t go out on the street angrily or happily and watch TV…

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  • Accidents as heritage: our fascination with a specific type of train crash

        On Monday, November 2nd 2020, a train belonging to the Rotterdam Metro network crashed through its barrier at Spijkenisse station, and came to a standstill atop a work of art depicting two whaletails. Much to the surprise of everyone including the artist who fashioned the artwork, the structure proved strong enough to keep the entire train aloft. An understandably shaken driver was taken out of the train through a back door. As it was an empty train, no one was hurt; how the incident could occur is apparently still unclear. If the image above comes across as somewhat familiar, that is quite understandable. As long as we’ve had…

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  • He.Co

    He.co was a project set up for the purpose of analyzing and sharing good practices for the development of strategies for the enhancement of local cultural heritage. In the Erasmus+ project He.Co (Hertitage Valorization for Small Local Communities, 2018-2020) Bob Crezee, representing the Reinwardt Academy, worked together with CIAPE (Italy), Plunge Library (Lithuania), VisMedNet Association (Malta) and the Education Centre Geoss (Slovenia). Photo by Céline Geeurickx on Unsplash

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  • Biological Collections RUG

    Following the move of the Groningen University (The Netherlands) Department of Biology to a new building, Van der Duin assessed and inventoried the hitherto unused historical collections of the deparment. With the objective of integrating the collections into those of the Groningen University Museum, an extensive collection plan was conceived, including criteria for extension and deaccessioning of objects from the collection. Photo by Savannah Wakefield on Unsplash

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