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A Thief Was Able To Steal A Priceless Vincent Van Gogh Painting With A Few Swings Of A Sledgehammer

A Thief Was Able To Steal A Priceless Vincent Van Gogh Painting With A Few Swings Of A Sledgehammer

A thief was able to walk out of a Netherlands museum with a priceless Vincent Van Gogh painting using a few swings of a sledgehammer, NBC News reports. Museum officials believe that the thief had targeted the specific painting for the theft. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, on March 30 the Sanger Museum in […]

4y ago

Vincent Van Gogh Painting ‘Parsonage Garden’ Stolen From Amsterdam-Area Museum Shuttered By Coronavirus

Vincent Van Gogh Painting ‘Parsonage Garden’ Stolen From Amsterdam-Area Museum Shuttered By Coronavirus

A thief appears to have taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to steal a work of art from a shuttered Amsterdam-area museum, NBC News reports. The Singer Museum in Laren, near Amsterdam, is, like so many other museums and public places around the world, currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, having locked its doors […]

4y ago

Protests Over ‘Black Pete’ Character Held During Christmas Parades Across The Netherlands

Protests Over ‘Black Pete’ Character Held During Christmas Parades Across The Netherlands

Christmas parades across The Netherlands turned into a scene of protests against “Black Pete” — a character in Dutch tradition who accompanies St. Nicholas during his gift-giving. Dressing as “Black Pete” involves putting on blackface, and many Dutch view it as an uncomfortable act of racism. As Reuters reports, Christmas parades were held all across […]

4y ago

Dutch Police Discover Family Hiding Away In Hidden Farmhouse Cellar, ‘Waiting For The End Of Time’

Dutch Police Discover Family Hiding Away In Hidden Farmhouse Cellar, ‘Waiting For The End Of Time’

Dutch police found a family of several adult siblings and their father hidden away in an underground cellar, “waiting for the end of time,” The Irish Times reports. Some of the adult children had likely not been outside of the home and its grounds in years. The Discovery Authorities became alerted to the existence of […]

4y ago

Watch Germany Vs. Netherlands Stream Live: UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifier Start Time, Preview, Group C Friday Match

Watch Germany Vs. Netherlands Stream Live: UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifier Start Time, Preview, Group C Friday Match

In a packed Matchday 5 schedule in the 2020 UEAF Euro qualifying round, no single match features a pairing as high-profile as Friday’s meeting between three-time champions Germany, who last won the European title in 1996, and the 1988 title-winning country, the Netherlands. But with his team having played only two matches so far, Dutch […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Responded To Museum Exhibit Of Dutch Slave Trade By Saying, ‘They Love Me In The Netherlands’

Donald Trump Responded To Museum Exhibit Of Dutch Slave Trade By Saying, ‘They Love Me In The Netherlands’

Donald Trump received a personal tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture just before taking office in 2017, but the newly appointed Secretary of the Smithsonian said the president seemed to miss the point. In an account published by The Washington Post, Lonnie Bunch III said that he personally guided Trump […]

4y ago

Amsterdam Plans To Ban All Diesel And Gasoline Vehicles From The City By 2030

Amsterdam Plans To Ban All Diesel And Gasoline Vehicles From The City By 2030

The city of Amsterdam in The Netherlands has bold plans to ban all diesel and gasoline vehicles by 2030. They will spend the remaining years between now and then building the infrastructure to support a city of electric cars, reported CNN. The city plans to begin by slowly transitioning from diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles to […]

4y ago

Watch Portugal Vs. Netherlands Live Stream: UEFA Nations League Final, Start Time, Preview, Watch Live Online

Watch Portugal Vs. Netherlands Live Stream: UEFA Nations League Final, Start Time, Preview, Watch Live Online

Portugal, led by five-time Ballon D’or winner Cristiano Ronaldo, had appeared in only one major final — losing to Greece in the 2004 European Championship — prior to 2016, according to the BBC. But on Sunday, they come in favored to win their second straight major European tournament, as Ronaldo and company face the Netherlands […]

4y ago

Watch Netherlands Vs. England Live Stream: UEFA Nations League Semifinal, Start Time, Preview, Watch Online

Watch Netherlands Vs. England Live Stream: UEFA Nations League Semifinal, Start Time, Preview, Watch Online

Just five days after the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid featured two English Premier League teams, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, which featured seven players who also serve on England’s national team, those players must be ready for another high-pressure match. England takes on the Netherlands in the second semifinal of the UEFA Nations League […]

4y ago

Watch Netherlands Vs. Germany UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifier Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Online

Watch Netherlands Vs. Germany UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifier Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Online

In a busy opening weekend for the UEFA 2020 European Championship qualifiers, no match has been more anticipated than Netherlands vs. Germany, two teams currently headed in opposite directions. For the struggling Germany side, Manager Joachim Loew has jettisoned some longtime veterans, per Sky Sports, going with a side in which 10 of the 23 […]

5y ago

Watch Netherlands Vs. Belarus UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifier Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Online

Watch Netherlands Vs. Belarus UEFA Euro 2020 Qualifier Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Online

The prospects for Netherlands football, a team that came with an extra-time goal of winning the World Cup in 2010, looked bleak just one year ago. At that time, the Oranje had failed to even qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, as The Evening Standard reported, after two years earlier failing to qualify for […]

5y ago

Watch Germany Vs. Netherlands UEFA Nations League Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Live Online

Watch Germany Vs. Netherlands UEFA Nations League Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Live Online

Germany has already been relegated from the UEFA Nations League “A” division — the only one of the competitions four “leagues” that gives teams a shot at the title — following their humiliating exit at the group stages of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The defeat comes with an added sting for the German team, […]

5y ago

Watch Netherlands Vs. France UEFA Nations League Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Live Online

Watch Netherlands Vs. France UEFA Nations League Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Live Online

After failing to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Netherlands are attempting to engineer a comeback in the UEFA Nations League, and with a win over France — who came out as the winners of that very World Cup — the Dutch can close in on a table-topping finish to Group A1 while […]

5y ago

Watch Netherlands Vs. Germany UEFA Nations League Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Live Online

Watch Netherlands Vs. Germany UEFA Nations League Live Stream: Start Time, Preview, How To Watch Live Online

The Netherlands face their European rivals Germany — and the prospect of relegation from the inaugural UEFA Nations League — when the two continental powers square off in a Group A1 match, reports Sky Sports. Both Oranje and Die Mannschaft are striving to break into the win column in the tournament’s top-ranked Group A1, in […]

5y ago

Pet Passport For Dogs In The Netherlands Will Be Mandatory By 2020

Pet Passport For Dogs In The Netherlands Will Be Mandatory By 2020

Pet passports will be required for dogs in the Netherlands by 2020. The Dutch government firmly believes that making pet passports mandatory will mitigate any illegal importation of dogs and protect them as well. According to the international website named, I Am Expat, Carola Schouten–the Minister of Agriculture, Nature, and food Quality–fully supports pet passport […]

5y ago

World Champion France Back To Winning Ways As Olivier Giroud Ends Goal Drought

World Champion France Back To Winning Ways As Olivier Giroud Ends Goal Drought

World champion France returned to their winning ways after their splendid showing in Russia over the summer, beating Netherlands 2-1 in front of a rocking home crowd in Paris on Sunday, reports BBC. France striker Olivier Giroud, who did not score a single goal for the national team in the World Cup, despite being one […]

5y ago

Dutch Court Rules That Pastafarianism Is Not In Fact A Religion, Flying Spaghetti Monster Denied Recognition

Dutch Court Rules That Pastafarianism Is Not In Fact A Religion, Flying Spaghetti Monster Denied Recognition

The Dutch council of state has announced their verdict that they will not recognize Pastafarianism as a religion after a Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster follower requested to wear a colander in her passport and driver’s license photos, reports The Guardian. The Netherlands’ highest court denied follower Mienke de Wilde’s request to wear the […]

5y ago

Airplane Passenger Whose Overwhelming Body Odor Led To Emergency Landing Later Dies Of Flesh-Eating Infection

Airplane Passenger Whose Overwhelming Body Odor Led To Emergency Landing Later Dies Of Flesh-Eating Infection

The man who was reported earlier this month to have forced a Transavia flight to make an emergency landing due to his “unbearable” body odor has died from a flesh-eating infection, according to a new report from Fox News. As reported by the Inquisitr early this month, the original incident happened on May 29, when […]

5y ago

Public Spaces In Netherlands To Introduce Burqa Ban

Public Spaces In Netherlands To Introduce Burqa Ban

On Tuesday, the Dutch Upper House of Parliament issued a ban in Netherlands, which has now joined the other European countries that have already banned burqas, niqab, and other face-covering veils inside specific public places. These types of shrouds are still allowed on public streets. For anyone calling foul, wondering if burqas and niqab are […]

5y ago

Cheetahs At Safari Park Goes After Woman And Child, Video Captures Terrifying Moment

Cheetahs At Safari Park Goes After Woman And Child, Video Captures Terrifying Moment

Cheetahs are the fastest land mammals on earth, but one family decided to take their chances anyway at a safari park in the Netherlands recently. The video that was posted by BBC News showed exactly what happened during this terrifying moment when they were being chased by the animals. The horrifying part is that the […]

6y ago

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