Archive for the 'dutch' Category

Dec 10 2008

Another historical note from 1857:

Published by jrittenhouse under USA, business, dutch, family, germany, immigration, netherlands, philadelphia, rittenhousia

Another bit of Rittenhousia, about the beginnings of paper-making in America, circa 1688 - this is from the Historical Magazine, 1857.  Again, for the record.

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Dec 07 2008

Start of Christmas Memories:

Published by jrittenhouse under Christmas, conniej, dayton, deaths, dutch, family, food, germany, holidays, home, jackie, joe, meredith, netherlands, ohio, parenting, personal, recipes, rittenhousia, sad, susan, weird-food

I’ll sit down and go over the Presidents Thang in a day or so.  Right now, I’m busy fishing the big Digital Organization, to be followed up with more organizing tricks tomorrow.  So I’m Really Busy As Heck with that stuff. 
Meredith had a good deal from Sinterklaas, with lots of pepernoten / kruidnootjes and [...]

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Aug 21 2008

Van Loon exhibit:

Published by jrittenhouse under Noteworthy, anthropology, art, books, dutch, history, museums, netherlands, personal, prehistory, van-loon

Longtime readers will recall that I’m a great fan of the Dutch-American author Hendrik Willem Van Loon, a taste that I got from my mom and her brother, my uncle.   There’s an online exhibit at the Ohio State University site of Van Loon’s illustrations (crude, but charming) for his best-known work, The Story of Mankind.   [...]

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Jul 03 2008

Projects: overview

Published by jrittenhouse under AH, Eisenhower, FTL, Goldwater, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Suez_crisis, UK, X-craft, africa, animals, anthropology, astronomy, australia, austria-hungary, biofuels, brazil, canada, caves, china, climate, coal, computers, dinosaurs, dogs, dreams, dutch, environment, exclave_enclaves, france, gardening, gates, geography, geology, global_warming, goo_goos, great_auk, india, library, linguistics, linux, mammals_old, maps, marmots, masstransit, mongols, mysteries, nearstar, paleobiology, paleoclimatology, paleogeography, paleontology, pandemic, personal, pollution, prehistory, radio, religion, science_fiction, spaceflight, sudden_impact, television, thoughtful, trains, water, wind_energy, writing_projects

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.
My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

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Mar 28 2008

Thank you, George W. Bush #1:

Published by jrittenhouse under bush, business, dutch, finance

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar’s value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while on vacation in the Netherlands.
“Our dollar is worth maybe zero over here,” said Mary Kelly, an American tourist from Indianapolis, Indiana, in [...]

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Sep 29 2007

SPOORLOOS and Birth Parents:

Published by jrittenhouse under adoption, china, dna, dutch, meredith, television, twins

First off, there’s a link here to a translation of the latest SPOORLOOS and a link to the actual show on-line.  As noted previously, my Dutch is nonexistent, and I (and others) had asked her to help out on a translation of the show about the reunion of a Chinese adoptee in the Netherlands with [...]

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Sep 27 2007

Needle, meet haystack:

Published by jrittenhouse under Noteworthy, adoption, china, dna, dutch, family, meredith, orphans, parenting, personal, renmin, sad, sisterfar, susan, thoughtful, travel, twins

I got this comment on the LJ branch of the site yesterday:

I just ran across this blog entry and I was wondering (although it’s none of my business, of course) whether you guys have given any thought to searching for Meredith’s birth family, or if you’re going to let the girls decide when they’re older [...]

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Mar 16 2006

Memorize the nekkid lady for the citizenship test:

Published by jrittenhouse under dutch, immigration, rittenhousia, weird

I wonder what they would have had for my family when they came here in 1688 from the Netherlands….

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