Mark C. Trebels

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@klaasm67 Dang.....This story sounds like a more dangerous "near escape" than any "close call" adventure that might have occured afterward in the former Yugoslavia..........😂😂

Here’s a nice story. 🎶 When I was studying in Tübingen, Germany, in 1991, I went with some friends to a performance by the Academy of Ancient Music conducted by the world-famous Christopher Hogwood. They performed a magnificent opera by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. During the intermission we were standing outside when, all of a sudden, Hogwood appeared beside us in his tuxedo, quietly smoking a cigarette. He said, “Excuse me chaps, do you know a good student pub around here?” Honoured, we arranged to wait for him after the concert. Afterwards he received us backstage, where we were introduced to the opera stars. Then we walked with Hogwood, the world-famous soprano Emma Kirkby, and the viola player to a nearby pub. After a few beers the atmosphere quickly became lively. Hogwood — wearing an elegant scarf — told us he owned a large country house in Cambridge where we could always stay. Even if he himself was away, we could simply knock on the door. As the evening went on, however, it became clear what the real purpose of the night had been: my good friend Sebastian, with his big blue eyes. Sebastian suddenly found all that extra attention and friendliness of Hogwood rather less amusing. By then he had had enough, and at his insistence we brought the evening to an end. We still exchanged addresses, but none of us ever took advantage of the invitation to “stay over.” Thirty-five years later, I still buy every recording by The Academy of Ancient Music that I come across, because they are superb recordings. And whenever I listen, I silently greet the mischievous Hogwood, who is probably sitting on his white cloud somewhere, happily listening to Mozart uninterrupted.

@AdvanderZee Ik heb veel gekletst met een lid vh nog altijd actieve en illustere Zwanenbroeders genootschap in Den Bosch...... dat ook schilder Jheronimus Bosch tot zijn leden telde in 1486.......

@mctrebels Lohengrin de Zwaanridder, als ik me niet vergis.

Zwanendrift.

@argentomas Grootheden zijn het...allemaal......Hoewel de ondeugende Henry zich niet aan zn instructie hield om "China" via de Noord te vinden en toen maar lekker West zeilde om via "gaten" zoals de "Hudson" rivier door te steken........😆😆

@mctrebels Hondius was ook de link tussen Hudson en Dirk van Os van de VOC en lag mee aan de basis van de fameuze ontdekkingsreis van Hudson waar hij Manhattan 'ontdekte'.

Het Nederlandse schip MV Hondius waar het hantavirus uitbrak, werd genoemd naar een Vlaming: Jacobus Hondius was de eerste die in 1596 de samenvloeiing tussen de Atlantische en Stille Oceaan onder Vuurland in kaart bracht. Jacob le Maire zou deze passage 20 jaar later ontdekken.

@MarinaMedvin With all the bickering between ordinary thinking and brainwashed woke Europeans.........the truly amazing miracles got lost....... like Croatia and Serbia's people's tele vote awarding each other 12 points.........

Israel should have been first place at Eurovision. But they came close. France should have come in second — but they were ROBBED. France was represented by a 17 year old American girl from Utah who started singing in her local LDS church, Monroe Rigby. She was PHENOMENAL and her performance was even more impressive considering her young age.

@Kevin_Prenger @E_Ruis Aterloo.....

@E_Ruis Komt omdat de Fransen de w in woke niet kunnen uitspreken.

De Fransen weten hoe je een militair dictator die een serie veroveringsoorlogen begon moet eren.

@sneuperdokkum @AdvanderZee @PhilipDroge @JeroenKoerten Moest aan je denken Sneup........Tycho Brahe werd genoemd..........Sophie niet.......

@AdvanderZee @PhilipDroge @JeroenKoerten @mctrebels Chique boel heur daer in Heemstede

Erg leuke lezing van @PhilipDroge bij Boekhandel Blokker in Heemstede. Trots op onze boeken! En het werd nog een heuse tweetup met ook @JeroenKoerten en @mctrebels bij de toehoorders. #tijdreizigers

@PhilipDroge @kreuger62 @AdvanderZee @JeroenKoerten Yin en Yang..... wat zijn schrijvers zonder lezers........ Ik vertegenwoordigde het presentisme ten opzichte van het eternalisme - het boek - .......zoals de koekoeksklok de tijd meet...... zonder de meting was er geen tijd..... 😁 😁

@mctrebels @kreuger62 @AdvanderZee @JeroenKoerten Je complementeerde het gezelschap!

@kreuger62 @AdvanderZee @PhilipDroge @JeroenKoerten Bij een lezing over een "#Tijdreiziger rond de wereld in 80 dagen" ligt de aanwezigheid van een expert over in de jungle neergestorte vliegtuigen wellicht wat gevoelig...... Maar Droge schrijft door, dan kan Kreuger er ook weer bij zijn.... 😁😁

@AdvanderZee @PhilipDroge @JeroenKoerten @mctrebels Wat leuk! Tweeps aller landen verenigt U.

Napoleon's Coronation Sword. Crafted by Nicolas-Noël Boutet, circa 1801.

Sword of Joachim Napoleon Murat, King of Naples, crowned in 1806.

French general's sword, circa 1800.

16th Century rapier - Northern Italy.

Sword presented to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), by the Captains of the Fleet after the Victory of the Nile on the 1st August 1798 during the French revolutionary wars.

British naval smallsword. Made by James Morisset, c. 1781.

Nou vooruit dan omdat het #5mei #bevrijdingsdag is. Mn opa in oktober 1944 NL Marine onder Engels Commando. 1 vd vele Soldaten van Oranje in mn familie.

British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery looks on as German General Eberhard Kinzel signs the documents of surrender at Montgomery’s headquarters at Lüneburg Heath, Germany, 4 May 1945.

This day in 1945, Liberation Day in the Netherlands, the end of 5 years of occupation by Nazi Germany. By the end of the war, nearly 206,000 Dutch men and women had died of war-related causes, the highest per capita death rate in Western Europe (2.36%) #WW2