@markrdevries.bsky.social
Man of many interests and some talents. Music (most recently getting into blues/americana/country), history, nature, random facts.
It's almost as if Groningen is a big city... Pretty morning skies near the Euroborg #stoker #brander
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"Het lied is tweetalig, al heeft Claude nog niet verteld om welke twee talen het gaat."
Ik gok Swahili en Turks.
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6: Gov't Mule - Your Only Friend (2023)
7: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
8: Oasis - Headshrinker (1995)
9: Chatham County Lline - Nothing (2020)
10: Albert Cummings - Emmylou (2024)
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Let's get this week started, with #10RandomSongs
1: Shania Twain & Breland - Boots Don't (2024)
2: Houndmouth - A Whiter Shade Of Pale (2023)
3: Faithless - Salva Mea (1996)
4: Muse - Propaganda (2018)
5: Mavis Staples & Levon Helm - Farther Along (2022)
I just wrapped up my first 20km. It was rather wet and windy, but the skies cleared as the sun rose. My first stop Annen in Drenthe. Home to some 3600 people, it boasts the largest grass brink, or village square in Europe (and there's also dolmen inside the village)!
27.01.2025 07:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Let's see where I would make my stops if I really did bike from my home to Berlin (and let's take the Brandenburger Tor as an easy and familiar destination) over the next fourteen days.
27.01.2025 07:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This morning I began the project for the city, which I mentioned before. I'm biking 40km per day, amounting to 560km in total. That would take me to Berlin if done in one go. I'm not doing that, but I could do it virtually!
27.01.2025 07:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The russians proudly planted their flag near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Ukraineβuntil a Ukrainian drone politely reminded it that it wasnβt welcome by promptly shooting it down.
Moral of the story: The only flag getting VIP treatment in Ukraine is blue and yellow
There are clear security camera images of the robbery, in which the thieves used explosives to force open the museum entrance, and a burnt-out car was found not far from Assen, which is possibly linked to the robbery.
Hopefully these are enough to find the perpetrators and return to items intact.
... that were also stolen can't be expressed in money, but have immense cultural value for Romania.
The exhibition they were a part of was to end today, with a team from Romania ready to return to items to Bucharest tomorrow.
... as part of their exbibition on Dacian gold.
It was stolen yesterday, and remains lost.
Sickening to see such invaluable cultural treasure falling to pure greed. Museum director Harry Tupan rightly said the value of the helmet, and the three royal bracelets (also pure gold) ...
The Helmet of CoΘofeneΘti is a golden helmet from the 5th century BC, found in 1929 in Romania. It probably belonged to a Dacian king or noble. On loan from the National History Museum of Romania to the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, ...
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Last night I was watching Predators from 2010 - just some mindless action flick. There's a scene in which Adrien Brody's character is leading the other characters through the jungle, using a machete. But @dannytrejo.bsky.social's RIGHT THERE IN THAT GROUP.
Talk about a missed opportunity...
... of what the needs are for garbage disposal in the city. Here's my route, reworked a bit from the last time. Over 14 days this amounts to 560 kilometers, which would get me to Boulogne, Berlin or Γ
rhus if done in one go... But I'm not doing that. I'm not silly.
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On the 27th I'm starting with the municipilaty project again, where I'm checking garbage containers and whatever people illegally place beside it. Like last autumn, it's a two-week project of two daily bike routes (early morning and evening) of 20 kilometers, to create a picture ...
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In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.β
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [4/4]
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Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith⦠[3/4]
20.01.2025 11:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were downβ¦ [2/4]
20.01.2025 11:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"The Blues tell the story of lifeβs difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph This is triumphant musicβ¦ [1/4]
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We gaan LIVE naar de Verenigde Staten van Amerika:
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7: Jake Shimabukuro & Pomaika 'i Keawe - Ho 'okahi Akua (2023)
8: Pulp - Party Hard (1998)
9: Della Mae - The Long Game (2020)
10: Boudewijn de Groot - Zonder Vrienden Kan Ik Niet (1966)
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2: @willienelsonmusic.bsky.social - I'll Break Out Again Tonight (2020)
3: Lindemann - Schlaf Ein (2019)
4: Campbell Brothers - Morning Train (2023)
5: Johnny Ray Daniels - Somewhere To Lay My Head (2024)
6: Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall - We'll Always Have the Blues (2021)
A cold week, weatherwise (and politically too), and I'm home alone as Kitty is on a school trip to Paris. But there's always #10randomsongs on Monday:
1: Dom Flemons - If You Truly Love Me (2023)
Best optimistisch, Frau Faber vragen iets te doen.
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[2/2] ... language (as well as Spanish and some English). Very bold as they could've just as easily gone for English (with only a few lines spoken in Mohawk to establish the real language used).
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[1/2] I finally started watching Marvel's What If...? series. I'm halfway through season 2, and I must say that episode 6 of that season, titled What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World? was very interesting in that it was almost totally spoken in KanienΚΌkΓ©ha, the Mohawk ...
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5: @pearljamonline.bsky.social - Retrograde (2020)
6: @samanthafish.bsky.social - Imaginary War (2021)
7: The Clash - The Card Cheat (1979)
8: Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze (1967)
9: DMA's - In the Air (2018)
10: @katiecole.bsky.social - River Flow (2021)
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#10RandomSongs for a new week. Make it a good one.
1: Ray Bonneville - D'oΓΉ vient ce vent (2023)
2: The Kilkennys - A Nation Once Again (2018)
3: @dawestheband.bsky.social - Someone Else's Cafe/Doomscroller Tries To Relax (2022)
4: The Felice Brothers - To Be a Papa (2024)
Yesterday we celebrated, but today is the real day: it's Kitty's birthday! Woo-hoo!
(our six-year-old niece had arranged the fireworks on Kitty's desert all by herself - by asking the staff - as a surprise she didn't really manage to keep a secret ;))
So, what's up? Mostly the lingering after effects of the flu, to be honest. Coughing a lot, while my wife does the same, but also has no voice. Which is a bit of a problem if you're a teacher.
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