Word: amsterdams
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...dead Christ awkwardly laid across his mother's knees, with John the Baptist, in an unusual gesture, removing his crown of thorns. In the terrific little show's biggest coup, the separate and fragile panels of the Aix Annunciation triptych are brought together - from Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam - for the first time since 1932. (Two of the cities had but half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches...
...DIED. FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN, 85, the "Flying Housewife" who won four gold medals in the 1948 London Olympics, the most track-and-field victories by a woman in a single Olympic Games; in Amsterdam. Blankers-Koen, a 30-year-old mother of two and the oldest woman on the track, was dismissed as past her prime before the Games. But the Dutch runner stunned critics by winning the 100-m and 200-m sprints, the 80-m hurdles and the 4 x 100-m relay...
Tourists looking for a cool and economical way to travel in Europe have a hip new option. Starting at just 5 euros per day (about $6) during the week and 11 to 14 euros per day (about $13 to $16) on weekends, travelers to London, Amsterdam, Vienna and major cities in France, Germany and Switzerland can get behind the wheel of a two-passenger Smart City Coupe. The wee 8-ft.-long cars, which make the Mini Cooper feel like a limo, have surprisingly roomy seats and are eco-friendly and fuel efficient. Best of all, their petite size makes...
...empty factory building in Marienwerder Brandenburg. On Nov. 14, a box of six Molotov cocktails was found outside a synagogue in Ivry-sur-Seine, just south of Paris. On Nov. 15, this message appeared on a web forum hosted in the Netherlands, according to Magenta, a watchdog group in Amsterdam: "Just throw that Muslim vermin, those f___ing Muslim rats out of the country." And on the same day, Agrese 95, a Czech "white power" band, played before some 150 people in central Bohemia, singing lyrics like: "Enough tolerance ... Your future is ovens and gas chambers." Most incidents like these...
...your itinerary will only take you to the capitals of culture, try the STYLE CITY books from Thames and Hudson ($24 each), which supply the scoop on?and gorgeous photos of?Barcelona, London, New York and Paris. Amsterdam and San Francisco are next. The guides' writers convey the "vibrant and idiosyncratic experience" of each city, and they take the reader off the beaten path. Craving chocolate in the Catalonian capital? Try Cacao Sampaka, a "beautifully spare shop interior full of dark chocolate-colored wood." Dare to venture beyond Manhattan? Fuel up at the Brooklyn Inn, where you can "argue about...