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Post by SmashFace » Mon May 09, 2005 7:52 pm

i know a lot of ppl here have been to amsterdam, i have a project due tommorrow on historic places to visit there, anybody have any good ideas and or websites that i coudl check out?
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Post by Allister Fiend » Mon May 09, 2005 8:36 pm

Oh no!!! I'm out of those important papers.......

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Post by Saladin » Mon May 09, 2005 9:23 pm

I'm not sure museums count but just in case:

Anne Frank House - http://www.annefrank.org
Jewish Historical Museum - http://www.jhm.nl/english.aspx
Bananenbar - http://www.channels.nl/amsterdam/banaan.html
Rijksmuseum - http://www.rijksmuseum.nl
Van Gogh Museum - http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl

Basically the whole downtown section of Amsterdam is historical with a lot of historial 'golden age' buildings left.

Does it have to be historical or can it be cultural too? :D Cultural i can really show you around. :P
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Post by SmashFace » Tue May 10, 2005 3:36 am

thx guys, but i am actually now doing a different part, i need to know about any authors who wrote about amsterdam, or are from amsterdam
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Post by Saladin » Tue May 10, 2005 10:15 am

Hmm..tough one.

Check out Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dutch_writers

You want to check out:

OLD WRITERS
Joost van den Vondel
Multatuli
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

20TH CENTURY WRITERS
Anne Frank
Ferdinand Bordewijk
Simon Carmiggelt
Willem Frederik Hermans
Harry Mulisch
Gerard Reve (who used to live two streets down from us)
And a lesser know writer who wrote a lot about Amsterdam is Geert Mak.
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Post by SmashFace » Tue May 10, 2005 1:18 pm

hehe, i guess i shouldn't lose my assignment sheets, huh? well i just got a reply from my group, and i do not even have authors, i have art museums or musical events. any ideas? thanks for your help so far sal.
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Post by SmashFace » Tue May 10, 2005 1:23 pm

nevermind, i see that vangogh museum link above, if there are any others, let me know, thx
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Post by Saladin » Tue May 10, 2005 1:45 pm

So far as i know Amsterdam has three major art musseums.

- The Van Gogh musseum (a free beer for anybody except protput who can pronounce Van Gogh correctly :P).

- Rijksmusseum (http://www.rijksmuseum.nl)

- Rembrandt House (http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/)

Of course you've got the famous SEX musseum and the Hash musseum as well. :D
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Post by SmashFace » Tue May 10, 2005 2:07 pm

thanx a lot man!
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Post by Duke » Tue May 10, 2005 2:15 pm

Hi, I am doing a project on Appelton and on historic places to visit there, anybody have any good ideas and or websites that I could check out?
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Post by Duke » Tue May 10, 2005 2:17 pm

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Post by Brykovian » Tue May 10, 2005 3:54 pm

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=appleton, ... &t=k&hl=en

A lovely little city located where the Fox River meets Lake Winnebago. :)

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Post by Brykovian » Tue May 10, 2005 4:05 pm

I've become a Google Map junky ... :P

Here's the neighborhood I grew up in: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=wausau,+w ... &t=k&hl=en

See that road that runs off the bottom part of the picture, just to the right of the picture's mid-point? If you were to head north on that road from the bottom of the picture, go straight through that first intersection, then turn right on the next road ... my parent's house is the second on the left. :) (Please don't visit them!)

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Post by Donut » Tue May 10, 2005 4:12 pm

Way cooler --> terraserver.microsoft.com
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Post by Duke » Tue May 10, 2005 5:55 pm

:shock:

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I'll start looking for the house I lived in when I went to high school over there.
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Post by Raw » Tue May 10, 2005 5:57 pm

Duke wrote::shock:

Donuts link rocked with its **** out! (Raw turned that into a legit saying)

I'll start looking for the house I lived in when I went to high school over there.
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Post by Undertaker » Tue May 10, 2005 6:54 pm

SmashFace wrote:i know a lot of ppl here have been to amsterdam, i have a project due tommorrow on historic places to visit there, anybody have any good ideas and or websites that i coudl check out?
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Post by Xechortariaste » Fri May 13, 2005 2:21 am

Google Maps = very cool. Although it's a bit outdated... I looked up my house, and they've been doing construction in the Firestone lot for almost a year now and none of it shows... My house though looks great... I'm half-convinced I can see my car...

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Post by Donut » Fri May 13, 2005 2:31 am

It's not that its outdated so much as satelite photos are only taken every so often. Terraserver is way cooler than google maps though.
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