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Real Name: Anke-Thea
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Off The Beaten Path: The terrible water disaster of 1953
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  • Written by ATLC on Mar 23, 2003
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    • Please click this picture to enlarge. It is the newspaper of February 2nd 1953 announcing the terrible storm surge flood that happened the day before, now 50 years ago.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Water flood
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    • Over 1800 people died in this disaster. And since then Dutch engineering has developed itself to the finest in the world to win the fight against the sea by building various dams and storm barriers and still leaving the natural water and its flora and fauna intact.

    I took this picture off a video shown at the exhibition at the Zeeuwsche Archief. It shows three men and a woman going in a boat over to their house, maybe to salvage anything that is left.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Help from everywhere
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    • Everywhere in The Netherlands people organised help for the victims of the disaster. Hundreds of children were sent on holiday, even as far as Italy, to regain strength and help them forget the bad times.
    Many goods were collected, food, clothes and houseware. The photo shows some products from those times: soap, tinned peas...

    To raise money there were stamp savings, concerts and exhibitions, an old man polished shoes for a fee, books were published, children organised fundraising with cents and dimes and the tv-stations held a charity called Purses Open, Dykes Closed (Beurzen open, dijken dicht).

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    Off The Beaten Path: Birds in the basement
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    • Along the Londensekaai i saw a complete volière in the basement!

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    Off The Beaten Path: Old map
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    • Digitation source:
    Braun and Hogenberg
    Civitates Orbis Terrarum II 28

    Date: first Latin edition of volume II
    was published in 1575

    Engraving:
    admitted to Frans Hogenberg

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    angiebabe Thu Mar 1, 2007 14:58 UTC
     Hi ive enjoyed looking through your tips and pics! its a few years now since my driving trips around the netherlands - loved all of them! nice to refresh my memories!still need to work on my pages yet! thanks though!    		Toyin Thu Feb 17, 2005 04:22 UTC
     Nice historical approach to this work. Good updates, thanks for sharing.
    Waalewiener Mon Sep 13, 2004 05:45 UTC
     Very very good Anke Thea , was zo nice to see the pictures of the 1953 flood en you gave some much nice and helpful information A T thank you for educating me (again) Ik heb honger voor een Sateetje. Dagggg.    		starling Wed Jul 23, 2003 21:37 UTC
     Thanks AT, can't wait to see the rest.
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