To extend my last post, even in peace lacking Mosul (Iraq) there are some lucky people, like Najma and her fiance. Maas from Mosul is writing again as dr. Human after being busy with her study.
Dr. Human, aka Maas and Najma were friends when I read their blog for the first time some years ago. Now their blogs aren´t linked anymore. Hopefully their friendship is still there.
Today, April 4, it´s 400 years ago since the ship de Halve Maen sailed from Amsterdam. The VOC ordered the English captain Henry Hudson to sail along the edge of the north pole to find a new route to Asia. He disobeyed orders and discovered land in his effort to find another passage to Asia and more specific the Dutch east Indies. Hudson failed in his mission and found Mannahatta, in the language of the native people. On nowadays Manhattan the first settlers founded Nieuw Amsterdam.
The West Indian Company claimed land that Henry Hudson sailed and called it nieuw Nederland. In 1624 the first settlers from the Dutch Republic arrived.
In 1664 the English attacked Mannahatta. It was the end of the Dutch presence. Nieuw Amsterdam was renamed New York.
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