De flesch

A children's picture book from the Memory of the Netherlands: A respectable family man, who after winning the lottery blows it all on drink. It's got it all – poverty, domestic violence and finally insanity. 'A rollicking bedtime read for the kids.'

History

Livius: "Articles on Ancient History"

Clay Pipes

Dutch clay pipes from Gouda: "Clay pipes have been used for smoking tobacco from the 17th century onward. The Dutch city of Gouda was a major production centre and remains of pipes produced there can be found all over the world."

Open Images

Open Images: "is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse."

Strandbeest

Theo Jansen: "Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms of life.

Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat.

Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives."