User:JopkeB/Gems

Gems

Overview of gems I have discovered on Commons.

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  Peasant woman wearing a yoke (Leimuiden, 29-10-1953) - This is one of the rare pictures from the Netherlands of someone wearing a yoke ("juk" in Dutch)
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  Gable stone "Je Maintiendrai" on Central Station Amsterdam (June 2014) - This is where your visit to Amsterdam, and perhaps to the Netherlands, starts, whether you come from Schiphol Airport, Belgium or Germany. Before you go any further, look back to see this magnificant building
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  Baptism of princess Margriet of the Netherlands in Ottawa (29 June 1943)- Rare picture of this event
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  Families from Ouwerkerk could only go "home" in December 1953 after the North Sea flood of 1 Feb. 1953 - See more on Gallery Watersnoodramp 1953
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  Paviors in Amsterdam hang a bike in a lighting pole to be able to continue working (June 1975)
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  You can claim anything if you are not hindered by any form of acknowledgment
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  Dutch provinces as European countries by population - Or: some small European countries in comparison to the population of provinces in the Netherlands
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  Virgen de las Nieves (Sierra Nevada, Spain)
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  Ceiling church of Garton, Yorkshire
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  The National Monument at Amsterdam Dam Square before 1956
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  Castle Gaasbeek (Belgium) in the mirror
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  Milky Way from Big Bend National Park - We never see it this way in the Neterlands
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  Lyme Park - The exact place where Elizabeth saw Pemberly for the first time
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  World War II memorial in Jakabszallas park, Hungary
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  Scene of boar hunting, 4th century, Persia (zwijnenjacht) See explanationː Wikipedia
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  Mensen in de ruimte van Inka Klinckhard (Barneveld, 1995)
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  Oval-leaf milkweed
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  Big Mertens Falls (Kimberly, Western Australia)
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  Marc groet 's morgens de dingen (2001, Alphen a/d Rijn) van Hans Kuyper, gebaseerd op het gedicht Marc groet 's morgens de dingen van Paul van Ostaijen
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  Wood carving on overmantel in Provinciehuis Groningen
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  Pyramid Mountain, Canada
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  Rail Road Parkː an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a restored, antique railroad car (Dunsmuir, California)
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  Pastures in the Netherlands
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  Scythian pectoral (Kiev Archaelogy Museum)
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  Stained-glass windows Groningen
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  Musical Garden / Art Designs by K (2006)
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  Paolo Giovanni Bedini - The violinist
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  Roof construction farm Openluchtmuseum
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  Secretary desk
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  Barbershop in the Philippines
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  Balcony St, Gallen, Switzerland
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  Frog concert (Hattem, Netherlands)
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  Tirupati Skating World Record
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  Two couples watching a horse race (or not)
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  14th-century mural in Westerwijtwerd (Gr) - very special: very old non religious art in a Dutch church
• Stork and babies (from silent film Bits & Pieces)
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  Casehill woods, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
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  Boat with petrol pumps
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  Book wheel, Puebla, Mexico
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  Bergakker inscription - oldest text in (pre) Dutch (425-450)
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  Apollo as the genius of the arts (17th-century, wood)
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  Si las paredes hablaran… de Economía (Idígoras, 2022): mural in Málaga with economists (see more)
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  Hotel del Coronado rotunda, Coronado, California
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  Westlake Autumn
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  Magnificant sari from India