#King of the Netherlands

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Dutch Royal Family - King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima attending the Diplomatic Corps gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Photo by Shutterstock) | June 05, 2024

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Hi friends, I am learning this morning that Joost Klein and the Netherlands as a whole may be disqualified from Eurovision. Why is that, you ask? Well, our lovely Dutch gabber chose to do a little heckling during the press conference, shouting"Why not?" After the Israeli press rep told Eden Golan that she didn't have to answer a question regarding why she felt comfortable performing the show when it put others in danger. He also would actively cover his head with a flag during her speaking portions. As well, he explicitly asked for the Isreali team to not record him during some of their video filming. They did anyway. That takes us to today, where, from down the grapevine I hear that comments were made by the Israeli team regarding Joost's deceased father of whom his song is dedicated to, and he retaliated full force. Not sure what this means, or what will happen to him, but I support him in standing up to Isreal on what is at present one of the largest Israeli stages.

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TOM GLYNN-CARNEY smoking at the photoshoot for número netherlands magazine.

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Hundreds of 2,000-Year-Old Gold and Silver Coins Unearthed in Netherlands

Metal Detectorists in the Netherlands Stumbled Onto Hundreds of Looted Coins From the Roman Conquest of Britain.

The 404 coins, including 44 from Britain, are believed to be a mix of military pay and the spoils of war, stashed by a Roman soldier after he returned to the European continent.

As they swept over the muddy fields of Bunnik, a village in the Netherlands’ Utrecht Province that once marked the northern edge of the Roman Empire, in 2023, two metal detectorists unearthed a remarkably extensive and diverse haul of coins from the first century C.E.

There find—a collection of 404 gold and silver coins of Roman, British and North African origin—is the first of its kind unearthed on the European continent, according to a statement.

For Gert-Jan Messelaar and Reinier Koelink, the men with the metal detectors, the historic discovery came as something of an accident. They were combing the fields for a local fruit grower’s lost tractor key in Houten when they decided to give up and go over to a nearby field in Bunnik, where they had previously found a few coins, reports RTV Utrecht’s Bas Teunissen.

Koelink made the first find: a golden Celtic coin resting near the surface of the mud. The pair found a few more loose coins—including the largest Roman coin ever found in the province—but their metal detectors would not stop beeping. Messelaar finally stuck his hand into a shallow hole in the ground, where he uncovered a stash of hundreds of coins. “Bingo,” he recalls thinking, according to RTV Utrecht.

Koelink and Messelaar used clumps of mud to keep the coins together before bringing the haul back home, where they carefully cleaned, sorted and reported their findings to cultural heritage authorities. Then, they celebrated.

“We opened a bottle of champagne,” Messelaar tells the Guardian’s Daniel Boffey. “You never find this.”

Following the detectorists’ initial discovery of 381 coins in the summer of 2023, the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, with the help of Koelink and Messelaar, conducted additional excavations in the surrounding areas, finding another 23 coins.

Now, the grand total of 404 coins will now join a permanent exhibition titled “The Netherlands in Roman Times” at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden.

Dated to between 200 B.C.E. and 47 C.E., 360 of the coins are Roman in origin. Of these, 288 are denarii, the standard silver coin, and 72 are aurei, a denser, golden coin that was originally worth 25 denarii.

Many of the Roman coins bear the portrait of Emperor Claudius, who reigned between 41 and 54 C.E. One depicts Julius Caesar, while another even rarer coin shows the likeness of Juba, the ruler of Numidia, a kingdom in northern Africa that roughly corresponds to modern-day Algeria.

Two of the Claudius coins dated to between 46 and 47 C.E. are from identical dies, suggesting they were distributed to Roman soldiers as military pay, write Anton Cruysheer, an archaeologist with the Utrecht Landscape and Heritage Foundation, and Tessa de Groot, an archaeologist with the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, for UtrechtAltijd.

The 44 non-Roman coins are perhaps the most notable of the entire stash. The golden alloy coins, known as staters, bear the inscription “CVNO,” the first four letters of Cunobelinus, the Latin name of Celtic King Cunobelin, who reigned between roughly 10 and 42 C.E. in southeastern Britain.

Cruysheer and de Groot argue that the eclectic composition of the hoard “strongly suggests a connection to the conquest of Britain” under Aulus Plautius, a Roman general who Claudius dispatched to cross the Channel and invade the island in 43 C.E.

The wide range of dates of the Cunobelin staters, including four posthumously issued coins, indicates that the stash was removed from circulation in one fell swoop, like Roman troops looting the newly conquered territory, according to UtrechtAltijd.

Combined with the Roman coins used as military pay, the entire stash strongly resembles spoils of war. Discovered less than a foot beneath the surface, where it was probably buried in a leather pouch that has since decayed, the cache was left in a region where Roman troops were known to have amassed before the invasion of Britain.

“This is the first time that physical evidence of the return of the troops has been found,” Cruysheer tells the Guardian. “Apparently, they came back with all sorts of things. That is new information.”

By Eli Wizevich.

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You have thirteen seconds before the ESC fucking explodes…

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Coat of Arms of Edward IV, King of England, in his Capacity as Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece

by Pierre Coustain, c. 1481

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Greece's singer preteded to fall asleep.

Netherlands' singer covered himself with his coutry's flag.

Ireland's singer wrote "Ceasefire now" in old irish.

Latvia's singer said that every country deserves to be free.

I know it's not much, but I still love those subtle hints of diss agaist Israel ����

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Detail of traditional embroidery and costume of Marken on King's day, the Netherlands

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The Princess of Wales June 2024 Photo Challenge!

Day Twenty: Favourite photo(s) of Catherine with foreign monarchs

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Dutch Royal Family - The King and The Princess of Orange during King's Day in Emmen. Members of the Royal Family walk on a route through the city in the province of Drenthe, covering themes such as culture, innovation and sport. (Photo by Hollandse Hoogte) | April 27, 2024

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King Willem-Alexander & Max Verstappen Formula 1: Dutch Grand Prix 2023 🇳🇱 📸 by Mark Thompson/Getty Images

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TOM GLYNN-CARNEY photographed by jemima marriott for número netherlands magazine.

WHAT IS IN STORE FOR YOUR CHARACTER THIS SEASON?

“We see Aegon in every form.”

“He is powerful then vulnerable, calculated then frantic, playful then desperate, desperately seeking validation and respect from his council and the people of Westeros.”

“He is a cacophony of chaos, laced with deeply embedded trauma.”

“He is unpredictable and dangerously explosive.”

HOW EXCITING WAS IT GETTING CAST ON A SERIES THAT IS A PREQUEL TO THE IMMENSELY POPULAR ‘GAME OF THRONES’?

“Still doesn’t feel real, but I am enjoying every second of it and I’m dedicating myself entirely to the work.”

“Aegon is exhausting to play and definitely takes a piece of me, but I am happy to give him that in exchange for this freedom and creative fulfilment.”

HOW DID YOU ALL COLLECTIVELY AND YOU PERSONALLY DEAL WITH THIS?

“I don’t think about that.”

“You can’t, otherwise you wouldn’t turn up to work.”

“Turn up, put the wig on and let rip.”

HAVE YOU UNDERGONE ANY SPECIAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE ROLE OF AEGON?

“Sleep is important.”

“He takes a lot from me, so sleep is key.”

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT PERFORMING ON STAGE THE MOST?

“The danger of it. The raw and electric energy. The fact that it is different every night and the way it keeps you as an actor sharp and precise.”

“I couldn’t be an actor without doing theatre.”

“It’s where I go back to, to find inspiration and courage.”

IS THERE ANY PARTICULAR MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE THAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME AN ACTOR?

“Being curious, being fascinated by human behaviour, obsessing over body language, social interactions, coping mechanisms, idiosyncrasies that stem from insecurities.”

“Trying to be a sponge to everything I see and hear.”

“Collecting as many things as I can and bringing these to life in an authentic, truthful way.”

“An old teacher of mine, Richard Goodwin Brown, was a huge influence on me.”

LOOKING BACK ON YOUR CAREER SO FAR, WHAT DO YOU PERSONALLY CONSIDER YOUR BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT? AND LOOKING FORWARD, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR BIGGEST GOAL FOR THE FUTURE?

“Getting this far is my greatest achievement.”

“My biggest goal is to be old, on my death bed and look back at my career with pride, in the knowledge that I did my best work, worked with some great people and made some lifelong friends on the way.”

TELL US MORE ABOUT YOURSELF. WHO IS TOM OFF THE SCREEN AND WHAT DOES HE ENJOY MOST IN LIFE WHEN HE IS NOT ACTING?

“I love my dog, Ziggy. I love music, art and poetry. I love animals. I love and need wide open spaces, peace, quiet and water.”

“I love a night in a dark pub, round a table with trad musicians, fiddle, guitar, tin whistle, bodhran, whiskeys and pints of guinness, singing Ireland’s songs until the early hours.”

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Monarchs of most of Europe (as of 14 January 2024)

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