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Amsterdam stories: 26 news summaries

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WATCH IT

 Only Footage 
 of Anne Frank 
 Hits YouTube 

Film of neighbor's wedding in 1941 was given to Holocaust victim's family in the 50s

Oct 2, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian. The film, of an... More »

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YouTube • Holocaust • museum • Netherlands • Amsterdam • World War II • Holland • Anne Frank • diary • footage • Otto Frank

TRAVEL

 Europe's Sleaziest 
 Tourist Destinations 

From Paris to Athens, avoid (or enjoy) these sex-and-drugs zones

Sep 5, 09 6:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ah, Europe, home of landmark cafés, glorious historic churches—and stinking, dangerous red-light districts rife with hookers, drug dealers, and pickpockets. Correspondents for the Times of London highlight the continent's most tawdry areas.
  • Reeperbahn, Hamburg: Germany's decorous port town turns as seedy as it gets here. Pimps fight
... More »

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travel • prostitution • pornography • Amsterdam • Paris • drug dealing • Prague • Athens • pimp • Hamburg

 Digital Rembrandt Show 
 Restores Lost Details 

Controversial reproductions aim to show the works at they were

Jul 1, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(AP) - The life work of Rembrandt, including all 317 known paintings, goes on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to re-create the works as they emerged from the artist's studio. The Complete Rembrandt, Life Size, in Amsterdam, restores sections lopped off of canvases, transforms colors, and brightens up... More »

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art • Netherlands • painting • Amsterdam • Rembrandt • art restoration

(Newser) - “Beer bikes”—party vehicles that combine two of Amsterdam's favorite things—are under scrutiny after two recent accidents involving the gizmos, Reuters reports. Each large conveyance seats 10 peddlers at a central bar while a non-drinker steers. “This beer bike is completely legal,” said a transport... More »

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weird • alcohol • motorists • drinking • Amsterdam • Holland • bicycle • traffic accident • beer bike

 Seoul's Airport Is World's No. 1 

None in North America makes top 10

Jun 9, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Incheon International airport in Seoul, South Korea, is the world's best, according to a British survey that took into account passengers' experiences with check-in, departures, transfers, and arrivals. Two other Asian airports, in Hong Kong and Singapore, finished second and third, the BBC reports. More »

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San Francisco • South Korea • Seoul • Dallas • Hong Kong • Amsterdam • Zurich • Singapore • airport • air travel • Vancouver • Munich • Auckland • Incheon airport • Kansai • Kuala Lumpur • Nagoya

 7 Busted in 
 Amsterdam 
 Bomb Plot 

Shops shut, concert canceled as tipster warns of 'many casualties'

Mar 13, 09 2:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amsterdam police have busted seven people linked to a large-scale bomb plot in the city, authorities announced. An anonymous tipster told police the terror gang was planning an action aimed at "claiming casualties in busy places"; targets included megastores, reports the BBC. Several stores and a movie theater were... More »

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Madrid bombings • terror plots • Netherlands • bomb • Amsterdam • terrorist • arrest

 Pilots Reacted Late 
 in Turkish Air Crash 

Pilots were expected to intensely monitor auto landings

Mar 4, 09 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - The pilots aboard a Turkish Airlines jet that crashed in Amsterdam last week, killing nine people, let their plane slow to a dangerously low speed, a preliminary investigation revealed. Recorded conversations note the trio—who are among the dead—acknowledging a faulty altimeter, but reacting too slowly when the plane... More »

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investigation • plane crash • Amsterdam • pilots • Turkish Airlines

 Amsterdam Survivors 
 Recount 'Miracle' 

Witnesses say plane seemed to lose power before slamming into field

Feb 26, 09 2:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Nothing seemed amiss on a Turkish jetliner heading for Amsterdam yesterday until the big plane suddenly "lurched downward" with a sickening pull and smoke poured into the cabin, a passenger told the Guardian. "People were panicking and then we hit the ground," said the traveler, whose daughter... More »

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plane crash • Amsterdam • survivors • Turkish Airlines • Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

UPDATED

Pilots Among 9 Dead
in Amsterdam Crash

Officials say crew's bodies will remain on plane as they investigate what happened

Feb 25, 09 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - All three pilots died in the crash of a Turkish Airlines jet at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport this morning, the Times of London reports. Six others perished and 84 people were injured, six critically and 25 severely. The plane, which carried 135 people, remains in a rain-soaked field 3 miles from... More »

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Turkey • plane crash • Amsterdam • pilot • Turkish Airlines • Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

UPDATED

 9 Dead in 
 Amsterdam 
 Jet Crash 

Passenger jet from Istanbul broke into three parts

Feb 25, 09 7:09 AM CST
(Newser) - At least nine people died and more than 50 were injured when a Turkish Airlines flight with 135 people on board crashed while attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport today, reports the Guardian. The Boeing 737, believed to have been coming from Istanbul, split into three sections as it... More »

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Turkey • plane crash • Amsterdam • airport • Turkish Airlines • Schiphol

(Newser) - When urban planners dream, they dream that Americans will give up on the suburbs in favor of a dense, environmentally friendly, less auto-dependent lifestyle. And it’s never going to happen, David Brooks writes in the New York Times. “Amsterdam is a wonderful city, but Americans never... More »

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Chicago • New York • Denver • Los Angeles • San Diego • Phoenix • Amsterdam • urban sprawl • Seattle • US cities • cities • Portland • urban planning • suburban sprawl • David Brooks

Amsterdam to Halve Brothels, Marijuana Shops

City to become all around less fun

Dec 6, 08 1:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Apparently being the world’s sex and drugs capital isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Amsterdam is hoping to shut down about half of its brothels and half its marijuana shops, the Daily Telegraph reports. Already this year, 109 of the city’s 482 sex “... More »

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prostitution • drugs • Netherlands • marijuana • Amsterdam

Amsterdam Weeds Out Pot Cafes Near Schools

Liberal city chokes on measure handed down by Dutch government

Nov 21, 08 6:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The city of Amsterdam will close some of its famous cannabis-selling coffee shops, AFP reports, targeting cafes that operate near schools in keeping with a new directive from the Dutch government. The law, which will shutter 43 of the city’s 228 such establishments, isn’t terribly popular with city... More »

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Netherlands • marijuana • cannabis • Amsterdam

 Camels Walk
 a Mile for
 Escape-Artist Giraffe 

Circus chain gang cuts loose in Amsterdam

Jul 1, 08 3:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifteen camels, two zebras, lamas and potbellied swine went on the lam from a Dutch circus—with a giraffe masterminding their flight to freedom. The gang wandered around an Amsterdam neighborhood when the escape artist kicked a hole in the animals' cage, reports AP. They were all rounded up after... More »

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Amsterdam • camels • circus • giraffes • zebras

Dutch Smoking Ban Leaves Pot Users in a Fog

Cannabis in coffee houses is fine, but take that butt outside

Jun 30, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Effective tomorrow, the Netherlands bans smoking tobacco in public places, and the new law means big changes for Amsterdam's famously relaxed coffeehouses, reports USA Today. Because the law doesn't cover cannabis or hashish, users can continue to smoke them inside. But those who prefer their pot mixed with tobacco, as... More »

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smoking • tobacco • marijuana • cannabis • Amsterdam • smoking ban • Dutch government

Dutch Hope US Model Will Integrate Schools

Plan was used during American civil rights movement

Jun 19, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dutch leaders believe an integration program honed during the American civil rights movement can curb the racial and class divisions rampant in Amsterdam’s classrooms. Waves of immigrants have swept into the Netherlands, but they haven’t always mixed successfully with native Dutch, reports the Christian Science Monitor.... More »

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race • parents • Netherlands • school • Amsterdam • segregation • integration • Dutch government

 Anne Frank Postcard Found 

Dutch teacher discovers holiday greeting from young Holocaust victim

Apr 24, 08 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A postcard sent by Nazi victim Anne Frank to one of her best friends has been found in a Dutch antique shop, the BBC reports. The card, sent by the 8-year-old Anne in 1937, shows a Christmas bell in a snowy field and wishes her friend good luck for the... More »

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museum • Amsterdam • concentration camp • Anne Frank • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl


 Dutch Pol Posts
Anti-Islam Film Online 

Controversial movie slams Koran
as 'fascist text'

Mar 28, 08 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A controversial anti-Islamic movie interweaving graphic images of 9/11, a beheading and protests by extremists has been posted on a maverick internet site by the leader of a far-right Dutch political party. Dutch television refused to broadcast the 17-minute movie, Fitna, which has been slammed as anti-Muslim propaganda. It ends... More »

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Islam • Madrid bombings • Netherlands • September 11 • stoning • Amsterdam • beheading • Koran • London bombings • Geert Wilders • Freedom Party • LiveLeak • Fitna • Theo van Gogh

TRAVEL

Get Creative at Top Artsy Hotels

Pitched tent, disco balls enliven lodgings on Budget Travel list

Mar 2, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A good hotel provides comfort; a great hotel ... inspiration? Artists touched up the staid look of these hotels, selected by Budget Travel for their fake-fur tapestry, psychedelic mazes, and speckled French graffiti:
  1. The Winston, Amsterdam: This avant-garde hotel once displayed dead leaves; check out the Playnation room's trippy ceiling
... More »

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Berlin • art • list • Amsterdam • Singapore • hotel • art hotels • Winston • New Majestic • Arte Luise Kunsthotel • Daddy Long Legs Hotel • Windsor • Cape Town • Nice, France

Anne Frank's Lost Love Revealed

Childhood friend of diarist's darling 'Petel' donates photo

Feb 27, 08 4:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Anne Frank's sweetheart now has a face to go along with his pet name. A photo of 12-year-old Lutz Peter Schiff, or Petel, as she sometimes called him, has been donated to the Anne Frank House by a childhood friend, reports ABC News. Frank wrote that she loved so strongly... More »

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Germany • Holocaust • love • Amsterdam • photograph • Anne Frank • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl • Anne Frank Foundation

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