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pedrotravels.bsky.social
We just left my friends from Holland and we are driving to Spain for Christmas evening. 24 hours drive. Last view to the south over the river Oude Maas.

Sun here we come……again
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
moryan.bsky.social
oh hi @clairewillett.bsky.social obv new Pope is from Dolton, 1 town from where I grew up & taught at my cousins’ high schools. New cardinal of NY grew up in South Holland IL which is ALSO where I grew up! Not a contest, but fwiw south suburbs of Chicago have WON chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...
Raised in South Holland, Joliet's bishop is appointed by Pope Leo XIV to oversee Archdiocese of New York
Bishop Ronald Hicks has been an acolyte of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, and is one of the pope's first major U.S. appointments since being elected as worldwide leader of the Catholic church followin...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
bylaurenfitz.bsky.social
Big move by Pope Leo of Dolton-- picks fellow Southlander//South Holland native to head Archdiocese of New York, replacing one of the US' most conservative cardinals Timothy Dolan: chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202... by @chicago.suntimes.com' Robert Herguth and @kadeheather.bsky.social
Raised in South Holland, Joliet's bishop is appointed by Pope Leo XIV to oversee Archdiocese of New York
Bishop Ronald Hicks has been an acolyte of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, and is one of the pope's first major U.S. appointments since being elected as worldwide leader of the Catholic church followin...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
chemobaby1976.bsky.social
He grew up in South Holland & he's a Cubs fan? Shameful.
December 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
grr.weather.im
GRR continues Gale Warning for Grand Haven to Whitehall MI, Holland to Grand Haven MI, Pentwater to Manistee MI, South Haven to Holland MI, St Joseph to South Haven MI, Whitehall to Pentwater MI [LM] till Dec 19, 7:00 AM EST Link
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December 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
mickeg.bsky.social
South Holland, where Bishop Hicks grew up, borders Dalton, where the Pope grew up. Chicago’s south suburbs are getting represented in the hierarchy
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
HSL to Ipswich makes sense when we get a fixed link to
Holland. 😉

New lines south of the Thames don't get talked about but Brighton line capacity issues and Gatwick importance would make it worthwhile. bsky.app/profile/hib-...
 Hib Bird @hib-bird.bsky.social · Oct 2
If Britain was a serious country for transport infrastructure:

-designate Gatwick the new runway/expanded airport
-build Crossrail 2, taking the suburban trains out of Waterloo station
-build a fast rail tunnel from East Croydon to Waterloo, enabling Gatwick to Central London in 20 minutes or less
December 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
chicagotribune.com
Three people were arrested, including one juvenile, and charged with murder in the Aug. 2 shooting death of Davell Holden, 16, of South Holland.
trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
bencoates1.bsky.social
#Bruggenloop in Rotterdam was fun!

the Van Brienenoordbrug is the Everest of south Holland
December 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
jefkoelewijn.bsky.social
A random town photo.
Location: South-Holland

#townphoto #randomphoto #photo #picture #photograph #photos #pictures #photography
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
kenny320.bsky.social
Kenny’s 2026 Travel Planning (draft V.01)

🔹February:
Breckenridge, Colorado 🏂

🔹May:
Holland, Michigan 🌷

🔹August:
TBD U.S. (NY 🍕 or Chi 🌭)

🔹October:
Los Angeles, California ☀️
Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
dutchgovnews.bsky.social
Rijkswaterstaat will plant 20 hectares of new trees and shrubs along national roads in South Holland over the next two years to improve biodiversity and living environment.

Source: Public Works and Water Management
Rijkswaterstaat plants 20 hectares of greenery in South Holland
Rijkswaterstaat will plant 20 hectares of new trees and shrubs along national roads in South Holland over the next two years to improve biodiversity and living environment.
openrijk.nl
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
bluefortune.bsky.social
Coming December 18th - The Murder of Amos Dunn (A Sidney Lake Lowcountry Mystery) by Tim Holland

In Morgan, South Carolina, murder isn’t supposed to happen.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
rgpoulussen.bsky.social
#OTD in 1944, Holland. Life in the trenches. Troops from 1 South Lancashire. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
annelaurie.bsky.social
British comedian Alan Coren once explained that Holland became famous as a 'placid' country because it successfully exported all its most violent criminals to Britain (William III) and South Africa...
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
chicagotribune.com
The village of South Holland plans to tear down a historic homestead due to lack of maintenance and use, a choice opposed by the great-great-grandson of a woman who lived there.
Descendant objects to South Holland plans to demolish historic homestead
South Holland plans to tear down the historic Van Oostenbrugge Homestead, but descendant Bill Paarlberg wants to save the house.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
katharinegk.bsky.social
200 for the zuid-holland list ✅
a lovely dunescape a small brown and black bird on a sand dune an ebird checklist showing that i saw my 200th south holland bird today — a desert wheatear a row of nine men in coats looking at something
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
andrew.mcguiregis.com
That Ethan Hooker is a center feels like a huge missed opportunity. Just spitting in the face of nominative determinism
World Rugby Mens 15s breakthrough player of the year nominees Fabian Holland - New Zealand Ethan Hooker - South Africa Henry Pollock - England Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii - Australia
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
oldukprintads.bsky.social
Nov 1979: Super Christmas Bargains ad from House of Holland

(+Set of 7 All-British 'Jaguar' Golf Clubs; Olivetti Portable Typewriter; New Home' Swing Needle Zig-Zag Sewing Machine; Sewing Machine Table; Sewing Machine Table Plus Base; Adjustable Steel Shelving, and more)
This is a black and white advertisement for various Christmas bargains, featuring toys, household appliances, and furniture. The ad highlights specific items with their prices, aiming to attract customers with deals and savings. It includes products for children, home improvement items, and kitchen appliances. Several products are marked as "As Featured on TV," adding to their appeal. SUPER Christmas BARGAINS! YOU PAY LESS BECAUSE WE SPEND LESS NEW STORE OPEN AT:- WALSALL 15/16a Bradford Street BARCLAYCARD VISA FOR THE CHILDREN FOR HIM FOR HER EVERYTHING'S A BARGAIN IN ALL OUR STORES IN AND AROUND LONDON:- BROMLEY 2/4 Bromley South Shopping Centre, Westmoreland PI, CARSHALTON 52/56 High St. CROYDON 3 Wellesley Rd. (Nr. Whitgift Centre). EAST SHEEN 441/445 Upper Richmond Rd. West. EDMONTON 363 Lower Fore St.N.9. ELEPHANT & CASTLE Shopping Centre, S.E.1. HAMPSTEAD Garden Suburb, 39/41 The Market Place, Falloden Way. KINGSTON 10/16 Castle St. MANOR PARK 809/813 Romford Rd., E.12. NEW CROSS 361/363 Old Kent Rd., S.E.1. NEW MALDEN 3/5 High St. NTH. CIRCULAR RD. Between. Hanger Lane and Harrow Rd., N.W.10. PENGE 167/169 High St., S.E.20. STONELEIGH 65 The Broadway. TOOTING 149/151 Mitcham Rd. S.W.17. WALTHAMSTOW 3/5 Palace Parade, High St. WEST EALING 121/123 The Broadway, W.13, PROVINCIAL STORES: BIRMINGHAM 365 Coventry Rd., Smallheath, BIRMINGHAM 19, 56c Lozells Rd, BIRMINGHAM 754 Stratford Rd., Sparkhill, BLACKPOOL 51/55 Harrowside (off Lytham Rd.). BOURNEMOUTH 899/901 Christchurch Rd., Boscombe. BRADFORD 88/92 Manningham Ln. BRIGHTON Castle Square. BRISTOL 6 178 Kellaway Ave. (Nr. Horfield Common). BRISTOL 7/9 Cannon St. Bedminster, BURY 85 The Rock. CARDIFF 95 Tudor Rd. (Corner of Clare Rd.). CHATHAM 135/137 High St. CHESTER 110 Foregate St. COLCHESTER 79/87 North Station Rd. COVENTRY 38 City Arcade. DERBY 11/14 Main Centre, London Rd. DONCASTER 23/29 Princegate, Waterdale Shopping Centre. EASTBOURNE 143 Seaside. FOLKESTONE 17 West Terrace, GLOUCESTER The...
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
robinkelly.house.gov
One of my constituents, who’s lived in the US since he was 4 years old, was kidnapped by ICE and is now missing.

He was at a gas station in South Holland when ICE agents detained him, disconnecting his phone call to his fiance.

ICE needs to be held accountable for their Gestapo tactics.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
rob9735.bsky.social
I will be going to South holland in the Netherlands for work
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
cowabunga1-2.bsky.social
Do you really think so?
England Spain Germany France Italy Holland Belgium Portugal, then the MLS?

😂😂😂😂

Better than all the leagues in south and Central America, Asia etc. Not to mention the rest of Europe. I think an American put that list together.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
brynleyheaven.bsky.social
It is a truth universally acknowledged that new housing estates in Lincs go on floodlands of South Holland never on the gigantic raised brownfields of Kesteven
brynleyheaven.bsky.social Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · Nov 10
This is what brownfield looks like. Why the laissez-faire since the fire in - wait for it - 1976? #Lincolnshire
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
jackdashby.bsky.social
Want to know more about how #echidnas got their European names? Here's part of that story from my book #PlatypusMatters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals (the bit about why we can't explain that echidnas appear to have been named after vipers is in the footnote).
The cover of PlatypusMatters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals by Jack Ashby. The image shows a platypus diving A screenshot of a page of the book. It reads: "Shaw dithered about where they should be placed taxonom-ically, suggesting that a new genus may need to be created for them, but in the end decided to lump them in the same group – Myrmecophaga – as South America’s giant anteaters. He gave them the common name ‘porcupine ant- eater’, and they have otherwise become known as the ‘spiny anteater’, ‘Australian porcupine’ and ‘New Holland hedgehog’.* Over the years they were subsequently put in the same genus as porcupines and then platypuses, but eventually taxonomists followed Shaw’s original notion and gave them a name of their own. The one we have settled on is Tachyglossus, meaning ‘swift tongue’, with the species name aculeatus, or ‘prickly’. This is perfectly descriptive – echidna tongues can flick out 100 times in a minute in search of their insect prey.One of the strangest, most surprising and most fondly remembered social experiences of my life took place in the tiny township of Adventure Bay, on Bruny Island, off Tasmania’s south coast. Toby and I were there for the island’s incredible wildlife – particularly the abundant echidnas. We spent a couple of weeks sleeping in our car – a minuscule, ancient bright- yellow Holden Gemini – in the empty beach parking lot overlooking the Southern Ocean (it was, without exaggeration, * The etymology of the word echidna is an interesting one, as ékhidna in Ancient Greek means ‘viper’. The word ekhînos, meaning ‘hedgehog’ (or, if Latinised to echinus, also ‘sea urchin’), would make much more sense, but that doesn’t explain where the ‘d’ came from"
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
gardensofthesilent.bsky.social
Silent sentinels of memory, watching over Wirrabara's hills.

Wirrabara Cemetery, South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽.

#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #taphophile #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography #cemeteryphotography
A tall, ornate white stone monument in the Wirrabara Cemetery stands prominently in the foreground. The monument is topped with a draped urn and features an inscription that reads: "In Loving Memory of George Holland Who Died Dec. 26, 1912, Aged 74 Years. And Margaret Forsyth, Beloved Wife of Above Who Died Oct. 13, 1922, Aged 75 Years." The monument is enclosed by a decorative, low, rusty iron fence. Other older headstones and grave markers are visible behind and to the sides. The background features a large gum tree with dark foliage framing the scene, leading to rolling hills and open fields in the distance under bright sunlight.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM