The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant capital, blends colonial charm with modern energy. From the historic streets of Kota Tua and ...

The 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vingboons produced a number of detailed maps of Ayutthaya (or Iudea ... Most of the Dutch prisoners were Royal Netherlands East Indies Army personnel and Dutch ...

1652 Map of Banda Islands by Jan Jansson ... Portrait of Jan Pietersz Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and 6. the memorial plaque listing the 40 Bandanese Muslims massacred by his order ...

The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon ... In 1642, the Council of the Indies dispatched another explorer and merchant, Abel Janzoon Tasman on a voyage of exploration to little-charted areas east of the ...

They are known as omagari neko (bent-tail cats) or kagi neko and have their own society of admirers and even a dedicated Shinto shrine. Their tails come in varieties including hook-shaped at the ...

The proposal of the latter, in 1857, included the organisation of hourly observations at Batavia and the establishment of secondary stations at some places in the East Indian Archipelago ...

Nagasaki bobtails have their roots in the Dutch East Indies when the city was the only foreign port during Japan's closed era in the 17th to 19th centuries. They hunted rats to protect shipments ...