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2025 Drents Museum Heist
On 25 January 2025, a group of individuals forcibly entered the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, using explosives, and stole golden artifacts valued at approximately €6 million. These, which include the Helmet of Coțofenești, with an estimated value of €4.3 million, are irreplaceable archaeological treasures that represent the Dacian civilization, which thrived in present-day Romania before conquest by the Roman Empire in 106 AD. Three gold bracelets from the Dacian royal collection were also stolen. The exhibition, which had never before been displayed internationally at this scale, included items such as ceremonial jewelry and religious objects dating back to the 2nd century BC. Romania's Ministry of Culture has vowed to do everything possible to retrieve the artifacts, which had been on loan to the Drents Museum from the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest. , director of the Drents Museum, expressed profound dismay at the theft, describing it as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Drents Museum
The Drents Museum () is an art and history museum in Assen, Drenthe, the Netherlands. Opened in 1854, it has a collection of prehistoric artifacts, applied art and visual art, as well as temporary exhibitions. In 2023, it had 179,345 visitors. History The museum was founded by the King's Commissioner of Drenthe on 28 November 1854 as the ''Provincial Museum of Drents Antiquities''. On 6 November 2007, the museum announced that architect Erick van Egeraat was chosen to design a new extension for the museum. Total costs were estimated at eighteen million euros. The museum was closed from the summer of 2010 to the summer of 2011. At the beginning of 2010, a new modern depot facility for approximately 90,000 objects and works of art was completed. The new wing was opened officially in November 2011. The museum conducted a CT scan and endoscopy of a statue of Buddha that documented the presence of a mummy identified as that of a monk, Liuquan, a Buddhist master of the Chinese Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Interpol
The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (abbreviated as ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol ( , ; stylized in allcaps), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. It is the world's largest international police organization. It is headquartered in Lyon, France, with seven regional bureaus worldwide, and a National Central Bureau in all 196 member states. The organization today known as Interpol was founded on 7 September 1923 at the close of a five-day International Police Congress in Vienna as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC); it adopted many of its current duties throughout the 1930s. After coming under Nazism, Nazi control in 1938, the agency had its headquarters in the same building as the Gestapo. It was effectively stagnant until the end of World War II. In 1956, the ICPC adopted a new constitution and the name Interpol, derived from its telegraphic address used since 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barna Tánczos
Barna Tánczos (born 25 May 1976) is Romanian politician who has been serving as Minister of Environment, Water and Forests in the Cîțu Cabinet and Ciucă Cabinet from 23 December 2020 until 15 June 2023. References Living people 1976 births People from Miercurea Ciuc 21st-century Romanian politicians Ministers of the environment of Romania Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania politicians {{Romania-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ministry Of Finance (Romania)
The Ministry of Finance of Romania () is one of the fifteen ministries of the Government of Romania. The minister's seat is currently held by Marcel Boloș. The following agencies are subordinated to the Minister: * National Agency for Fiscal Administration (''Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală'') * National Customs Authority (''Autoritatea Națională a Vămilor'') * 40 Public Finances County General Directorates (''Direcții generale ale finanțelor publice judeţene''), the Public Finances General Directorate of Bucharest (''Direcția Generală a Finanțelor Publice a Municipiului București'') and the General Directorate for the Administration of Big Taxpayers (''Direcția generală de administrare a marilor contribuabili'') See also * List of ministers of finance of Romania References External linkswww.mfinante.ro- Official website * * Finance Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emil Hurezeanu
Emil Horațiu Hurezeanu (; born August 26, 1955) is a Romanian journalist, writer, politician and diplomat. He is the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Romania), Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has previously served as Romania's ambassador in Germany and Austria. Education Born in Sibiu, he graduated from the Law School of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (1975–1979). He then worked as jurist in Alba County (1980–1981), in Mediaș (1981–1982), and at the Eminescu Bookshop in Sibiu (1981). Between 1981 and 1982, he studied at Vienna and in October 1983, he obtained political asylum in West Germany. Journalist career For more than a decade, Hurezeanu worked for the Romanian department of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Europe (1983–1994), in Munich. Also, after 1985, he studied political science at the University of Virginia and in 1990 he graduated from Boston University. He was the director of the Romanian department of Radio Free Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Caspar Veldkamp
Caspar Cornelis Johannes Veldkamp (born 23 April 1964) is a Dutch politician and former diplomat currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands), Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Schoof cabinet. Veldkamp previously served as a member of the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives for the New Social Contract (NSC) party from December 2023 to July 2024. Early career Veldkamp started working as a policy officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands), Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993. He later had postings in Warsaw, Washington, D.C., Washington, DC, Brussels, and London, and he served as Ambassador of the Netherlands to Israel (2011–2015) and to Greece (2015–2019). In the latter role, he cooperated with Minister of Finance and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem on the Greek government-debt crisis. His last diplomatic position was as a member of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's board of directors. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Outlaw Motorcycle Club
An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a biker club or club (in Australia), is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of Cruiser (motorcycle), cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and chopper (motorcycle), choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, Dissent, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group. The subculture emerged in the United States in the late 1940s and has since spread globally. In the United States, such motorcycle clubs (MCs) are considered "outlaw" not necessarily because they engage in criminal activity but because they are not sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and do not adhere to the AMA's rules. Instead, the clubs have bylaws reflecting the outlaw biker culture. The United States Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice defines "outlaw motorcycle gangs" (OMG) as "organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for crimin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
RTL Nieuws
RTL Nieuws is a Dutch television news service produced by RTL Nederland. The national and international news service produces 17 bulletins each weekday and six weekend bulletins for RTL4 and RTL Z, reaching a total audience of about 1.5 million people. With the evening broadcast sometimes reaching over 2 million viewers. RTL Nieuws' main competitor is ''NOS Journaal'', broadcast by the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (''Dutch Broadcasting Foundation'') for public service television and radio. RTL co-operates primarily with the Flemish commercial television channel VTM and RTL Germany for international news coverage. Bulletins On weekdays, at 6:30am and on the hour and half hour between 7am & 9am, ''RTL Onbijtnieuws'' (''RTL Breakfast News'') bulletins are broadcast on RTL 4. An hourly daytime service of 15-minute bulletins airs on RTLZ between 8am and 5:30pm, featuring business news round-ups and 'normal' news. Seven days a week, three evening bulletins air on RTL4 in the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Heerhugowaard
Heerhugowaard (; West Frisian Dutch: ''Heerhugoweard'', ''Heregeweard'' or ''De Weard'') is a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West Friesland. Heerhugowaard was previously a separate municipality, which merged with the former municipality of Langedijk into the new municipality of Dijk en Waard on 1 January 2022. History Around the year 800, the area of the modern Heerhugowaard was covered in peat fen. Because of peat-digging and storm floods, many lakes developed in the region, including the Heerhugowaard. The name is derived from word ('heer' in Dutch) Hugo van Assendelft who was killed by the West Frisians in this area in 1296. After two storms in 1248, the abbey of Egmond, which had much property in this region, built the ''Schagerdam'' at Schagen. This became part of the Westfriese Omringdijk, which protected the pentagon Schagen - Alkmaar - Medemblik - Enkhuizen - Hoorn. Uncontrollable increase of the lake had been prevente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rolde
Rolde () is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Drenthe. Located in the Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of Aa en Hunze, it lies about 6 km (3.7 mi) east of Assen. In 2021, Rolde had a population of 3,905. History Rolde was a separate municipality until 1998, when it became a part of the newly established municipality of Aa en Hunze. Although facilities are limited, Rolde possesses a ten-pin bowling alley. There are also two ''hunebeds'' on a site east of the church. The windmill has been restored to working order. Gallery File:Rolde, het voormalige gemeentehuis RM482933 foto6 2014-07-12 18.31.jpg, Former Rolde Town Hall File:Molen van Rolde.jpg, Rolde Windmill File:Rolde voormalig Gemeentehuis.JPG, Former town hall File:Rolde De Eekhof Asserstraat 3.JPG, Villa in Rolde References External links * {{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1998 Populated places in Drenthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
