Dutch Old Masters depicting daily life on show to mark 750th anniversary of Amsterdam's founding Food, drink, reading books ...

He has spent 50 years translating thousands of handwritten Dutch documents that chronicled daily life in colonial Albany and ... strain deciphering 400-year-old scrawl. He is stooped with age ...

Yet, since being wrongfully acquired by the Dutch collector Herman F.C. Ten Kate in 1882, the drum has mostly sat noiselessly in dark cabinets in the Netherlands. Now, however, the 350-year-old ...