batavia

Thorpe Collection, which had been deposited at the Batavia Public Library in Batavia, Illinois, in 2007 by Barrie H.

Half of what was Batavia was inpassable wetland and the rivers followed a different path likely more following the roads.

Because if you wanted to travel from Amsterdam to Batavia by ship it would take weeks...

Famous Ford Case study on the Batavia vs Mazda supplied Gearboxes, that discusses how meeting specifications/tolerances does not imply quality.

I work in Batavia and it was nice to see this make the front page of Hacker News.

The real root of many of Batavia and really all of America's internal issues are uneducated attitudes towards drugs and the drug trade.

Lobre et Windholtz, prouvant « que c’est encore du vin » et non pas « une mixture bonne à assaisonner » une batavia.

Oh I know Fermi hahaha, my hometown is literally next to Batavia (Geneva).

I know people that have started at Aldi in Batavia and then transferred to Hong Kong and Germany, so it is something that does happen.

This page (1) reports 9 stops (between start and destination): > The plane took off – for the 1st leg of the flight from Amsterdam to Batavia – on 30 April.

Also, This business model probably only works in a metro area (I can't imagine the price points needed to make this company viable Batavia Ohio being very palatable to the average consumer).

The schedule: Budapest 30 April, Athens 1 May, Cairo 2 May, Baghdad 3 May, Jask 4 May, Jodhpur 5 May, Calcutta 6 May, Tavoy 7 May, Medan 8 May and arriving in Batavia on 9 May.

Currently reading "Batavia's Graveyard" by Mike Dash based on a previous HN recommendation.

The slave was indispensable in the economy of the Dutch colonial empire in the Golden Age as a labor force; in the second half of the seventeenth century, half of the inhabitants of Batavia were unfree", ibid).

> Just a few weeks after Parcel Post began, an Ohio couple named Jesse and Mathilda Beagle “mailed” their 8-month-old son James to his grandmother, who lived just a few miles away in Batavia.

> The Dutch councils of state and war always included merchants who had experience of trading and living abroad [...] As eloquently described by Mike Dash in "Batavia's Graveyard" most Dutch explorer ships had merchants, sailors, soldiers and civilians on board — ranked in that order.

Batavia is far away from major highways and feels like a forgotten sleepy town out in the boonies.

Batavia ( now Jakarta) was the capital of the VOC's lucrative spice trade for 3½ centuries.

When KLM started flying Amsterdam-Batavia in the 1930s it was dangerous but people preferred it to spending weeks on a ship.