Vincent van Gogh had a younger brother, Cor. Cornelius van Gogh moved to the Transvaal Republic in 1890 to work on the railway from Pretoria to Mozambique. When The Boer war broke out he joined as an ambulance driver. Cor was captured by the British, he fell ill and died in a field hospital in [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Cornelius van Gogh, Boer Kommando.
Posted in On art, tagged boer war, Frans Oerder, van Gogh on January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
2010 in review
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in [...]
