Jan Dominicus has been angry for years about the unjust treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis. Despite the intensity of his anger, he has done little to address the problem. A few letters to the editor and a Palestinian flag hanging outside his house have been sufficient up until now. Jan would likely have never done anything more himself about the situation, but thankfully for him and his wife Jeanette, someone else cast the first stone. This stone, a broken window and the help of Je...

The question, really, is not who or what Rikste van Witzenburg-Meijer was.

My great-aunt; black sheep; adventuress; sartorial icon; party animal; truck driver; firewoman during the London Blitz; among the crew of a crashing Catalina; or passenger on the SS Rimutaka - core of the most heavily armed and longest-distance convoy of World War II.

The question is why she was who and what she was. Why did she become a self-declared journalist on the ocean liner JP Coen in 1927? Why did she marry qu...