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With biomass plants, the government wanted to ensure that the climate targets would be met. The government set aside 10 billion euros for the construction of 628 biomass plants. Objections to the biomass plants soon arose: they would not be as CO2-neutral as was assumed and there would be more useful ways to use the biomass.

In 1905, the popsicle was invented by eleven-year-old Frank Epperson. He made a drink with water and some soda powder that he stirred through with a stick. Because his mother told him to go to sleep, he left the drink. When he woke up the next morning, it had frozen and the drink with the stick in it was frozen too. This was the first popsicle.

Columbus was looking for a faster sailing route to the Dutch East Indies. He planned to sail there via the West. With the financial support of the Spanish Queen Isabella, his ships left for the West, but instead of finding a new route to the Dutch East Indies there, he found the undiscovered continent of America.

Because of the corona pandemic, many events had to move to online environments. One advantage of this is the elimination of travel time. Unfortunately, the events did not always run smoothly because they sometimes encountered technical difficulties. An example is an online event about online events, where more than half of the participants could not get into the meeting.

Guitarist Ry Cooder and producer Nick Gold had everything arranged for the recording of African-Caribbean fusion with their band. Unfortunately, the Malian musicians who were to join the company lost their passports when they applied for their visas. Rather than face the prospect, new musicians were found for the recordings and the album became a huge success.

In 2018, the idea arose to launch an English-language extension of the magazine De Correspondent, a digital platform for journalism: The Correspondent. Editor-in-chief Rob Wijnbergen and publisher Ernst-Jan Pfauth started campaigning and this became a success. Unfortunately, the magazine lost many subscribers during the coronapandemic and the expansion stopped on 1 January 2021 due to financial reasons.